Category: Uncategorized

Movie, Jane journey produced by Diamond Rocks

Produced by Diamond Rocks, a movie production company in Germany, Jane’s Journey is an exciting documentary about a woman who loved and has adored nature all her life ever since she was a small child. Jane Goodall an affectionate, enthusiastic, warm hearted nature lover stars as the main character of this documentary. Born in April 3rd 1934, now a primatologist, anthropologist and UN peace messenger, she is considered the world’s foremost chimpanzee expert. She has studied about chimpanzees for the past 45 years and learnt about their social and family relations. She is also the founder of Jane Goodall Institute that helps in matters of environmental conservation an animal welfare.

The movie filmed by German filmmaker Lorenz Knauer, features Goodall’s iconic environmental conservation and her affection and goal towards aiding them. It also features Jane as a small child progressing to her teens in England. The film shows Jane’s humorous and playful attribute as she visited the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. There is a footage of her both as a child and mature with the chimpanzees, her love for them is quite overwhelming and it shows how amazing, friendly and intelligent they are. Being child she was born inspired by Tarzan (Goodall, 1999) . Apart from Tanzania the film features her in various continents too.

Educative and giving reason as to why we should conserve our natural environment and take care of the creatures as well. The movie also reveals about love and taking care of everything inclusive of the needy in the society. We should show love and help people in the society. Jane Goodall gives the impression and the importance of taking care of wildlife, that animals just like us need care and love and above all to be understood. She has spread her knowledge through books and articles she has written.

Goodall, Jane (1999). Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey. New York: Warner Books.

Advantages And Disadvantages Of Internet

Introduction

The internet has become a necessity of life in the present world. It has an advancement that outdid the television, radio, telegraphs and telephones. It has a combination of features of its predecessors. It has become so indispensable that even the children are not an exception to its use. The much accessibility has exposed the kids so much that it has become of concern to both the community and the world at large, (McKenna & Bargh 573).

The aim of this study is to research on the impacts of the internet in the society its negative and positive effects on the children and the necessary recommendations on how to prevent the kids from accessing adult sites and ways of reducing the internet addiction.

Research on the impact of the internet in the society started with the investigation of who has availability of the internet. It has similarities with the survey that was previously done with the introduction of the television generation. The results that were found imply comparable effects as the ones with the current net generation. According to (Kim 1), the population that is affected by the internet era range from kids in their napkins to young adults in their twenties. The internet is accessible to kids who visit the library, school computer laboratories, the cyber cafes and those with parents who can afford an internet device at home.

The internet is of great use to the children. There are benefits that we cannot deny the children even with much to criticize. Communication is among them. It has been simplified from the telegraph and the telephone era. It is done through the main social sites like Facebook and Twitter. It is in these sites that a child can post or comment anything viewed by many others who have access to the account. This is mass communication. It is fast and convenient. Other sites that all kids can get access to are the Whatsup where one can write a text message or call using a mobile device as long he or she has access to the internet. Communication is one main benefit. Other benefits are access to a huge amount of information. The kids learn from the internet and their minds grow wide leading to a faster mental development. They are also able to do their homework without much strain. Socializing is another added benefit. There is interaction with different kids worldwide. This gives them a platform of learning the different cultures. They also get an opportunity to learn online courses at home getting entertainment, among other multiple benefits, (Cho & Cheon 489).

Although the internet has imposed positive impacts on the modern society it has caused increasingly more harm than thought. Monitoring has therefore to be done for a better productive generation. The reason for a closer look on what the children are doing on the internet is important since the same children are the determiners of what the society will be like and if nothing is done we might end up with a corrupted and unproductive generation. Research done has proved that the internet has been found to cause more harm than any present day media.

Some of the negative effects imposed by the internet to the children are laziness, access to pornography, internet addiction, internet games, trafficking of sex materials, internet crimes, interference with privacy, lack of real life judgment, poor performance in school, security issues and internet gambling (Louge 2).

Acquisition of most pornographic materials is either by default or access to an adult site with the aid of a grown up or an opened site in a grownups’ internet device. Some cases may be when a child tries to access information from the internet and he or she types a word or clicks a picture that gives them access to what they did not intend to get. This becomes a chance to view things that are not recommendable.

