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    and behaviors, which is the cause of anxiety and suffering for the men in the ward. The act of playing games with others, as a result leads to shared connections in the form of shared experiences. Men who share common interests and experiences are argued to also form homosocial communities that allow its members to support and help each other. This social network goes against the authority of institutions, such as the ward leading that will lead to retaliation from the institution. These…

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    It bravely tackles a number of controversial issues, including the perpetual nature/nurture argument. Evolutionary psychology has also confronted rape. Thorn and Palmer (Ward, & Siegert, 2002) argued that rape happens simply because human beings are animals and merely part and parcel of the natural world. They further argue (Ward, & Siegert, 2002) that rape results from inherited brain operations, which ensure a human population’s favorable reproductive outcome. This all makes for compelling…

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    Patient Discharge Summary

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    MEDICAL CASES WITH VENTILATOR This initial approval is based on the anticipated stay in ward/ICU, drugs, and treatment planned. Payment in claims will be made based on submission of supportive documents, photos, complete treatment details and records as requested. Kindly send detailed discharge summary with number of days stay clearly mentioned (ventilator support, icu, general ward), all investigations, details of treatment given (administered drugs in detail with original pharmacy bills),…

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    Big Nurse Ratched Essay

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    How the Ward is run is a clear clue to Kesey's questions of sanity, one reason is the Big Nurse Ratched who is the unofficial controller of the ward. Over the years, she manipulates and twists the patients against one another in group meetings that give little to no help to improve any mental illnesses they have. Her own abuse to her prowess shines throughout the novel such as, by the denial of fun activities that can improve the patients. Kesey shows a large symbol of irony as well with Nurse…

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    patients in the ward, McMurphy preaches to them about the importance of sticking up for themselves against the other nurses, doctors, and even patients. The author uses a rabbit metaphor to illustrate the difference between the patients and the doctors. “All of us in here are rabbits” (Kesey, 61). In the ward, the patients are the rabbits and the doctors are the wolves. Wolves are powerful because the rabbits have accepted their role as the weaker animal. The patients in the ward have given…

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    Though it may seem that Randle McMurphy is alway the suave, collected, swindling man that he came into the ward as, it is evident throughout the book that Mr. McMurphy gradually changes into a man who cares about the well being of others by the end of the book. McMurphy entered the ward as a “‘gambling fool’” who’ll “‘trim [the other patients of the ward] like little lambs’” (Kesey 12). He’s a tough arrogant man who has no remorse for robbing the patients of their money and eventually cigarettes…

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    Unsung Heroes of Psychiatric Wards The cliche phrase ‘don 't judge a book by its cover’ has been around for generations. Who would have guessed that one of America’s most loved movie stars and sex icons, Marilyn Monroe, had depression and a form of schizophrenia? In One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey proves that people with mental illness should not be frowned upon because they do not fit in with the rest of the cookie-cutter society. Kesey uses a realist approach to make people…

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    Rather than cleansing himself in water, he was purified by entering the ward because he was stripped of his differences in the world and formed friendships with the patients that were deemed insane as he was. Around the second chapter, readers notice that Ellis is nailed to the wall in “ the same shape, arms out, palms cupped…

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    The Slaves War Summary

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    The Slaves’ War, is an excellent representation of the life African American slaves had before, during, and after the Civil War. Andrew Ward does a remarkable job of piecing together slave accounts of the wars bloodiest days. Throughout countless amounts of research and a collection of interviews, diary pages, letters, and memoirs the story of The Slaves’ War was possible. What is unique to The Slaves’ War, is that it is not only represented from a battlefield perspective like many Civil War…

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    perspective on the importance of sexual expression along with the power it has. The novel follows various men in a ward for the mentally ill as they are brutally suppressed by the evil head nurse, Nurse Ratched. Not only does she diminish the lives of the men on her ward, but she capitalizes on their weaknesses. As soon as a new patient, loud and confident Randle Patrick McMurphy, arrives on the ward, he begins to fight for the return of individuality.…

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