Do we attend a Psych-Ward on Daily Basis?!

The Psych ward in the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is very clearly run by through a hierarchical system lead by Big Nurse. She quite obviously has ultimate power in the ward, seeing that she has the biggest wager in decisions, if not making them herself. Unlike her, the rest of the people in the psych ward including the faculty have little say in things. No one except her have choices to make. Because of this Monarchy that Big Nurse formed over the years she can easily control what goes on within her ward without having any misbehavior from the patients. She does this by using forms of punishments such as a lobotomy that the patients would do anything to avoid. All in all, it is very clearly portrayed who is in power, and who has none whatsoever.

            It is actually quit similar within our school and probably every other school. Our form of Big Nurse would be Mr. Welch, holding all the power and being able to make decisions for any department for the school. Mr. Welch’s job is to use his power to keep everything in school calm and controlled. He does this by being able to portray his message to the people under him, such as the vice-principles of each grade, or department heads who will then pass the message/order onto the students. If students misbehave there are consequences. Obviously nothing as painful and un-ethical as a lobotomy, but something more like a suspension or a Saturday-school. Most Institutions work like this, it is virtually the only way to keep the order within the elders, or the more controlled people. It is exactly like the psych ward, but with no life-changing consequences.

            Many people believe that schools are not as similar to a psych ward, but if you think about it they are exactly the same. We can’t choose which classes we want which periods. We can’t choose when to go to lunch, and we cant leave the school during school hours. The patients cant choose which cell and which room-mate they want to have, they cant choose when they want to eat, and they cant choose if they want to be a Chronic or an Acute. We have one person in power, Mr. Welch and they have Big Nurse. People enforce the choices of the ultimate power, our teachers and the black boys. There is nothing different between a psych ward and a school, just the people who control it. 

Does medicine cure, or simply cause more health problems?

             Nowadays medicine is given by doctors and used by patients with almost no second thoughts. People take for granted that with the new technology and scientific standpoints the medicine that they get will solve the problem ninety percent of the time. Now don’t get me wrong, I am in no way saying they don’t do their jobs. Just that medicine producers produce medicine to only remove the symptoms of whatever the patient is struggling with. They feel as though side effects are not their fault because the manufacturers believe they have done their job.

            As the creators of the products discard the side effects they go on to create medicines that treat the person for their specific need, but then causes them one hundred different side effects. This is clearly portrayed through the hundreds of advertisements shown throughout the day on the television. When a medicine is advertised they spend maybe one eighth of the time describing what the medicine treats, one eighth of how to obtain the medicine and then six eights to describe the multiple and in some cases, fatal side effects. I sometimes laugh to myself wondering what these companies must be thinking making a medicine to allow someone to sleep, but then as a side effect may cause them to die or gain some sort of terrible, irreversible condition.

            In general I believe that modern medicine in most cases do not treat the patient in their best interest. If modern medicine were made in the consumers best interest there would be little to one side effect, and definitely nothing fatal. The definition of medicine is a compound or preparation used for the treatment or prevention of disease, esp. a drug or drugs taken by mouth, not a compound or preparation used for the treatment that also causes more health problems after being taken. 

A Recorded Story

            Movies are made to completely disconnect one from their present day problems and stresses. They are made to distract or rather make you feel at ease with ones life. The movie writers generally go about doing this by creating obstacles and scenarios that generally go to extremes. Why watch a movie about us every day folk? We don’t. Now that we have established that we use movies to distract ourselves from our present lives we can go about other aspects of movies, Genres. Generally, because we are humans we have our own tastes in music, food or clothes but just like all the rest we generally like to watch movies according to our mood. We tend to watch extremely tragic movies when we feel down to make us feel better about ourselves (don’t deny it, you know its true), or maybe a comedy to uplift our happiness even higher. Generally movies that people tend to like are those that are account for each problem, and ones that are simply made well. But then again, I can’t speak for everyone seeing that all of us are individuals.

            In my opinion my most favorite movie is Inception. It is an all around movie with action, stress, and love. What brings it apart from most other movies is its interesting subject, or main focus, the fact that one can venture into another’s dreams to uncover hidden secrets, or maybe even plant an idea. I myself have never thought that such a thing could exist. It is mind-boggling and it honestly made me extremely interested in the subject of dreams.

            I truly do not have any other “top 10 movies” even though I do have a lot of favorites it is hard to pick the top few. I generally tend to like the action/suspense movies that are based on true facts or possible future realizations. I also like comedy movies, but these are the type of movies I only like to watch with a group of friends simply because its more fun to laugh with others than alone. 

Themes, Themes and More Themes

Within The play Death of a Salesman there are many prevalent and discussion worthy themes. However the most interesting and most story changing themes would be Person vs. Self, Person vs. Society and lasty the American Deam. Person vs. Society is a rather interesting theme because of the very manner it affects Willy. Willy as the main character strives for success (in this case the American Dream). While he still struggles to achieve this goal, many around him have already attained. This in particular is very important because as society moves forward he is moving financially backwards. As a result people look down to him. Charlie offers him a job as a gesture of friendship, because he sees through the deceiving acts Willy plays pretending as if he is as financially stable as can be. Willy also tends to hide his instability because he is truly afraid of what may happen and what people may think of him if they knew of his struggle. He is a very self-conscious person when it comes to the subject of success.