The internet also acts as a channel for trafficking sex materials, a port for sex behaviors and a means for committing sex crimes. This is easily done with hiding of their identities through login in to sites where they are assumed to be adults.

The easy access of information from the internet has caused the laziness disease. The children do not provide original work but tend to copy and paste everything from the internet and these gives them no chance to thinking on their own or have the knowledge to access the manual library catalogues. This goes hand in hand with a deteriorating academic performance at school. The children incline to perform poorly without having internet access and those with it cheat since they can get easily surf it within minutes. The other problem brought about by the internet is time management by the kids. Most of their time is spent on the internet and this makes them less productive with less physical activities.

Continuous internet use brings about addiction leading to internet addiction disorder which brings about behavior changes. It is said that all over the world over 80% of the youths are spending a lot of time on the internet and this has led to problems like addiction due to its introduction at an early age, (Ramdhonee, 3). This fact raised debates with the argument that only consumption of physical substances can lead to addiction. The net-generation has the same addictions similar to those of the television generation. The only difference is that the internet generation develops a condition known as internet addiction disorder worse than the television addiction. Previous studies show that those with the internet disorder have the following characteristics; impairment on their decision making, use of excessive time in the internet while using less or none in the outside physical activities, preoccupation symptom where the victims have no time for other activities but surfing and cannot be booked, unrestrained urge to be in the internet to discover and explore more, use of excess efforts on less useful things, lack of control on what they do and development of tolerance, (Ko et al 728).

The failure to be real and make the right judgment is another situation that jeopardizes the safety of the children. The use of the internet in every activity makes the future of the children uncertain. Making decision out of the internet in every case makes them less real and when it comes to the real life situations impaired decisions is what they produce. Lack of reality creates a less competitive generation that cannot be compared to the normal internet users.

Internet creates an obstacle in the children mental development. This is so with lack of a physical touch between the kids and their relatives. They lack time for visits and personal interactions with other people and this denies them a chance to grow mentally. Growth has also received an obstacle with failure of children going through all development stages of life. They engage in dating and relationships while too young with the spouses being older than they are. This exposes them to sex crimes and behaviors, (Verdick,1).

Internet use among children is unavoidable at all situations. As a result, there has to be strategies put forward to regulate its use to encourage a safer and more positive operation.

Strategies:

Incorporation of media literacy in the school curriculums to monitor and educate children on their use and purpose. This will help develop productive with a positive mentality once they get into the internet.

Parents can make use of the parental control features in the internet to block sites. This will help reduce the children access of the internet games, pornographic sites, and also adult sites that has damaging materials, (Olivier 8).

The government should strictly execute The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The Act requires websites to provide their security details and policies that control whoever should access the site. The parental controls require users to enter their detailed information and this controls users on the information they are to acquire from the website.

Conclusion

Internet jeopardy in the society is an issue that affects both the juveniles and the adolescents in the society. Finding safer and positive strategies to regulate internet access among children is a secure way in protecting them from the anonymous and therefore the government, parents and the education systems should put up stricter regulations and laws that control what the children can access and what they cannot access from the internet.

Work cited

BIBLIOGRAPHY l 1033 Cheon & Cho Children’s Exposure to Negative Internet Content: Effects of Family Context

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 49(4), 2005, pp. 488–509

Kim. The impact of the internet on children’s daily lives: physical, social and

Psychological well-being. Athens: Georgia, Electronic Version, 2003

McKenna & Bargh. The Internet and Social Life. New York University, New York, New York

10003 Annual. Revision. Psychol. 2004. 55:573–90

Nathalie Louge. Adolescents and the Internet. Web November 15, 2013

http:// www.actforyouth.net

Olivier. The Effect of Violent Internet Games on Children and Juveniles:

Crime Research in South Africa Volume 1, Number 1 (October 2000) – webviol.pdf

Verdick. Negative Effects of Internet Usage on Child Development. Web November 15, 2013

http://www.verdick.org/child-development-and-the-internet/child-dev-neg

Ko et al. Proposed Diagnostic Criteria of Internet Addiction for Adolescents The Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 193(11):2005;728–733

Ramdhonee. Psychological impact on internet usage on children/adolescents. Web November 15,

2013

Psychological impact of internet usage on children/adolescents.pdf.

