...Reign Over Me Evaluation Depression affects all people. Reign Over Me is a movie that deals with a character in a grave state of depression. In Charlie Fineman’s (Adam Sandler) case depression hits hard and leads to a major behavioral change. Fineman blocks out major parts of his life including his college roommate, Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle). After running into him on the street, it takes a while for this encounter to jog his memory of his best friend. We learn later that this depression is due the death of his three daughters and wife in a plane crash. The news devastates Fineman. He cannot function in society the same and loses purpose in life, as well as belief in himself. Instead of letting this distress out and working to recuperate, Fineman shuts everybody out and tries to hide from the truth. This can be a serious problem in today’s society. Many people are embarrassed or too hurt to try to move on and they let what happened dictate their individual future. In this film, directed by Mike Binder and produced by Jack Binder and Michael Rottenberg, the message of depression and its effects is relayed quite clearly. This movie relates to the real world very well; it also helps open up the eyes of many who do not understand what depression can do. Reign Over Me deals with a character who has the biggest part of his life taken from him in an instant. While others cannot tell how much Fineman is suffering by his actions, the loss of his family crushes him. Instead of...
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...Over-The-Counter Drug Abuse When most people think of drug abuse they associate it with illegal activities. They believe drug abuse only includes illegal substances and prescription medication. People feel since they are legal and easy to get, over the counter medications (OTC’s) are safe. When used as directed, OTC’s can be very effective and safe. However, excessive over use and abuse of (OTC’s) can be extremely dangerous and sometimes even deadly. The most oblivious danger of (OTC‘s) is their availability. The availability of OTC’s has made them the number one most abused drug in society today. Behaviors seen in drug abuse may include consumption of a medication for non-medical reasons, consuming dose amounts greater than directed, consuming excessive dosages or more frequently than directed as well as using a medication for longer periods of time than the label recommends. There are more than 100 million Americans who suffer from some form of chronic pain. With the bad economy and increasing healthcare cost today, so many Americans are using so many OTC medicines trying to save money. However, current use show over $180 billion is spent every year on OTC drugs in the US. Current trends show the most commonly abused OTC drugs are cough suppressants, cold/allergy medications, caffeine products, and nicotine replacements/smoking control medications. With more prescription drugs being made available in OTC form, the abuse of OTC drugs will only continue to...
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...E-Business : Voice over IP Faculty of Computer Science and Automatic Control Politehnica University of Bucharest 313 Splaiul Independenţei ROMANIA Abstract: - Electronic business, commonly referred to as "eBusiness" or "e-business", or an internet business, may be defined as the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) in support of all the activities of business. Commerce constitutes the exchange of products and services between businesses, groups and individuals and can be seen as one of the essential activities of any business. Electronic commerce focuses on the use of ICT to enable the external activities and relationships of the business with individuals, groups and other businesses. Electronic business methods enable companies to link their internal and external data processing systems more efficiently and flexibly, to work more closely with suppliers and partners, and to better satisfy the needs and expectations of their customers. Key-Words: - VoIP, gatekeeper, endpoint, gateway, softphone, asterisk 1 Introduction E-business involves business processes spanning the entire value chain: electronic purchasing and supply chain management, processing orders electronically, handling customer service, and cooperating with business partners. Special technical standards for e-business facilitate the exchange of data between companies. E-business software solutions allow the integration of intra and inter firm business processes. E-business...
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...Cynthia K. Nessmith Professor Shawana Stanford American Literature 2130 14 April 2013 Film adaptation of the American novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest novel was written by Ken Kesey in 1962. The film adaptation version was directed by Czech Milos Forman in 1975. My goal in this paper is not only to compare the film adaptation to the Novel but to also explain what I think the symbols represent, critic’s analysis, themes presented in this film, and the significance of the Novel. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest film’s setting begins with a police car driving down the road to people sleeping in bunk beds, ending with a glimpse of a drawing taped to the wall with a crazy face centered in it. A nurse enters a locked down facility, while another prepares medicine for the patients. The police car arrives at the facility with a prisoner in handcuffs that is released to the hospital staff. The characters in this film are as follows: Randall P. McMurphy played by Jack Nicholson, a rebellious convict with a loud mouth and a set of sexual playing cards. He’s courageous and challenges the staff/system of the mental hospital. Nurse Ratched played by Louise Fletcher is a calm, cold, well mannered, and soft spoken head nurse of the mental hospital that plays McMurphy’s enemy. Chief Bromdon played by Will Sampson is a big and tall Indian who is described as “deaf and dumb” (according to the character Billy). Billy Bibbit played by Brad Dourif is a young...
