Society’s Responsibility In the United States of America around the time of 1760, colonists were being taxed without the say of the citizens -society-. Without society’s approval, the colonists revolted in saying that there was “taxation without representation.” Society’s responsibility at the time was to prove the king was being unfair and to overthrow him. However, people face a question today that needs answering. What are the people of the world responsible for today? In Flowers for Algernon Charlie is a “retarded” man who is trying to find his mark on the world. He believes that citizens are responsible for making other citizens happy and to get them laughing. To prove what citizens are responsible for, Flowers for Algernon, Trump’s
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Piece by piece, Charlie gets smarter. However, they notice something wrong. Algernon, the mouse, starts to go downhill steadily. His mental components have changed. Soon after that, Algernon dies. Charlie wonders if the mood swings and lack of intelligence that is happening to Algernon was from the experiment. According to a journal that Charlie wrote, “Dissection shows that my predictions were right. Compared to the normal brain, Algernon's had decreased in weight and…” “It's frightening to think that the same thing might be happening to me right now”(Keyes 258). The same thing that was happening to Algernon might happen to Charlie. After realizing the fact that he will regress just like Algernon, he says this in a progress report. “October 3 - Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me”(Keyes, 278). A life changing experiment that was supposed to make mankind smarter and live longer is …show more content…
On March 6th, 2017, Donald J. Trump -The President of the United States- signed an executive order. That executive order stated that six “Muslim” countries were not allowed to enter the United States. Trump was proposing for this executive order to crack down on the terrorists entering the US, and reeking havoc on the citizens of the United States. This is also stated in the first paragraph of the executive order, “...to protect the Nation from terrorist activities by foreign nationals admitted to the United States...” It also cut down on the number of immigrants entering into the US from around 110,000 to approximately 50,000. This was said in the order. “Since 2001, hundreds of persons born abroad have been convicted of terrorism-related crimes in the United
Piece by piece, Charlie gets smarter. However, they notice something wrong. Algernon, the mouse, starts to go downhill steadily. His mental components have changed. Soon after that, Algernon dies. Charlie wonders if the mood swings and lack of intelligence that is happening to Algernon was from the experiment. According to a journal that Charlie wrote, “Dissection shows that my predictions were right. Compared to the normal brain, Algernon's had decreased in weight and…” “It's frightening to think that the same thing might be happening to me right now”(Keyes 258). The same thing that was happening to Algernon might happen to Charlie. After realizing the fact that he will regress just like Algernon, he says this in a progress report. “October 3 - Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me”(Keyes, 278). A life changing experiment that was supposed to make mankind smarter and live longer is …show more content…
On March 6th, 2017, Donald J. Trump -The President of the United States- signed an executive order. That executive order stated that six “Muslim” countries were not allowed to enter the United States. Trump was proposing for this executive order to crack down on the terrorists entering the US, and reeking havoc on the citizens of the United States. This is also stated in the first paragraph of the executive order, “...to protect the Nation from terrorist activities by foreign nationals admitted to the United States...” It also cut down on the number of immigrants entering into the US from around 110,000 to approximately 50,000. This was said in the order. “Since 2001, hundreds of persons born abroad have been convicted of terrorism-related crimes in the United