Beauty and the Geek

September 26...picture day. Everyone in Hoofer Middle School was dressed up for their picture...the picture that would be in the yearbook forever. There are two groups of people here at Hoofer Middle School. The populars and the unpopulars. Stephanie Blake was the queen of the populars. She had everything. Her 16-year old brother, Alec, is the captain of the high school soccer team, her dad is the CEO of ESPN, her mother is an award winning actress, and her 18 year old sister is married to Liam

Middle school, as we all know, is full of surprises, rivalries, hatred and love. It is one of the tensest moments for a teenager. The three middle school students in the story “PATTERN OF LOVE” by Irwin Shaw go through these challenging moments. Writers always avoid stereotypes in their stories and do not expose the character to the readers because they think that it will be boring. But Irwin Shaw doesn’t avoid stereotype in his short stories, so that it will be more interesting. He talks about three

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something new. In that moment, I felt touched by the metaphysical beauty of nature while I reflected upon my weeks bonding with my fellow Scouts in the vast expanse of the wilderness. I realized that I never wanted to leave the Rockies with my friends, but like all good things, it had to come to an end.

Contractarianism is a social contract theory that originated as a political theory which then developed as a theory of morality. Laws are just if, and only if, they reflect terms of a social contract that free, equal, and rational people would accept as a basis of a cooperative life together. Actions are morally right because they are permitted by the rules such people have agreed to live by. If one is to violate such agreements then the action is wrong. Moral rules are nothing other than special

When I bring up my interest in videogames, anime, or comic books, many people won’t take me seriously. There is an expectation in the “geek” community that no real females actually enjoy these male-dominated hobbies and only pretend to so they can get male attention. What they don’t understand it that while the interests are male-centered, many women also enjoy the media but won’t talk

tourist game, going to various attractions and seeing plays and shows [Beauty and the Beast on Broadway was completely and utterly worth it], but what drew me was the city itself. Even as we went to sleep for the night, the city was still awake and moving and just making me want to go outside and blend in with the crowd and their energy. New York is host to more than a few of my favorite tech websites like Lifehacker and How-To-Geek along with some other

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unencumbered by natural beauty.So am I.’’ (Dunn 2009: 182), in this quotation we get a good example of what exactly Mary Lick stands for and what she really does. Miss Lick is a wealthy older woman who offers disembodiment as a solution to a life where beauty and sexuality are distractions from the more important concerns, this becomes her version of feminism. Mary lick uses medical science to subvert these normalising impulses. The brand of Marys feminism is the dismantlement of the ‘femaleness’ of the