“Haha! You play Dungeons and Dragons? You’re such a nerd!” The large‚ gorilla like man says to me‚ “actually...” I begin “nerds are more centered on academic and technical arts‚ I think the word you’re looking for is geek‚ as in: a person who is very interested in and knows a lot about a particular field or activity as Merriam Webster puts it.” “Pff‚ whatever *geek*.” he responds‚ chuckling to himself as he walks away. The definition of geek comes from old English geek or geck meaning “fool”‚
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The podcast OffShore describes the discourse surrounding surrounding the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on a dormant volcano in Hawaii named Mauna Kea. Cronon’s “The Trouble with Wilderness” describes the environmental implications of what constitutes as the wild. The speakers present in Offshore language when describing nature as interpersonal while the Romantic Writers Cronon cites describe nature as inhuman and divine. The speakers interviewed in OffShore explain the kinship felt
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were made that still govern the Colorado River Basin to this day. A few of the more important laws governing the way water rights are allocated today are the Colorado River Compact‚ Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928‚ Mexican Water Treaty of 1944‚ and Upper Colorado River Basin Compact of 1948. The Colorado River Compact was an agreement made by all seven states in 1922 (US Department of the Interior‚ 2008). This was responsible for dividing the basin into Upper and Lower basins and appropriating
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published in 1990‚ has managed to erroneously place itself amongst the multitude of scholarly articles. The article “America Needs Its Nerds” lacks validity behind its central claim due to the fact that its supporting evidence is wrongly based on misconceptions‚ generalizations‚ assumptions‚ and unfair comparisons. Leonid Fridman‚ writer of “America Needs Its Nerds‚” is correct in his message that Americans should treat intellectualism with greater respect‚ but presumptuous statements make his argument
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Trouble with Wilderness; or‚ Getting Back to the Wrong Nature” by William Cronon (William Cronon‚ ed.‚ Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature‚ New York: W. W. Norton & Co.‚ 1995‚ 69-90; The time has come to rethink wilderness. This will seem a heretical claim to many environmentalists‚ since the idea of wilderness has for decades been a fundamental tenet—indeed‚ a passion—of the environmental movement‚ especially in the United States. For many Americans wilderness stands as
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The title of my book is Beach Blondes. This novel was written by Katherine Applegate. The genre is realistic fiction and there is a little bit of suspense throughout. Katherine lives in California with her husband and two kids. She mostly writes young adult fiction and children books. She has also sold more than 35million copies of the Animorphs series.The book Beach Blondes is one of four others in her “Summer” series. Summer Smith lives in a small town in Minnesota‚ where it is always cold
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overweight rodeo cowboy who was 20 years old and weighed 452 pounds. He wanted to win a contest that gave him money he needed because he had little left since his family died in a plane crash coming from Europe. They left him with $5000 because they were going to be gone for three months. Junior didn’t go because of school and his job‚ being a rodeo cowboy. After he found out his family died he became depressed and reclusive and started eating a lot and eventually ended up wasting all of his money.
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“The Gay Cowboy Thing” . A large portion of americans will hear the phrase “the gay cowboy story” and automatically associate it with Brokeback Mountain. Even my lesbian parents praise the film and the story for being controversial for the time. Indeed‚ during the time in which both the story and the film were created‚ there was very little representation of queerness in any form. [make sure to imput thesis after the rest of the essay is written] However‚ since my parent’s generation‚ LGBTQ+ representation
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INTRODUCTION Over the years‚ display technology has been growing‚ from simple CRT to plasma screen. But now display technology has reached a stage where images can be displayed in thin air without the aid of a screen. A technology used for displaying images in thin air is called Heliodisplay. Heliodisplay is a technology developed by Chad Dyner‚ CEO for IO2 Technologies. In the Heliodisplay‚ a projector is focused onto a layer of mist in mid-air‚ resulting in a two-dimensional display that appears to float
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Explain the place of anonymity in theories of crowd behaviour. Is it always associated with a ‘loss of self’? Crowd behaviour has long been a point of interest for social psychologists. Psychologists have looked at how people exhibit different behaviours when they are part of a crowd. The anonymity of a crowd allows people to assume a mask which permits them to behave in a manner which is untypical for them. This can be demonstrated in both negative and positive roles‚ such as people rioting
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