Geek

In public I learned how to conform to a certain image identity. This goes back again what people expect from you in school. Society categorizes us into groups in public school such as geeks, nerds, popular, jocks, and preps (cheerleaders). Thinking this is how the world is set up, it turns out to be true. It makes me sad that we judge others on exteriors. Society measures status from job levels and the amount of income earned from elite…

It wasn’t uncommon to see a personality test result on a computer screen with all of my friends and I gathered around the screen reading each other’s results. Since about my sophomore year of high school, we had taken all sorts of personality test from various web sites. It was around this time that we discovered the Myer- Briggs personality test, the closest modern personality test that can categorize the human personality (“Our Theory”). Back then, I got INTJ when I took the test and this most…

editor, and blogger claim that “Different strengths makes the human experience vibrant and diverse.progression” If everyone had the same skill set there would be no progression in how humanity operates their lives. Clearly, people fancy progression as geeks enjoy getting the latest in technology, girls the latest in makeup and athletes the latest in equipment. Because people are infatuated with advancements they are also excited about having different skills. It's necessary that each person…

“He’s liked, but not well liked”, a line was used by Biff to the Loman’s neighbour’s son Bernard, who, in Willy’s flashbacks, was a geek who tutored Biff in math. Biff, on the other hand, was very well liked and popular in high school, was a big football player and was seen as someone who would get a football scholarship and continue playing the sport professionally. After Biff failed…

sixty-four thousand a year after several years experience on the job. Bigger cities on average will have higher paying jobs available. 15. Some of the larger computer companies hire computer techs as well, like Apple, who has a division known as the Geek Squad to help fix and troubleshoot for their customers. Microsoft also hires computer techs for troubleshooting jobs, to fix problems with their Windows operated systems and their gaming consoles that they sell to make extra…

Entertainment in the 20th century took a revolutionary turn once the motion picture was created. Suddenly, getting the family together and trekking down to the town theater became a typical weekend activity. As a result, post-WWII films, typically in the style of film noir, became extremely popular. These film noirs based their plots around the anxieties of the 1940s time period; its translation into French literally means, “black film”. Other genres became popular as film grew and expanded, but…

Eric Lui was born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1968 to parents that came from Taiwan in the 1950’s. His father was an IBM executive and his mother a computer programmer. Lui graduated from Yale in 1990. He was Bill Clinton’s youngest speechwriter. Lui went on to write The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native speaker (1998) along with other essay collections. In Stranger in the Village, Baldwin writes of his experiences as the only black person living in a Swiss village. Baldwin struggled with…

This was discussed in the movie Down with Love as Barbra was pitching her story to the publishing company. C.W mentioned that women were more emotional towards their feelings than men. This correlates with what Milner stated in his book, Freaks, Geeks and Cool Kids. “Adolescent women usually show usually show more concern about expressive relationships than men” (Milner, 64). But in the movie Thank You for Smoking, they reversed the roles. Heather Holloway, played as a writer, used sex to get…

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck tells the story of two men, George and Lennie, who share the ambition to own a farm one day and the sequence of events that follows as they seek to accomplish their aspirations. On the other hand, Maria Boyd’s Will entails the story of a boy in high school who is mischievous and headstrong. He gets punished for his actions and is forced to participate in the running of the school musical which begins journey where he befriends an unlikely group of people.. These…

For as long as I can remember, I have grown up in the company of one thing. Films. When I say films, I don’t mean your standard 21st century blockbuster. No, these are much too overdone for my liking. Superfluous special effects, unnecessarily complicated plots, and gratuitous violence have all become key ingredients in the recipe for your generic ‘Captain America’, or ‘Dracula Untold’. It makes sense that after an arduous day at work, the first thing most people seek is some escape from their…