Combine

Ratched’s greatest weakness is something that she tries to limit. The Combine and Nurse Ratched try to emasculate the men on the ward in hopes to make them the homogenous and subordinate. A machine is a genderless piece of equipment that efficiently does what it is programed to do. Nurse Ratched is compared to a robot because…

One of the most powerful symbols in the novel is the Combine, which is used to describe the machine-like character of both the ward and the world itself. To fully understand the symbol of the Combine one must first understand that the ward also represents the outside world. So, people inside the ward are seen as robots that are controlled by the Combine. Those labeled as “Acutes” represent those that the Combine had gained full control over whereas those labeled as “Chronics” are…

I believe that with moving all four of the offices at once trying to make them one is causing some major challenges. Christine should move one office in a piecemeal time, in this way she can tackle one challenge at a time. With moving one at a time, she will be able to think properly and accomplish more. The staff will be able to adjust smoother and be able to organize the staff of 325 better. These new staff will have a new tradition to the “seniority” of 300 employees. If she moves them all at…

look forward to the results. Each individual component is not very exciting by itself. However, if we put together all these individual components, we can make something more complex and exciting. In the same way, in chemical reactions, you can combine two or more reactants to form a new product. This reaction is classified as a __combination reaction__, which can also be referred to as a ‘’synthesis’’ reaction. In general, a combination looks like this:…

the novel. She is instead a symbol of society’s desire to subjugate individuals to conformity”. The narrator of the book, Chief Bromden, refers to society as the Combine that processes people until all sense of individuality is gone. In the novel, Nurse Ratched is not the main villain of the story but instead a pawn of society’s Combine that requires individuals to conform to its norms. While Nurse Ratched may have acted as a villain in the ward, she is nothing more than a factor that Society…

How the Ward is run is a clear clue to Kesey's questions of sanity, one reason is the Big Nurse Ratched who is the unofficial controller of the ward. Over the years, she manipulates and twists the patients against one another in group meetings that give little to no help to improve any mental illnesses they have. Her own abuse to her prowess shines throughout the novel such as, by the denial of fun activities that can improve the patients. Kesey shows a large symbol of irony as well with Nurse…

A good narrator can change a good story into a great one. In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the author, Ken Kesey, takes an unconventional approach to choosing the narrator. Rather than selecting the main character or even no character at all, Kesey decided to use a side character such as Chief Bromden, often referred to as Chief Broom, is a quiet, yet peculiar character in the novel. He narrates the entire story from an observer’s point of view while pretending to be deaf and dumb.…

being at the asylum for years and are a bit confused. He seems to laugh at the things that hurt him the most, similar to the phrase “laughing to keep from crying.” The laughter symbolizes sanity and the refusal to conform to the clutches of the Combine, and by the end of the fishing trip the men are not the same men they were when they docked out. By the end of the fishing trip the men are able to laugh with McMurphy, showing the reader a sign of the patients physical and psychological change.…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was written in 1959 and published in 1962 in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement[3] and deep changes to the way psychology and psychiatry were being approached in America. The 1960s began the controversial movement towards deinstitutionalization,[4][5] an act that would have affected the characters in Kesey's novel. The novel is a direct product of Kesey's time working the graveyard shift as an orderly at a mental health facility in Menlo Park, California.[6]…

Macromolecules Everything on Earth is made of carbon. Due to this complex molecules are formed. These complex molecules are macromolecules. Macromolecules are polymers, formed by dehydration synthesis. Dehydration Synthesis is when monomers are combines and water is removed. There are four types of macromolecules, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins. Carbohydrates are made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. With a structural components such as glucose and sugar.…