Nerd

honor role as nerds or geeks, but later in life they are more likely to become more successful than people who bullied them. This issue is based movies were the kid is bullied because of his grades, but when he gets older he owns a company. While the bully is stuck with a bad job. This issue is wrong because if a kid gets A’s doesn't necessarily make them into a nerd or a geek. On top of that the bully may not get good grades in the future he can make the same amount of money as the “nerd”. The…

In this article, the author who is named Fridman explains just what the title says, AMERICA NEEDS ITS NERDS." He uses ethos, logos, and pathos to do just that. First he uses a dictionary to tell us that geek is a freak that bites off the head of a chicken. Then he tells us that Harvard has some students that don't want to be known as people who study. He even says that they are ostracised while athletes are idolized. This happens in other schools too. Not just an IV school like Harvard.…

but media portrayals of high school are full of identity archetypes (e.g. the nerd, the jock, the rebel, etc.). Reflecting on your high school experience, would you say you identify with one of these? If so, why and why do you embrace it? If not, why not? While high school students are multidimensional, there is a bit of truth behind each stereotype. For example, if my life were a television show I would be the nerd. I always do my homework, I'm in the honors program at my school, I worked…

likes to comment on how physically weak I am. About how I’m “such a nerd” and how I should “grow up.” They don’t seem to care about anything else. It’s a cultural thing, really; I’m a white, American male in an American classroom. I’m supposed to be physically active, love sports, etc. But personally? I could never do that. It’s just not who I am. My parents have pretty similar opinions. They grew up in a time when the nerd was becoming a common thing, and when it was still considered “dumb”…

the “Nerds, geeks, airheads, athletes, clows, freaks, and the ghettos.” No matter how hard one tries to avoid falling into a category, our student body, as well as the teachers, make certain that we do. Me, what can I say, i’m a Nerd. I love school! I hate when I don't get an A and why I get a 90 on a test, I complain. I study every moment of my life and alway have a packed…

In Leonid Fridmans "America Needs Its Nerds" students that value and focus on acadimics are shunned from the spot light and shammed for there abilities. Fridman says, " Someone dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge is compared to a freak biting the head off of a live chicken." Fridman finds the fault not only with our society but with the sytemour education. In Mary Sherry's " In Praise of the F Word", she explains thatkids are not affraid of failing because there is not such a thing anymore.…

The Theater Nerd Clique, for example, are extremely talented students. In high school English class, the teacher will often have students read stories, poems, plays and other forms of literature out loud. When a member of the Theater Nerd Clique is called on to read, they are the most entertaining of all the students who read because they are taught to read with emotion, it’s…

Other people seem to view me as a nerd, typical white girl, mean person and an emo. People think that just because I do not talk during class that I am a quiet nerd. People as consider me a nerd because I wear glasses sometimes. I sometimes wear boots or the brand pink so that makes me a typical white girl. If I drink Starbucks then I am considered a typical white girl as well. If I wear leggings I am considered a typical white girl. If I wear shirts with a band logo then I a considered an emo.…

Penrod even states, “The idea of the “geek” or “nerd” of the class is a familiar one to most students, and it is not a pleasant one,” (760). This is very familiar to me, especially when I excitedly babble about a new book that is going to be published, because I am often called a nerd. However, Penrod also declares that, “. . . not all ‘nerds’ are socially excluded; most high school students could readily name a few intelligent people with at…

his essay, “The Alpha Geeks”. He denotes, at the beginning nerds were the students with better grades and an outcast from the group of so-called cool boys and girls. But with the development of technology such as Microsoft where these nerds had major role in operating it; they became rich, famous and had high social status; the meaning of nerds got a new life. According to the writer, “Geek” and “nerd” exchanged status position where nerd was still socially tainted, but geekdom acquired its own…