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    but also be able to give the viewers insight to his meak personality. Randle McMurphy.................Leonardo DiCaprio DiCaprio is known for his outrageous roles that portray characters with a great deal of emotion in films, such as the Great Gatsby and The Wolf on Wall Street. His ability to establish serious, but boisterous characters with a sick sense of humor leads me to believe that he would make an excellent McMurphy. Also, his ability to play strong, but caring characters…

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    Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey and published in 1962. Chief Bromden, a schizophrenic patient in an insane asylum who pretends to be dumb and deaf to avoid confrontation, narrates what happens in the ward. When authority hating Randle McMurphy is committed to the ward, he notices the head nurse, Nurse Ratched, manipulates her patients to keep her authority, rather than actually benefit the patients. Nurse Ratched clearly mistreats her patients and gives them unnecessary treatments.…

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    the Cuckoo’s Nest all of the4 change came from Randle McMurphy’s presence. As soon as he arrived to the ward the entire system the Nurse setup started falling apart. He was a wildcard that the Nurse couldn’t subdue. In the end this had to change his brain with a lobotomy to finally gain control back, but at that point he had already raised the rest of the men up against her. Each character in this book changed drastically, and it was all because McMurphy helped…

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    Introduction Mental illness is a crippling disposition that affects 42.5 million adults in the United States every year. According to the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI), this is approximately 18.5 percent of the adult population. These conditions can range from slight antisocial disorder to severe schizophrenia. Because these debilitating conditions affect cognitive thinking, people who suffer from mental illnesses exhibit seemingly abnormal behaviors that are different from societal…

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    mental illness and body issues. There are plenty of reasons why people refuse to talk about mental illness but, I want to know why are people becoming more outspoken about mental disorders? In Ken Kesey’s One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, before McMurphy enters the hospital, it was all in perfect order, everyone would talk about their experience…

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    The story of Cinderella is well-known by most people, however, there are several versions of this beloved tale. The original story written down by the Grimm Brothers depicts a world where moral choices can affect your life in extreme ways, but it is Walt Disney’s 1950 cartoon version of Cinderella that most children think of when the story is mentioned. This version leaves behind both the question of morality and the bloody punishments, allowing children to enjoy an eye-catching, G-rated film.…

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