Race and intelligence

mental ability. This story takes place in the 1960s, and during this time period, people used different ways to measure intelligence. Charlie faces the decision to artificially increase his intelligence by having a surgery performed on him. Intelligence is not worth it when your happiness is at risk. Charlie Gordon should not have had the surgery to artificially increase his intelligence. According to the text, “Before, they laughed at me and despised me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they…

City is low income family but also is a given according to the KSDE website with how many students have free and reduced lunch the percentage is 75 if you think about it that number largely divided among the city of m.Arkansas City. The 3 principal races in this town is white (73%), hispanic (17%) and last but not least is black (3%). Within the school the numbers don’t drastically change but is a decline within the numbers from the town whites (56%), hispanics (30%) and all other ethnicity is…

The Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble is gearing up for their annual Summer Theatre School. The workshops will be held at various times throughout the Summer and are geared towards various ages groups ranging from as young as 3 all the way to adults. There are many workshops to choose, with a complete list available on their the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble website. “The content is chosen based off the most beneficial components for each age group and experience with what has been successful in the…

State of My State Although I am comfortable analyzing pre-generated data, developing my own data utilizing formulas has been a challenging yet rewarding experience in EDRS 673. My comfort level and proficiency vary with each concept presented thus far. Descriptive data, correlations, and regressions are statistical methods I comprehend well enough to analyze confidently. On the other hand, z-cores and t-tests are statistical methods I struggle to fully understand. In general, I understand the…

The overall intent of the oral assessment center is to score the candidate based on a set of measureable dimensions. These dimensions can range from problem solving and decision making to technical knowledge and experience. However, these wide ranging dimensions call into question the validity of an assessment center to measure dimensions. Moreover, some literature calls into question the ability of the assessment center to measure dimensions at all (John P. Meriac, 2014). Additionally, the…

Learning Your Own Way Benedict Carey was born March 3rd, 1960 in California and originally had a degree in mathematics. He was a freelance writer for in Los Angeles before writing health and fitness for the New York Times. He then became a science reporter where he lives in New York for the New York Times and has been since 2004. Carey is one of the most emailed reporters. Carey has several outstanding reviews from media and average everyday readers. Carey’s How We Learn research…

of who the main antagonist, “A”, and her late friend’s murderer is. When many people hear the word smart, the first thing they usually think about is book or school smart. But, the smartest people have a personality that gives off an aura of intelligence, which Spencer always has in her points of view. The topic of smart personalities can be a bit hard to comprehend, but many people probably know at least one person in their life who seems to know everything, random facts float into their…

Everyone has that one trait that will make them clever in life. Some people know that using that trait makes people change in a good way, or more likely a bad way. Others can’t realize it and make hurtful mistakes to others so they can quit that nice and kind life to find something more fun for them. In the story “Peak” a 14 year-old kid named Peak is hurt in the soul because his father didn’t even care for him anymore. Peak knows that now he will have to deal with someone else that he doesn’t…

In the story flowers for Algernon by Dannell key, Charlie is the main character and has a low IQ then gets an operation witch triples his IQ. He found a flaw in the operation had his IQ drops again. In the story you read his journal so you can see how he became smarter and in the order he became smarter and how. Charlie is determined to get smart and never gives up he always went to class, his teacher could tell he was trying hard, and he always did what the doctors told him to do. Charlie is a…

Gladwell’s overall argument in this novel is that we should take on situations using an unconventional way, and use our disadvantages to our advantage. For example, David Boies, a world renown lawyer, had dyslexia, so he could not read or comprehend text. Boies began to listen more intently to people, and his memory became a strong tool. As a result, his ability to listen and remember everything became his strongest advantage. Another example is Emil Jay Freireich, the doctor who developed a…