Nerd Essay

“And then along came Zeus…” Oh how I love this movie. Disney’s Hercules is probably as close as mainstream media will get to the original , and still keep it G-rated. I need this now. This has not been the best day. You see, today is my friend, Paige’s, birthday. She had a sleepover, and invited me, and my other friend Faith. I gaze at Faith’s black frizzy rat’s nest. I wonder, how did this sleepover go so wrong? See, most of the sleepover went well. We played truth or dare, talked about boys, TPed

"Talk Nerdy to Me" Essay Most guys are probably nerdy when it comes to sports or video games. Even though I like video games myself, something else I'm nerdy about are Legos. These have been around for a long time. The business started small and grew into the huge toy company we know today. It started in 1916 and by 1958, the company patented the brick we recognize nowadays. The company's story is full of success and failure, both of which shaped the company to what it is today. The word "Lego"

One thing all human beings have in common is the struggle for self identity. Children are raised by parents or guardians who have struggled and fought for their own identities. In many cases, parents are still trying to figure it out, while raising their own children. Such is the case with the characters in Junot Diaz’s, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The theme of identity is conveyed through the characters’ Dominican culture, social standing, and in finding love. Oscar, Lola, and Yunior

According to the Oxford dictionary reality television is a “television programs in which real people are continuously filmed, designed to be entertaining rather than informative” (Oxford). Beauty and the Geek pairs together "Geeks" (socially inelegant nerd breeds) and "Beauties" (beautiful women handpicked for depicting bimbos), who then take on challenges. Each week one couple is forced to leave the house and the last remaining couple wins $250,000 in prizes. Along the way the geeks are renovated,

“The gendering of programming allows the industry to provide the proper audience for advertisers by constructing shows pleasurable for the target audience to watch, and one aspect of this construction is in the gender portrayals of characters” (Craig, 188). Advertisers use many approaches to make their product more attractive for us to purchase. One form of using different approaches is using stereotyping by gender. This idea is focused on attraction; for example, a woman is going to be more attracted

Knowledge I'm not going to lie; sometimes I don't pay attention in class. It's not because I can't, but because I usually already understand what's being taught. I know what you're thinking: what a nerd. I can deal with that. If being a nerd means that I like to learn, then let me be a nerd. Well, one day when I was daydreaming in class, Mrs. Lindholm, my English teacher, said something that caught my attention. She asked, "What is your passion?" I looked up, my mind as blank as a sheet of paper

After reading the article "Why Nerd and Nurses are Taking Over the U.S. Economy" by Derek Thompson, I realized that all the statistics, studies and info could be scaled down to Erie Pennsylvania. For example in recent years Hamot has grown a lot, Lecom has become more popular, Urgent Care mini hospitals have sprouted up, and colleges like Gannon University have grown and specialize in the medical field and some technology majors. On the other hand mathematicians are going to slowly starting to die

In the book The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive after High School, by Alexandra Robbins, the quirk theory is defined as: “Many of the differences that cause a student to be excluded in school are the same traits or real world skills that others will value, love, respect, or find compelling about that person in adulthood and outside of the school setting” (Pg.8). Three characters that the quirk theory applies to are Blue, Noah, and Regan. Blue

“Jock” is a term people use in a negative way. People think it’s a person who is athletic that is a bully and really stupid. That is a stereotype! A stereotype could be from your physical traits to how you act and they are based on your ethnicity, sex, etc... Now back to my point about the term “jock” , people have been using it for so long to degrade athletes that they forgot the real meaning of a jock. It is an enthusiast or participant in a specified activity. So how does someone that likes a

Video games, card collections, hopeless romanticism, and a hint of social awkwardness. These are the stereotypes of the average geek. The 2008 movie “American Teen” displays the storyline of Jake Tusing, the senior who is portrayed as the geek in the Warsaw Community High School. Jake is a introverted and awkward video game lover, who, in his story, goes through the process of finding a relationship that would last last forever. His first ever girlfriend, who was a girl that just moved to the school