education. In the passage from “America Needs Its Nerds” by Leonid Fridman, it refers to how students who want to study are academically serious are slowly becoming ashamed for who they truly are and what they are determined to do in the future. In America, those who are pursuing more knowledge are being excluded by society causing them to create poor social skills. Leonid Fridman builds an argument to persuade his audience that “America needs its nerds” by using a dictionary definition to compare and
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most Americans today glorify athletes, while nerds cower in the corner. In an excerpt from Leonid Fridman’s essay titled, “America Needs Its Nerds,” Fridman shows readers why Americans should not look down on nerds by utilizing writing tools to develop his argument. In the first two paragraphs of the passage, Fridman lays the foundation for his argument. First, he states what society thinks about nerds: society’s values are so flawed that terms like “nerd” and “geek” are used only for the academically
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The following passage from “America Needs its Nerds” written by Leonid Fridman, talks about how it is wrong that people who are serious about their education are being mistreated rather than appreciated for their hard work. Fridman successfully develops this argument by using powerful diction which emphasizes the tone of sarcasm and also using an analogy between the derogatory terms used against these people and the actual definition. First and foremost, the author uses very strong diction
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“America Needs Its Nerds” by Leonid Fridman informs readers on his views of how people with intellectual ability are put down in America. Leonid Fridman develops his argument by using Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. Ethos uses credibility to persuade readers. The quote of the definition from “Webster’s New World Dictionary” is a credible source for definitions. Leonid Fridman starts by
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Ghetto Nerd at the End of the World, 1974 – 1987 Oscar was not your average Dominican male, mainly because he had bad luck with females in general. It was only when he was seven that he was ever a “Casanova”, when he danced the merengue and the perrito, two openly sexual dances. He relatives more than encourage his behavior. Oscar falls in love with a girl from his sat prep class named Ana. Although ana thought of it as being sweet, she does not admit to loving him back. Wildwood 1982 –1985 The
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CRJ 311 Entire Course (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.crj311nerd.com CRJ 311 Week 1 Assignment The CSI Effect CRJ 311 Week 1 DQ 1 Peer Review CRJ 311 Week 1 DQ 2 Your First Scene CRJ 311 Week 1 Journal You're an Expert! CRJ 311 Week 2 Assignment Conducting Your Own Field Sobriety Test CRJ 311 Week 2 DQ 1 Drugs and Scheduling CRJ 311 Week 2 DQ 2 Field Sobriety Tests CRJ 311 Week 2 Journal SANE or Not CRJ 311 Week 3 Assignment Case Study Analysis The Enrique Camarena Case CRJ 311
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Snobs depend on people believing the images they set for themselves, and having others constantly reassuring them they are wonderful. They set their lives around what other people think. Snobs unlike nerds usually have better clothes, have big fancy parties, or go out to the movies a lot more than nerds do. The snob’s group is usually very exclusive. Their rejection of others is their desperate attempt to not be rejected themselves. Snobs rely on always wearing, doing, and saying, what is “in”, to
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My first piece of candy is orange nerds. The sound is like maracas in a mariachi band and it is pretty loud for it’s size. The smell is like one of those orange smelly stickers you get for a good grade on a test. The touch is like on of those bumpy rocks with smooth edges that is tiny. Sight it is a tiny, orange, and that it is shaped kinda like a ball in the center and then with the bumps on the outside. It tastes like a sour patch kids and orange juice were combined My second piece of candy
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the variation in adolescents’ personalities, which are encouraged in these cliques. Some typical types of teen cliques that are observed include: geeks, jocks, outsiders, hipsters, preps, and nerds. An in-vivo observation was conducted at Riverside High School in Greenville, South Carolina of both preps and nerds in a tenth grade social studies classroom. Both groups consisted of four girls, which at the time of observation, were working on a cooperative learning activity involving the history of the
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