...Chad Whitehouse Candidate Number: 4138 MS2 Report RSA Academy Arrow Vale Report My task was to create a storyboard and a CD cover as well as insert. In order to accomplish this I had to research a range of music videos and CD covers that would relate to my genre of music. The genre that I have picked is alternative rock as I am most familiar with this genre of music and could express myself the most for this since I have an abundance of knowledge about this specific genre. Whilst conducting my research, I looked at several contemporary bands such as: Kings of Leon, Linkin Park, 30 seconds to Mars as well as other older bands such as Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Nirvana. Bands are very conventional in this genre meaning I too would be creating a fictional band- not many solo artists are seen within this genre, with the exception of Suzanne Vega, Lorde etc. With all this information I have decided to opt for a fictional band as it would be more conventional as well as please the fans of the genre more since they persist on listening to bands compared to individual artists. During my research I had discovered that the age demographic for my genre of music is 16-25 year olds. Just from this piece of information I can tell that most of the people who listen to this genre of music are in further education or had just started university- I can then tell that the type of music would be party related as this age group is stereotyped for partying during this social part of their...
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...Flowers for Algernon Is knowledge the key to happiness? Does the fact that you know almost everything, complete your life? Or does it make you distant to your friends and family? These are some of the main questions Daniel Keys raise in his prizewinning fictional novel “Flowers for Algernon” from 1966. The Novel is about the mentally challenged Charlie Gordon, who will do anything to learn, and become ‘a smart person’. Charlie accepts the terms of an experiment, which will triple his IQ, even though he is not told of the consequences of the experiment. The novel “Flowers for Algernon” is written in the diary form, and the story features a first person narrator called Charlie Gordon. The novel is combined of several progress reports that show the current intelligence of Charlie. As we follow his everyday life, we get detailed information about his increase in artificial intelligence. Throughout the story the reader almost gets a feeling that there are multiple narrators telling the story. Nevertheless the sudden huge growth in grammatical skills is not simply because of another narrator expressing the story, it it’s merely due to the fact that the experiment triples Charlie’s IQ. This experiment takes Charlie’s writing skills to a point, where it’s almost flawless. Having this in mind, the story in a way switches narrator three times. The story starts of with Charlie before his operation, where he’s not exactly mentally gifted. Actually he would be referred to as a mentally...
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...Charlie Gordon is the protagonist in the short story “Flowers of Algernon,” written by Daniel Keyes. He is a 37 year old with a mental disability and an IQ of 68. Charlie works as a janitor and although he has quite a low IQ, he has a good attitude about changing his life, and to do whatever it takes for him to get smarter. Charlie goes to Miss Kinnian’s class for slow adults to get better at spelling and writing and potentially get smarter. Miss Kinnian teaches literacy skills to mentally retarded adults because she believes that being mentally disabled doesn’t make you less of a Human. Charlie and Miss Kinnian start out the story with a teacher-student relationship, but soon, it becomes a little more than back, but as the story reaches it’s...
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...Charlie Gordon is the protagonist of “Flowers for Algernon”, which is written by Daniel Keyes. He is a mentally retarded man who volunteers to go through a experimental brain operation. It was supposedly going to make him a genius. Charlie is determined to become an astute man, but lots of obstacles get in his way. Charlie is a static character since his spelling, low intelligence level, and his belief in superstitions has stayed the same all through the story. His spelling in the beginning of the story is comparable to his spelling in the end. It is seen through his progress reports. His spelling was terrible at the beginning of the story since he has an IQ, an intelligence quotient, of sixty eight. This number is lower than the IQ of an average person, so a bunch of things in his daily life are affected, such as his ability to learn, and remember things. Having a hard time to learn means that Charlie could not remember how to spell. The quote, “I think I faled it”, is a segment from the beginning of the story, proving his spelling skills are not too strong. His not too strong spelling skills still move on towards the end of the story....
