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Reading Builds Empathy While reading the article, “ Nerd Alert: Reading is Good For Your Health,” published by Jen Christensen from CNN.com, I found that multiple studies conducted on the effects of reading showed an increase in empathy. A study from the Trends in Cognitive Science show compelling evidence towards reading increasing empathy. In addition, multiple credible professors and students agree with this statement. My intent in this paper is to convey the important effects on reading into…

In the article “Why Nerds and Nurses are Taking Over the U.S. Economy” by Derek Thompson, talks about which jobs are growing exponentially and which jobs aren’t going to far. Many jobs such as nurses and helping aids are growing quickly because many American citizens are getting old, and fast. My future career may or may not be affected by this older generation. My future career field I want to go in is civil engineering. Civil engineering is basically an engineer that maintains a city’s roads,…

from Central High School in three years, acquiring many academic achievements and having the ability to play the trombone although he disliked the impact that individuals had with the credentials of having a higher degree, creating the definition of nerd to become a person with a lot of intelligence. The biography intended the audience to be established individuals with degrees that do not know where they fit within a community of…

The term 'nerd' can, and does, mean different things to different people. When someone is called a nerd by their friends it is not considered a big deal, but when a stranger calls another stranger a 'nerd' or a ‘geek’, it can be seen as aggressive. The sole idea of 'America needs Its nerds' by Leonid Fridman is that America does, if fact, need its individuals that would rather read a book than go out and party, who would rather study than play football, who would rather build upon their…

reason i have to piggy being a nerd is, he is picked on by the other boys on the island, but isn't picked on by ralph or simon, i know, but he is picked on by the other other boys like jack and the other small children, on page 18 jack says “ Shut up fatty.” (Golding) so this is good enough evidence to show that he is picked on by other boys, there is other quotes but it’s eight in the morning and i don't feel like finding it in the book, but think about it, every nerd in every movie, book, or…

minutes of recognition, tacked onto the beginning of a sports assembly.” Penrod's point of this example is to show how high schoolers value sports more then academics. He talks about the different stereotype such as geeks are nerds and others. He also talks about the heat for the nerds or how people hate on them because they're smart and because they want to take AP classes and they're excited about stuff like that.…

Masculinities in Nerd Culture In this essay I will explore the theory of hegemonic masculinities in relation to two texts, the first being the theoretical framework in the book chapter Understanding Men on Television (Lotz), then I will show how this theory of hegemonic masculinities plays out in Your Princess is in Another Castle; Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds (Chu). The ideas of hegemonic masculinities can be understood in relation to what it means to be apart of the dominant groups…

is labelled with either positive or negative stereotypes. The stereotype I’m generally given is I have good grades, so I must be a nerd. When most people think of a girl as a nerd they imagine her wearing a skirt, sweater or polo shirt, braces, glasses, and have her hair in a ponytail. For the most part, nerds are found unattractive. Throughout the school day nerds are mostly found alone, reading a book, doing homework, or researching on their computer. They’re generally unathletic and have…

one as a person, but rather one as a stereotype. There’s only one stereotype at the top of the kingdom, and its not your who your are thinking. Its the nerds, and this paper will prove why. I chose the article “High School Nerds Make More Money, Says social Science” by Jordan Weissman. This article touches on the subject of the all time low nerds actually becoming the men after high-school. The research conduced in this article was the probability of how or if a higher GPA in high school will…

went back to their usual topic: sports and girls. As Aleister was walking to his locker, he heard their voices from afar, “Jesus! Watch where you are going, nerd!” followed by the sound of books being slapped away from someone’s arms, and then dropped on the floor. No one helped, but rather enjoyed the scene. Aleister watched from afar, the nerd is called…