Nichole T. Agnew HDFS 2400 University of Missouri – Columbia Adolescent Development in Freaks and Geeks Adolescence is a time typically characterized by maturation through puberty, development of an identity and experimentation. Specific changes can be identified in adolescents at different ages and they are unique to everyone. The show, Freaks and Geeks, allows the audience to view adolescent development in its different stages through the high school characters. The character Sam Weir, a high school freshman boy, allows the stage of early adolescence to be accurately displayed. Adolescent development is seen in Sam by his cognitive and physical development and his depth of friendships.…
Everyday, teens go to school. Six classes, seven hours, five days a week, They all learn the same things. So, how do you set yourself apart from the crowd? In a country based on standardized tests, you have to work hard in order make yourself stand out. So many people just barely get by in life because they are afraid to work a little harder to make themselves better off.…
There are many stereotypes that float around a high school atmosphere. The major high school stereotype would be the easy girl that flirts with all the guys. She will always be hanging out with a large group of boys. She befriends them all, but she jumps from one boy to the next boy. Andrew McElroy made a comment that it is easy to have a seuxal relationship with me.…
We as a people tend to look someone over upon first meeting them; based on how they dress and their first few actions towards us we then classify them into a general group, a stereotype. This can be good and bad. This can be an advantage and disadvantage. It is my intention to review four common stereotypes whose characteristics contradict one another. I will talk about the general assumptions that come with being an athlete and a member of the band.…
2. Many students today consider themselves to be multidimensional, but media portrayals of high school are full of identity archetypes (e.g. the nerd, the jock, the rebel, etc.). Reflecting on your high school experience, would you say you identify with one of these? If so, why and why do you embrace it? If not, why not?…
(Bucephala albeola) Bufflehead, short term for (Buffalo-Head). Commonly known as the butterballs of North American waterfowl. Dating back to 500,000 years ago lie fossil remains of these little divers in Alaska, California, Illinois, Texas, Kansas, and Washington. Generally living in North America, yet some occasionally arrive in Iceland, Japan, and Greenland.…
Leonid Fridman, in his essay America Needs its Nerds, he uses the tools of rhetoric to unveil the repercussions of American’s bigotry towards intellectuals. Fridman begins his essay with accusatory terms to set a foundation for his argument.…
When we think of the words nerd and geek, we think of a smart person with freckles and thick-framed glasses. They are usually bullied by the athletic people of a school and are at the lowest rung of the social ladder. But why do we also think about that same person being harmed and ridiculed? Why can’t we praise their intelligence and use it to improve our society?…
Nerds need love too In “Anti-intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids,” Grant Penrod believes that high schools do not give the same recognition to the academic clubs and intellectual students then the sports teams. He thinks this because at a high school in Arizona a football team won a state title and was recognized through state banners, assemblies, and a video announcement in their honor. While the Science Bowl Team, Speech and Debate team, and the Academic Decathlon team also won state titles the same year.…
Ladies are not new to the world of gaming by any stretch. However, even in 2016, there seems to be a great divide in the gaming world between male and female gamers. It seems to exist partially to ignorance created by what I like to refer to as wacked out misconceptions of the lady gamer. I asked members of gaming groups that I am in, friends, co-workers, and every other random person I could think to ask…”What are some stereotypes you have or have heard about girl gamers?” I was not very surprised with the results; and basically, everyone chimed in with responses that I have summed up below.…
Where Is My Success? In My Very Own Bedroom!!! Wait! What? How?…
When it comes to the topic of conformity and individuality, most of us will readily agree; conformity within teens is a major problem. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of conformity in school. While some are convinced conformity in schools is good and should be flaunted, others believe that it's setting us up for failure and unrealistic situations. The world is complex and not as simple as school makes it seem. In school, we are taught that grades define who you are and your intellectual ability.…
Students of all types can be found on any high school campus. There are so many distinct types of high school students for example, there are the jocks and the popular and nerds and so on but each of them share a common type. There are three most common types of students: the overachievers, the slacker, and finally the average student. Each different type of student has their own characteristics of their ability for the amount of work they put in school, study habits, and their altitude toward school. The students’ characteristics they pertain not only affect them throughout high school, it may stick with them throughout life, which may or many not help them succeed.…
Teens have been evolving for centuries at first it started with teens getting married off and raising a family, then it changed to teens in the working force, now it’s teens getting an education, but the tables have turned. In current days, teens are spending hours on their phones. The more time they spend on their phones the more their changing. Some teens are changing for the better and others for the worse. I think that teens constantly texting has a negative effect on all of their aspects of their life.…
Elmoatazbella benomar Jane Trejo WG5 Dec 10, 2014 Single Sex Education Now in these days single sex education schools are becoming more complicated. Countries consider single sex education as traditional as well.…