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...Keyes’s Experiment: Ignorance to Intellect, and Back Again What would happen if scientists found a way to exponentially increase human intelligence through a simple medical procedure? In his most famous novel, Flowers for Algernon, American author Daniel Keyes not only poses this provoking question, but shares his own answer through the story of Charlie Gordon, a mentally disadvantaged man whose IQ skyrockets within a matter of months after an experimental operation. Through Charlie’s eyes, readers are able to experience the ascent from mental incapability to profound intelligence, as well as the range of emotions that accompany it. However, Keyes was a far cry from mentally incompetent, and although he could not relate to Charlie’s IQ of...
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...If you were given the chance to increase your intelligence, would you? Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes focuses on Charlie, a man who surgically increased his intelligence. In my opinion, the operation improved Charlie's life because of his mental ability, emotional development/feelings, and understanding of others and the world around him. Charlie's life improved because of his mental ability did increase but it did eventually regress. The story shows that Charlie's mental ability increased because before the operation it said, "He said now sit down Charlie we are not thru yet," (page 1, paragraph 3) and after the operation it stated, "How was I to know that a highly respected psychoexperimenalist like Nemur was unacquianted with Hindustani...
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...Flowers for Algernon -Mikkel Bæk Rasmussen The way people connect by emotions and similarities, show us the level of intelligence the human race have in comparison to animals. We connect in ways that no other living species does and have time and time again proved that we are the most technical gifted race. But some people aren't as lucky. Some people are born with disabilities, that makes it impossible to understand and communicate normally with other human beings. Should we try and do something about that? or continue to ignore the problem? Charlie Gordon is 37 years old and he's working as a janitor. Charlie has an IQ of 68, which basically means that he is a retard. Because of this, he's having a huge issue understanding the social behavior of other people. He goes to Beekman College Center which is a school for mentally retarded adults. It is here, he met miss Kinnian, his teacher. Miss Kinnian advised Charlie to apply as a test person for some medical research which should make him smarter. It's here that Charlie meets Dr. Nemur and Professor Strauss who is going to perform his surgery. He starts taking a lot of tests, where he is feeling very insecure, because he keeps failing them, what he doesn't know is that failing the tests is what got him in. The tests keeps on coming, and he is competing against a mouse called Algernon, which had gotten the same surgery as Charlie. Suddenly Charlie shows progress by beating Algernon for the first time, and from that point...
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...While Daniel Keyes in “Flowers for Algernon,” portrayed hope for a mentally impaired man, Charlie Gordon, the operation was unsuccessful with devastating consequences. Therefore, Charlie should not have had the surgery; nevertheless, Charlie did not regret the surgery. After the operation, the conflicts between societies developed into something existent for Charlie that he had never experienced before. Charlie was thrilled with the research in effort to make him an ordinary human. What Charlie could not apprehend is that he was merely used as a human experiment to modify other mentally impaired individuals. The failure of the operation permitted Charlie, as a genius, to recognize every individual problem. Following the surgery, impediments...
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...The Wrong Choice “Charlie Gordon “wants to be smart.” His is a passion which leads to risk greatly and achieve greatly--at great cost.” (“CAN HUMAN INTELLIGENCE BE INCREASED?”). Charlie Gordon from the story Flowers for Algernon had a lifelong goal to be smart, so he decides to take part in an intelligence-altering surgery. Due to the operation, his IQ increases to 208, but this comes with side effects and death. In the story he competes with a mouse named Algernon, later they become friends. The doctors in the story were Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur, and the lab worker's name was Burt. In Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, doctors Strauss and Nemur made the wrong choice by selecting innocent Charlie Gordon for the intelligence-altering surgery. Dr. Strauss...
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...The story “Flowers for Algernon” is based on the research of intellect and Charlie Gordon was the character. Charlie had an IQ of 68. To strengthen his I.Q. and to obtain honor and notoriety for their work, doctors performed an operation on Charlie that heightened his I.Q., but it was short-lived. The first detail that shows Charlie’s advancement is told in Progress Report 2 - March 6th, “I had a test today. I think I failed it and I think that they maybe won’t use me.”, meaning he accepts that he is not performing well and reaching to the acceptance he has more than failed. The second detail is told in Progress Report 11- April 28th, “You’ve got to be a little patient. You’re accomplishing in days and weeks what takes normal people to do...
