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    Buster Keaton’s role in The General perfectly epitomizes the utilization of comedy during the Silent Film Era as the medium through which a deeper story is conveyed. The Silent Era was generally characterized by two things: the extreme dedication of its actors and a tendency towards slapstick comedy. While the first can be attributed to the passion of these early filmmakers‚ the latter is perhaps more of a function of necessity. With limited use of title slides and no use of sound‚ actors like Buster

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    Flubber is a helpful anthropomorphic ameba who is created by an absent minded professor named Philip Brainard. When Philip creates Flubber his life is in shambles‚ but with Flubbers help he is able to fix his crumbling relationship and keep his job. Flubber is obviously extraordinary for his actions‚ but he is also successful Darwinian sense. Early on in the film‚ robbers break into Philip’s house and Flubber and Weebo defend the house. In this scene Flubber displays his rebound effect. The robber

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    One of the most important issue that Daniel Keyes wants to convey is mistreating people with mental disability. In this story‚ Charlie believes that Joe and Frank were his friends and believes that they liked him; however‚ Joe and Frank were using Charlie for the sake of their own entertainment by misleading him to do which aren’t healthy‚ for example‚ mixing drugs or dose of medicine in his drink‚ leaving him alone in the night time‚ and later lying that the police had beaten him up. This shows

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    Parker Charlie Gordon experienced a lot of suffering when he became intelligent after the operation carried on by Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss. He wanted the increase of his intelligent because he couldn’t understand and spell any hard words. Then‚ why was he suffering from becoming smarter? Why‚ after getting all he wanted‚ was he depressed and didn’t feel cooperative anymore after the operation? It’s because the doctors didn’t act ethically about doing surgery to Charlie. The doctors didn’t decide

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    Name:Trisye Bala Class:1b Nim:1014025050 Final paper‚ analyzing Short story: Babylon Revisited By:F.Scott Fitzgerald‚1931 Summary The Babylon revisited is a story about Charlie who wants to take Honoria‚ his child. At the story‚ Charlie is a success businessman. After he has a lot of money‚ he go to Paris to use the money with only have thinking happy. He drunk all time‚ drunk and made himself be dependence with alcohol. What have he done causing his wife death and the money was lost only by few

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    your life. Many precautions should be taken before even thinking of getting the operation. People should not be able to 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

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    Why did his mom act so cruel towards Charlie even though she knew that he is mentally retarded.? Evidence.. “’He’s normal! He’s normal! He’ll grow up like other people. Better than others.’ She was trying to scratch the teacher but Dad was holding her back. ‘He’ll go to college someday. He’ll be somebody.’ She kept screaming it‚ clawing at dad so he’d let her go. ‘He’ll go to college someday and he’ll be somebody.’ ” At this point in the book his mother is in denial because she seems to not

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    “Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men” (pg.199). In the novel‚ Flowers for Algernon‚ Daniel Keyes expresses the lifelong changes of Charlie Gordon. Charlie Gordon is thirty two years old‚ he’s a sweet kindhearted loving man who just wants to be accepted for the person that he is‚ while having the mindset and characteristics of a six year old. In this novel Charlie Gordon‚ a dynamic character‚ is inspired to changes with his personality and intelligence‚ to his lifestyle‚ and his final

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    For example in “Flowers For AlgernonAlgernon did not have a choice and that led to his death. Algernon was given tests and new drugs and that made him smarter‚ but at the same time his brain was deteriorating. Algernon did not want to take the drug ‚ but he was forced to take the drugs and the tests. After that Algernon became vicious and did not want to eat‚ and he was acting different. In “Flowers For Algernon” it shows how much of a choice animals had in Animal

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    in “Flowers For Algernon” he didn’t know his fate‚ but he had a slight idea of what events would occur. Charlie wanted to become smarter because he was borderline mentally retarded. So Charlie had an operation that had a chance of making him smarter. The operation was successful but had its downfalls. In the story “Flowers For Algernon” the author‚ Daniel Keyes‚ portrays the theme that desire and effort lead to success‚ however it has its consequences. In the story‚ “Flowers for Algernon”‚ Charlie

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