The Awakenings: The Summer That Lasted A Lifetime

She enjoys helping those people whose illnesses come from the mind and not the body. The nervous system mystically communicates withholding what could go wrong. She gives an example of how she met Pauline, who had spent 12 years in and out of the hospital with seizures of convulsion (O'Sullivan, S. 2017). When she examined her, she realized that she had no epilepsy nor any heart disease. However, the brainwave looked healthy while she was unconscious showing that the loss of consciousness was as a result of something psychological and not physical brain disease. Pauline thought that she was a suspect of faking illness, but Suzanne assured her that she knew her seizures were real and no one can fake unconsciousness. Pauline had a dissociative seizure which originated from subconscious rather than being due to brain disease. Conscious mind loses awareness of what is happening around causing unconscious or convulsions. She advised her to see a psychiatrist who could assist in the case. Many people in the community suffer due to the same reason but end up being treated based on symptoms and not what actually is causing the symptoms. If only all doctors could focus on diagnosis of the disease causing the diseases and not jumping into conclusions, seizures could be curable with the help of

The Great Awakening of the 1730s significantly altered the social structure of early Americal colonial society. The laity’s internal subjectivity and passional experiences were validated in regards to religious sentiments. This novel type of engagement of the laity is significant, as previously voiceless social and racial classes were given the authority to proclaim and propagate their interpretations of biblical scripture. The New Lights’ emphasis on the transformative power of the Holy Spirit severed social norms and exalted and justified the personal experiences of commoners against that of the old order. Moreover, the revivals challenged the prevailing social and religious elite by questioning the sincerity of their religious convictions. The conservative religious rationalism was challenged by a novel and enthusiastic expression of faith characterized by personal experience and individual sensory experience. The New Lights, or the revivalist leaders, deplored the abundance of inequality between rich landowners in relation to poor and indebted frontier farmers. I interpret the revival as an intellectual severance from the old order, or the Old Light’s doctrine’s of salvation. Jonathan Edwards, the revival’s prominent contributor, launched an attack against the rationalism and conservatism of the old religious order and emphasized a New Birth, characterized by passional and experiential conversion. My analysis of the Great Awakening brings forth evidence that the New

There are always losses to each pleasant situation and unfortunately in the 1990 film directed by Penny Marshall, Awakenings, this theme appears throughout. In a chronically ill hospital where Dr. Malcolm Sayer is recruited with little to no experience with people, he works with multiple patients that are in a sleep-like state including Mr. Leonard Lowe. Set in the late sixties, there were not many medical advances that already existed to help these patients but Dr. Sayer makes unheard-of discoveries. Many awakenings occur in this film, but with these renewals comes gains and losses. Dr. Sayer, the staff, and the patients inhabited in this Brooklyn hospital gain and lose different things with their explorations.

Each time the patients heard the Nurse walking, it struct fear within them. It is shown throughout the book multiple times that once the Nurse’s control is lowered, the patients become a different person entirely.

After the electroshock, they become un stable and are kept their forever. Bromden also known as Chief Bromden, his character from the novel explains how patients are tried at the asylum. The head Nurse Ratched who has a fixed environment for all patients depending on how they are characterized by their psychotic disorder and then they are categorized by Acute and Chronic. Acute patients have the chance to get better whereas the chronic patient doesn’t have any chance to get better as the author reveals how Chief Bromden who has suffered several years of being dehumanized. He has created a make belief world in the asylum as the staff being machines created by the evil Nurse Ratched and her controlled government in the Asylum.

similar to the movie, “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. In my mind I had pictured patients

“Simple recipes” by Madeleine Thien, and “The Closing Down of Summer” by Allister MacLeod both focus on the struggles the characters undergo due to cultural gaps, or being away from home from work, creating the sense of isolation or alienation within their families. The impression of isolation found in the text is generated from the situational behaviours found in the actions, thoughts, or exchange of language in the characters. For Macleod focuses on how his protagonist uses ancestral rituals to find individual fulfillment on the account of his work occupation deteriorating his connection with family. Whereas Thiens story demonstrates how the uses of ritualistic behaviour has created a tension between the different social identities of oriental

The Healing Hospital paradigm is a new aspect that many hospitals are now taking into consideration, although modern medicine has many branches which in most cases have based their principles on scientific medical attention that involved the use of drugs to achieve the desired effects needed for a patient’s revival or progress health wise. However with the inclusion of the healing paradigm, most hospitals are seeing a positive increase in patient response to treatment and faster recovery time. Healing as the Oxford English Dictionary states, is the process of making or becoming sound or healthy again

