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When I was in middle school, there was a boy named Richard who would always pick on me and come up with names that were hurtful to me. One thing he would say was, “You’re such a nerd!” This offended me and made me feel self conscience because when I think of the word nerd, I think of someone who is socially awkward. The word nerd has two different meanings, one being, “a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.,” and the other being, “an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit (dictionary.com).” Both of those definitions are not like me. I am a very energetic and talkative person and I do many things that involve being social. Someone posted a question asking what people thought of when they heard the word nerd and one person said, “They would be socially inept. Not necessarily unattractive but because of their inept manner perhaps their clothes are not fashionable and even perhaps they don't wash enough. I think that they might often be overly-obsessed with a certain solitary pursuit. This might often be intellectual but not necessarily…”(forum.wordreference.com), but there are some people who say that the word nerd means you are intelligent and have unique interests (Kalra).” This word can be really hurtful to some people and make them feel like an outsider, and it needs to stop being used as an insult. The person who used the word nerd fast didn’t mean for it to be negative , so what made people choose…

We have all heard a million times about nerds and geeks but do we actually know the meaning of those words? Leonid Fridman evokes his thoughts about America’s wrong ideology when referring to people who are fervent in achieving academic success. The author utilizes definition, comparison and contrast, and synecdoche in America Needs Its Nerds as rhetorical devices to rectify society’s view of nerds and geeks. Fridman includes the real definition of the word geek to make understandable how…

Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864–65, is the last novel finished by Charles Dickens and is one of his most refined works, consolidating savage parody with social investigation. It fixates on, in the expressions of pundit J. Hillis Miller (citing from the character Bella Wilfer in the book), "cash, cash, cash, and what cash can make of life." In the opening parts a body is found in the Thames and distinguished as that of John Harmon, a young fellow as of late come back to London to get…