Combine

Combine is defined as a harvesting machine for cutting and threshing grain in the field. Although McMurphy is known to act out here and there, I still believe that he is just as vulnerable as the other patients, because he still follows the daily routine of the asylum. The combine hasn't necessarily gotten to McMurphy yet because he's different than the other patents. While the other patients live by the rules of the asylum, McMurphy tends to act out to get his way or to change the rules of the asylum.

I think that every institution, schools included, are combines because in every institution there are people who will have and every day routine while others will be spontaneous. I think that a school could definitely be considered a combine because while some students will follow an everyday routine and follow all the rules. In schools many students show what they do best in their classes while others will be affected by the combine.

Why so serious...

Its become pretty clear to many students in the school, that Framingham High is coming out with crazy rules. Some rules have truly been good for us students but some of the rules have absolutely done nothing. The three rules at this school that really get to my are the Ipod rule, 5 lates, and the cell phone policy. Im not sure why some of these rules have come to be so strict but they are. I like this school and for the most part I have never had a problem with any of my administrators, and I plan to keep it that way, but i do feel like some of the rules here have become a huge  problem for a lot of students.
The Ipod rules gets to me because last year if I was having a bad day i would put my ipod in to walk to my next class to somewhat calm me down. Music to a lot of people is used as a sort of therapy. I understand that we could not have them in class, and that is understandable but in the hallways ipods never seemed to be too much of a distraction. Cell phones on the other hand have been somewhat of a problem lately. If students were allowed to have there phones in the hallways I would imagine that not many phones would be taken away. The policy if our phones are taken away? 3 times youre phone must be picked up by a parent. 2 times and it stays over night. and 1 time you get it back at the eng of the day. I don't think that the school should be allowed to keep a students phone over night, they didn't buy the phone and they don't pay the bills for the phone so what gives them the right to keep it.
5 tardy rule and you get a saturday school. This rule is good for the specific reason of keeping us on time and if we arent on time we get punished. This is understandable but it is hard to be on time everyday. For the kids who are in school and are late thats another story, but for the kids like me who have to walk across the junior lot everymorning, its hard to be on time.
Framingham High school is no where near a mental asylum but they make rules that are unfair to students. I believe in rules and boudaries but most of the time rules and boundaries are broken.

Living hell

Mental illness and physical illness are different in some ways and the same in a few aspects. I have grown up watching my older brother deal with a mental illness. He is not physical unable to do things but getting him to keep a job, go to school, keeping friends and graduating has been a struggle for him his entire life. Mental illness definitely makes life hard, but there are medicines that can help make things better. Physical illness is in my opinion would make life harder because you are physically unable to do things. There may be surgeries to help but sometimes surgery goes wrong and can make things worse. Even today medicines and surgeries have side affects that can cause more problems than you were dealing with in the first place.

Mental illness and physical illness do have some similarities. Mental illness causes a lot of people to not be able to do things that other people might be able to do not problem, and the same thing goes for physical illness. Mental illness and physical illness have a lot of differences. To have a mental illness, you may be depressed, anxious, or manic. Manic is usually when the person has bi-polar disorder, they go through periods of being depressed, then happy. Mental illness comes in a lot of different forms and doses, where some people are not as bad as others. Physical illness usually causes mental illness. There has been many cases of physical illness leading to mental illness, usually in athletes because they become disabled and are not able to do the sport they love anymore, leading to depression.  Having either illness makes life extremely difficult. Doing ordinary everyday things is not easy to accomplish, and to accomplish it is rare. I have grown up watching my older brother deal with his mental illness and it has been hard on the whole family, because having a severe illness such as mental or physical illness effects everyone around you.

Movies

My top 10 favorite movies are: Monsters, The Notebook, Dear John, Elf, The Hangover, Monsters Inc, Poseidon, Never Back down, United 93, and Big Daddy.  I like all of these movies because there all very different. I like each of these movies based on who plays what roles and obviously what the plot of the movie is. Movies have become a big over the years, but in my opinion some movies are just awful.

