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.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
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.
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.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
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.
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.
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