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There is not much said about how Ken Kesey's character Chief Bromden came to The Ward. His diagnosis was never directly stated in the book and Kesey made no mention of it. There is evidence available both in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and in Ken Kesey’s personal life that suggests that Chief Bromden has what would now be diagnosed as schizophrenia. His unwillingness to talk and constant visions support this diagnosis. In the beginning of the book Chief Reveals himself to be unreliable. He…

Outlook on Sexuality, Human Nature, & Relationships By: Reyaz Ahmadi December, 13th, 2015 There are many different aspects to human emotions, causing many different attitudes to form toward different things. There is sexuality, human nature, or relationship. Many human beings have many different sexualities, which will determine what relationships they will be in. Everyone goes through different stages in life and experiences many different things. Just…

Cultural Differences in Remember the Titans Michelle Senese Georgian Court University Remember the Titans is a film based on a true story about the integration of an all Black school into an all White school in the 1970’s in Alexandria, Virginia. When the school board decides to make an African American man head coach of the football team, tensions rise between the White students and the Black students, as well as the members of the community. There are many examples of cultural differences…

LIFE AFTER THE BEATLES After the breakup of The Beatles, Lennon expected to feel free and liberated but felt the opposite. Lennon, with the encouragement of Yoko Ono, turned to “primal scream therapy,” where he relived traumatic moments of his childhood and relieved the tension that built up through screaming and crying. Lennon later said, “I’m not bitter anymore . . . I meditate and I cry” (Corbin 99). Lennon and Yoko Ono had a falling out in 1973, when she forced Lennon to move out. Lennon…

“It was a much more simpler time…people got all of their information from the same sources,” John Valentine stated during his interview. Back in the 1950s and 60s, Valentine would solely get his news from the television or newspaper. “Breaking News” that is oh so common today that can be spread around the world the moment it happens was not even a thought. To the folks that lived during the time when Instagram was not the main form of communication and Snapchat was not on hand 24/7, this…

James Howard Kunstler’s The Long Emergency is the stuff of suburban nightmare. As someone who has lived her entire life in the comforts and trappings of suburbia, the events that have been laid out in this text have raised several levels of alarm inside myself. Many suburbanites schlep their reusable bags into their hybrid or flex-fuel vehicles and regularly run their several mile journey to the grocery store multiple times a week. In the absence of fossil fuels, not only would this trip for…

The Vietnam War was one of the most controversial wars America has ever been involved in. Our nation was divided into two bodies who argued the sanity of the other. Televisions and radios covered every inch of the war, from our soldiers to their families at home. Overseas our troops fought alongside Democratic South Vietnam to not only protect Vietnam from Ho Chi Minh and the growing communist threat, but to also put an end to the spread of communism throughout Southeast Asia, as or postulated…

Nietzsche was a German philosopher born in 1844. Much of his work was published. He was considered to be a huge influence on the western philosophy and modern intellectual philosophy. He was a philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist. He wrote on truth, history, morality, cultural theory, human consciousness, language, power, and even the meaning of existence. Nietzsche believed that as humans we fundamentally want power and always attempt to inflict our will upon others. He believed to live…

American Suburbia and its Influence on Modern Environmentalism Through an average American’s point of view it is a common misconception that modern environmentalism has its roots in the radical protests of the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by drug and ‘hippie’ culture. Whilst some more radical grassroots environmental groups or movements could be characterized in this way, the origins of modern environmentalism stem from much earlier in history, all the way back to the nineteenth century.…

and what I saw was more to do with keeping one another alive long enough to go home. Of course, there were the ones who were ‘gung-ho,’ and that was me. It took a while after the war to sink in. To analyze this crazy jumble of historical events. The hippie movement, the politicians, colluding with our enemies and lobbyist for the buck they can tuck in their own pockets. Whenever a congressman on an 80 to 120 thousand dollar a year job can leave as a multi-millionaire in two years, one must…