Monsters was a movie that I have recently watched with one of my friends. We watched it because there was nothing on, but I'm glad we watched it because it was really good. I liked it because it was funny and scary all at the same time. I also like that the movie was about how humans turn into these gross looking creatures because of a disease that was going around. The Notebook  and Dear John are a completely different genre. I picked The Notebook and Dear John because they both are about relationships that any girl would kill for, Although the relationships are unrealistic, everyone dreams of having a relationship that stays strong and lasts forever. Elf is my all time favorite movie. Will Ferrel is hilarious, and one of my favorite actors. Elf is the type of movie that I could watch every night and never get sick of. Christmas time is my favorite time of the year and Elf is a happy movie that just makes Christmas ten times better. The Hangover is another movie that I could watch all the time and never get sick of. Sadly I can recite half of the lines in The Hangover. Monsters Inc is a childhood favorite. I haven't seen it in a while but its still a movie that is unforgettable to me because of Mike Wazowski. Poseidon is my all time favorite movie. It's adventurous and it has a realistic plot. Never Back Down is a movie about fighting. I love this movie because the main character wins a fight that he was expected to lose. United 93 is a really interesting movie. Its a movie based on the events that happened on one of the planes that was involved on 9/11.  Big Daddy is hilarious, Adam Sandler is another on of my favorite actors because of his movies and how funny he is. I like Big Daddy because of the way that he loves the kid he is taking care of but mostly because he treats him how he would treat any other adult.

Themes

This world has always had a sense of sexism. The 1950s played a huge role  in demonstrating that woman were inferior to men. As this may have been true in the 1950s, I still find that in todays world many men still think that woman are still inferior. Woman are equal to men in all aspects. Although some woman may not be able to do a certain job that men can do, men cannot do certain jobs that woman can do.

Nothing is meant to last forever. In Death Of a Salesman the porch is collapsing in. The significance of this is that the family is falling apart.  When things break you have to fix them, in this case Willy does nothing to help fix his family. The porch is old but it could be fixed. The family has fallen apart due to many things but mostly because Willy cannot fix it.  The porch is not the only thing that is falling apart. The other things signifies the little things in life that are also falling apart.

Time is something that no one should take for granted. For Willy, without having a clock to tell the time Willy is constantly stuck in the past. Without time the world would be an absolute disaster. There is only a limited amount of time in the day, so to take it for granted would be a bad decision.

Homework...

Willy tried to teach Biff and Happy that in order to succeed working hard is really the only option. Biff and Happy were taught that life is not easy so in order to be successful and go far in life, this is where hard work pays off.

I think that a father should definitely teach his sons these concepts. Every father wants to see their son succeed in life and find happiness. Although my father and brother don't have a great relationship i know that my father would do anything to help my brother succeed in life. I have grown up to know that a son and father have many tensions, well in my case at least, but the lessons have still been taught.

The inconsistencies tell us that Willy may have a problem with his memory, or he is a liar. I don't think that Willy means to contradict himself,  I truly think that we will find later on that he is sick. Lying is a problem that sadly a lot of people have.

Linda does not have any reaction to him. I think that Linda, like many woman, tried to help him but gave up because he is making no effort to change his ways. Linda seems like the typical wife that loves her family but is secretly broken apart by the lack of effort Willy makes towards having a good relationship with his son. Willy continues to bad mouth his son Biff and secretly this tears Linda apart.

Writers block

This week in class we watched a movie. The movies are always a good way to put an image in your head about what the scenery in the book looks like but this movie was a lot different. I think that most, if not everyone in the class probably thinks that they could have shot that movie just as well. The movie had zero special effects, but even when they tried to have special effects it caused the whole class to laugh. I guess we can give them an A for effort.

I'm really no movie expert but watching this movie I laughed more at the acting, effects , and scenery more than I did at the movie itself. When they attempted to show the letter A shooting across the sky, it looked like and aroura, or even the northern lights. The whole class, including Mr. Bresnick, laughed. From the beginning i expected just another corny movie they allow us to watch in school, this movie definitely reached a new level of corny.

School movies are usually pretty tough to watch. Most of the time kids in the class will fall asleep. I have to admit that I have been that person before. The Scarlet Letter kept me awake because It was funny to watch. It was said in class that it almost felt like we were watching a soap opera. That was the perfect way to describe this movie.