of living an easy simple life or leading a life full of hardships for the common good of the people around them. Although many people do it for personal gain like fame and glory‚ others do it to simply to help the needy people. In the short story “Flowers for Algernon”‚ Daniel Keyes wrote about a 37 year old man‚ Charlie Gordon‚ who is a mentally disabled. He got approved to have a surgery‚ to triple his IQ and enhance his knowledge. He put his life on the line to help other people. Two reasons he
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Flowers for Algernon Flowers for Algernon‚ is a science fiction novel written by Daniel Keys. The story is taking place in the mid 1960’s. The text is representing a diary written by the main character‚ 37-year-old Charlie Gordon. He is uncommonly unintelligent‚ which influences his life‚ especially the social part. Although he is stupid‚ he has an incredible drive for learning. This desire probably has something to do with his night schoolteacher‚ Miss Kinnian‚ who he adores. He loves his
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techniques to make his films unique and differ from other directors‚ Burton has a style that no other directors can match. He has a quirky yet creepy imagination‚ he brings characters to life by putting them in a habitat they don’t belong‚ His movies Alice in Wonderland‚and Edward Scissorhands all demonstrate how one of a kind his movies are. Using cinematic techniques‚ Burtons points out the misfit character and shows how different they are then everyone else. Burtons use of camera angles‚ lighting
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a home and be done with me. Well it won’t work.” Alice snapped “And don’t dart around the doorway like that‚ you know it makes my head ache” Florence stepped away from the door frame‚ a placating smile on her untiringly gentle face. Florence was made of smiles these days — she was an ’aged care worker’‚ after all‚ and it was her job to make useless old bats like Alice feel like they had hope. ’Big-hearted’‚ some people might have called her. Alice called her a twit. Florence smiled that fragile‚
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Journal 1: “Sister Flowers” The essay I choose to write about was Maya Angelou’s “Sister Flowers”. I believe that the purpose of this essay was to describe an important part of this person’s life that helped them to become a better writer/poet/reader and also describe what I think to be this persons mentor. This essay talks about how Mrs. Bertha Flowers decides to take Marguerite Henderson home with her to give her good books to read and to read her an excerpt form a book. I think it is a very well
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Child Alice in Wonderland is a Disney movie based on Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. The movie Alice in Wonderland is one of Disney’s unique productions with distinctive characters and also a plot line. The initial story started with a plot in which Alice was sitting by a river bank with her older sister as she reads a borrowed book. The book was boring‚ didn’t have any images‚ had no conversation‚ and wasn’t interesting for Alice. In the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland
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Kara Walker is a disrupter. The kind of rabble-rouser that evokes the power of the visual to create artistic works that undo the sanitized rendering of American history. Her form of resistance has its genesis in placing on display the horrific conditions and savagery that black bodies have experienced at various stages in time. Often‚ visual forms of opposition are more palpable since the eye‚ to humans‚ is the most trustworthy conduit that we own. Therefore‚ the act of looking‚ is a robust entry
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Alice has a lot of love‚ which is a good thing. With the modern age’s decline in marriage and childbirth‚ it is a wonderful thing that a girl is able to identify her soulmate in a short period of time and then dedicate her life to him. Alice is a wonderful girl‚ and the fact that she has so much love to give to the man she loves is one of her best qualities. It’s nothing to look down on. Some might find it creepy that she likes to look in his direction‚ or look at things that remind her of him‚
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To Hell with Dying by Alice Walker begins with old neighbor Mr. Sweet on his deathbed and his neighboring family gathering around him for his coming death with sad faces except the childrens father trying to put cheerful mood by saying‚ To hell with dying‚ man. He revives many times because during the times of his deaths‚ the family comes to his house most of the times and the youngest child kisses him all over until he laughs so loud. He has many good memories with the family playing guitar and
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DESERT FLOWER Waris Dirie was born into a family of nomads in a Somalian desert. Growing up‚ she was privileged to run free with nature’s most majestic animals‚ and learned a respect for nature that many of us as Americans could never fathom. However‚ these thrills are just on the surface of what life is really like for African women. She suffered through intense traditional mutilation in her childhood‚ and endless hours of hard labor in the fields everyday. At the age of 13‚ she ran away
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