Kids can be  cruel when they are envious as shown in the short story, “All Summer In A Day,” by Ray Bradbury. The sun is what makes Margot happy, and when that gets taken away from her. In this short story there is several acts of cruelty to Margot by her classmates. These kids live in the planet of Venus, and they haven’t seen the sun in seven years, except for Margot. The kids are only nine years old so they haven’t seen the sun since they were two years old, but Margot moved there from Earth when she was four and she remembers the sun and that makes the other kids envious. In the beginning of the story it is the day that the sun is supposed to come out for the first time in seven years! The kids were skeptical except for Margot because she wanted to see it so bad. The kids were starting to prepare for the sun to come out but they were sitting inside waiting. While they were waiting the kids decided to lock Margot in a closet and not let her out. When the sun came out all the kids ran outside to play in the sun that felt so warm and nice on their skin, except for Margot, who was sitting inside in the dark closet. When the kids came back inside they felt sorry for leaving Margot in there. Envy can lead people to commit awful acts and cause shame as demonstrated throughout the character's actions in, “All Summer In A Day.”

In the novel, the patients’ bodies become objects of the Big Nurse who arranges their bodies in order to fulfill her own willing. She treats the patients like prisoners. She uses a series of disciplinary power to arrange the patients’ bodies. Observation is an important way to the Big Nurse and she uses hierarchical observation to control patients’ space strictly. In order to control the patients effectively, the Big Nurse divides the patients into two different ranks: the Acutes and the Chronics. The patients in different ranks are not allowed to communicate with each other. Under this condition, the patients are isolated from one another and they are spied since they wake up every morning. According to the Chief, “When I open my eyes she ‘s down the hall about to turn into the glass Nurses’ Station where she’ll spend the day sitting at her desk and looking out her window and making notes on what goes on out in front of her in the day room during the next eight hours”(Kesey 7). There is only limited space in the ward that they can move under the eyes of the Big Nurse. Just like the watchtower, the Big Nurse works in a ward in which there is a glass case used to watch the whole

You see Nurse Rempel is a firm believer, so as to patients in a coma, fascinated with the scenario of lying in a hospital bed, unable to speak or even move a muscle, hearing people talking and discussing your very fate, how fear provoking it must be, she thinks. Not able to respond, what a horrid thought for sure. Being interested in the possibilities, it is for reasons guaranteed to shiver your spine that she discusses with her patients the magnificence of nature keeping them in touch with reality.

There are people in the world who are willing to fight and give their all to be able to soar like a free eagle. Julia Alvarez developed her theme of freedom in her narrative “My First Free Summer”

    The Awakening, written by Kate Chopin, is full of ideas and understanding about human nature. In Chopin's time, writing a story with such great attention to sensual details in both men and women caused skepticism among readers and critics. However, many critics have different views with deeper thought given to The Awakening. Symbolism, the interpretation of Edna's suicide, and awakenings play important roles in the analysis of all critics.

Receiving treatment within a hospital setting can be scary for anyone, especially if you have an undiagnosed issue, or have to remain under residential hospital care. The environment, the smell, the strange faces and medications, all contribute to the experience. As an adult, we have a lot more ability to comprehend the on-goings on hospital procedures. But, for a moment, imagine you were a young child, or even a youthful teenager who may not fully grasp things that may be happening to their bodies or mental abilities during their stay at the hospital. Now, not only are you faced with the presenting problem that brought you to the hospital, but you also have additional stress, nervousness, and fears that may present. For this reason, it is extremely important to focus on all aspects of an individual’s well being. This includes their mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual care, otherwise known as the bio-psycho-social perspective in Social Work.

The film Awakenings is an emotional film that tells the story of a doctor, named Dr. Malcolm Sayer played by Robin Williams, who starts work at a chronic hospital in the Bronx during the late 1960’s. As he examines patients at the hospital though he comes to observe a good many of them are experiencing the same symptoms of a being in a catatonic and unresponsive state yet still having the ability to react to certain stimuli. One patient in particular, named Leonard Lowe played by Robert De Niro, catches Sayer’s attention and he decides to administer a new drug known as L-Dopa in hopes of saving him from his coma-like state. The drugs works and soon all of the once statuesque patients are reanimated, but only for a short time, and sadly soon Leonard and the rest of his fellow patients regress to their original catatonic state. However, although this films proves to be deeply emotional with an extremely touching story many concepts that relate to psychology are also present within it as well. Some concepts present within the film Awakenings are that of the principle of ethics, the frustration-aggression theory, conformity, and also the idea of empathy-altruism.