Essays on Mental Hospital

Response to Kayla:

Parents and caregivers who intentionally make children sick pursuing their specific goals definitely deserve punishment by the law, but it is a serious question what form this punishment should have. I share the opinion of Kayla and suggest their sending to a mental hospital for the major part of their lives. Furthermore, I want to add that the mental hospital should be closed, and any contacts with the outer world should be controlled. The closed mental hospital could be the severer punishment than prison, as it is almost for life, not just for several years. It is often hard ...

Analysis of Home by Toni Morrison

The main character of Home by Toni Morrison is Frank Mooney. Frank is a Korean war verteran, black and suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He has recently left his girlfriend, Lily to return home to Lotus, Georgia where his beloved sister, Cee is apperently very ill and close to dying. The setting of the story is the 1950’s and Frank is travelling across country to get to Cee. Morrison tells the story through all three of the characters point of view. She uses the third person, but we hear the characters’ thoughts. Some of the text is told ...

- At the end of the first chapter, Chief Bromden states, “It’s gonna burn me . . . finally telling about all this, about the hospital, and her and the guys—and about McMurphy. . . . It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t’t happen” (13). What does this mean? Is Broom a reliable narrator? Can you as a reader trust that his perceptions and his version of the story are accurate? Why or why not? Use an example from the book to support your response. Chief Bromden ...

A. SCREENWRITING

In the writing of this script, I used quite a few influences from other films and genres that I very much enjoy. First and foremost was Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind, as I wanted to be able to imply that the main character was slowly but surely losing his mind over the course of the short film. Given that I only have three minutes of film in which to accomplish this task, I took the route of keeping it open-ended as to whether or not the events in the film were taking place strictly in Vincent's head, or if it ...

Malcolm X whose real name was Malcolm Little was mainly as a black American minister mostly remembered for his unending fight for equal treatment in the United States in the 1960s. As a Muslim minister, he would charge the white supremacists very harshly for any conduct suggesting racial discrimination. Malcolm Little was born in the year 1925 in Omaha to Earl Little and Louise Norton as the fourth child in a family of seven children. His father was a black and his mother of Swedish origin thus could be easily confused for a white. Malcolm inherited his light skin color from his mother. ...

It should be no surprise that the idea of utopia has often been explored by American writers, since one could argue that America itself exists as a sort of utopian ideal. The words of the Declaration of Independence posit a sort of utopia in their idealistic talk of ’life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ This is very bound up with the notion of America as a new world, a new place where fresh starts can be made and the mistakes of the past avoided: The utopian passages in Euro-American writings tended to elevate American spaces and colonists by comparing them to ...

Ken Kesey (1935 – 2001) published One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1962 – a crucial point in American social history. The McCarthyism of the 1950’s was receding and Kesey’s novel seems, in retrospect to foreshadow or to anticipate the enormous social changes that were to come to in the 1960’s – from the Civil Rights movement to the explosion of rock music, from hippies to experimentation with drugs, from alternative lifestyles to Woodstock. Kesey had worked in a mental hospital while he was a student and was partly drawing on his own experiences of what he he saw and ...