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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…

" 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.…

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 "…

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…

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…

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…

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.)…

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…

The research question under discussion in this essay is to analyze what are the accounts for the dreamlike quality of the White City in the novel, (written by Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City) and how are these aspects of a negative affect or positive affect on the people and the city where it all takes place? This will help understand the importance of the setting, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair also known as The World's Columbian Exposition, to the storyline of the book. Also because…

Child abuse and neglect is the topic for my Civic Engagement speech. In this speech I will persuade students to donate to the Kempe Foundation for The Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect. I will be using three of the following concepts: Availability Heuristic, Authority, and Friendship or Liking. Availability Heuristic is a mental short cut the human brain makes when evaluating things such as concepts or decisions. Humans estimate the likelihood of events based on the…