Blogging Notes

Blogging Notes

1. Personal liberation in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest seems to involve overcoming yourself and figuring out who you really are.
2. Ratched is often viewed as something bda that is out of ordinary in a not so good way. Nurse Ratched is viewed the same in the novel. Her name is pretty ironic.
3. Women were making a name for themselves in this time period and it showed.
4. There are a lot of hints at racism, but it’s not full blown or anything like that.
5. He’s like the leader in the book, just like Christ is a leader in life. He also talks about a crown of thorn, which Jesus had. Comparing himself in a subtle way?
6. The patients in the mental hospital rebel against Nurse Ratched, the lady in charge, much like Americans were rebelling against the laws and regulations.
7. It gives insight to what his character is like. The parallels is that both communism and liberalism need to end and people just need to live in unity.
8. Chief Broom has a lot of conlictions as a narrator. His mind is kind of scattered, but I guess overall he would be reliable. Indian plays into his name and character. He thinks the combine will save everyone.
9. Both have to deal with thoughts and the mind and how it works.
10. Hippies used a lot of drugs that were involved with the book and none of them seemed to be concerned about the effects that the drugs would have  on their bodies.
11. It can be used as like, a motivational took on how to break free from society.
13. The patients all try to have a democracy and have a voice, but they’re completely shut down by Nurse Ratched.
14. Chaos interferes and stops a lot from happening.
15. It shows that his character is willing to take chances.
16. A machine.
17. Liberation is portrayed when Nurse Ratched doesn’t think the patients are ready to leave the ward, but they do anyway. They’re rebelling against her.
18. When his character appears to be kind of out of it.
19. It was a theme because it went from never happening at all to happening a whole bunch, so it shows change.
20. “The loonies” take the time to think about everything, and analyze things in a way that “sane” people don’t take the time to do, and on a level that we wouldn’t even comprehend. I think insanity is the only response, because if something is out of the ordinary, it’s marked as crazy. Labeling came immediately without justification or explanation. It was all ridiculous.
21. I think to best reform society, you have to understand it and how it works first.
22. Imagery, similes, hyperboles, and metaphors are all very popular throughout the novel. It really enables the reader to go more in-depth with the whole story. 

Research page 110

From bar owners to men of the house, a lot of people opposed women's suffrage for several reasons. Bar owners were in fear that if women had a voice they would put them out of business by moving to get rid of alcohol. Others believed that if women had a voice then all domesticated happenings would disintegrate. Women wouldn't play the same role as they did before and nobody wanted to chance that.

It was after World War I that people really started pushing for the movement. People believe that women should have the right to vote and put in their two cents, so to speak. January of the year 1918 brought that movement. Soon after President Wilson announced his support, states began allowing women's suffrage.


http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=39

Citizens Book pg. 102

1. Research the relationship between Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment. 


Emancipation Proclamation was a military measure taken by President at the time Abraham Lincoln that freed all slaves.The Thirteenth Amendment was the amendment to the United States Constitution that outlawed slavery all together. The relationship between the two is that they both have freed slaves and were government enforced.
  
Both the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment had to do with the freedom of slaves and were both introduced and enforced by some type of official government. The difference would be that the amendment was more concrete than the EP. It stated that slavery was abolished; it no longer could be practiced under any circumstance. Alas, both are still equally important to history. 

Citizens Book pg. 95

1. Research what happened to the Cherokees who were removed from their land.

The government, led by President Andrew Jackson, forcably removed the Cherokee Indians from their homelands because of the resources that were found on said lands. Some Cherokee's went willingly, and others decided to try and fight for their land. The Cherokee didn't end up winning that fight and were forced out of their territory to go on the Trail of Tears (which over 4,000 Cherokee died on) to Oklahoma.


Source: http://www.teachushistory.org/indian-removal/approaches/what-happened-along-trail-tears

For Research #3

How are amendments ratified? 

Article V of the US Constitution gives government the right to ratify any amendment (or change) in the constitution. A two-thirds majority vote in the House and in the Senate, or even by a constitutional convention has to come up with a majority vote to the change in constitution. Legislation has to pass an act for the amendment to be considered. The President has no say. However, the proposition is only the beginning of the process.

An amendment becomes part of the Consitituion if and only if it is ratified by a three-fourths vote. After that, and probably months of publicity and getting used to, the proposed amendment is now an actual change in the Constitution, and life continues.

Sources: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/pubs/ss/ssconamd.htm

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. <http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution/>

For Research 2

How could slaves become free in ancient Rome? 

The difference between here and there, here being America and there being ancient Rome, is that slavery was gone about a different way. In Ancient Rome, slavery was harsh, yes, but the slaves there knew they had a potential to be free. In America, it wasn't often that a slave was just let go. In Ancient Rome, they had that opportunity.

Ancient Roman times gave slaves the opportunity to eventually not be slaves anymore. They could buy there way out of slavery, (however that may happen seeing as they're slaves, where would they get the income from?) or maybe their masters would find it deep in their hearts to let them go after the work they needed done was done. However, that might be more punishment in itself. How would a slave survive not knowing what it's like to be free? As a slave they got shelter, food and water. They would have to find a way to survive on their own.

Source: Manumission, Slaves, and Freemen (pbs.org)