Ignorance or Intelligence As C.P. Snow from the ongoing New York Times once said‚ “Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand‚ and it stabs you in the back with the other.”. This means that science‚ although great‚ can be dangerous. In the novella “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes there is 37-year old character named Charlie Gordon who is mentally ill and has a operation that increases his intelligence three times. The effects end up temporary and forcing him to
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view the contrast of civilization and nature. One example is laws against freedom. Another example is manners against animal instinct. These opposing ideas are present throughout the poem. The narrator even says‚ “My little horse must think is queer- To stop without a farmhouse near.” The horse has been taught to know only hard work by the humans who trained him‚ so he is almost lost his sense of animal curiosity. Frost creates a sense of irony in the situation between the road the narrator
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energy which inspired the rooks‚ the ploughmen‚ the horses‚ and even‚ it seemed‚ the lean bare-backed downs‚ sent the moth fluttering from side to side of his square of the windowpane. One could not help watching him. One‚ was‚ indeed‚ conscious of a queer feeling of pity for him. The possibilities of plea- sure seemed that morning so enormous and so various that to have only a moth’s part in life‚ and a day moth’s at that‚ appeared a hard fate‚ and his zest in enjoy- ing his meager opportunities to
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I began questioning my sexuality in seventh grade. I had just been given my first phone and suddenly a whole new world opened up to me. The LGBTQ+ community welcomed me with open arms as I read up on labels and identities‚ and I soon discovered that I’m bisexual. However‚ this “whole new world” also exposed me to bigotry‚ hate‚ and ignorance. Very quickly‚ I learned that people like me aren’t entirely accepted or respected. From hearing “f*ggot” and “gay” thrown around in classes to my friend’s negative
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It was a very calm and peaceful night out on my porch. I thought to myself it hasn’t been this quiet out since that annoying red chief was born. He’s like a pest of angry gnats that won’t go away. Welp off into the house I go to get ready for bed. I shower and put my pajamas on and get ready to lay in bed when I suddenly realized I had left my phone out on the porch. I got up in a hurry to get it because I heard there was going to be some slight rain tonight. As i’m back on the porch. I spotted
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Bilbo Baggins is introduced as just a normal hobbit smoking a pipe on his front porch‚ when suddenly an old man appears on his doorstep. Bilbo is perplexed as to what an old man with a cloak and staff is doing in his house. After the queer man introduces himself‚ Bilbo recognizes him as the wizard Gandalf‚ who has presented amazing fireworks on special holidays in Hobbiton‚ whewre the hobbits live. When Gandalf asks if Bilbo would be interested in going on an adventure‚ Bilbo says no. He invites
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example of a dominating spouse‚ he is a husband that essentially has absolute control over his wife. At the start of the story‚ the narrator talks about how she finds it a little bit weird that such a big house was so cheap so describes it as being "queer"‚ she later goes on and says that "John laughs at me‚ of course‚ but one expects that in marriage" (Pg 24). This line indicates
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that the curriculum in your small child’s school or class may need to be looked at more closely now than ever. More specifically‚ Reilly argues that school systems are considering teaching preschoolers and kindergarten kids about what gay‚ bisexual‚ queer‚ transgender‚ etc. means since now it’s pretty much all we hear about now. She writes‚ “It is easily conceivable that videos such as these will be sanctioned eventually by local school boards and implemented in preschool and prekindergarten classes”
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There are many things that Jonathan encounters but he writes in his journal that he was part of some sort of “queer dream”. Jonathan experiences a queer dream as part of romantic. When Jonathan is going to Transylvania he says he “met exotic-looking locals and a woman gives her his rosary.” Jonathan is met by a woman who is in to him‚ so he shares his story in his journal. He also
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the selfishness around the time of the war was like a common illness. The reaction of others is also seen in “Disabled” when Owen says “All of them touch him like some queer disease”. This shows us that he expected lots of people to respect him but people don’t go near him because they think he is dirty and infectious. “Like some queer disease is a simile that demonstrates that people are so disgusted by his injuries that they forget to treat him like a hero. “Them” refers to women‚ this makes him
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