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May 1, 1847. The day the cornerstone of the Smithsonian Institution was laid. A grand ceremony was planned. Banners were strewn across City Hall. Large crowds gathered, in the size of thousands. People drove in from Baltimore and Philadelphia just to witness the event. There was an air of celebration. It felt like a public holiday. Yet, one important man was not officially invited to the event. The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Joseph Henry. This was by no mere accident. It was the…

would want to go because insane asylums are made to rehabilitate their patients which is the exact opposite of what Joseph wants. This is also a major setback since he has just lost a major part of the progress he has made. He later leaves the institution because of his future bride Marguerite taught him how to be human again (human feelings is what I mean by humanity). “...I gained at first, marginal jobs...and learned to impersonate a human being...I managed to marry Marguerite. And father a…

such being the “combine”. Chief mentions the “combine” at various locations in the book. The combine in his mind are the outside organization and the nurse who try to reshape the people at the mental institution to their own idea of a perfect person, even though as chief says everyone in the institution is the normal people in their own eyes and the combine are the insane ones trying to change them even though they are just making it worse. Another symbol found in the novel is the fog machine.…

this period of my professional employment, that I learnt that how the dynamics of a real industry differs from that taught via textbooks. Since my college days I was penchant towards the field of quality in the mechanical stream and thereby chose Total Quality Management as the elective subject in the last year of my bachelor’s degree and also as a result I chose the department of quality assurance in my company. As we all know that Japan is famous for its advancement in technology. They rose…

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Abolishing Affirmative Action Solves Nothing While potential college students fill out applications, a majority of the applicants will face the question regarding their race. Most educational institutions often strive for blind admissions in order to establish a fair picking process. However, affirmative action has served as an exception because it allows universities to aid specifically minority students in need of educational opportunities compared to privileged students. Unfortunately,…

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Introduction: Discipline investigation is an essay that allows a student to discover the difficulties of professional life. The main source for this essay is the interview that student uses to collect the empirical data. From my opinion, this dissertation is a study to convince students to either follow what they choose or change their career. Before doing this assignment, I expected chemical engineering is a tough profession in the industry but I found out the academic courses were challenging…

Multi-level governance and federalism: a comparison of the models & a discussion on the future of the EU The purpose of this essay is to compare multi-level governance and federalism models in the sense of European Union and to discuss the future of the European Union based on these models. Firstly, I define what exactly multi-level governance and federalism models represent and what are the similarities and differences. Further on is a discussion about the developments of EU based on these…

ills of the mental institutions of the 1960s. His eccentric behavior was despised by the Big Nurse and other authority figures at the mental institution, but McMurphy’s behavior might be judged reasonable if one considers the dehumanizing, sterile, hostage-like situation that the institute’s patients were subjected to on a daily basis. Furthermore, McMurphy 's “madness” not only drives the plot of this novel, but serves the purpose of showing how poorly equipped the institution was to assess and…