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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…

¨different¨ doesnt mean their not a great person. Everyone's different one way or another. Our differences are our strengths because they make us unique. The uniqueness of our differences will help us in the future. In the article ¨Revenge of the Geeks¨, Alexandra Robbins talks about people being different and what she has observed from high school students. She writes about what our differences can do for us. Robbins states ¨ I’ve seen repeatedly that the differences that cause a student to be…

I wanted to start off with how much I enjoyed the story you wrote, “The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth”. "The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth" makes fantastic points and explains why it is perfectly fine to be unique. After reading the article, it made an impact on me. Your writing made myself dig deeper into my brain to rethink my actions that I make everyday. The piece that you wrote taught me that I can be my own individual person. It also showed me that I don’t have to be like the majority of…

Stigmatized by pop culture and modern society, individuals suffering from physical disabilities are often labeled as abnormal. Katherine Dunn’s novel Geek Love challenges this stigma by creating a family comprised solely of “freaks” who display physical disabilities alienating them from the norms of society. To create this family of freaks, parents Al and Crystal Lil Binewski conceive their children while taking a concoction of narcotics—a practice frowned upon by society and medical experts…

Knowing Self Essay My grandma once ask me “When you get older do you know what you want to do with your life?” The books we reviewed are Anthem by Ayn Rand, Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln, Prometheus by Geek Mythology. When I get older what I want to do is follow my dreams First, in Anthem equality wanted to follow is own dream. An example of equal trying to follow his dreams is “I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my…

experience in U.S schools early on in the book. In The Geeks Shall Inherit The Earth, Robbins introduces the idea of quirk theory, which states that “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…

The book that I selected is called “The Opposite of Geek” by Ria Voros. This novel was originally published in 2013 and it is a fiction novel. The opposite of geek is about a girl going through the process of growing up as a young adult. This novel contains haiku, high school, and heartache. SETTING The story takes place in high school where a girl named Gretchen is narrating the novel. Not to mention that she has a passion for writing haiku…

of the puzzle and had gaps in my knowledge. I never had an appreciation for poetry or quite as deep of understandings of literature that this class helped me to achieve. The biggest impact on me of all of the pieces of literature that we read was Geek Love. How was it that a novel so twisted and maniacal…

In the article, Revenge of the Geeks by Alexandra Robinson, there are a lot of allusions to stars and their popularity in school, and how some of the biggest stars today were some of the least popular people in high school, and being different and embracing how different you may be will lead you to success someday. The author uses three different techniques to get her point across, one being the tone or her attitude toward the subject. “Taylor Swift’s classmates left the lunch table as soon as…

Keds Art to Advertisement According to Ziad Abu-Saud’s article, “The Dogma of Advertising and Consumerism,” featured in the Huffington Post, we are exposed to between two hundred and fifty and three thousand advertisements a day. What are advertisements and what makes a good advertisement? Advertisements are pictures, commercials, and posters that promote a product and consumerism, the increase of consumption of goods. Good advertisements contain things that first catch the reader’s attention…