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    The movie “A Beautiful Mind” exemplifies an excellent mathematician also a Nobel Prize winner John Nash’s struggle with schizophrenia. At the beginning of the movie John Nash starts his profession as a mathematics graduate student at Princeton University. He was known for his cleverness. “Johan spent most of his time to discover a revolution equation in math.”In the middle of the movie John Nash suffers from schizophrenia which is a mental disorder. However, this movie is in effect at proving many

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    A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar 1.) A.) A Beautiful Mind is a biography based on the events that happened to a mathematical genius John Forbes Nash Jr. He was invited to go to Princeton University on only one term, and it was to create a truly original idea based on using mathematics. Once he is enrolled in Princeton he is looked at as a social outcast. Once after originating his idea of what other mathematicians thought was unsolvable, he shocked the mathematical world by becoming an overall

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    Homework #4 A Beautiful Mind tells the story of John Nash who developed schizophrenia while he was attending college. The movie documents Nash’s life during the years he developed schizophrenia. It also provides insight to his symptoms and the treatments he used to cope with them. A Beautiful Mind shows how Nash, despite his disorder, was able to live a close to normal life and be successful. One of the first symptoms that Nash seemed to exhibit were hand movements which could be a form of catatonic

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    The movie, A Beautiful Mind, is based on the life of John Nash who won Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The beginning of the movie shows John Nash’s college life during his time being Carnegie Scholarship recipient and graduate student at the Princeton University. John Nash lives with a roommate Charles Herman who is a literature student at Princeton University. He is shown as being odd among his behavior and thinking among his friends. He talks to his friends about wanting to publish article

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    In the movie A Beautiful Mind, the main character, John Nash struggles with schizophrenia. John’s hallucinations in the movie allow him to cope with all the stresses and fill his psychological needs. Marcee, the niece of his imagined roommate, is an example of this. She is a fragile, innocent girl who gives him that paternal connection he desires. Charles, the roommate, acts as his only friend in his world. Nash has trouble making connections with people, so his mind came up with someone for him

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    The film A Beautiful Mind is drama, romance, biographical film produced by Universal Pictures, DreamWorks, and Imagine Entertainment. The film, directed by Ron Howard, include memorable names such as, Russel Crowe as John Nash, Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash, Ed Harris as Parcher, Paul Bettany as Charles, Christopher Plummer as Dr. Rosen, and Adam Goldberg as Sol. This film gives much of its credit to the novel written by Sylvia Nasar. The book, A Beautiful Mind, is a biography of John Forbes Nash

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    Both A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard, and The Soloist, directed by Joe Wright, are films that attempt to explore the obstacles people with schizophrenia face in a society where mental illness is often met with negative stigma. From finding sufficient treatment to maintaining an independent lifestyle, individuals with schizophrenia are put under a great deal of pressure to meet social norms despite the sometimes debilitating and emotionally draining effects of their disease. A Beautiful Mind

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    The book that I read for my report was A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar. The book was published in 1998 by Simon & Schuster. I got the book at Barnes & Noble, and it is one of the best reads I have had in a long time. A Beautiful Mind is a book about a very intelligent mathematician, John Forbes Nash, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. The plot was organized chronologically from the time that he arrived at Princeton University, until he is older and won the Nobel Price. Nasar does not worship

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    In 2001, actor Russell Crowe played schizophrenic mathematician John Nash in the movie A Beautiful Mind. The movie is based on a true story and gave viewers insight into the condition known as schizophrenia. Nash had hallucinations and heard voices, but overcame these obstacles and went on to become a Princeton professor and was awarded the Nobel Prize. Let’s compare what schizophrenia is, and what it is not. Schizophrenia accounts for 55% of all mentally hospitalized patients and affects

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    A Beautiful Mind The movie “A Beautiful Mind” depicts John Nash with symptoms and treatment for schizophrenia. In discussing his biological, psychological, environmental and genetic factors is thought to interplay in his symptomology. My observation as it related to schizophrenia diagnose John may have had exhibited mental illness earlier in life for example he as a college student he was isolated, he was socially awkward and possible suffered social rejection. He only had one real friend, his roommate

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