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The Origin of Evolution Because of the perplexity that surrounds evolutionary development, various theories and speculations have been established that cloud perception of details. In the “Revenge of the Nerds” from How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, Pinker addresses what he believes to be the proper analysis of natural selection with his main claim that our predecessors evolved as a result of four main aspects: stereoscopic vision, group living, the hand, and hunting. With a concise…

Leonid Fridman in his article “America Needs Its Nerds” (1990) proposes that “For America’s sake the anti-intellectual values that pervade our society must be fought.” Fridman accomplishes the by first spelling out how the meaning of the terms geek and nerd are derogatory, secondly, he explains how at prestigious colleges “nerds are ostracized while athletes are idolized.” Third, Fridman describes how other countries treat the intellectually serious: hold them and teacher above athletes. Fridman…

Leonid Fridman uses rhetorical strategies to acknowledge nerds in this passage. The main purpose in this essay is to show how most people do not wish to be educated in America. Nerds do not receive the same amount of credit as athletes. The author explains how nerds can become social outcasts. Some students study from five-eight hours a day and are “ashamed to admit, even to their friends how much they study.” The truth is that knowledge can take you so much further in life, then being on the…

Monkey Business Everything has an origin, even us humans, but how, when, and where did we evolve? Steven Pinker’s Revenge of the Nerds contains two parts that. In the first, he identifies and examines the four traits that aid the evolution of human intelligence; this builds a background on the subject at hand. Then, the second, goes on to discuss the evolution of our mind and culture concurrently developing, thus, the standard timetable is inaccurate. Although Pinker does employ the elements of…

Leonid Fridman, author of the passage, America Needs Its Nerds, develops a strong argument in which he believes that America shames those who value studying and labels them as “nerds” and “geeks” instead of praising these individuals. Fridman uses examples to further his argument to evoke a sympathetic and relatable appeal for the audience. When the author mentions Harvard students and the “anti-intellectualism” that is prevalent on campus he makes his essay relatable for those in a university,…

I am nerd. A videogame, comic book, and much more type of nerd. I call myself a nerd because these are subjects that I enjoy to experience and learn about. These subjects not only have brought me entertainment throughout my years, but they have also taught me important life lessons that I intend to carry through the rest of my life. For examples I have learned through super heroes in comic books such as Spiderman, Captain America, and Iron man that life can bring up difficult obstacles but by…

On November 17th, my friend and I observed a musical at Carroll University called Numbers Nerds presented by the Carroll players. The musical is about a Waukesha high school competitive math team who received second place in their state competition due to their team captain getting stage freight. However, one of their competitors cheated on a problem and the Waukesha team was able to progress to nationals in New York. Although the play consists of a lot of disagreements between the main…

As Brendan Fraser once stated, “I guess darkness serves as a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that,” there is the present concept of redemption. Redemption, without a doubt, is denoted as the restorative or revengeful state of being at the end of a linear sequence. There can be no redemption without conflict, just as there is no night without day. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he incorporates redemption in a darker stance and tone. Rather, redemption in his work…

"America Needs Its Nerds" by Leonid Fridman is a powerful crafted argument on the social status or so called geeks. The hard hitting imager Fridman uses carries the words on the paper into a motiopn picture playing in ones mind. Nerds, were would we be without them? "Nerds and Geeks must stop being ashamed of who they are." People must admit that being called a nerd or geek in todays society is basically an insult. Why" People of this statue should not be ashamed to be a peasent on the social…

The mechanism of evolution occurs from natural selection, where the favorable traits are preserved and the unfavorable traits are destroyed. In Revenge of the Nerds, the author Steven Pinker claims that our common ancestor had four traits that led to the evolution of the modern human, which in turn established a foundation for humankind’s intelligence. Pinker states that the four traits are vision, group living, the ability of the hand, and hunting. In support of these four reasons, Pinker…