Essays on Nerd

Assignment 3

Part A 1a. No diamonds are emeralds, diamonds is the subject and emeralds is the predicate, the terms are distributed because no S is P (E type proposition); it is a negative statement because of the quality of the subject. The quantity of the subject class is a particular proposition because no diamonds are emeralds. 1b. At least one person is a nerd, person is the subject and nerd is the predicate, the terms are distributed because one S exists so that S is a P (I type proposition); it is an affirmative statement because of the quantity of ...

Executive Summary

This report shows the purported business plan of Nerd Patrol, a partnership business formed by three friends- John, Mary and Nabil. The business will be on hardware and software services, debugging, networking and franchise sales. The strategy to be adopted by the company would be using innovativeness in creating top quality for clients. Financial discipline would be adhered to. The long term goal of the business is to grow and start manufacturing innovative hardware components and software programming. Each role of active and passive managers is spelt out in this report. Employees would constitute of four units – computer engineers, marketing ...

Personal Statement

I am an enthusiastic international student from Taiwan, who is studying in Seattle Central Community College. My major is computer science, and I am applying to transfer to the University of South California (USC). Throughout the course on Computer Science and Physics, my grades were superior in the class, and I left a strong impression to my instructors. As a result, I accepted an offer to do a project on computer science, since many times I find myself thinking of new exciting ventures that are not the mainstream. I am a future engineer, who is aware of new challenges ahead of him. Peers call ...

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a fictional novel by Junot Diaz. The book chronicles the lives of its main characters in two contexts, New Jersey in America and the Dominican Republican. The main character in the book is Oscar Wao, an obese boy growing up in New Jersey who is obsessed with fantasy and science fiction books as well as falling in love. Oscar is also obsessed with a curse has he believes has plagued his family for many years. The book also features a host of other characters with one of them being Yunior who is Oscar’s ...

The Flip Side series of short movies (up to four minutes per movie) directed by Jay Diaz is a fine demonstrator of gender roles and how they are applied in societies. It shows the life of five couples, in everyday instances, like going camping, celebrating a birthday, and watching a football game, and how each gender performs and thinks in the workplace, vacation, and clubbing, among others. Parenting and dating are also showcased. The exciting part of the series is that roles are completely reversed, and men appear more emotional, sensitive, and having acquired all traits and attributes that a woman usually has, ...

Introduction

While the laugh track of the live studio audience will irritate anyone watching this show to no end, the portrayal of women in its first season would have women rights activist suing all the life out of the show, the mistaken pop culture references every now and then and the feeling that Hollywood has once again taken a shallow look at a long and evolving culture can make people rethink that The Big Bang Theory is really not a show that portrays nerd culture properly, it also cannot be denied that it has gotten a lot of things right more than it got ...

Film Studies

The Big Bang Theory is the best sitcom based on nerd culture. Based on the plot of the story, the four characters in the sitcom named Leonard Hofstadter, Sheldon Cooper, Howard Wolowitz and Raj Koothrappali. All of the main characters are certified geeks and work a Caltech as they engage in their science-related jobs. This is opposed to the other fifth character, Penny who is an aspiring actress and a waitress by profession and quite known for her common sense. The main theme of the show is physics and the dialogue of the four geek characters is mostly focused on news ...