A critical analysis of the essay celebrating nerdiness by Tom Rogers An assignment paper for ACADEMIC WRITING Part 1 In the article “Celebrating Nerdiness”, Tom Rogers writes about his and his sons experiences of being a nerd while portraying being one in good light. . Rogers, who is a high school physics teacher, has a website on science that has been featured by the media. This essay of his was published in Newsweek, in 2000. From the language and personalised tone he used in his writing, Rogers may be targeting an audience of young nerds, who are unsure of being proud of themselves.
While technology can be beneficial and useful it can also cause negative consequences. In science fiction plots, the growing technological advances often times result in negative effects on humankind. In The Sound of Thunder, we see the use of the time machine and how it ended up changing the course of history forever (Bradbury, 288-300). In Nethergrave, the boy Jeremy felt more comfortable in his online chat room world where he chose to create a different persona for himself that differed from reality. In the end he chose the live in a whole new virtual world, which resulted in Jeremy ending his life on planet earth (Skurzynki, 314-324).
He warned others of what our world would come to be, “a classless society” (http://www.nationmaste.com). Benito Hoover is an obvious reference to the thirty-firs president of the United States, Herbert Hoover. Mustapha Mond is one of the ten major world leaders. Mustapha Mond’s name makes a great deal of sense when put into context. Mustapha comes from an Arabic name Mustafa, meaning the chosen one; and Mond means world: “The chosen one of the world.” His name is also a reference to Mustafa Kamal, the founder of modern Turkey.
A human sent down and created by the gods to rival Gilgamesh, ended up befriending the protagonist. Gilgamesh believing he is superior, found an equal to him. Slowly as the story continues Gilgamesh finds a brotherly love towards Enkidu. This is very important because this is the first time Gilgamesh has expressed more than superiority. This causes him to shift his tyrannous ruler ways to wanting to do better things for his city.
Discus the theme of the incompatibility of happiness and truth in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Aldous Huxley’s skilful characterisation and creation of an apparent utopia are used effectively to explore the theme of the incompatibility of happiness and truth. Set in the World State of AF 632, or 2540 AD, using our calendar, everyone is content with his or her life. However, the World State is actually a dystopia with many dark secrets. One of these secrets is that although every citizen believes himself to be happy, he has been genetically engineered to think so and is a government ploy to maintain “social stability”.
This is also a contradiction in the same sense. Gladwell needs to decide if success is based off of the factors we cannot control such as financial situations and heritage, or if success is based off of controllable factors such as passion and dedication. I am going to go with the latter. Of course, it is more difficult to become a success if one is born in a lower-class; however being in a lower-class gives a person much more incentive to work hard for a better life. Gladwell points out that most success stories are alike.
With this revelation Capote makes a point that is very hard to accept; working hard may lead to success, but is it really worth the troubles that one goes through before and after the task is finished? Capote fails to stand out as a moral leader; instead, he blurs the line between right and wrong. In a way, the reader starts to reconsider the values of success and great effort. This change of heart comes from Capote’s influence and ambiguous
Anthony Tedesco Mr. Sorgini ENG 4U1 3 December 2013 The Motif of Sight and Blindness The amount of determination and ambition that a human is able to posses is one of the strongest forces known to man. However, humans often fail to realize that the determination and ambition of ones self could lead to their blindness of reality. The fact that they will go to great lengths to get what they want makes them susceptible to become blind, making them oblivious in their judgments and actions. Such ambition and determination could extract the morals of one in terms of achieving a long awaited goal or dream. Something such as the American dream has that tendency to extract those morals from humans, whether they are living the dream or are still aspiring to attain it, humans prove themselves unable to move beyond the past and end up in the loop of the corrupt American dream.
[12] Ghana is a constitutional democracy divided into ten administrative regions, and the world's 56th−most inhabited nation with a population of approximately 27 million as of 2014. [5] Ghana's varied geography includes savannas, woodlands, forests, a coastal line, springs, cave systems, mountains, estuaries, wildlife parks, and nature reserves. [13][14][15] The coast of Ghana stretches 560 kilometres (350 miles) and includes a rich assortment of culturally significant castles, forts, ports and harbors. [15] Prior to colonization by the British empire in the early-20th century, Ghana was the site of numerous kingdoms and empires; the most powerful being the Akan Kingdom of Ashanti. [16] In 1957, it became the first African nation to declare independence from European colonization.
He shows how desires ( in this case of being free from society’s grip) can lead young boys to turn on the ideals and traditions, society installs in them from a young age. Brave New World, on the other hand shows the abandonment of “art, science, and religion” for an advance order as the new order pays “a fairly high price for your (mustapha’s) happiness” (Huxley 230). By abandoning art, science, and religion, society gains amazing advancements, yet they also lose the happiness of life through expression, creativity, and faith. Huxley makes society question the cost of that