OFOTCN Worksheet

1. OFOTCN isn’t anti woman because they have good female characters within the book such as candy, who is energetic, life filled woman. An average woman within this story is very authoritarian, such as Nurse Ratched. 2. Her name signifies as her true personality and character. She is a ratched, savage, and cruel woman. 3. Women in this era of time were to stay at home and cook and clean for their husband, but because of the war, women became more independent and taking more responsibility within the household, as well as the town. So if anything, Matriarchy was on a rise. 4. In a way, yes only because every time characters who were black showed up, they were either horse-playing or getting in trouble with the head nurse. Possibly symbolizing that maybe that is all black people are good for, getting in trouble or doing things to get in trouble. 5. Yes because he truly cares for the patients, he looks out for them and they look up to him as a father or as a big brother at the least. But on the other hand, he does not appear this way at times because he is conning some of the patients and taking their money. 6. They were rebelling against authority that was very strict and demanding, which made some of the Hippies feel degraded in a way. 7. Well McMurphy tells the head nurse that the communists could have learned a thing or two from her and how she runs he r hospital as a dictatorship. 8. He is a somewhat reliable character; he views the combine as a machine that is run by Nurse Ratched. He escapes with the plan the McMurphy had. 9. 10. That they would use a multitude of drugs to try and escape their reality of confinement and restriction. 11. Only because the head Nurse serves as the government, or authority at that time and the patiesn, both chronic and acute, were trying to over throw her but were to weak and scared, same as the hippies. 12. 13. The book is this way because at this time, the country had a democracy but Kesey may have felt that we were denied some democratic rights and justices. 14. The 1960’2 were filled with individuals who felt lost after the wars so they began spas-ing out in different ways. So many became lunatics or criminals in search of their true self in which this was glorified within the book. 15. