Ken Carter

I In my current role at Stonewall, I have grown personally and professionally. As a key member of the Empowerment team and I continuously contribute creatively to the teams existing and pending projects. As the Alumni Relations Officer, I can develop the alumni’s relations strategy and have the right enthusiasm and passion for harnessing the alumni potential. Stonewall’s key behaviours have shaped how I behave at work and I bring these to life throughout my role. The invaluable skills I have…

Nurse Ratched epitomizes an authoritarian leader with her superiority, and inability to collaborate with the other members of the ward. In attempt to assert her control over McMurphy, Nurse Ratched reminds him that, “‘You're committed, you realize. You are... under the jurisdiction of me... the staff." She's holding up a fist, all those red-orange fingernails burning into her palm. "Under jurisdiction and control—" (125). When threatened by McMurphy, she forces him to “realize” that he is…

as individuals, but when it is taken away from us, it renders us feeble, fearful, and helpless to whatever reality throws at us, causing us to gradually lose our sense of self, as well as our grasp on reality. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, we are shown through the eyes of Bromden, a patient at an asylum, to what extremes our sense of absurdity can affect us, having the power to drive us into submissiveness when we lose our control over it, while also giving us a feeling of…

music, and sight and sound encounters to rise above reality and convey a higher condition of cognizance to the individuals who took an interest. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is the chronicle of how this development started: with one individual, Ken Kesey, and his band of supporters, the Merry Pranksters. However, how do these pranksters relate to law and punishment as thought out by Foucault 's main observations; the disappearance of the public visibility of punishment and the disappearance…

Our definitional model of consciousness states that consciousness cannot be explicitly measured, however is biologically rooted and dependent on the brain. Although consciousness is cognitive and internal, it is developed through social interactions with others as well as social reflections on those interactions. In this way consciousness is a social construction that is rooted in, and dependent on, cultural grounding and context (Lutz 1992, Sandstrom 2010). This ‘awareness of awareness’ is…

Having an altered perception of the world, Ken Kesey created the captivating novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. In his novel Kesey has constructed a world within a psychiatric ward, which becomes a microcosm of society. In this world the assumed deaf and dumb Chief Bromden, and other timid patients are heavily controlled by Nurse Ratched, an authority apart of the powerful and dehumanising combine. Through figurative language, foreshadowing and motifs readers are warned about the influence…

Situational leadership theory was first proposed in 1969 by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard in their book, Management of Organization Behavior: Utilizing Human Resources. Situational leadership theory states that leadership behavior should adapt to the maturity and readiness of subordinates. According to Daft (2014), “The point of…

arise over various issues. Some of which include power and status. Whether it be people abusing, manipulating, or gaining power there are always darker alternative motives. In this case, a prime example of power being used unjustly can be found in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Where society is based on the oppressor, the Combine consistently keeps the people restrained, resulting in conflict among the two. Chief Bromden’s schizophrenic episodes involve the Combine, which…

Ken Kesey was born on September 17, 1935 in La Junta California, was raised in Springfield, Oregon.. He also was seen as an important wrestler at the University of Oregon and after he graduated he received the fred lowe scholarship from the University as well. With it he received an literary education from a graduate program at Stanford . In the 1960s, Kesey had worked in a psychiatric hospital ward as a janitor and had also participated in a experiment with the army testing the effects of mind…

Naturally, a story told in first-person point of view is flawed. However, the author Ken Kesey picks Chief Bromden, the least suspecting of all characters, to narrate his book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. As Bromden tells the story from his perspective, he is able to gain credibility from the audience because he faithfully recounts not only the misadventures and mayhem in the ward but also the story of his personal breakthrough. In the beginning, Bromden tells us that he is under that…