Surname:

Subject:

Tutor:

Date: 9th December, 2011

Advantages and disadvantages of the tri-system at CSU

The CSU, California State University is found in the state of California and it is a public university offering three systems at ago. These three systems include that of the University of California, UC, that of California Community College system plus CSU system itself. Despite the fact that the CSU which is the umbrella body tries its best to meet the needs for higher education in the country, currently producing the highest number of graduates in the country, there are several disadvantages that are connected to this trio-system. Generally, the CSU has twenty three campuses with almost half a million students and almost fifty thousand staff.

This Tri-system is good in that it tries its best to cater for different types of people in the country. People who pass and fail to get the subsidies of the government, and who are economically able can still pursue their degree programs and have their goals in education achieved.

Secondly, it is true that there are many students in the university as a whole. With almost a half a million students, this tri-system helps the United States economy by reducing the greatest number of graduates in the country. This is a boost to the economy indifferent ways. First, the country gets hold of its citizens who could possibly go abroad to read, the country gets very many foreign students and this is best for economic development. The economy also gets a boost from the employment that this university is able to offer to the citizen.

This university tries to protect its citizens from getting education from foreign countries which do have different curriculums and possibly low quality of education. In this sense, the CSU on behalf of the United States government plays a very big role in selling its education system to other country and at the same time retaining it and maintaining it. This way it becomes better on daily basis.

Despite those advantages, there are also some disadvantages that come with this kind of system. The quality of education is likely to be affected. This is because management of such a number of students and staff is not easy. This is simply because much time will be required to cater for every student. There could be possibly an imbalanced teacher student ratio. This is simply because the lecturers that are used from one campus are the same lectures used in the other campuses. This is very cumbersome and may compromise the quality of education at the university.

Also, this system is segregative. The CU system offers programmes to the privately sponsored students and this is a kind of discrimination. This in a way may erase the uniformity that education should bring in the country for once you are known as a graduate of cu you are were a privately sponsored student and if there is category, that is very sensitive that the government sponsors, those in CSU, then you could not have met it! So this system proves to be very discriminatory.

Lastly, it is possible that the different people who come to this university come with different things that may directly affect the country. There are increased insecurity, increased drug trafficking and the like, among other ill that can come with increased population at a place.

According to me, I value education more than anything else. I know these systems do provide education and I should not surprise anybody by saying that any of these three can serve me equally. I can take any.

Movie Review: Network

Student’s name

Institution

Course

Tutor

Date

The network movie was written by Paddy Chayevsk and directed by Sidney Lumet. This film predicted forty years ago about how the media would be today. It shows how the media has changed in almost all aspects. The network was also a good example of how people are really not as intelligent as they think they are. In this film, even if you poke a little bit, you poke a lot because there is a lot going on inside the movie. There is so much going on in the movie that it gets confusing to actually see what is going on. It shows what can happen if people break the laws and do unethical things. If this happens to be true, these kinds of TV programs won’t last long. In this day and age media plays a huge role in people’s life both in good and bad ways. Media has been playing an important role in a different cause.

The article talks about the decline of journalistic integrity. It states that there has been a great smash in the television industry since Trump took power as the United States president. It says that the president has allowed the biased views of large media to get on their news programs. It also talks about how there has been a decline in investigative journalism in network TV. It says that it is getting so bad to the point where major networks are not doing investigative journalism anymore, and this will lead to a decline in trust from viewers. In recent months, media companies have abandoned long-held principles, such as a commitment to balanced or fair reporting. Reports show that President Trump’s administration is pushing for certain outlets’ favorable coverage while others are being demonized. The article also claims that television today is a circus and does not contain the truth. It also claims that elections have changed to become another business venture.

The New York Times article talks about the success of the Network film in illustrating the rise of American terrorism by politicians. The film director Paddy Chayefsky presents an indispensable resource for understanding contemporary American politics. He does this by working to depict real-life events that are highly relevant today, including Vietnam, McCarthyism, Watergate, and Iran-Contra. There are few other films that offer such an extensive understanding of the connections among the country’s politics in general and politics in Congress in particular. The film depicts the rise of George Babbitt (Laurence Olivier) , a political neophyte who is elected mayor of New York City. The movie’s message is clearly stated by Babbitt when he says: “I refuse to accept any limitations on our national purpose. If we cannot control our environment it is our duty to change it.

