But why? Basically, the author argues that smart kids invest their time and energy into the things that they like. Meanwhile, being popular in high school is a full-time job, requiring a great deal of time and effort – time the nerds are unwilling to commit. I found his argument unconvincing. The article goes into many other issues, about the roots of teenage angst, that you may find interesting, but I want to focus on this primary point – nerds are unpopular because they don’t invest time in being popular.
Little did he know when he conversed with his friends it helped develop analysis, arguments, generalizations, summaries and "other intellectualizing operations." Due to the conversations involving his friends, Graff believes that "street smarts" overpower "book smarts" for the fact that both community and culture desire more for sports and entertainment than for academic subjects. Subjects delegated in schoolwork were topics of isolation among peers, opposed to batting averages and winning percentages during the major league baseball playoffs being a common article for discussion. Graff reintroduces the idea that students already have intellectualism in the form of “street smarts.” As teachers Graff explains “we need bridge the gap” between the “street smarts” and “book smarts.” Graff pleads to the reader to take topics of interest that aren’t related to school and look at them "through academic eyes”. Such thinking requires the development of arguments, analyzing situations, and applying one‘s thoughts to the subject matter in order to come up with one’s own
"You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing." Their flirting is charming. He tells her: "You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are." They're serious readers who love to play with words and poke at the clichés of CancerWorld. When someone says of a boy who died, "he fought hard," Hazel thinks to herself, "as if there were another way to fight."
Argument 1: The way the characters are constructed in the novel to position the audience. Particular characters in “Don’t call me Ishmael” have unique and stereotypical nerd like attributes, which has helped the Bauer to construct the story into an anti bullying novel. Ishmael Leseur instantly attracts Barry Bagsley’s attention, on the first day Barry states “Ishmael? What kind of wussy crap name is that?”(p.g.18).This creates an overall feeling of sympathy from the audience towards Ishmael, who isn’t that different from other students at his high school, but his attributes that make him unique such as his intelligence, quietness, sense of apprehensiveness and most of all, his name are constantly used against him, creating an even stronger sense of sympathy for Ishmael among the audience. This highlights how the Bauer constructed the characters to
Moore does a great job connecting to his readers by using satire and humor to make his point, but does not sway from the seriousness of the subject by embedding facts about education. He does however, have an angry tone throughout his article, but he seems to use that in a way to give the reader a sense of anger towards the subject also, thus making the reader feel more connected with his text. As he talks about his personal encounters with school, he changes his tone once more as he makes us feel more sympathetic towards his subject. He really sparks the cognitive skills of the reader by using humor and facts to argue his opinion about the educational system, but at the same time he knows how to change his tone and change the readers’ emotion. Moore mesmerizes his audience by presenting horrifying facts about the “state of stupidity in this country”(128).
Answers to Seminar activities FOB Week 5 Communication Activity 1: Communication This is on p. 179 of the Key Text (2007) but don’t let students look until they have had a go themselves! Many students are amazed to discover the true meanings of these words, although they should also bear in mind that when they use them correctly they may not be correctly understood. The last word in the list is an example of jargon (in our own field of academia) again a worthwhile discussion topic – who understands the jargon used in organisations | |Word |Meaning |Popular usage | |1 |Decimate |Cut by 10 per cent (clue is “dec… = a
More than describing his reasons, he hopes that many other people identify with his ideas, so he don’t feel as the only one who degrades computers’ function. Berry’s article draws attention of the audience because we live in a society that barely looks up for reasons for not buying not only computers, but also any other technological advance. We live on a pro technology world. Past generations might always seem technology as an enemy because it is hard for them to catch up with technology. Berry’s intention to persuade readers depends whether the reader agrees or disagrees with his reasons.
This was because of the eccentric and peculiar attitudes and outlook on life of the protagonist that made the novel such an attraction. The way Holden could judge someone based on looks may sound really prejudice, but most of his judgments panned out to be accurate. Many readers (even me) began to have the same perception of society after closing the book. Somehow Salinger has transformed the readers’ minds to become more judgmental and see more ‘phonies’ in society. This consequently made youth feel alienated and began sharing the same views of Holden Caulfield of this world full of ‘phonies’.
advertising young people by Harold Mc Donald • 1960’s was the high times of artificial flavors. • Calling any of these flavors “natural” requires a flexible attitude towards the English language and a fair amount of irony. Think about this!! Chapter 6: on the range Writer tries to win over the readers. Hank is a real person playing on the readers feelings because Hank was a good man that dies.
It’s so depressing and boring and it doesn’t really help anyone in life. It will always remind that person what they did wrong to be put in jail. There is a child twist of devastating lives that happen in similar situations like the ones that happen in Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes. In this book, envelops a story in which kids and teenagers overcome their insecurities by standing up for themselves and proving that they are not what they are being called or treated. Like the situation that when Sarah and Eric were writing that paper on Dale Thornton because he was bullying them and so Sarah and Eric started making fun of him.