The Great Barrier Coral reefs

The great barrier reefs on the coast of Australia are going to be freed of the leaking oil tanker. About 950 tonnes of oil were pumped onto another ship and could be saved, however on board are still 65'000 tonnes of coal that the Chinese boat wanted to transport. "Shen Neng 1", the name of the oil tanker, drove onto the protected coral reefs full force where 4 tonnes of oil escaped the 230 meter long tanker. Environmentally oriented NGO's are scared that the lost oil will destroy a great part of the habitat and that it will leave a constant effect.
The Minister president of Queensland, Australia, demands that the penalty for oil catastrophes of ships are raised from 1.75 million to 10 million Australian dollars.

Beginning of Movie and Book of 'one flew over the cuckoo's nest'

The book and the movie begin fairly different, the movie begins with a
driving car in the desert. It then goes on to the 'medication time' of
the hospital. In the book a normal day in the ward opens the book and
Bromden when he is pushed around by the aids. Mc Murphy only arrives
after a while as in the movie he is seen after about three minutes in
to the movie. The point of view of the book is in the view of Indian
Chief Bromden while the movie is not. Also in the book the patients are
introduced during the medication time but in the movie the patients are
just seen but not introduced. The beginning of the movie is fairly
different than the beginning of the book.

Mental Health Article

The definition of mental health is psychological well-being and satisfactory adjustment to society and the ordinary demands of life. However, it also can be the field of medicine concerned with the maintenance of a person’s overall emotional and psychological condition. Hospitals and institutions working with the mentally handicapped have the obligation to heal their patients and re-engage them in society and to keep them safe, or keep society safe from them. How does being around hundreds of insane people help treat mental illness and how what does it mean to be mentally ill?

Darwin did not think highly of giving mental treatment to the hopelessly sick, even if care for the weak can strengthen the community, he thinks it is against his theory of survival of the fittest and that it can also weaken the community. In the mid 19th century Insane Asylums were developed to cure the mentally ill however most of the idiots and lunatics were never considered treatable so they were being hold in the facilities for control, to keep society safe. The state pays for these asylums however the patients are there for free and under poor conditions these patients aren’t able to recover so the asylums are very expensive for the state. Especially insane is that the incurable are held for most of their lifetime, so they cost probably about three times as much as a person that has a short curable visit to the Institution. In 1908 they opened an observation hospital in England that treated the people that thought they might go insane, so they aren’t treating the mentally ill but the people that might only go there because they are at a low point in their life. In 1909 one person in hundred and eighteen is mentally defective so either, idiotic insane or feeble-minded. In Nottinghamshire in 1910 they opened the first psychiatric center, called Criminal Lunatic Asylum, which was for the mentally insane considered dangerous. During around the same time in the Winston Churchill home secretary there was a strong supporter of sterilization, he proposed that about 100’000 moral degenerates are to be sterilized by force so there are less insane people. However his proposal was kept secret until 1992. Wars are a great source of physically wounded and mentally handicapped so in 1915 the government wanted the asylums to treat soldiers too, so they estimated about 56’000 beds for the sick and wounded soldiers. The mental health institutions were becoming stuffed, they have developed so many reasons that there were too many in the asylums, by 1950 there were up to five insane patients per room. So hard to heal patients by these low hospital standards; for example the Fulbourn Mental Health Hospital built 1858 that lacked funds, physical neglect and low morale. Additions to the slow progress of patients are the lobotomies, which are a treatment in which some connections in the brain between the frontal lobes and the prefrontal cortex. This method is unfavorable because psychotic treatments have proven to be more successful. Another critically viewed treatment is the electroshock therapy in which the anesthetized patient’s brain is electrocuted through controlled electroshocks. This way of healing is also criticized however it is supposed to induce therapeutic effects; however patients are to feel weary and disoriented. One of the best treatments however is institutionalization where a patient is placed in a privately owned institution where he fits in and introducing them back into society. This method seems most realistic because the big difference in the mentally challenged is that they do not fit into the society’s norm, by reintroducing them to society this problem is solved.

I believe mental health care has improved a lot since the eighteenth century however lots of improvements are still to be made.

The Lion "king"

If the Lion is the King of the Animals, and considering humans as animals, we are inferior to the lion. The lion is a deadly hunter and a strong fighter, very similar to us humans. We produce little stuffed lions for children to play and help them sleep. Why do we let this majestic animal look so helpless and soft? Is it to suggest that we do not need to respect it, as we do to most nature? Also lions are a more and more endangered species because we are enclosing there habitat and butchering their foods. The king of animals as a little stuffed animal, ironic not? Even if it does not have any direct relation to how humanity treats nature, it clearly shows how little value is still given to a term like king of animals. With its poor black eyes the stuffed animal lion stares at me with a dead empty glare that remembers me that we lack respect of the Environment.

Fake Poem

Half of the lines are true and half are a lie.

Born someday in 1991
Making music is fun
Ready to take over the world
Break dance is cool with the girls

Oblige to always tell the truth
Archery was part of my youth
School puts on my angry glasses
Only because I'm failing classes
I am Gilles

How does chapter 6 demonstrate Adam's melding conventions of science fiction and absurdist comedy?

The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, a radio screen play by Douglas Adams in the eighties. The book is a science fictional comedy. Which conventions of science fiction makes this a science fictional comedy?
The scenes are set in fantastical settings like spaceships, unknown planets or somewhere throughout time. The setting provides a background to the absurd scenes. Also characters and language are dominated over the plot line because the situational comedy can be easily used. For example special characters like computers with feelings, funny voices like mice speaking, and confusion of stereotypes. A great weight is also on the technology aspect, where Douglas Adams brings in devices like time machines, spaceships, travels across the universe, ray guns and Aliens. Arthur is also saved out of his own time by time traveling spaceship. Flexible time is another convention of science fiction. Mostly these are male dominated, Ford, Arthur, Marvin and Zaphod all main characters and there is only on female Trillian. These conventions are tools to create an absurd science fictional comedy.