Hidden Intellectualism Essay

In this article, the author who is named Fridman explains just what the title says, AMERICA NEEDS ITS NERDS." He uses ethos, logos, and pathos to do just that. First he uses a dictionary to tell us that geek is a freak that bites off the head of a chicken. Then he tells us that Harvard has some students that don't want to be known as people who study. He even says that they are ostracised while athletes are idolized. This happens in other schools too. Not just an IV school like Harvard.…

and academically serious.” (Lines 3,4). Fridman continues to discuss the widespread of anti-intellectualism that takes place at all academic institutions including colleges and elementary schools. He utilizes numerous rhetorical techniques such as hyperbole, rhetorical question, and denotation and connotation to develop his argument that “America Needs Its Nerds” (Title) and it is time for anti-intellectualism to be stopped. “A geek, according to Webster’s New World Dictionary,…

Leonid Fridman argues that academic achievement and intellectual abilities should be valued over social skills and physical prowess. In America Needs Its Nerds Fridman carefully and cleverly develops this argument; he first demonstrates the problem in America and ends his argument with rhetorical questions. This strategy captures the audience’s attention and coaxes them to reflect on personal values; accordingly, Fridman promotes appreciating academics in order to better America. Fridman…

In the controversial essay, which was first published in the November 1964 issue of Harper’s Magazine, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” Richard Hofstadter argues how the prevalence of paranoia in American politics has dominated the politics in the country. Hofstadter asserts American politics has been governed by paranoia since the creation of the United States, and it has manifested itself into the minds of both average Americans and intellectuals. He contends that paranoia has played…

Before attending Heidelberg University all first-year students were asked to complete a self-assessment, called The College Student Inventory (CSI). The CSI contains approximately 100 questions that are based on one’s academic motivation, coping skills, and support services. The reason why first-year needs to answer this online survey is because so one can recognize their strengths and weaknesses academically, in coping strategies, and in support services. After answering those questions The CSI…

Smart. Maybe, they have heard the words intellectualism and practicalism, but never pay attention to them or noticed that there are other ways to call them. Perhaps, all what they know of these terms is that they can be used to tag people. In this essay, we are going to discover how important is to know their meaning, relation, advantages and disadvantages in order to know how can they affect human being perspectives. Everybody has different forms of intellectualism and some of them have not…

In a 1990 article published by the New York Times, “America Needs Its Nerds” by Leonid Fridman, Fridman argues that people that are intellectually curious are degraded and disrespected in America. If we do not begin to prioritize intellectualism, America as a country will not be able to keep up with the rest of the world. In the first section of the article, Fridman establishes that the terminology people in America use to refer to the intellectually curious is derogatory. Fridman references…

In his critical essay, “America Needs Its Nerds”, Leonid Fridman attacks the rampant anti-intellectualism in American pop culture through juxtaposition and rhetorical questions in order to reform the misdirected society into one that upholds “nerds” so that the country can be successful in its competition with foreign countries that already have that mindset. Furthermore, Fridman elaborates on the problem by demonstrating the derogative origin of “geek” and its unjust application to the…

The first sentence of Everybody Is Ignorant, Only on Different Subjects got me hooked as soon as I read it. The third word was a word that I was not familiar of. I searched it up and it means doing something without permission. This was a brilliant idea is incorporate this word in this sentence because it made me become very curious. Eliot A. Butler is right though. Who in the world has permission to discuss the educated person. Only people that come into mind is a schologist. I learned that…

accidentally fell into a television and landed in this magical forest where his nondescript house stood, he helpfully suggested that we find the secret door that lay behind the antique golden book shelf that could be opened by the special golden key in the hidden treasure chest. Having carefully read many long books about Harry Potter, he was as large as life to me so I could not say anything but…