World Need It's Nerd

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Over the past 100 years America has grown into a strong and influential country thanks to the advancement of new ideas and technology to which many comes from those as Fridman explains, the nerds. Nerds and geeks allow America to be known as the dominant economic country and to hold a position of growth strength in technological advances. Yet geeks and nerds are outcast. They were originally compared someone who bite heads off live chickens. In his essay, Fridman clearly portrays the disaster our country will face if we do not change our anti-intellectual attitude. Fridman explains how we will fall behind other countries in international competition, and why our anti-intellectual attitude is wrong and needs changing. He develops these explanations through specific details in compare and contrast, and by the use of his sentence structure. First, Fridman begins by giving an example of how society views nerds and geeks, giving a modern day dictionary definition of geek as “a street performer who shocks the public by biting off heads of live chickens” (line 6). This explains how society has come to a misunderstanding of nerds and geeks, those who are devoted to pursuit in academic, being compared to freaks biting off chickens heads. The example identifies that the people of today should reevaluate their own definition of the term geek and nerd. Fridman supports his point by talking about Harvard, a detail which specifically ties to his claim of the importance of education; mainly because Harvard is the most dominant educational institution in America. He uses this as a prime example of “how even in school such as Harvard there is still anti-intellectualism” where the athletes are being praised for running and hitting one another and those who prefer to read books are “ashamed to admit, even to their friends, how much they study” (line 13). This only further proves to
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