In my opinion, I believe that the Network movie has illustrated a lot about democracy in this current times. This film is a critique of the media and the public relations industry. It illustrates how corporate America works in tandem with big money to unfairly depict what is happening in society. They twist the story into something that only benefits the powerful, and leaves in their wake a wasteland of truth and consequence. “Network,” like today’s society, also reveals how mass media can actually brainwash people into believing what they see on TV or hear on radios; turning consumers into mindless obedient drones.

References

Opinion | How the Rage of ‘Network’ Went From Prophecy to Nostalgia (Published 2018). (2018). Retrieved 25 November 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/opinion/culture/network-broadway-howard-beale.htmlThe 1976 film “Network” predicted the presidential election a little too closely. (2016). Retrieved 25 November 2021, from https://www.newsweek.com/network-quotes-donald-trump-howard-beale-517091

Chapter 1

Identify yourself as a traditional or nontraditional adult learner

Traditional learner

Identify personal resources that will facilitate your success in a vn nursing program

Academic Resources

Social support services

Using your birthdate, identify tour generation and characteristics of this generation viewed as a resource for success in a vn program.

Generation Z

Characteristics

Digital natives

Desire creative, collaboration & want to impact the world

Highly influenced using technology & always being highly connected

Prefer using smart phones & would rather text than talk

Identify factors and issues that could interfere with your use of resources in the vn program and strategies to address these factors and issues.

Difficulty of schoolwork and the amount of time it takes to complete assignments.

Personal issues- extremely busy with school and family affairs

Discuss personal responsibility for learning and active participation in the learning process.

receive and participate in evaluation

responsibility to learn

Instructors are not responsible for successful learning or for failure to learn. In fact, Instructors help students learn how to learn.

Discuss your rights as an adult learner.

First Amendment- freedom of expression

Fourteenth Amendment- due process

It states that if I were charged with a violation of policies or rules, I will be presented with evidence of my misconduct and will be entitled to state my position.

Right to have an organized curriculum and a responsible instructor who is prepared to teach it.

Identify various types of evaluation used in a practical/vn program

Theory tests- look at my tests with the goal of understanding why the correct answers are correct and why the wrong answers you gave are wrong

Clinical performance evaluations- comments directed toward my behavior and not me as a person

Create a personal plan, inclusive of your unique resources, aimed at successfully completing a vn program within the designated time frame.

Be aware of the rules and policies of my school and the practical/vn program

Keep a record of my grades as a course proceeds

Seek out my instructor when I am having difficulties in class or the clinical area

Prepare my own assignments

Be prepared in advance for classes and clinical experiences

When problems do develop, follow the recognized channels of communication both at school and in the clinical area

Name

Institution

Date

Changes that Allowed the New World Market to Take Portions of France’s Wine Market

The French history, food custom, and experience, France was a quality winemaker and for a long time flourished in the sector under this competitive advantage. However, towards the end of the 20th Century, drastic changes happened that allowed New World countries to share in France’s market. There was the opening of new markets, the usual production processes were replaced by new industry environments, and the maturity of markets. This paper discusses how these changes allowed challengers in the new world to infiltrate markets enjoyed by France.

Initially, countries like the United States and Australia did not have a huge market because they had traditional liquors of their own. After the war, however, demand in America and Australia grew and the availability of resources in terms of extensive and inexpensive land that allowed large scale production of grapes meant a response was easy. New World producers challenged the production norms practiced in Europe by having on-site labs in these estates among other innovations. This led to cost discrepancies that placed popular European wines at a disadvantage (Bartlett & McAra, 2016). The marketing was also different in the New World with companies controlling the entire value chain, unlike Europe where there were fragmented producers and rigid government regulations.

The other reason New World producers were able to take a share of the market from France was the change in Demand in mature markets. Demand declined in France and Italy with a new generation shifting preference and the initial market which included a group that was aging reduced consumption because of health concerns. The rise in fashion also shifted consumption patterns with urban consumers going for quality, brand origin, grape variety and so on. Because New World Producers controlled distribution from the fields to the retailer they possessed greater distribution power than old producers. Transport economics also shifted in favor of New World producers. Because of numerous producers, the European industry could not afford branding strategies while New World producers developed robust branding skills in their home markets before shifting them to the export market becoming very successful in that platform as well.

