“Nerds and Geeks” Popularity, being well known, and skipping school just to be a part of the “crowd” or the cool people. Though not everyone can be a part of that world, and that’s where the “geeks” and “nerds” come in. Their story and why we need them is exclaimed in Leonid Fridman’s piece, “America needs its nerds.” To make his point clear he uses satire, making it straight forward and humorous, also making it enjoyable for the reader. He uses an appealing set of word choice in his writings to keep the reader interested from the beginning to the end. Creating a relationship between the readers through pathos make Fridman piece a better read.
I thought that the film "Y Tu Mama Tambien" by Alfonso Cuaron was very interesting. It dealt with the issues of love, sex, friendship, class/economics but that's not what the film was all about. It was more than just about two teenage boys on a road trip with a woman whom they want to have sexual intercourse with. As stated above, I feel the film was mostly about what isn't known rather than what is. You may think you know someone but in reality you don't.
Yu 1 Eric Yu Ms. Dunlop ENG 1DY 20 September 2013 Alan’s Flirtatious Attempt Creepy and flirtatious, are some words that describe Alan from the story, Loathe At First Sight by Ellen Conford. At first sight, Alan appears to be a joyful typical teenager, but upon further inspection it is revealed that he is far from “typical”. Alan seems rather creepy in the story, especially when he says, “I was admiring you from afar, and I wanted to admire you from a-near.” (Conford 1). He is also a quite humorous person, which he reveals to the readers when he says, “Oh, boy, this whole conversation has gotten off on the wrong foot. Wrong foot---ha!
Freeing youth from these narrow confines of gender identity will promote a greater degree of opportunity, acceptance, equality and social justice for our youth and the future society that they will shape. Pascoe’s masculine gender norm analysis centered on what she termed the ‘fag discourse’, the process by which boys reiterated “repeated repudiation of failed acts of masculinity” and an assertion of masculinity by “engaging in heterosexist discussions of girl’s bodies and their own sexual experiences”. She discovered that the fag trope did not refer to homosexual desire, but instead was in reference to a boy who was emotional, expressive, incompetent, noncompetitive, physically weak or unable or unwilling to dominate girls, for example. The fag discourse’s purpose was to ‘police masculinity’ by ‘shoring up contemporary definitions of
He said, “I noticed that several of his punch lines had been unintelligible, and the audience had actually laughed at nothing but the cue of his hand slap.” (111) Martin felt that the audience was forced to laugh not because of the joke or because the man was being funny, but because of the cue that was provided. He strongly disliked this and wanted his comedy to be unpredictable and Rodriguez 2 more importantly memorable. This caused Martin to take a deeper look into his own act to make sure that it was set up in a way that the audience would laugh when they actually thought it was funny and not when they felt it was expected of them. He started doing odd unpredictable things to accomplish
When Dre gets his eyes blackened by another boy on playground, he becomes obsessed with learning how to defend himself, and finds an unwilling mentor in maintenance man Mr. Han (Jackie Chan). The Karate Kid is about as seriously dramatic as you can make it considering that it’s aimed at a younger audience, only lit occasionally by sparks of humor. The humor comes from a sarcastic young lead, Dre, and the ubiquitous warmth of character that can be found in Mr. Han, but the moments are few and far between. I believe that this was done on purpose because of its effectiveness in making the audience feel almost as isolated as Dre. Target audience: The Karate Kid is aimed at, in my opinion, 8 to 16 year olds.
• Tybalt: Peaceful in tone, contemptuous attitude towards Montagues and their allies. • Although pitted against Mercutio stronger evidence of animosity expressed towards Romeo. • Romeo: Dismissive and good-natured, clearly in an elated mood. • M initially thinks R’s peaceable reaction to Tybalt’s insults is setting up for some sort of prank / retort / joke. Is shocked and disappointed when this is not the case.
This clearly presents his heterosexual lust for her; he also refers to her as ‘the Hun’ indicating that she is the enemy so as to speak, and is standing in between his ‘further deployments’ portraying how superficial his love for Fiona is, as he is obviously disappointed with her not allowing him to advance and is more concerned for his own needs. This is further illustrated in his statement, ‘It’s like the headmaster says: one should have targets’, The use of double entendre on the word ‘targets’ forms a comical link between education and sexuality and makes his pursuit sound intelligent, like a difficult challenge that requires careful thought and planning, again more focused on
The sexual scripts in the media actually express how individuals “should” act in sexual situations (Hust, Brown, and Engle 5). Television often emphasizes sexual relationships as a leisure activity motivated by pleasure and personal gain, neither anything serious nor having any consequences (Ward and Friedman 134). The media also makes boys feel as if they need to achieve sexual power to be accepted by their friends (Hust, Brown and Engle 15). This notion is portrayed in the movie American Pie, which is popular among many teenagers. The main plot of the movie was for the main characters, a group of boys, to lose their virginity to secure a higher social status and these false depictions of people, given by this movie and the media in general, can pressure boys to feel like they need to have sex in order to be popular.
I can recount a personal experience of how differences in language can promote prejudice in gender. I often overhear my male friends’ conversations about relationships. A derogatory term they will often use is “pussywhipped”. A man is “pussywhipped” when their female counterpart possesses the dominance in the relationship. The term is a vulgar insult and is usually associated with lack of masculinity.