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...In the exciting text of Flowers for Algernon, Algernon a lab mouse was undergoing a procedure to get him intellectually advanced. Now, Charlie an intellectually disabled man did the surgery and changed drastically. I strongly believe that Charlie should not have had the surgery for multiple reasons. Many people would think that Charlie made the right decision in doing the surgery for a number of reasons. Charlie’s intelligence was at its peak after the surgery. Being smart had always been Charlie’s life goal: “It was incredible that someone would steal from such a man. There had to be some other explanation. Gimpy had really made a mistake in ringing up the sale, and the half dollar was a tip” (86-87).Charlie’s intellectual growth is allowing him to pick up things that he did not before. Now that he is smarter he can read better and he knew money. He now figures out that Gimpy was stealing from Mr.Donner all this time. He also figured out that Gimpy was using him to get a chance to steal also. Charlie must now decide what to do.” Another reason as to why the surgery was a success was because Charlie started to see the truth about his life: “I guess i was pretty dumb because i believed what people told me. I should not have trusted Hymie or anyone” (55). As Charlie has flashbacks about being bullied when he was younger he realize that he trusts nobody, especially not the guys at the bakery.It finally came to him that they were teasing him and not laughng with him....
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...Charlie did not like him because he always won over him in the maze. One day Charlie won and he was very proud. Charlie felt sorry for Algernon and wanted to be his friend. One day when Charlie and Algernon were going to participated in a lecture did Charlie suddenly release Algernon from his cage. He took him home to his apartment and cared for him. Algernon got worse and worse after all experiments in the lab and died after a while. Exercises The first impression I got was that it was weird that the Author could not spell right. It is important to spell correctly to be able to express what you want to say. Nevertheless, the Author translated Charlie's writing difficulties through the way he wrote the story. Gustav like girls, but he can not understand them. They sometime say one thing but actually want to say something else. One time, when Gustav was dejting and they decided a location where to meet, she never came. Just imagine if he could read their mind, that would be...
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...In the book Flowers For Algernon, I think Charlie Gordon would be better before surgery rather than typically after At the end of the book (after surgery) Charlie basically lost his mind, almost literally. “Please...please do not let me forget how to read and wright…”(pg.243). He forgot almost everything he did and he also lost the knowledge of different languages, his spelling and writing abilities as well. He refused to see anyone and only after he told the women he loved to get away from him and told her he did not lover her any more, did he only then decide to get a job. “Miss Kinnian came to the door but I said go away I don't want to see you.” (pg.243). Before surgery he was his paying rent hanging out with his friends, “last night...
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...If you had the chance to increase your intelligence would you? In the science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon had the opportunity to have an Artificial Intelligence surgery (A.I.). Charlie was better off having the surgery because he got to help out many people in the science field, he also got to experience the real world and he got to feel all his emotions that have been trapped before. One positive thing that happened after the surgery is Charlie got to experience the real world with an advanced mindset. He got to see his real friends and he was able to experience interactions with other people outside the lab. “You’re like a giant sponge now, soaking things in. Facts, figures, general knowledge.”(Keyes...
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...In “Flowers for Algernon” Charlie is a man with a very low intellect. He goes through a surgery as a test subject to triple his intelligence. The surgery works and Charlie’s intelligence exceeds his teacher, the doctors that came up with and performed the surgery, and his friends and coworkers. Charlie’s way of life worsens due to the surgery. There are many reasons why Charlie’s life worsens. His friends Joe and Frank work with him at a plastic box factory and they invite him to lots of parties. In the text it says “It's a funny thing I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me. Now I know what it means when they say to pull a Charlie Gordon.” This shows how Charlie lost all his “friends”...
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