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...However, not all the rebellion in the book was in the form of challenging people. Much of the books rebellion was in the form of talking back to others. McMurphy was very good at sarcastic remarks to others. ¨’But you must understand: everyone… must follow the rules.’ . . . ‘ya know - that is the ex-act thing somebody always tells me about the rules. . . . just when they figure out I’m about to do the dead opposite’¨ (24). McMurphy uses these subtle remarks to challenge power, but not in an over empowering way. Telling Nurse Ratched upfront, that he won’t be following any rules, however he isn’t going to do anything right now. However, sometimes his remarks aren’t always actionless. When he rammed his hand through a glass window McMurphy...
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...Judith Guest’s novel, Ordinary People, and movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, directed by Milos Forman, both share a number of traits that correlate with one another . Such traits include vulnerability, perfection, and emotional imbalance. Both Ordinary People and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest captivate the emotions of the audience by addressing these three traits through a point of view, setting, and imagery. Since Ordinary People has two perspectives of a father and son, the point of view in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest focuses on Nurse Ratched’s confrontation with Billy. Furthermore, the vulnerability that Con develops after the death of his brother also applies to Billy when Nurse Ratched humiliated him in front of the other...
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...In the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest the mental hospital is very strict with lots of structure. This causes many thing to happen that doesn’t necessarily have to happen. It's almost as if the patients are antagonized to overreact at points in the movie. As a human being we should be able to make our own choices, therefor its important to be able to make your own choices to feel like you are an individual. Not to mention, I would think it would be improvement to have the patients working together as a team, but Nurse Ratched didn’t reward or even compliment them on working as a team. Instead she punished them. Working as a team is an key element of human behavior, because at this point your not just thinking about yourself but of others feelings too. These situations are all very unethical to me, I believe no matter what state you are in, mental or sane,...
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...The pivotal character of Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is filled to the brim with imagery surrounding Christ—his twelve disciples, his miracles, his crucifixion—to the point where it is nearly impossible to not make a connection with the biblical. As McMurphy first lay down upon the cross-shaped table of the Shock Shop, Kesey is telling his readers something, guiding us to deeper meaning within that imagery. Through the cruel Shock Shop and sacrificial symbolism, Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest declares McMurphy a Christ figure, furthering the idea that even in the most oppressive, depairing trenches of humanity, a little hope is all it takes to spark revolution. When we get our first glimpse of McMurphy, it...
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...writings. Each gender has, at some point, had to fight the repression brought upon by the other. Most examples involve men as the dominate force over women in a patriarchal society. Less than a hundred years have passed since women gained the right to vote in the United States and just a few years ago women in Saudi Arabia were finally allowed the same right. The theme of a “battle of the sexes” has been around in literature for hundreds, even thousands of years in works such as Shakespeare’s comedies to various mythology. In the novel One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken...
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...of and inside the asylum. Purgatory in Catholic doctrine is “a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven.” Thereby suggesting the fog occurs because Bromden is subconsciously repenting, and attempting to break into heaven, and away from Nurse Ratched’s totalitarian rule. Furthermore, Kesey’s delves deeper into the concept of Bromden’s psychosis, by questioning “But if they don’t exist how can a man see them?” Questioning his aforementioned vision, and God’s role within everyday life. As for many, the fact that God cannot be “seen” per se, is the reason that they fail to have any interest in religious enlightenment; this is a clear example of God’s decline in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and the inherent secularisation of postwar American literature. ...
