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    “Flowers for Algernon,” is a short story written by Daniel Keyes. The main character, Charlie Gordon is a 37-year old retarded man who has a scientific procedure that heightens his IQ by three times. Science succeeds. In spite of the outcome,this procedure soon determines his intelligence is only short-term,later Charlie will revert to his original state of knowledge. Science is now unsuccessful,both Dr. Strauss,the neurosurgeon and Dr. Nemur, the Psycho - experimentalist has used Charlie to…

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    Flowers for Algernon is by Daniel Keyes. It examines the life of a young man named Charlie Gordon, who had a surgery to expand his intelligence. The book discusses Charlie’s emotional life and physical life before and after the surgery. For Charlie, ignorance is bliss because he would never know how poorly people were treating him. In the book, Charlie has different friendships that mean different things to him. If Charlie were ignorant, he wouldn’t have to try to discover how to handle…

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    recommendations. I just finished reading a novel called The Devil in the White City, and I’m pretty sure that you would find it quite interesting. The book is set around the time of the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 and follows the parallel paths of Daniel Burnham, the fair’s architect, and H. H. Holmes, a prolific serial killer who used the fair’s magnetic allure to find his victims. Burnham’s storyline is about the obstacles they needed to overcome in order to establish the World’s Fair and…

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    Burn: A Short Story

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    " nope, nope. Not a good burn" Alec shook his head. "You don't understand the concept of a good burn." Max shook his head and started to walk. "Your just saying that because you're jealous at how good I am at burns," Alec scoffed and started giving a rant on how amazing he was at burns. Max smiled and shook his head, pretending to listen. In actuality he wasn't but it when Alec started ranting about things it was practically impossible to get him to stop, so he, Max, didn't have to say a word.…

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    Flowers for Algernon Charlie Gordon was a nice hardworking man, but he was not very smart. Charlie was chosen for an experiment that could make him a smarter person. I think the surgery will not help him because he will under stand what is so called friends have been doing to him. Then charlie will have no friends and will be lonely. Charlie dose not know that his friends are making fun of him. If he figures out Charlie will be devastated. In progress report 8 Mar 25 the author states "…

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    Having intelligence can change you- sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a bad. In the short story “Flowers for Algernon”, by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon, a 37 year-old mentally challenged man, undergoes an operation to make him more intelligent. Charlie was unknowingly chosen to be the lab rat in an experiment to see if a certain operation could help mentally disabled beings become smarter. After he underwent this operation, Charlie was brilliant, but as time went on his brilliance started…

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    Most people don't think about what it's like to be incapable of learning. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes features Charlie, a middle-aged man with a mental disability which prevents him from learning like most people. He is selected for an experiment to increase his intelligence. Indirect characterization is when an author indirectly describes a character. Keyes uses a variety of methods of indirect characterization to show that Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss are selfish, unconfident, and…

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    Alyss In Wonderland In The Looking Glass Wars Beddor used detail, to revealed a purpose In the beginning of the novel Alyss is characterized as gifted,ravishing,and pure. Alyss is gifted because she has the strongest imagination in wonderland “Imagination was an important part of life in wonderland” so that reminded Queen Genevieve about Redd because she also had the strongest imagination when she was about Alyss’s age (Beddor 13).Alyss is ravishing because the wonderlanders could recognize…

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    There is this theory that describes how we tend to make our decisions: Prospect Theory! Kahneman and Tversky developed this in order to describe the way that people choose between “probabilistic alternatives that involve risk, where possibilities are known.” This means that people tend to make decisions based on the pros and cons rather than the final outcome, and that people weigh these pros and cons using heuristics. ("Prospect Theory." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2015.)…

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    Daniel Boone (1734 - 1820) pioneer and resident American Forests, he is England origin and was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on November 2, 1734. Then in 1751 he stay with his father Squire Boone and his family in yadken Valley which is now located in the Davey region in Carolina North, and he work on a farm’s father also he spent most of his time in hunting and trapping. in 1755 he was wagon maker and blacksmith (metal works) in Edward Braddock campaign disastrous against the Indians, and in…

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