In the recent viewing of “Lost in Laconia”, there was a remarked change in the treatment of patients with more than just a duty to keep them alive. The change was accounted to a newly appointed superintendent, Richard Hungerford in 1952. A position previously held by clinically detached doctors, this ‘lowly’ teacher became the harbinger of involvement; encouraging parents of residents to visit, document and organize for the reform of the facility. “Help Wanted” advertisements sponsored by the newly formed well-meaning New Hampshire Council for Retarded Children, were shown to various charities and organizations, showing their current state and desperation from lack. On the part of the council it seemed innocuous, showing why they needed the
As you are aware Barry Staley residing at McLees, ICF CCNS-Services for people with Developmental Disability 112-16, 200 Street, St. Albans, NY 11412, has been transferred to Silver Crest Nursing Home, a Long Term Rehabilitation Nursing Facility. As of 10/24/14 Barry is now residing at the Silver Crest Nursing Long Term Facility located at 144-45 87th Avenue Jamaica, New York 11435. Prior to this move Barry was admitted from (name Hospital) from (date) to (date) receiving treatment for (condition). During hospital stay a discharge meeting was held. Subsequently he was moved to a nursing home.
March 4,1922, Natasha Greenberg is a patient at New Hampshire Correctional Mental Institute. Natasha went for a walk around the perimeter of the building. She was to return in approximately fifteen minutes, she did not. NHCMI sent guards to look for her and found nothing. It was recorded that another patient left his cell ten minutes afterwards, the patient’s name is Edmund Sylvestire, but he returned at the correct time to the correct place.
I read, T4 by Ann Clare Lezotte, which is about her life as a Jewish, deaf girl who lived in Germany. This was the time period when Adolf Hitler ruled their country, which means they didn’t like Jewish people. In the book, she had said, “when my mother was pregnant with me, she was exposed to Rubella, or German Measles, a common cause of hearing loss in infancy” (Lezotte, 3). I’ve never had hearing loss or anything like that but I did have failure to thrive and a sensory disorder when I was younger, which impacted my life a lot.
Passing is a novel created by Nella Larsen to create a noticeable resemblance of the past and the present. Within the novel, one can see the distinct differences and similarities of being an African-American in America then and now. Nella Larsen intended to show readers how African-Americans had to, and in some cases still have to, deny their own nationality and ethnicity to appeal to those of whites in America. Passing is the act of portraying oneself as a different ethnicity and completely taking on a new life role. Nella Larsen mentions how the two characters in the story, Irene and Clare, were passing as Caucasian women even though they were African-American.
In the book “Asylum” by Madeleine Roux I believe that the author foreshadowed that Dan, the protagonist, was connected to the asylum. One of the reasons I think this because many things had happened to Dan that hadn’t to anyone else at the summer program. One example was when one of the old workers who tortured people was named Daniel Crawford, the same name as the Dan that went to the summer camp. I think the author did this so it could leave Dan and the reader with many questions. “Hey so it turns out that there was this warden behind all of this horrible stuff here, and oh, guess what, we have the same name.”
We see throughout Elyn Saks journey the challenges she faces. “The Center Cannot Hold” gives a prime example of how a mental illness can affect someone and make a person face hurdles throughout their lifetime. “The Center Cannot Hold” describes how mental illness was seen through the early 60’s and 70’s; showcasing the different precautions taken to approach on the subject of mental illness. Elyn Saks gives a vivid detail into the accounts of how mental illness is look upon but also how it affects an individual
so she began to scream and run away.(“Steinbeck…”) George made Lennie hide with him in an irrigation ditch so they would not be caught by the authorities.(“Steinbeck…”) Back during the Great Depression people with mental disabilities were hard to take care of and many people did not know how to treat people with it. Nowadays people with mental disabilities are implemented more heavily into normal society. There are special psychiatric facilities for people with very extreme mental disabilities.
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. Robert Henri, Artist Little Gasparilla Island, a barrier island on the southwest on Florida’s gulf coast, is a dynamic place to refresh and meditate. This place is about 3 miles of Old Florida. Nothing is fast on Little Gasparilla.
Joan Didion’s “Los Angeles Notebook” is an essay that highlights the deeply mechanistic view of human behavior by using images that are both enticing, yet horrifying at the same time. Her audience is broader than the people of Los Angles, who she discusses in articulate detail. Being that her audience is generally aimed at people who are concerned about humanity and the way people operate together in certain scenarios. There is an eerie sense to this piece, as the subject is the hot winds known as foehn by scientists, but otherwise known as a “Santa Ana” by the people of the region. Didion claims that, in the simplest terms, “to live with the Santa Ana is to accept, consciously or unconsciously, a deeply mechanistic view of human behavior,”
The Strength of One’s Love for Their Family Legend, by Marie Lu is about two teenagers, June and Day. Both of their motives to fight harder, love longer, and remember more deeply, are driven from the paramount love they have for their families. June is determined to seek justice for her murdered brother, Metias, and Day is focused on giving his family a better life than his own. The major themes and personalities of the book are best portrayed in chapter 4 In this chapter, June’s relentless desire to get revenge for her brother’s murder is introduced through Metias’ death.
In “Lanval” by Marie de France, Lanval is a hero, though parts of his journey are sometimes hard to identify as herioc. Lanval’s story follows the basic elements of the monomyth, or Hero’s Journey, when read closely. He begins his journey in a vaguely unsatisfying ordinary world where he is unappreciated and where “he could see nothing that pleased him” (52). Leaving that world, he enters into the world of Queen Semiramis, wherein he is not only beloved of the Queen but assured that “he would never again want anything / he would receive as he desired” (135-36). When Lanval is challenged by his Lady “if this love were known / you would never see me again”, he accepts his quest readily (148-49).
Critical Book Review: The Lightkeeper’s Daughter We are oysters, concealing our tender insides with hard shells. (Lain Lawrence, 2002, P81) The Lightkepper’s Daughter is hitherto the most interesting modern fiction in the recorded history. It is written by Lain Lawrence in 2002.
Today was a big day for me, probably one of the most important, also concluding that it was the first time I had arrived in New France. At 7:30 a.m., us passengers were let of this grand ship that took us all the way from France to New France! Even though it had taken me more than 3 months, I was glad to start a new life in this new territory. As we got of the ship, I immediately smelled fresh air that I haven’t in a long time. I recall my mom saying “good luck with your new journey!”
Russian writer, Vladimir Nabokov, wrote only a few novels in the English language. His most renowned novel, Lolita, was one of the few originally written in English. However due to the books controversial storyline it was first published in France only to be allowed in the United States years later. The novel’s subject matter is grotesque yet the delivery of it is impeccable.
conforms to and frustrates what we traditionally expect from the genre. Poe shaped the genre of detective fiction - although he preferred to call them “tales of ratiocination” - after introducing Detective C. Auguste Dupin. Dupin analyses unsolved mysteries and uses his advanced cognitive ability to deduce information to solve cases; thus, a new genre was born. To describe how Poe’s short stories both comply with the general expectations of detective fiction and how they defy them, I plan to examine The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter.