Jocks and Nerds: Men's Style in the Twentieth Century

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Big Man on Campus: Chase Lewis, Greenview High's star athlete on the basketball team, rich, handsome, popular and dating the most popular girl in school. He's well liked and respected by everyone.

This one’s pretty self-explanatory. Foreign exchange students often have a remarkably good grasp of the English language, to the point where they outperform their American peers. They’re often smart, funny, and endearing. High-School Sweethearts: Chase and Emma were Greenview's most power couple in school, they've been a couple since freshmen year, but they split up.The term “nerd” became popular in the 1980s, with young people everywhere using it to describe those uncool but academically high-achieving kids who wore glasses and seemed shy or even downright antisocial. The word gained some negative connotations in those days—although, over time, “nerd” has been reclaimed by people who identify with the “nerdy” subculture. By the 1990s, as the tech scene grew and the internet became more popular, being a nerd became downright cool! High school is a time to explore your personality and find yourself. Generally, that means bouncing from clique to clique and adopting various personality traits in an effort to fit in. It’s a mess—and, really, it’s always been that way. That’s why so many awesome movies like The Breakfast Club and Mean Girls focus on that sense of social awkwardness that’s unique to high school. Several of them will be co-valedictorians, and they’ll give speeches at graduation that quote Oh, The Places You’ll Go. Overall, though, they’re not too bad. They’re involved in tons of extracurricular activities (those activities look great on college applications, after all), and while they won’t go to many parties, they’ll make up for that in college. The “Video Game Culture” Kids Class Princess: Emma is also qualify this because of her looks, popularity, charm and also her kindness as usual.

It is, of course, a fib. After I stopped laughing, it made me think: how can an airport be seriously counted as carbon neutral when it discounts the flights? Does it use renewable energy for searchlights? Sorry, not good enough.

One thing that emerges from a closer analysis of the situation is that it is not as straightforward as the worthy people of Extinction Rebellion would have us believe. First, it's easy to point accusatory fingers at fossil-fuel use in energy generation and transport as the reason why ice caps are melting and polar bears are being forced towards extinction. However, there are other major contributors in, for example, manufacturing, construction and industrial processes that aren't quite as tangible to the public and therefore go under the radar when blame is being apportioned.