Get Smart Essays

  • Get Smart

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    Get Smart is a film released in 2008, directed by Peter Segal, that stars Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway as the main characters. The plot of the story is that an organization named KAOS has accrued a stockpile of nuclear weapons and is threatening to use them if their demands for money aren't met. CONTROL, the organization know for always messing up KAOS' plans, has just had their headquarters sabotaged and now all of their agents have had their identity compromised, except for one, agent 99. Not

  • Flowers For Algernon

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    He desperately wants to become smart so he can communicate and live just like everyone else does. Charlie wants this operation so he can be smart and prove to everyone he isn't like he used to be. "Gimpy hollers at me all the time when I do something rong, but he reely likes me because hes my frend. Boy if I get smart won't he be surprised." (p 5) Charlie writes this down into his progress report and proves that he wants to please everyone by being smart. The scientists first try this experiment

  • Charlie Gordon Journal Entry Analysis

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    But you can tell he’s trying really hard to pass the test to get the research done on him. You can really tell he wants became for intelligent, it's admirable of him. This is my journal entry for pages five through eleven. In process report four, Charlie is doing poorly on tests. He just doesn't comprehend what he's being told to do and is putting too much thought into telling the story, honestly i'm starting to wonder if he’ll even get picked. My thoughts on Process report five I'm feeling excited

  • Charlie Gordon Effect In Daniel Keyes Flowers For Algernon

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    to take that chance, and you know what? Charlie was eternally grateful after he got the AI surgery. He contributed immensely to science, was able to have feelings such as love, and had the chance to be smart. First of all, when Charlie had the AI surgery, he contributed to science. When Charlie gets smarter, he does an experiment and finds out about the Algernon-Gordon Effect. Even if he doesn’t remember exactly what he did after he regressed, he is still happy he did it. An example of this from the

  • I Had My Rabbits Foot In My Pockit

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    that he is very gullible since the beginning; he says “I spilled ink too”, shows us that he has no ability to think ideally. Also, “I’m a slow reeder too in Miss Kinnians class for slow adults but I’m trying very hard” shows that Charlie wants to be smart. Charlie says on page 286, “Maybe white mice are smarter than other mice.” This line shows us that he is aware that there are different levels of intelligence. The white mouse offers Charlie what he needs most in the world which is friendship. Charlie

  • Questions and Answers: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

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    man with a mental condition was seen as fragile. To further his intelligence level, he attended the Beekman College center for retarded adults. His desired self was to become intelligent. “If the operation works good I’ll show that mouse I can be as smart as he is even smarter” (12). The opposite of the real Charlie possessed the traits of anti-socialism, intelligence, possessing motivation, and being opinionated. “This intelligence has driven a wedge between me and all the people I knew and loved,

  • How Smart Can We Get?

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    Introduciton The main reason I chose How Smart Can We Get would be it is our intelligence that sets us apart from any other being on this planet. Humans have a unique brain. It allows us to solve problems in ways that are still surprising us to this day. Every time that humanity has been faced with a problem supposed to be too great for us to conquer, a brain has concocted an answer to save us. There are several reasons the human brain is such a marvel. The ones the documentary touched on that I

  • So, How Smart are you?

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    So, How Smart are you? If I could give you anything…anything you wanted at all, what would it be? For many, the immediate response is: “I want to be smarter!!!” Why smarter? If you are very smart, what do you do with all this smartness? Is there such a thing as being too smart? My younger brother, Ian, is a fourteen-year-old junior in high school. Clearly precocious for his age and stature, there are many who envy his ability and talent to understand academic concepts with relative ease.

  • Flowers For Algernon

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    Algernon is a mouse. He's a special mouse, Charlie Gordon is told, and it must be true, because whenever Charlie and Algernon run a race (Algernon is in a real maze; Charlie has a pencil-and-paper version), Algernon wins. How did that mouse get to be so special, Charlie wonders? The answer is that Algernon's IQ has been tripled by an experimental surgical procedure. The scientists who performed the experiment now need a human subject to test, and Charlie has been recommended to them by his night-school

  • Skinny or Smart

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    Skinny or Smart Would you rather be skinny or smart? This question hits young girls across America. Today many of our young Americans are losing weight to essentially be more “beautiful.” I use the word “beautiful” carefully because beautiful is not what is on the outside, but the inside is where it counts. Yes, some girls are naturally pretty and smart, but what some people don’t realize is that some of those girls are not eating and not exercising to get the body that they would like. This

