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Touch With Reality Piece Of Literature
947 wordsFor starters, I would like to begin by saying that this piece of literature, to me, was a disturbing piece of fiction that reminded me of the book (and film) "The Shining" by Stephen King. Both story's draw from the instability of the main characters mental state. This story in particular draws from the personal experiences of the author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It is the story of a woman's downward spiral ending in insanity. Everything is viewed through the eyes of the mental patient. She des...
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Mc Murphy Nurse Ratched
5,687 words... level. Kesey constructs One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as a struggle between a number of conflicting values that Mc Murphy and Nurse Ratched represent, such as freedom, sexuality, rational choice for the former and authoritarianism, repression and determinism for the latter. Nurse Ratched's willing perpetuation of the struggle indicates that she is herself aware of one of at least one of these conflicts. The patients love that Mc Murphy "got the nurse's goat the way he said he would. " Mc M...
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Mentally Disturbed Aiko Sama Of The Yano Family
2,097 words... ao's mother was diagnosed as having a cancer, I was really ashamed at not being able to help her at all. It has usually been the custom each year to celebrate the New Year at my home for the Yano and Tanabe families. My husband used to cook for the party. However, no one agreed to get together this year. On the second of January, I happened to get a call from my brother. The family of my brother had just been visiting Mother's hospital, and he said they were now at a short distance from my h...
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Thoughts Were Disturbed Dirty Cloth Mouth
583 wordsTake me to your leader, Jireehove or, as his friends called him, Jig said to the chief gate-guard. It was a tall and gorilla-like creature with blood-red eyes peering at him with disgust from behind the helm decorated with bones. For a few moments the guard hesitated, estimating the danger the lonely traveler could bring, and then he shouted right in Jig's face the words in a terrible accent that identified his nature a goblin. Elfish scum! I will take you to my leader! Khan kazza! , after the l...
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Strength Isnt Affected Told Her Secretary Letter
551 wordsby zeit Loan AYCI Translated by Fide ERKEN and by Anne PROULX Hard prohibitions are necessary in order to live systematically... Strength isnt affected by being a woman... I must use my authority continuously, even though it may seem insensitive to others... The eyes of the female administrator widened after she murmured these words to herself. She told her secretary not to be disturbed and began typing on her computer. She was almost frantic with excitement over the things she wrote. Sometimes ...
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Electro Shock Therapy P Mc Murphy
1,100 wordsThe role of the hero in Ken Kesey's novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, is played by Randle P. Mc Murphy, a wrongly committed mental patient with a lust for life. Mc Murphys personal qualities that gain the respect and admiration from his fellow patients are also responsible for his tragic downfall. These qualities include his temper, which is the reason for the tension between him and nurse Ratched; his stubbornness, which results in his numerous painful disciplinary treatments; also his fre...
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Alcohol And Drug Young Men
797 wordsThis is a letter i wrote last christmas when i was bored addressed to the editor of a local newspaper in The Bahamas, where i live. Hope you enjoy. Dear Editor and my fellow Bahamian public, I am disturbed, disgruntled and shocked at the magnitude of carelessness that the public shows for the well-being and security of our youth. Recently, I was invited with a few friends to join them to celebrate at one of the local clubs in downtown Nassau. I was pleased to join them and proceeded to ride with...
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Ecology The Study Of Plans Animals And Environment
1,134 wordsEcology is the scientific study of the interrelationships of plants, animals, and the environment. In recent years, the word has sometimes been misused as a synonym for environment. The principles of ecology are useful in many aspects of the related fields of conservation, wildlife management, forestry, agriculture, and pollution control. The word ecology (Greek, oikos, "house, " and logos, "study of") is generally believed to have been coined by Ernst HAECKEL, who used and defined it in 1869. T...
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Animal Cruelty And Family Violence
1,306 words... ay" indication. No matter where it is committed the child learns from it. Most caseworkers could tell you about cases in which a child abuser also hurt, or killed the victim's pet. Children will learn to abuse animals; either as a sign that they are getting hurt by someone else or a cry for help. If nothing is done, the child will eventually hurt people. That would be because they weren't taught from right and wrong. If children are taught to abuse animals, that is what they will do. Like fo...
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Deviant Behavior Socially Acceptable
1,618 words... repressive forms of deviance such as predation, defiance and submission. (p. 284) Comparing the three theories, all three appeared to derive explanation of deviant behavior from factors external to the individual. From the lack of appropriate parental guidance to social pressures and coercive environment, these were attributed as causes of deviant behavior. Some form of control was exercised on the individual. The parents naturally impose some form of discipline on their children. The more d...