Willy, attempting to be secretive of his financial struggle hides it not only from others, but himself as well. Willy lets himself believe that he has achieved the American Dream, when in reality he hasn’t done so. His self-consciousness misled him to believe that he goes through each day a successful man, when in reality he is just as bad as both his sons Happy and Biff. Happy and Biff. Because he has pretended that this struggle doesn’t exist for such a long time the minute he realizes it is reality it will cause his downfall.
         The theme the American Dream is what every aspect of this story revolves around. Willy goes through so much trouble hiding his financial crisis from others and himself because he wants to think he has accomplished the greatest goal of all, become someone from no one. This idea in itself guides Willy's mind to think and do what he does throughout the length of the story. Also because almost all people around him have already accomplished the American Dream it simply makes it worse for Willy to handle. If the american dream did not exist, Willy might not have been so content on making money, instead using his personal time to spend with the family. The story in itself would not have existed without the American Dream, knowing that it is the one factor that causes his pain and stress.
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Death of a Salesman

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Willy try’s to teach his boys Happy and Biff that even though they may have everything that they  ever wished for it is good to reach for more. He basically tells them to reach above and beyond their dreams. I believe this is a worthwhile concept for a father to teach because it allow them to keep succeeding at life and not stop trying to succeed when they become content with what they have. For example Biff’s current dream is to go to Texas and own a ranch. This would essentially keep him content with life if all goes well, but Willy urges him not to go and become a salesman and become more successful than he wishes to become. Another example would be that Happy is currently content with life, he has fulfilled all his dreams, owning a car, an apartment and being employed. Willy just says that earning seventy dollars a week isn’t something to stop at. All in all, learning how not to stop trying is a good trait to have and it is a worthwhile lesson that should be taught.

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                Willy’s inconsistency could be either of two reasons. Willy has been confused about who he is, and what he wants to be. He is having trouble realizing that the he is not the man he wished to become. Or he is confused between him and biff, and he describes biff sometimes as himself and while he describes biff (as himself) he wants to give a good impression of biff (himself) so he tells us biffs (his) positive traits. Linda tends to ignore this, even though seeming to realize what is happening. everything willy says she agrees with, without mentioning this confusion that is going on in Willy’s head.  This is not a good thing because in a way she is allowing willy to continue thinking this way. If she didn’t encourage this, willy could have possibly realized that he is thinking too high of himself as a person and everything he says about himself and his sons are untrue. It will destroy him once he realizes that his life, both his son’s lives and the life he gives to his wife is nowhere near what he thought it was for the past years.

Promote Soap so we can all look dope.

     Soap bars, ruling the world in complete secrecy. Even though we don’t clearly see, hear or feel them controlling our every day lives they do. How they pull this off is quit remarkable.

     Just think, your back in first grade. You wake up late therefore requiring you to take a shower after school. In school your on the playground and girls are giving boys cooties but the girls don’t give you any for some weird reason, you sit in the corner cootie-less and crying wondering why no one would play with you during recess. You go home and your mom covers her nose and sends you straight to the shower. Then all your time to play with your new Lego set is gone because you have a 6000-word essay on The Scarlet letter. The most descriptive book you have ever read in your entire school career.

     Just think, your back in first grade you wake up before the alarm, you have a shower and use your favorite sponge bob soap your mom got you for your birthday, you change into your clothes and go to put on your fresh new sketchers. You walk out of your house looking like a complete G. You go to school and you get your test back that you thought you failed… you failed it, but because of the 85 extra credit points you ended up getting a 130 which bumped your grade up from a F- to a A++. You’re sent to the priciple. He is so astounded by your recent improvement he pulls you up a grade! Its recess, and the girls did stop giving you cooties because you smelled like fresh crabby patties, you know you would have to go to the hospital afterwards to get treated for overdose but at the moment you felt great. Your day couldn’t have been better.

     Hopefully this blog convinced all of you non-soap users to make a huge change and use soap. It will not only benefit yourself, but it will help everyone around you feel better. Trust me, without soap the world would just be another oversized garbage dump with depressed first graders crying in the corner.                                                           

Takin' a Break

     So as you guys might have noticed i did not end up doing this weeks blog on time. i have several excuses that i could have made, but i chose not too, because teachers nowadays do not tolerate such excuses with out backed up proof. Over the years so many students have come up with several ways of getting those late deductions off of their grade, and some succeed. But the few lucky students that do succeed made up a new excuse. Assuming this person has friends, he would tell them about his miracle without even thinking, then his friends would tell their friends, and the people that know this excuse would be growing exponentially. Because about 75.87%* of all people will end up using this excuse during the duration of their lives, teachers could potentially hear multiple versions of one excuse, and therefore become immune to it.
     I believe Teachers are very similar to Viruses. Every year doctors scurry to find new Vaccines to these certain viruses, because viruses learn to become immune to their Vaccines. This is why doctors must find new immunizations every year instead of using the same one. Viruses are similar to Teachers and excuses are similar to vaccines because teachers tend to realize when students are faking their reason for not doing homework on time. Because Teachers are people, and people are animals they have the ability to learn, and because of this they realize that the student is faking. Therefore they wont fall for it again.
   Also Vaccines are generally dead Viruses that doctors inject into your body, because they are still viruses the white blood cells fight against them and learn how to counteract viruses attacks. In a way Vaccines are fake viruses, and excuses are fake reasons.
      Ill get back to my story next week. im sure you guys are all eager to hear whats going to happen next... NOT






*Kevin Fitzgerald States that 99% of all excuses made by indians are false. he has proved himself to be correct in this situation.