Character Analysis: Mr. Bean Goes To Town

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A Rubik’s Cube was spotted on your dusty old shelf crammed with your parents’ dusty beloved books--don’t pretend like you didn’t see it with your peripheral vision--so you gave it a go. The countless finger-breaking, brain-grinding, eye-melting hours spent to just group six colours into their individual side, is the most satisfying feeling ever.
This is what happened to me three years ago, and that last satisfying ‘U prime’ which lead to the first completion of a Rubik’s Cube, just made it “ma thang”. There was a great amount of time put into that same Rubik’s Cube afterwards, and my new goal was to get faster at it. While breaking through my limits, I realized that I have been able to think beyond the standards during class. I could do certain
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The character Mr. Bean projects a sufficient amount of weakness in the art of traditional intellect. He can’t talk fluently, he makes bad decisions, and doesn’t know how to make a good impression on others. However, he does know how to problem solve in the most unique and creative ways. In Episode 4, “Mr. Bean Goes to Town”, he makes a purchase of a new Aerial Television that requires proper placement of the antenna for the TV to work. He finds a spot away from the TV that works and the only problem is, the TV will work only if Mr. Bean sits in that spot (a position from which he cannot see the television, by the way). He establishes a solution that would be classified as “outside the box” thinking; he takes off all his clothes, including his boxers, and he puts them on the exact same spot to make the television work. If I were ever to become a Neuroscientist, it would be a great pleasure to study the brain of Mr. Bean. Despite his weird personality, he establishes plenty of creative thinking and problem solving in his bizarre …show more content…
After scrolling through multiple pages, I finally found a book that gave me a detailed biography about a genius, an inventor, and a hero to our modern-day society, Thomas Alva Edison. Thomas Edison wasn’t considered a bright child during his early ages. He had dyslexia, which made him lack in academics, but it didn’t hold him back from being groundbreaking and creative. With the help of his mother, who gave him daily encouragement, he eventually became renowned as one of the most famous inventors. In 1869, he invented an improved stock ticker; in 1870, he made inventions for the high bidders; and in 1879, he made the first commercial light bulb. He hustled, made big money and gained an impressive reputation because of the astonishing ingenuity he possesses. There might have been bullies in school that would have oppressed onto him due to his lack of academic prowess, but that didn’t stop him from making some of the most reliable inventions

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