Charlie Gordon Argumentative Essay

One of the reasons the doctors were not ethical is they didn't tell him all of the risks and he didn't really understand what was going to happen after the operation. ''Miss Kinnian says maybe they can make me smart.''(Flowers for Algernon progress report 1 March 5 1965) ''Has the patient been informed of benefits and risks, understood

When you see yourself living out your dream, the thought of what you're most passionate about pulls you in. Passions in one's life change based on what had affected that person. Dreams are defined to change. However, the benefits of these thoughts is that they belong to you and only you. Not one person's opinions matter but your own. Chris McCandless simply was living out his own ideal life, the way he wanted; not to the idea of his parents, his friends or of society. McCandless wanted to escape society and civilization which he felt was tying him down, while also trying to discover himself. McCandless is not by any means a wacko. He was simply defying society and its ideal expectation it holds upon us as a whole.

Charlies doctors acted unethically when they asked if Charlie wanted to do the operation. The doctors didn’t ask Charlie these questions. "Has the patient been informed of benefits and risks, understood this information, and given consent? Is the patient mentally capable and legally competent, and is there evidence of incapacity? If mentally capable, what preferences about treatment is the patient stating? If incapacitated, has the patient expressed prior preferences? Who is the appropriate surrogate to make decisions for the incapacitated patient? Is the patient unwilling or unable to cooperate with medical treatment? If so, why?"(Siegler). The doctors just told Charlie that the operation will make him smarter. This was very unethical by the doctors who kind of took advantage of Charlie just for research.

The first step of the five steps to being ethical is to make an ethical decision to gather facts. Charlie's doctors did not gather enough facts before the operation. An example is when they gave Charlie the operation after they tested on animals, especially the mouse, Algernon. The problem for this is that after a while, Algernon, and all the other animals tested, was losing their intelligence. Soon after this happened, Charlie lost his own. The doctors should've waited after they tested on animals

To begin, all of it goes back to the constitution. In article IV, there was a cause, called the fugitive slave clause, which ordered states to deliver up fugitives from labor when they are requested by slaveholders. This set the path of the country towards war.

On March 6, 1857 the U.S. Supreme Court rule against Dred Scott who was suing for federal citizenship. All nine justices agreed that African Americans who descended from slaves could not enjoy the political community established by the constitution or have the right to federal citizenship. Majority of the justices also agreed that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which forbid slavery in the part of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30′ latitude was unconstitutional. Chief justice Taney stated that individual states may grant citizenship to African Americans but that did not extend their citizenship nationally under the provisions of the Constitution. Taney declared that Scott could not sue in the United States Courts since the courts were reserved

Even though it was Charlies idea to do the operation it was not an ethical decision perform the experiment to enhance his intelligent by 3. the doctors knew about the all the risks of doing the experiment but still the did it any way without informing Charlie. That is the reason that the doctors ruined Charlies life. And that is the reason that Charlies doctors did not make an ethical

A lot of negative has been coming to light lately about the Brown family from Alaskan Bush People. Radar Online shared the news that Matt Brown was arrested for DUI back in 2013 and the details of his big arrest are now coming out. This family claims to live far away from civilization out in the middle of Alaska, but somehow Matt Brown is ending up at a bar and having a good old time, that turned into trouble in the end.

Having to live and act a certain way towards the outside world when you feel completely different on the inside would make one feel trapped and restricted. Restricted from being free to be who they really are. Everyone deserves the freedom to have the opportunity to live life the way they feel they were born to live it. Why do we criticize Chris McCandless for doing that same thing? I can relate to Chris’s desire to live life according to his dreams, not his parents.

Well being a seventeen year old black female from St.Louis, there isn't much that I can't remember from the infamous Mike Brown case that shook the World. I've always been someone that's really passionate about social issues like violence in inner cities, the death penalty, women's rights when it comes to abortion, and many other things. But the thing that I'm probably most passionate about, even since I was a little girl was criminal reforms and solving the problem of there being so many Black and Hispanic young men in this country's prisons. And ultimately wanting to give young black and brown men a better image, letting the world know that they are more than just a statistic. So when Mike Brown was fatally shot, back in 2014, it really hurt

Salvation can be defined as deliverance from sin and consequences, usually through religion or the good deeds of others. Money and gunpowder are two terms that are not often related to salvation, and are actually considered to cause the polar opposite of salvation to take place. In George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, protagonist Andrew Undershaft, a wealthy arms dealer, deems money and gunpowder to be necessary to salvation. His daughter, Barbara, a major in the Salvation Army, disagrees with her father's outlandish point of view. She sides with the majority of people who believe that money and gunpowder are reasons that people need the saving that the Salvation Army brings.

The scientists performing the surgery were not acting ethically, however, and should not have used a human test subject. The scientists conducting the experiment were not acting in Charlie's best interests. Drs. Strauss and Nemur are more concerned with completing the operation and making new discoveries than with Charlie's health.

I disagree with the surgery because the surgery doesn't help him. I believe that Charlie shouldn't have done the surgery because it just made his conditions worse I know this because in the course of the story everything that happens to Charlie is terrible. The surgery made his conditions worse because when Charlie became smarter for that short period of time he encounters some memories about the people around him. Unfortunately, the memories he remembered were terrible memories about his mom and his so-called "friends". From what I have read his mother was terrible to him, and she abandoned him.

One reason why the operation on Charlie was unethical was that he could not fully grasp the concept of the procedure. For example, in Progress Report 1, Charlie wrote that Miss Kinnian, Charlie's teacher, told him about the procedure and he jotted down, "I hope [Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur] use me ... I want to be smart[sic]" (Keyes 514). To receive the operation was Charlie's dream because he wanted to enhance his intelligence, however, that was all he knew about the procedure. Since Charlie had a low intelligence, he could not see the pros and cons of the surgery, only what he wanted, which was to become smart, making the operation unethical. Also, in Progress Report 3, Charlie recorded his past on how people would ask him why he wanted to become smart. "I told them becaus all my life I wantid to be smart and not dumb ... I dont care if it herts[sic]" (Keyes 515). Being born with low intelligence made Charlie yearn to get smarter. However, because getting smarter

In the story "Flowers For Algernon" Drs. Neimer and Strauss had considered a group of candidates before choosing Charlie, they ended up choosing him due to his motivation and desire to learn. When they were considering the study they had to know if this was going to be right for the patient and their research. They had to think about the patients and their ability to live a normal life and have positive effects, but they also had to consider the possibility of a negative outcome including failed attempts, side-effects, health issues, or even death. They most likely thought through some other steps before starting the project, including evaluating the subjects. Charlie was given tests to see his intelligence and help them decide his status for the surgery; he also had to race the mouse Algernon throughout the study to see the progress in his intelligence. Before the operation even happened the doctors behind it were considering the ethics, outcome, and worth of this study.