Revenge of the Nerds

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 argument to defend his claim(s), sometimes efficiently, sometimes incompetently, his structure is faulty and unclear, so his ideas were not presented in the best way. The article starts off strong with Pinker’s first point, that “our ancestors had four traits that made it especially easy and worth their while to evolve better powers of casual reasoning” (191), being thoroughly introduced and discussed. Pinker maintains that our…

The bigger conflict at hand was the oppression by the Nazis, and Eliezer would not bend to their will so easily. To redeem his earlier erroneous actions, not listening to Moishe, he had to redeem his own dignity as a human being. However, there are still other ways to define and display redemption. In Ha Jin’s “Saboteur,” he demonstrates redemption in a negative light through revenge, malevolence and hatred. Portraying the current time period as very irritable and intense, the starting conflict…

I am a huge, huge nerd. I’ve never cared about sports, or what’s hip now, or that cool new musician. I’m all about video games, particularly indie dungeon crawlers and first person shooters. I listen to old 80s rock and EDM music. My family and friends shaped me into this person, and they’re the reason there’s an essay here at all. Nerdiness runs in my blood. My Great-Grandfather played Legend of Zelda and Sims. My parents are therefore, of course, nerds. Different, and more old school, but…

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…

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…

The movie Revenge of the Nerds is focused on two best-friends, Gilbert and Lewis, who are freshman at Adams College. For the purpose of this paper, we will focus mostly on Gilbert and his path of self-authorship. Gilbert arrives on campus with Lewis and they move into their new dorm. They are excited to be on campus and start living the college life. This excitement of their new living situation comes to an end when a local fraternity – Alpha Beta – burns down their frat house during a raucous…

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…

to find out what happened; her thoughts drive her to an investigation. Now flashing forward to nine years later, little did Quentin know Margo will climb through his window late at night. Both of them haven’t hanged out since the dead body accident. Margo needs help from Quentin she needs him to drive her around town to vandalize houses, and cars being the “good boy” Quentin is he could never say yes, but his heart can’t wait to spend time with the marvellous Margo; whom he had loved since he…

and positive. The short story “User Friendly’ features a boy named Kevin who’s computer falls in love with him. In the song “Gone Gone Gone” by Phillip Phillips sings about how he will not move on to anyone but the person he’s singing about. The theme of user friendly and” Gone Gone Gone” is that love hurts.This essay will illustrate how the theme of love was created in these two different works. In the short story “User Friendly”, One of the themes is Love hurts. It is about a painful…

Little did I know that in that year I would find my identity. A new school year started. Already I wanted it to end because I thought school wasn't for me. I used to be the student who didn't care about getting good grades, and less about been the best; however, that suddenly changed. It changed thanks to a girl who believed I was the dumbest girl. I never imagined that there could be someone so arrogant and smug like her. Even so, she would help me to find my true self. Her name was Tamara;…