References

Bartlett, C. A., & McAra, S. (2016). Global Wine War 2015: New World Versus Old.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Tricycles

Name:

Institutional Affiliation:

Sketch 1Advantages

The main advantage of this tricycle is that it has been fitted with a pivot system steering. This is crucial as it increases efficiency as well as the safety of the tricycle. The tricycle has got brakes that are in a strategic position and thus can be used even in a prompt manner. There are also steering handles connected to pivot steering system to enhance safety. Finally, the chain has been connected to the back wheel to enhance easy riding.

Disadvantages

The pivot system steering risks easy breakdown of the tricycle. This is because the pivot is used by the wheels as well as the handles. The brakes also have been fitted in a manner that might confuse the rider in case of an emergency need to stop.

Sketch 2Advantages

The tricycle has the advantage of being fitted with an adjustable frame. This will come in handy when adjusting if at all the need arises. There is also a battery/motor slot whereby a source of power can be fitted.

Disadvantages

In the case of power exhaustion, the tricycle will not be useful. There is also the possibility that battery usage will pollute the environment.

Sketch 3Advantages

The tricycle is safe due to the fact that it has got a safety belt. This means that the rider will not fall out of the tricycle in motion in the case of an accident. Additionally, safety has been assured even at night due to the fact that it has been fitted with LED light. Another advantage is that it has Solar Panels that will generate power to drive the engine. The solar panels can also generate power to be used in other alternative chores.

Disadvantages

Failure of the engine means that the tricycle will be useless. There is also the fact that breakdown of the LED light will make riding at night impossible.

Reference

Steve Greene (2011). Free on Three: The Wild World of Human Powered Recumbent Tadpole

Tricycles. iUniverse. p. 21

Movie Review Of Lincoln

It’s quite paradoxical that none of the American movies has ever done a god job at representing the American democracy. However Lincoln the movie is one among the movies that tried to demonstrate a great democratic art form. Lincoln (2012) is an American drama that was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg. The movie is centered on the United States sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln which covers the four final months of Lincoln’s life focus being on the efforts made by the president in January 1865 of having the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States House of representative that would see the abolishment of slavery in the country. He tried to scare up votes to ensure that he could get enough votes to pass the bill in congress. This movie is therefore concentrates on tumultuous period between January 1865, the end of the civil war on April 9th and finally the assassination of Lincoln five days later.

This movie is therefore depicts a very important historical event in the United States which is of great significance on the history of America. This was a landmark constitutional amendment; With the expectation of the civil war to end in a month but an issue of concern being Lincolns 1863 emancipation proclamation would have been disregarded by the courts upon conclusion of the war and the 13th amendment defeated by the return of slave states. Lincoln then saw it necessary to pass the amendment at the end of January. That dispelled any possibility of already released slaves being re-enslaved. Radical republican and feared that the amendment would be defeated by people who wish the amendment to delay however whether the republicans in the border states support the amendment was not clear since their priority was ending the civil war. All of them on board were still not enough due to the fact that it was a requirement that several democrats support congressmen so that bit can be passed (Scott, 2012)

This is therefore a very important historical event in America, it was a task of a race against time, for the coming of peace any time and if it occurs that it comes before the passing of the amendment then the returning states in the south would ensure that the amendment process is stopped before it even becomes law. The movie depicts that a newly elected president Lincoln in January 1865 noting the imminence of the end of civil war, as he was wondering out loud what the fact of the former slaves would be. He finds hypocrisy in his emancipation proclamation in 1863 that saw the freeing of most slaves as a measure of war but had not declared slavery illegal. It was just a constitutional amendment that would end slavery permantly in America. Therefore it was an issue of great importance that Lincoln obtains enough votes from a recalcitrant congress before the arrival of peace and before it got too late. It was Lincoln’s belief that with the passing of the thirteenth amendment to the constitution that would abolish slavery would be a great step in achieving his core and at the same time end the war on slavery. In the movie the issue of the amendment is seen to be very important therefore as part of the subplots shows details of efforts made by three republican roustabouts in using any necessary means to ensure that the minds of the democrats will be changed while Lincoln delays a high level confederate delegation that is on its way to make peace talks in Washington. In the movie there are also glimpses of Gen Ulysses S.Grant making attempts of discerning whether or not the south is ready to quit (Scott, 2012).

