Film Style

Birds clip is a narrative, its takes you into the story, first creating a setting, then going into dialogue. The style is from the 60s, you can see by the way the way the female lead wears her hair up and sprayed, and by the way her skirt is below the knees. The man also represents the sixties with his suit and his heavily gelled hair style. The room is made in a slightly older style, with wood.

Reader's Blog Two

I have read approximately one third of the novel. I picked up this book, because I was looking just for a good read. And that’s what it has been for me so far. I enjoy reading it on the train, tram, bus or at home.

The Kite runner is about a boy, Amir, who lives in Kabul, Afghanistan in the 70s. Afghanistan was different then, since it was before all the terrors started. Amir has an age similar servant, Hassan, who is also his best friend. Because of their differences statuses, they have an interesting relationship. Amir lives in a mansion, while Hassan lives in a small hut outside. Amir goes to school, while Hassan spends the day cleaning the house. But once Amir comes home, they unite in playing outside.

Reading Blog Post 1

I finished reading the preface, prologue and first chapter of H.G. Bissinger’s Friday Night Nights: A town, a team and a Dream. What made me want to read the Book was mainly due to the fact that I am a devoted watcher of the television series, which I fell in love with from the very first episode (though ever since the first season, which is the part based on the book, it hasn’t been as captivating). I also had seen the movie, which in several aspects is more faithful to the book (e.g. characters, town). Ironically enough, on the cover they chose to put pictures of the TV series characters that differ not only by name, but also by number and personality. Another reason that made me want to read this book, is simply that it is a football book. Having read John Grisham’s Playing for Pizza, I knew that that genre was very appealing to me.

Usually when reading a book, saying one has read the preface, prologue and first chapter will not reveal that much of what the book is about. These 42 pages set the tone for what is to come later. In the preface, Bissinger tells his story of how he was inspired to write the book, how he chose Odessa, and his stay there, which was very interesting. The prologue does the job that a first chapter would usually do. It introduces you to the town and their attitude towards high school football and the main characters and their traits. It does so by taking the reader through the thrills and spills of one of the games on Friday night. The first chapter is an introduction to the town Odessa, home of the Permian Panthers. It first gives its historical background: how Odessa is an oil town, how it goes through highs and lows ― quite a depressing town. Bissinger then goes on to explain the importance of Permian High School football. In Odessa, Panther football doesn’t only bring almost the whole town together on Friday night, it keeps it alive.

An Article on Psychiatric History

In the middle if the 20th century, a new emphasis on mental illness arose. Before then, psychiatric treatment was not that much regarded, yet it still existed. Nevertheless, in the mid 1900s the field grew tremendously. The numbers of hospitalized mentally ill people in Europe and America peaked. In England and Wales, there were 7,000 patients in 1850, 120,000 in 1930, and nearly 150,000 in 1954 it then peaks at 560,000 in 1955. Several new institutes arose, and so did new treatment methods. In the United States, the number In the U.S. passage of the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act provided the first federal money for developing a network of community-based mental health services. Advocates for deinstitutionalization believed that people with mental illness would voluntarily seek out treatment at these facilities if they need it, although in practice this will not always be the case. 

A new type of therapy, called behavior therapy, is developed, which holds that people with phobias can be trained to overcome them. However the worst new treatments were Electroconvulsive therapy (ECD), and lobotomies. ECD was the giving of electric seizures for therapeutic purposes. But Lobotomies were even worse: a Lobotomy a surgical procedure in which some connections of the brain are cut. These new methods were very radical (not to mention inefficient) and hence extremely controversial. Many argued that these institutions led to no results, that it even may cause further damage the patients.

Now the psychiatric world has changed. Most of the radical treatments have stopped being used by the majority of the asylums. Now, a new generation of anti-psychotic drugs has been introduced. These drugs prove to be more effective in treating schizophrenia and have fewer side effects. Yet a survey of American jails reports that 7.2 percent of inmates are overtly and seriously mentally ill, meaning that 100,000 seriously mentally ill people have been incarcerated. Over a quarter of them are held without charges, often awaiting a bed in a psychiatric hospital. In conclusion, the methods for treating mental illness have evolved from the experimental times of the mid 1900s, yet the demand for treatment has remained the same.

Reflections on the movie one flew over the cuckoo's nest with respect to the book

The movie opens up with an image of a mountain; not mentioned in the book.

Next, there are several shots of the patients sleeping;also not mentioned in the book.

After, nurse Ratched walks into the hallway of the institute, where whe is greeted by evryone: the black boys, the other nurses.

Then, the patients come by to take their medication

The Stuffed Animal

On the desk in front of me sits a toy stuffed lion. It is approximately 27 cm long, is approximately 15 cm tall and has an approximate mass of 200g. Like most stuffed animals, this one is stuffed with cotton, to give it the “cuddly” feature. This lion has light beige fur, with light brown main. It has a light pink nose, and a white snout with white whiskers. Its dark brown eyes are the key feature to give the toy its “cute” effect. It has a beige tail with a main colored furry end. On first glance, this is just a toy that was made for the sole purpose for kids to play with. However, that is not the case a stuffed animal has many functions for example this one is being used for a descriptive writing exercise.

Wit's End Thesis

Daisy Fried uses Imagery and sensory details in her poem "Wit's End" to emotionally take us through what a father and his daughter are going through.

How Elements of Humor are utilized in Chapter 4 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams contains a lot of humor. To the normal reader, its”funniness” is all the same. However to the critical reader, one can see all the various strategies that Douglas Adams uses:

 

Understatement.


Caricature-Cops


Reversal-Mice


Slapstick


Ridicule


Sarcasm