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Death Penalty For The Innocent
1,662 wordsDeath Penalty for the Innocent Death penalty the higher measure of execution. From the ancient days until nowadays society exercises its right to execute people. I want to admit that our legislative branch of power walked through many changes. Good changes, as it is, because there are no auto-da-fe and Lincolns courts. So, some people find these changes as very distressing ones. We have very democratic legislative system. On other hand each of existing systems is far from perfection. In the case...
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Children And Adolescents Child And Adolescent
1,981 words... recovering the self. Isolation is both a prison and a sanctuary. Adult Children suspended between need and fear, unable to choose between fight or flight, agonize in the middle and resolve the tension by explosive bursts of rebellion, or silently endure in despair. Isolation is our retreat from the paralyzing pain of indecision. This retreat into denial blunts our awareness of the destructive reality of family dysfunction and is the first stage of mourning and grief. It allows us to cope wit...
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Death Of A Salesman Point Of View
1,056 wordsDeath of a Salesman -Character Sketches In the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, the main character, Willy Loman, is a struggling salesman. Toward the end of the play, Willy commits suicide by crashing his car. Willy Loman is a complex character who confuses illusion with reality. In a way, Willy has two personalities in this play. The one we see in the present action is a tired man in his sixties. The other Willy is the one we see in flashbacks. He is young and confident. In Act Two, S...
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Order Of Her House Woman Of This Story Louisa
1,729 wordsIn " A New England Nun" , Mary E. Wilkins Freeman depicts the life of the classic New England spinster. The image of a spinster is of an old maid; a woman never married waiting for a man. The woman waiting to be married is restricted in her life. She does chores and receives education to make her more desirable as a wife. This leads to the allegories used in this short story. The protagonist life paralleled both of her pets lives, her dog Caesars and that of her little yellow canary. B...
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Mental And Physical Rhyme Scheme
1,447 wordsIn What Ways Might Elizabeth Jennings Poetry Be About Voicing What Cannot Normally Be Expressed? The divide between the external and the internal is one that poets have always sought to breach. The enigma of mind and emotion has been one that seemed almost impossible to convey truthfully in line and verse; a thought is too fleeting to capture, an emotion too deep to describe. Despite this writers have continued in their quest to give voice to the silent interior existence of humanity, though few...
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Poe Edgar Allan Cask Of Amontillado
2,637 wordsPoe is a very complicated author. His literary works are perplexed, disturbing, and even grotesque. His frequent illnesses may have provoked his engrossment in such things. In 1842 Dr. John W. Francis diagnosed Poe with sympathetic heart trouble as well as brain congestion. He also noted Poe's inability to withstand stimulants such as drugs and alcohol (Phillips 1508). These factors may have motivated him to write The Tell-Tale-Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Black Cat. All of these stor...
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Perry Smith Cold Blooded
2,014 wordsPerry Smith: The Serene Man with the Explosive Temper Perry Smith is perhaps the nicest, most gentle-hearted man Ive ever met in my life. If he and I were to have met under different circumstances, I would never have hazarded a guess that this kind man could be a cold-blooded killer. Hes such a gentle man that it startles me to think that a man such as he would ever so much as touch a hair on a human head. However, it is the story of his past that lends credence to the fact that he slaughtered f...
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Leaves The Reader Reader Realizes
796 wordsProblem of Genre in Drama When a reader thinks of a play that has been labeled a comedy he thinks of light-hearted and happy plots. The reader would not think of family tension, arguments or even perversion. The genre of comedy takes on the responsibility of making the audience laugh and walk away from the production with a satisfied feeling. But when comedy is subverted by tragedy the reader or audience leaves the production wondering if what they just experienced was correct. The play The Home...
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Walking Down The Street Racial Profiling
728 wordsEducation Prop 21 Prop 21 Education is the best part of life. Education can evolve you into a better person. Education can prevent you from committing crimes and will lead you to a prosperous life. Proposition 21; The Gang Violence and Juvenile Crime Prevention Act aims to incarcerate disturbed youth rather then educate them. Proposition 21 creates tougher laws that are aimed toward minority teen males. Therefore Proposition 21 is a careless solution to reduce crime and is aimed toward youth and...
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Streetcar Named Desire Glass Menagerie
2,648 wordsA Streetcar Named Desire Everything in his life is in his plays, and everything in his plays is in his life. (Elia Kazan). These are the Kazan's words that explains Williams and his works, because his family life and also all his works were full of tension and despair. For example his parents often argues terribly that frightened his older sister, Rose, so much that one evening she went running out of the house. His father, Cornelius, was a stern businessman who managed a shoe warehouse. Corneli...
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