Will Keith Kellogg's Life

As I was watching the episode I had this intense feeling of compassion for the inmates. There was a sense of frustration that I felt I shared with them. Their feeling of helplessness came through in the episode, you can feel their desire for a better life. However, their hands seemed to be tied useless in the prison’s system. When the inmates went to the Oakwood psychiatric hospital, they appeared to succeed with their battle of their disease. They enjoyed their quality of life better in the hospital than in the prison. It was quite frustrating to watch them have to return to the prison because of the lack of space or what not at the hospital. My personal desire to assist was intensified when watching the patients request to stay at the hospital and not return to prison.

On page 11 his boss says, “what’s the matter? You barricade yourself in your room, answer only ‘yes’ and ‘no,’ cause your parents serious, unnecessary worry, and you neglect – I mention this only in passing – your duties to the firm in a really shocking manner.” Showing us what his life consists of every day even when he is in a serious ill condition. His boss tells him that he is causing his parents

In the article, “The Homeless Brother I Cannot Save”, by the author Ashley Womble in the Anthology, Reading and Writing for the 21st Century First edition, accessed on October of 2017, Ashley Womble who is the author and character in the article, tells her story based on her personal life and point of view. The author does an exceptional job in illustrating the communications barriers she deals with regarding her brother Jay, who has a mental illness with schizophrenic symptoms, and his rapid progression of the disease. The story takes place in the streets of New York in the year 2009, which introduces Jay and his actions regarding his diagnosed mental illness, that is later explained to readers that he leaves to become homeless avoiding his mental health distortion and personally letting it progress. Womble effectively demonstrates the difficulty of accepting her brother's health decline and not being able to aid or convince him to seek medical attention and for her brother's sudden disappearance. Although Ashley is not diagnosed physically with a mental disorder, she shows similarities of minor mental illness symptoms as she constantly wonders her thoughts and actions regarding her brothers well being and state of mind. Jay who is twenty is a legal adult of his own health decision making and which he refuses treatment and runs away. For Ashley, it pushed her even more insane to witness and accept her brother decline in compression, due to the lack of medical attention. Womble efficaciously does well on demonstrating her own mental well being, and her brothers own difficulty in society and being homeless and how it changed her life seeing her brother like that. Womble quotes “ But the more I pushed him to get help, the more my own sanity escaped me (91).

The adolescent and young adult stages in a person’s life are impressionable years, which is clearly demonstrated by Willa Cather’s ability to so vividly recall the details of rural Nebraska, despite only living there from the ages of nine to sixteen. However, in those seven short years, young Wilella - her birth name - met many questionable “mentors” who held great significance and responsibility in the life choices she pursues. The first of these shady characters in need of assessment is a man by the name of William Ducker.

“Now the position of a social worker in an asylum can be precarious. This does not look good for me or for you, does it?” (p23)

What historical forces have contributed to the situation of Tom and his family, and how do you, as the social worker see yourself implicated in this historical overview.

For J. N.’s occupation of work, she was employed at Pennsylvania Water & Gas Company. She was employed there for many years, and expressed that when she began working there, it was only called the Pennsylvania Water Company, because they had not yet bought out the gas company. J.N. is a woman who is full of life. Some of her character traits include that she is friendly, funny, supportive, and always willing to help those around her. J.N. expressed that when growing up, she had older parents, which she believes, allowed her to have a special connection with older people throughout her lifetime. One occupational experience that J.N. has experienced is caring for her friend, for many years. Before and after her friend’s accident, J.N. was her primary caregiver. Some of her patterns of daily living include going for a walk everyday that it is nice out and going to the store. At night she follows a specific pattern, which includes the activities of getting coffee at 4 p.m., boiling a pot of hot water for her neighbor at 6 p.m., and watching the evening news at 7 p.m. Some things that J.N. likes are music, playing the piano, listening

Not wanting to run out of money, she finds a job with a maid service, and an additional side job with a nursing home. The nursing home turns out to be a welcome relief and a place of refuge for her. While there, she feels relaxed and at home. This is a part of functionalist theory at work. She has acquired special skills from her Florida jobs, and puts them to work in the nursing home. She is "rewarded" by the residents of the hall; they smile at her, compliment her, and make her feel good about her job. She feels accomplished in this capacity as a `dietary aide'.

“When they married it was agreed that, as soon as he could straighten out...they would sell the farm and saw-mill and try their luck in a large town...he has always wanted to be an engineer...but he soon saw that her skill as a nurse had been acquired by the absorbed observation of her own symptoms.”

In this case, the mental hospital serves as a parallel to society as patients who fear public ridicule cower in the safety of the institution's confinements. The author employs biblical allusions, animal symbolism, and a metaphorical war to delineate the dynamic change of McMurphy, Bromden, and the others

Dally was pushing Johnny is his wheelchair. Dallas had really changed since Johnny’s near-death experience. Nobody thought that Johnny would actually make – I didn’t. That’s when Dally hit his breaking point. Nothing ever seemed to bother Dally; he just shrugged off everything, even death. But Johnny’s “death” was different. It shook everyone – especially Dally. Johnny was the only person that Dally ever loved. The day Johnny was released from the hospital; Dally took the role of both of his parents. Every day they would eat all their meals together. They visited the park or went to movies. Dally made sure that Johnny was never alone, always in his protection. Johnny loved it. There was a smile on his face even though he was dying inside that he could not use his legs. Stuck in a wheelchair for life was not ideal for anybody, but for a rambunctious greaser?

This essay tries to appeal to the emotional side of the readers by providing stories of her coworker struggles. However this essay has a very one sided tone to it. Barbara does

and Mrs. Smythe represent white culture in the story as they are a stereotypical white couple. The Smythes “have a twenty-foot speedboat” (Robinson, pg.14), make “bacon and pancakes” (Robinson, pg.13) and go “scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef” (Robinson, pg.12). All these things indicate a certain amount of wealth and freedom as well as symbolize the typical “American dream”. The turning point in the story that shows that Will has a desire to uphold his responsibility to carry on his Native culture, is when Mr. Smythe asks Will if he’d like to live with them and Will responds: “I can’t” (Robinson, pg. 16). This shows that although the Smythe’s white lifestyle is tempting Will to give up his own culture to conform to theirs, he understands that he cannot leave behind his roots. The influences of white culture are later shown to be too much for Will to

“Both the book and the movie are insightful views into societal problems such as stereotypes about the people who have mental disorders. But the film is largely out of date in terms of depicting hospital staff as manipulative or evil. From what I saw when I worked in a similar institution, mental hospitals are a calm, healing environments—as they should be” (Wind Goodfriend, 2012).

The children are working very long days. The boy seems to be dreading every minute that passes. Making children work is cruel and unreasonable punishment. Children are innocent, and should not have to deal with the difficult demands of manual labor. Playing on a playground is how children should be acting. Marys letter reads, "Last Thursday one girl fell down and broke her neck which caused instant death." Mary is very young, and so is this girl that she is talking about. Furthermore, Mary should not be in a place where death is as easy as slipping. Children should not ever be one slip away from death. Mary should not be able to talk about death in such a light matter. Sadly, she can because it is happening all around her. Child labor is taking away the children's