Magdalene Asylum

People living in these establishments receive no compassion or love and, as a result, live traumatized lives. Previously, people were placed in institutions or asylums based on race, religion, sexual orientation and other societal categories. Women were placed in the Magdalene Asylums for being sexually active or having impure thoughts. The conditions of these asylums were similar to those found in institutions for the disabled in this country over the last few centuries. The institutional separation…

obviously this impacts what we can know. only from one perspective. those writing about ‘prostitutes’ had clear intentions - whether positive of negative; ‘the mythology created by such self-styled ‘historians’ was overwhelmingly designed by and for men.’ “moral reformers, evangelical philanthropists, and rescue workers” as part of process; these groups particularly influential in Scotland which lacked the Acts, and in the nation’s self-perception of morality [Scotland had its own] technologies…

While for a moment the scene that she encounters seems to be too good to be true, she is confronted with the painful realization of the implications of her sexual identity (Higson & Mullan, 2002). She has the opportunity to escape for good, but the young man who offers her a ride makes a remark about how she must be from “in there”, referring to the Magdalene Asylum, and says that they must be taking in “loonies” now (Higson & Mullan, 2002). This scene is extremely powerful, because Margaret…

The Magdalene Sisters Natasha Juvera Women in World History 205 Professor Reanne Eichele 20 October 2015 The Magdalene Sisters is a harrowing look at institutional cruelty, perpetrated by the Catholic Church in Ireland. In my review of the movie, The Magdalene Sisters, written and directed by Peter Mullan in 2002, powerfully illuminates contemporary Irish society’s obligation to the survivors of the nation’s Magdalen institutions. Mullan documents the culpability of the church,…

cooked it. They finished cooking the fish and sat down together to eat their dinner. The family finished their food, cleaned up, then went to bed. The next day they went for a swim in their lake. That is when Elena started acting weird. Eventually it got worse and worse and she was going insane. She constantly felt like someone was watching her or wanted to hurt her. Her dad had started to notice more and more how crazy she had been. Her boyfriend tried to help her and it was so weird because…

Asylums are supposed to stabilize the insane, but what if they did the exact opposite? In the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest not only is the sanity of the patients questioned but the staff’s too. The methods of the institution are questionable ethically and morally. Giving the patients unknown pills and taking away their masculinity is very dubious. The ways of the institute is soon questioned because of the arrival of Randle McMurphy. Due to the control, different perspectives, and…

endured. Our ability to hold the world up to our standards lends us a feeling of power and control over our lives, giving us our pride and credibility 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…

The Trans- Alleghany Insane Asylum It started on a weekend in May, our school decided to plan a field trip to a mysterious building in the western part of Virginia. Don’t ask me why though—we’re all surprised they even considered it. The funny thing is, our school hasn’t taken a field trip in three years, and this is the first placed they decided to go to. The whole situation was quite strange. After a class of eighth graders went to a zoo, the principle has not allowed anyone to go on a…

Human Interaction “Class, Class please quiet down, today we have a visitor. I have studied this young man for most of my life. The year I graduated with my doctorate was the same year this man was put into Alburque Asylum for his mental state. This man has Dissociative Identity Disorder, something you all might recognize as Multiple Personality. DID is when a person obtains two or more personality states in their mind. In 1916, he was placed in this asylum as his mother felt there was something…

Whistleblower I am Waylon Park I’m an investigative journalist from Denver, Colorado. I have received an email from Miles Upshur a software engineer who works at the Mount Massive Asylum he has been telling me about inhumane experiments being conducted at the asylum. Well that’s why I am here to expose the Murkoff Corporation patients are being hurt and Murkoff is making money off of it this needs to stop. I’m in front of the gates that lead to the Asylum…