In the movie, there are debates that range in the House of Representatives on whether the amendment is adversable or not some see peace being a necessity over passing the amendment while others view the passing of the amendment as a step in ending the civil war. This process was marred with challenges .days after the vote took place, Lincoln and Seward held a meeting with confederate delegation, the confederate made negotiation only on the condition that Lincoln would not allow ratification on it.

The movie places slavery as the centre of the story, and it shows how difficult and costly it was for the US to fully recognize a full and equal humanity of black people.

Reference

Scott, A.O. (2012). A President Engaged in a Great Civil War. Retrieved February 23, 2013 from http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/movies/lincoln-by-steven-spielberg-stars-daniel-day-lewis.html?pagewanted=all

Name:

Professor:

Course:

Date:

Movie-Novel Comparison: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

The novel begins with Chief Bromden and other patients in the mental section of a hospital, restricted in a strict environment, subject to the harsh decisions of those in charge, and convinced there is no way out. Randle McMurphy the new patient renews there hope and plays the role of an advocate that comes to overthrow the cruel forces controlling the wards, Nurse Ratched in particular. The demonstrations of thematic elements in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the book are varied and making it difficult for one to synthesize the information and generate a common motif. However, this paper digs deeper and creates a comparison of the two presentations of a similar story.

There are obvious similarities between the plot of the film and that of the novel, in particular, the events leading to the sacrifice of the protagonist and main character, however, the film adaptation of the text undermines the simple the deep moral depictions to simple interactions that do not have profound meaning. Although the book is extraordinarily notable and complex, with profuse refinements, the film’s omission of important decent themes renders it mediocre and superficial in comparison.

To be fair some, there are a number of differences between the motifs of the book and those of the movie that do not hurt the intentions of Kesey, however, there are others that are harsh. It is also fair to say that some of the changes made by the film director Milos Forman were necessary to the perspective he chose and the transformation of Kesey’s work into a cinematic idiom. He does not tell the story from the perspective of the chief but chooses an objective one presented through a subjective camera. That brings a lot of changes because unlike the reader, the viewer can see and hear things directly since the chief could not be everywhere in the ward. The subjective camera removes the characters from the perspective of the Chief and instead each is given their own point of view.

Many things that happen in the novel are summarily captured in the book-with a few additions such as the scene with murphy in therapy which from a critical perspective it’s a chance for Forman to fill in some of the backstory and his battles with Ratched. However, a different tone appears, to the point that, it barely feels like a contest at wills. Let us first discuss the context at wills in order to create a basis for this argument. The novel presents its case with marginal spiritual fever. Bromden sees McMurphy as supernatural, a huge man with a wonderful voice and a life that appears inexhaustible, an avatar for everything that is human, masculine, and righteous (Kesey). His struggles with Ratched for the “ownership” of the ward unfold like an epic battle between wonderful, near-mythic enemies. Even the little bits where the reader catches a glimpse of the protagonist exhausted or acting in self-defense have a Christ-like composition. The contest of wills now appears where whether McMurphy wants it or not, he cannot shun this responsibility and in the end loses his life for the sake of others.

The film does not feel like a contest at will because in the book McMurphy flutters to his fellow patients that he can irritate Nurse Ratched. This bet feels like the primer of a basis: while the incentives direly increase with time and become the basic hook of a hero against a system from the beginning to the end. While he makes the same bet in the film, it is treated nonchalantly and basically forgotten. The film adaptation replaces the ritual of tragedy with something more organic and hard to construe. This happens with the constant foreshadows that speaks of an earlier troublemaker in the ward who was referred for a lobotomy for bringing chaos.

The adaptation, however, becomes smart when it chucks Kesey’s unfortunate portrayal of women. If the women in the novel are not controlling freaks they are presenting their bodies for sex, and every male in the ward agonizes at the hands of either. A good example is Billy, who is portrayed as a shy and desperate youth, who commits suicide when the nurse threatens to tell his mother about his transgressions with a prostitute. The story of hero versus the system is common in literature, and when the novel relies on McMurphy and his condemned determinations to beat the system a powerful account generates. But the interpretation of how the system operates is uncanny and narrow in a way that it undercuts the message.

