From this moment on, Charlie was a completely different person. Due to Charlie becoming smarter, he would soon find out that intelligence comes with a price. Charlie Gordon’s conflict with an experiment that makes him smarter teaches the reader that intelligence does not always bring positive outcomes in life through Charlie losing his job/coworkers, losing those close to him, and being depressed due to being smarter than everyone else. In today's society some believes that intelligence always bring
Did you know you could have a surgery to make you smarter? Charlie Gordon did, and accepted an offer to have the surgery performed on him in the story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes. Charlie Gordon was not accepted by many people because of his low intelligence level and inability to communicate well. He wanted A.I (artificial intelligence) so he could be considered normal or smart. Charlie’s life was greatly improved after the A.I. surgery. Charlie realized his “friends” were not really
education. Now a day, teens are reading more on their phone than physical books. Literature has been gaining importance of preservation because teens are abandoning it and are leaning more towards gossip articles. In “Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer,” an article written by Annie Murphy Paul, asservates the importance of preserving Literature because of the benefits its brings to the upcoming generations. Reading literature makes us better people because it improves the capability of
As many people should be aware of, the library, was used to read books, to help you with whatever you needed to learn or to be researched. At the library, majority of the people would have to spend money to buy books just to use them as a research tool. Libraries now are new and improved, now we have computers, laptops, printers and any other devices used in there. Parents should allow their kids to have access the internet because it allows kids to be more sociable, gives them a head start on learning
practicing. In “You Can Grow your Intelligence,” the author maintains that contrary to the belief that a person is born either smart, average, or dumb, instead the brain is more like a muscle, it changes and get stronger when you use it. Lastly, Carol Dweck, in a Ted Talk titled “ The Power Of Believing That You Can improve,” narrates how she researches about the growth mindset and the fixed mindset, and the benefit of having a growth mindset. Also, in her video she gave many good advice of how you can change
8 December 2016 Are Children Smarter Because of the Internet? Today we use Internet for social networking, work, studying, business, online shopping, and many more things. There is many useful information on the Internet such as news and stock market, which is free and easily available on websites like Usa today and Yahoo. Imagine a life without Internet? The Internet has helped the world to become more advance. Due to the Internet we are able to communicate all around the world for free. Internet
underrated thing. Being educated in the arts is thought to provide physical benefits, emotional benefits, and is even thought to help make students smarter. There are many health benefits that are caused by being involved in the arts. When you are in the fine arts, depending on what branch you are in is what determines the actual benefits. As you create your works, you can actually improve your motor skills. When children are developing,
Are Kids who eat Organic Smarter? Every parent is constantly concerned about their child's intelligence. They are concerned that they are learning the right things and retaining what they are being taught. But, did you know that there is actually a way you can affect your child's intelligence by feeding them certain foods? Over the years, we have learned quite a bit about how the food we eat affect our bodies and our minds. With this information, we are able to determine exactly what type of food
President’s inauguration speech it portrays as if she is not “erudite” Contrarily speaking does the fact that she is a Physician depicts as her being smarter than someone who works performs “blue collar” work? Does
something that people want in society. It is not until we experience how the government treats unequal people and the way handicaps are put on those who are more advanced than others,, that we realize how equality takes away makes us unique and what makes everyone different in a good way. On the contrary, equality is what causes all the problems. Even though the reader originally believes that being equal is a good thing, once they experience the dystopian setting where equality is the cause of all