All human beings no matter what race‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ sexual orientation‚ and mental capabilities should be treated fairly. No human should be subject of intentional harm or be used for human experimentation. In the book Flowers of Algernon by Daniel Keyes‚ Charlie was used for a test whether it’s possible human can become smart through surgery. An article where they show the truth or unethical side to human experimentation. The article is called “Ugly past of U.S human experiments uncovered.”
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Imagine a world where not a single soul is limited by their mental capacity‚ and everyone has an equal chance to achieve brilliance. The short story‚ “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes‚ is a tale about a learning delayed adult named Charlie Gordon who is given the opportunity to increase his intelligence through a science fictional medical procedure. It is through this character’s journey of intellectual development that one is able to see the awe-inspiring bestowment it is to be given a second
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Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes Throughout the book "Flowers for Algernon" Charlie‚ a retarded person goes through a whole process in which he becomes a genius and then regresses‚ which results in him being retarded again. In this work I will try to show that the process Charlie goes through (becoming a genius and the regression back to being retarded)‚ is much like the human life‚ and compare his development to that of a child‚ and his regression to that of an old man. Before the operation
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happened to Charlie Gordon‚ a 37 year old with an IQ lower than most people. Charlie Gordon has an IQ of 68. After a surgery‚ his IQ becomes 204. However‚ he then lost his IQ and was where he was at before the surgery. Throughout the story “Flowers for Algernon”‚ Charlie Gordon’s experiences shape and change him and his values for the better. At the beginning of the story‚ Charlie values intelligence. To prove this‚let’s look at his first progress report. “ Miss Kinnian says maybe they can make me
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felt dumb or stupid sometimes? In the story “Flowers For Algernon” by Daniel Keyes‚ it’s about a mentally handicapped man named Charlie who gets the opportunity to get an operation to become smart. Should Charlie have gotten the operation yes or no. Yes i think he made the right choice and it does help him out in the long run. What i meant by “in the long run” was that after Charlie got the operation he became smart and raced a mouse named Algernon. After a couple months the mouse died from
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Flowers For Algernon Theme Paragraph In the realistic fiction‚ Flowers For Algernon‚ the author‚ Daniel Keyes‚ tried to convey the theme that a person shouldn’t change who they are for someone else. Charlie’s relationship with Alice represented this theme because one of the reasons Charlie signed up for the experiment was because he wanted to impress her. He thought if he became smarter‚ Alice would be proud of him‚ and he would be able to speak to her about smart-people stuff. Although she was
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"Flowers for Algernon" Argumentative Essay By: Declan Franey Charlie Gordon’s doctors did not act ethically when they performed the surgery to make him smarter. The definition of ethics are the standards of right and wrong that tell what humans should do (Dobrin). The doctors did not meet these standards. The doctors tested on Charlie too early‚ and were trying to help themselves more than they were trying to help their patient. Charlie also ended up dying because of the testing. While some people
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everyone terribly without thinking twice about it. Just because they don’t look the way we do or the way we “want” them too doesn’t give us any right to make fun of them and treat them like very poorly. One thing that really stuck out from the book Flowers For Algernon was something Charlie experienced‚ he says “How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility‚ who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low
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artificially increase their intelligence‚ it is way too risky and not a fully legal or licensed operation. In the book Flowers For Algernon the doctors that operated or “experimented” on Charlie did not have full authorization for the operation. And especially were not licensed for that specific surgery. They also were not a large hospital they were a small local clinic. In the book Charlie was used the same way as a mouse used for testing for the same procedure.
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the literary world‚ with an improvement in access to an unimaginable amount of information‚ the need for fiction and nonfiction books has begun to decline. However‚ literature needs to be kept alive for a multitude of reasons. Lessons‚ opinions‚ and information lie throughout hundreds of books that cannot be found by simply surfing the web. The works Flowers for Algernon‚ by Daniel Keyes and Romeo and Juliet‚ by William Shakespeare‚ as well as the short stories “Young Goodman Brown‚” by Nathaniel
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