  • Theme Of Murder In The Most Dangerous Game And Bargain

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    and wantonly, but few get away with it without being suspected. General Zaroff got away with murder quite frequently, and Mr. Baumer also did. They were both good at it. Zaroff and Mr. Baumer were the most evil people in "The Most Dangerous Game" and "Bargain" because they were both very sneaky and smart about murdering, they both stacked the deck against their victims, and they were both murderers. General Zaroff and Mr. Baumer were very sneaky and smart at committing the murders

  • The Smart Classroom

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    The Smart Classroom The classroom is a place that is constantly trying to be improved for the betterment of students’ education. New teaching methods and improvement in environment are all constantly being researched; however, recently, research on technology in the classroom has flourished. The Smart Classroom contains these technological advances and triggers them toward in-hancing student learning. Classrooms in the past never really took into consideration that all students learned differently

  • Smart Bombs: The History and Future of Strategic Bombardment

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    Smart Bombs: The History and Future of Strategic Bombardment Introduction Every kid loves to hear stories from their grandparents about something that they have experienced in their life. For me, some of the best stories came from my father about the air war that was waged over Europe during World War II. He often told me of a day that a formation of almost 1,000 bombers flew over his base: "The drone of the planes could be heard for miles and made us on the ground feel as small as ants

  • Environmental Problems

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    air, to find a way to exist without all of our technology and 'smart' ways of living. These 'smart' things are actually quite dumb. We only believe that they are smart because they help us get along more efficiently with our meek little lives. Things that 'help' in the beginning can kill us all later on. Evidence of this: just look around today! Millions of creatures are dieing because of what our 'smart' gadgets are doing. Don't get me wrong-- I believe that they eventually would die too, but they

  • Smart Car Technology

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    Smart Car Technology Answer A : The TravTek navigationsystem is installed in 100 Oldsmobile Toronados, the visual part of the system is a computer monitor. Through detailed colour maps, it leads the driver through the town. The map changes all the time, cause a computer connected to a navigation-satellite, and with a magnetic compass installed, calculates the fastest or easiest way to your destination. When yellow circles appear in a particular place on the screen, it means that there is traffic

  • Hamlet is Too Smart for Himself

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    Why Hamlet is Too Smart for Himself Hamlet only kills Claudius when he has also murdered the queen, Laertes, and has also poisoned himself. It takes a threat of death to do what his own dead father orders him to do. A largely held opinion is that he is to emotional to do it, but it is when his emotions all come together that he murders Polonius. Another opinion is that he to full of morals to kill, but how then can he alter a note and literally sentence two old friends who were just following

  • Borden Deal's Antaeus

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    T.J.’s own words and actions and through the narrator’s observation, the reader learns that T.J. is smart and unique. It was T.J.’s idea to build a roof garden, and he figures out how to build it. He knew how to speak to other people, persuading them to do what he wanted them to do. For example, he informed the other boys to find sand and carry it up to the roof. The narrator stated, “T.J. was smart enough to start in one corner of the building, heaping up the carried earth two or three feel thick

  • Sterilizing the World of ‘Dumb’ People . . . Why It Won’t Work

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    Sterilizing the World of ‘Dumb’ People . . . Why It Won’t Work “If we could just keep dumb people from having children, eventually there would be nothing but smart people and this would be a better place.” After reading this statement once and not really fully considering it, a lot of people may agree. At some point in their lives, many people may look at certain parents and their children and say, ‘those people really should not be allowed to have children.’ Usually these thoughts are

  • Nora’s Smart Choice in Ibsen's A Doll's House

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    Nora’s Smart Choice in A Doll's House So many women have suffered as the result of discriminatory duties. In the play "A Doll's House" written by Henrik Ibsen, the playwright reflects upon the subject of the 'social lie and duty'. By having Nora, the flawed heroine, slam the door shut just as her husband is hit by a ray of hope, Ibsen started much controversy between reviewers, columnists and the general audience. Through evidence offered by the play, Nora is right to leave her husband.

  • Negative Impact of God on the Minds of David Hume, Christopher Smart, and William Cowper

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    Negative Impact of God on the Minds of David Hume, Christopher Smart, and William Cowper David Hume was one of the most influential writers and philosophers of his time. Hume was the second son of Joseph Hume, laird of Ninewells, a small estate in Berwickshire. He was born and raised in Edinburgh, and studied law at Edinburgh University. He left the University without taking a degree with him, however. He spent the next three years living at his fathers, occupying his time primarily with