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...One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey follows the life of men who have to live in the harsh environment of a mental institution. Although we are restricted to only the interior world of the ward, we do not meet any high level authority figure other than Nurse Ratched. Nurse Ratched is a very tyrannical individual whose goal is to maintain a harsh hierarchical structure which at the time that this novel was written, was fairly normal in mental hospitals. Nurse Ratched had many ways in obtaining the ideal order she desires. One of these is manipulation, which is seen in constant use throughout the novel. Under her tactics, the mental hospital transforms into a small world where anyone can be manipulated in order for people to get what...
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...In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, Randle McMurphy struggles to free himself under the dominating power of Nurse Ratched. The power struggle between the two demonstrates the need for free will. When McMurphy enters the halls of the mental ward in Oregon, he finds a group of men beaten into obedience by the head nurse of the ward. Nurse Ratched’s power over the patients extends beyond their actions into their minds. She controls their every second from where they have to be at eight o’clock in the morning to what their beliefs are. McMurphy disrupts this routine by openly disregarding the rules that Nurse Ratched placed. Throughout the novel, McMurphy continuously attempts to eliminate Nurse Ratched’s power in the ward. The first thing that McMurphy does when he is placed in the ward is to introduce himself to every patient. This unusual behavior allows McMurphy to gain the trust of the other men. McMurphy helps to unite the men and works to become the leader. Through this turn of events, readers see the power struggle between Nurse Ratched and McMurphy begin. Nurse Ratched retains her power by hiding her...
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...One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The book that my book club discussed was "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest." In the first book club meeting, we discussed the characters and our initial impressions of them. The start of the novel doesn’t really get that interesting till later on. The story is narrated through the story of Chief Bromden, who is in the insane asylum because he suffers from hallucinations and paranoia. At first I found the part in the book where Bromden first describes the fog machine hard to understand. There was no clear indication that Bromden is hallucinating but it’s up to the reader to figure it out themselves. Matt helped me understand the scene by explaining that Bromden believes that the people running the ward like Nurse Rached have a fog machine and that they turn it on in order to make the patients lose themselves, but really the fog machine is Bromdens own hallucinations. "Before noontime they're at the fog machine again but they haven't got it turned up full; it's not so thick but what I can see if I strain real hard. One of these days I'll quit straining and let myself go completely, lose myself in the fog the way some of the other chronics have." (Kesey 37) The main character of the book McMurphy arrives being a very charismatic individual with the other inmates, and even laughs, which Bromden describes as not seeing for years. "This sounds real. I realize all of a sudden it's the first real laugh I've heard in years. He stands looking at...
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...Ken Kesey's, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a work of literature containing the theme of freedom and mental instability in a setting that restricted one's true self expression to evolve, as many of the main characters learn to face society and its norms. Randle McMurphy, is introduced to an insane asylum where Chief is the longest-residing patient. McMurphy is larger than life, intelligent, and observant. He stirs up the ward immediately by introducing friendly competition, gambling, and as well as encouraging the men to rebel against the petty rules created and enforced by Nurse Ratched. Slowly, McMurphy undermines Nurse Ratched’s system of control while remaining Mr. Nice Guy but nurse Ratched knows a little more than anyone. What...
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...then the ‘60s and ‘70s belonged to Ken Kesey. Being a novelist in this time period, Kesey had close affiliations with the counterculture that dominated the decade. In its own way One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is the twentieth-century Romantic manifesto, a ululation for the death of the individual before this rebellion went out of style and individualism along with it. This book verbalized what many where thinking: that the truly crazy in the world were the ones who wanted power while the truly sane were the ones who sought to be individuals and rebelled against authority. Because of this pronounced effect on society the book was a major contributor to the backlash against the entire psychiatric system in the early 1960s. As a result, state institutions began reducing their resident numbers and granting admitted patients more rights within the institutions. In addition to this change in the system, the book also pushed the development of more effective anti-psychotic drugs, thus allowing more patients to be treated within their own homes and live normal lives. Yet for many health professionals the book also had a profound negative effect, consequently changing the overall...
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