Beverly Daniel Tatum

Every day, more or less, is the same for the average person. We rise, work, and return home to start over. The only reason anyone would succumb to a seemingly dreary existence is because there is a light inside that tells us everyday we get through is another day closer to that thing we want most for ourselves. This is seen in “War Dance”, a documentary about the yet to be mitigated Uganda, and the wondrous film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. One could even see it in the classic novella “Of…

“Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.” -Brian Greene. The story is based around the main character Charlie Gordon who is mental handicapped. Charlie is discovered by two doctors that see Charlie with his various problems. The doctors look at him as the prime…

Have you ever thought about increasing your intelligence? “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes is about a 37 year old man named Charlie Gordon. Charlie Gordon has a low IQ of 68 and was involved in an experimental brain surgery to raise his IQ by three times. The experiment was successful in a test subject mouse named Algernon. The experiment proved successful when Charlie slowly started getting smarter and beating Algernon in tests after the operation was performed. Charlie experimented…

A half decade after the conclusion of the National Literacy Crusade, Deborah Brandt composed an analysis on the history of Sandinista education entitled, “Popular Education” in Nicaragua: The First Five Years (1985, edited by Thomas W. Walker). Brandt argued the symbiotic relationship between the militia members of the Sandinista National Liberation Front or the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) and the historically disenfranchised rural peasants through popular education programs…

Flowers for Algernon is a book by Daniel Keyes. This is about a mentally retarded guy named Charlie Gordon. He is given surgery to try and become smarter. He takes a bunch of different tests before they actually do the surgery. His teacher Ms. Kinnian, from his school for retarded adults recommended him for this testing. After the surgery he started to get smarter and then had some complications. The quote from the novel “The mind in absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end…

ON a cold winter night Daniel was walking and overhears a conversation. Did you hear that the king put money on top of Mt.Helen? A man asks a group. That caught Daniel's attention , Mt.Helen, that's not too far Daniel thought to himself. There is nothing to do here so why not try to get some money Daniel says in his head. Daniel goes home and packs for the journey, after he finishes packing he sets off to Mt.Helen. A few hours later Daniel has scaled about half of the mountain he decides to rest…

To begin with, a couple of weeks after Charlie, a 32-year-old man with an I.Q. of 68, has an operation to make him “smart”, he doesn't see any progress in his intelligence. After work one day, Frank and Joe, Two employees at Donner’s Bakery who often pick on Charlie, take Charlie to a bar, where they urge him to dance like a buffoon and then abandon him, but charlie is unaware of that and thinks they're all having a good time. “Everyone laffed and we had a good time and they gave me lots of…

The Devil in the White City Book Report In The Devil in the White City, the author Erik Larson tells the story of an architect and a serial killer in Chicago during the 1890’s. He tries to describe how Daniel Burnham, an architect, builds the Chicago World Fair in an innocent or white city while at the same time helps Henry Holmes, the devil in the innocent city, to satisfy his craving of power, blood, and fear. Burnham tries to give Chicago a more positive reputation, but it ends of having a…

Rowland dissects the theology and apocalyptic hermeneutics of famous theologians, Thomas Muentzer and Gerrard Winstanley, so that political discourse does not make facile Biblical interpretation. The apocalyptic language of Daniel is of significant scholarly interest, especially in regards to the biblical metanarrative, but Rowland advocate for a rebalance in Danielic exegesis. Rowland poignantly comments that the scriptures are not for appropriation, political or otherwise; of this he critiques…

According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, the fundamental need one must satisfy is the ability to be physiologically sound and financially secure. On the other hand, passion is an aspect that can only be achieved once an individual is able to secure such fundamental needs. In the articles Why You Shouldn’t Follow Your Passions by Alison Green, Why “Follow Your ‘Passion” Is [Bad] Advice by Joshua Fields Millburn, and Why “Follow Your Passion” Is Pretty Bad Advice by Nathaniel Koloc, the…