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My Nerd Cave My Nerd Cave is my escape from reality, it’s where I go when I want to be alone and relax. I’m usually in my nerd cave in the afternoon after I get home from school or on the weekend when I want to get away from everything. My house is an A-Frame chalet so the walls are very slanted, not to mention my cave is kinda tiny. But hey it works out. The afternoon sunlight filters through the shades at the end of my room. Almost always my cat “kiddy” will follow me upstairs and lay at…

In the essay, “America Needs Its Nerds,” Fridman discusses various reasons why intelligence in American society should not be scene as a curse, but as a blessing. He praises intelligence throughout his paper constantly arguing against society’s classification of brilliant minds. Furthermore, Fridman uses diction, parallelism, comparisons, and rhetorical questions to persuade the reader to view intelligence as the limelight of society. Instantly, Fridman states his thesis which is strongly…

Raiza Ruiz-Kline Sarah Klein MCWP 40 8 October 2015 Writing Prompt 1: “Revenge of the Nerds” In “Revenge of the Nerds” Steven Pinker asserts that four dominant traits contributed to the way of life that allowed the ancestors of the modern Homo sapiens to develop powers of reasoning and enter what he refers to as “the cognitive niche” (Pinker 191). By establishing the function of these four traits and linking them all to the resulting lifestyle changes as these traits evolved (and the subsequent…

And after a full season of wondering if the career driven girl and dorky guy will get together they do for a year and then break up. In the last episode the career girl and nerd guy end up together after a long time and live happily ever after. The nerdy guys both become professors. They both date one of their students. Nerd guys are both know-it-alls and love to correct people. They both have a on-again-off-again relationship with career woman and they believe her to be “the one”. The funny guy…

In the online article “Nerd Alert: Reading is Good For Your Health,” Jen Christen suggests that fictional books “can help [people] clarify their goals, work through an emotional issue, or may even help them turn a page to start a newer, healthier life chapter.” The author is correct in her suggesting because there has been lab results showing so. Through personal experiences, books dealing with issues, such as rape and losing a child, has given readers the ability to see what the other person…

"America Needs Its Nerds." Fridman presents the argument that America is slowly falling behind other industrialized nations because athletes are constantly praised for their physical abilities while those with intellectual ability are snubbed. In his "America Needs Its Nerds" essay, Fridman develops his argument by using harsh word choices when discussing nerds to create an intense diction that juxtapositions nerds and jocks and appeals to pathos to show why America really needs its nerds. The…

In the article “Nerd Alert: Reading is Good For Your Health” by Jen Christensen, it is stressed that being empathetic can help a person improve their relationships with others and really understand how other people feel. Studies show that “A work of fiction is a piece of consciousness that can pass from one mind to another and that can make it their own...Reading these books may enhance [the reader’s] emotional intelligence. That means reading books could improve [their] love life, [their]…

Introduction The authors of both articles ”All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Nerd” by David Lessing and David Herne and “America Needs Its Nerds” by Leonid Fridman.In the text ”All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Nerd” talk about a kid who studies hard as an example to other students,learning and getting good grades I know this because in the text it states that Continuous study, like any other obsession,is not a habit to be lauded. Every student,no matter how “intellectually curious”, ought to…

In middle school, My peers called me “Black Nerd” and “Sci-fi Loser” because of my fascination with technology and sci-fi. On a daily basis, classmates would laugh like wild hyenas at my interests. Sometimes I would recite my favorite lines from the TV series Battlestar Galactica and would hear “You actually like that! God, you’re a loser.” This was a frequent reaction I got for all of my interests too. During lunch periods, my table seemed like it had a reverse tractor beam that pushed people…

In the passage, " America Needs its Nerds," by Leonid Freeman, the author is talking about a growing issue in American Culture and academics. Freeman talks about how many kids are getting called "nerds" and "geeks" just for taking their education more seriously than others. He wants to tell his audience that America needs to end the culture of calling kids nerds and geeks and start hitting the books so that those kids can be intellectual. This is Freedman's argument. He develops his argument by…