In contrast, the film’s restructured approach presents something more open to interpretation. Although there are traces of sexism in representation, and other than McMurphy referring to Nurse Ratched as a “cunt” and another woman, there is not much talk of gender, or men being weakened by females in their lives. With all this removed, what remains is the fear of not being able to meet the demand that comes with adulthood. There is an elusive but discernible arc to McMurphy that sees him being forced into serving fellow patients almost against his will and appears as if he is infuriated by these other patient’s inability to see life the way he does and feels like he has to do something about it.

The film because of its entertainment aspect does not portray the idea of Ken Kesey as he intended. Kesey intends McMurphy as a savior who has the sole purpose of saving his fellow patients at the cost of his life. This idea’s shallow presentation in the film avoids capturing the essence of the story making it lack the richness and complexity presented in the novel. From a different perspective, however, one that gives the film liberty to stand on its own, it interprets the film in a manner that is fulfilling and removes flaws like sexism.

Works Cited

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. New York: Penguin Books, 1996. Print.

Running head: VOTING AGE

1

Advantages and Disadvantages of Lowering the Voting Age to Thirteen

Name

Course

Tutor

Institution

Date

VOTING AGE

2

Advantages and Disadvantages of Lowering the Voting Age to Thirteen

In most nations, the minimum voting age is set at eighteen years (Grover 2011, p. 3). In

the past, the minimum age to vote was twenty one years, but after several debates, this was

lowered to eighteen years. When individuals reach this age, they are considered to be adults. As

an adult, one should be able to analyze different situations, think critically, and thus make wise

decisions. Every decision leads to some consequences. Regardless of the consequences, whether

negative or positive, the responsible adult can be held accountable for them. This is the reason

that the minimum voting age limit has been set at eighteen years in many states (Grover 2011, p.

3).

Currently, there are ongoing discussions about whether to lower the voting age further.

At first, the minimum voting age being considered was sixteen years (Grover 2011, p. 4). The

latest debate talks of lowering the voting age to thirteen years. Reducing the minimum voting age

from eighteen to thirteen years has several advantages and disadvantages associated with this

change.

Advantages of lowering the Voting Age to Thirteen Years

Young people have a unique way of looking at things. This special quality is lost as the

child gets older. The uniqueness may compel them to vote for certain people who they feel will

be able to address their issues better, something that older adults may not do because they are

unduly influenced by other factors (Grover 2011, p. 45). It is also argued that generally youths

can vote wisely, since they too are able to make good decisions on their own.

Youths of today mature faster than they did in the past (Grover 2011, p. 47). Their quick

growth and maturity can be attributed to a number of factors, such as exposure to platforms from

where they lean the realities of life with great speed. The media is one such platform. Further, the

VOTING AGE

3

more people vote, the more votes a candidate or political party will receive. This places a

particular party or candidate, who has the interests of youths at heart, at an advantage over

others.

Disadvantages of lowering the voting age to Thirteen Years

Logically speaking, there are important decisions that a thirteen year old cannot make.

Voting decisions are very crucial and nothing should be left to chance with something so

important. In other words, thirteen year olds are simply not mature enough to be involved in such

an important exercise (Grover 2011, p. 50).

A thirteen year old is not yet exposed to life and its realities. They, therefore, cannot

understand why some things happen the way they do, and the role they can play to control some

of these things. Thus, they might not consider voting with the seriousness it deserves (Grover

2011, p. 52). They also may vote for a candidate for all the wrong reasons. There are things that

are of great importance to a thirteen year old, such as video games for example. If allowed to

vote, they could base their voting decisions on such trivial matters.

Conclusion

Conclusively, a thirteen year old is still too young to be given some responsibilities, such

as voting. At thirteen years of age, one still needs the protection and guidance of a parent or

guardian. It would, therefore, be a huge mistake to allow thirteen year olds to vote. The

consideration of lowering the minimum voting age to sixteen years would be a more viable

argument.

VOTING AGE

4

Bibliography

Grover, Sonja, 2011.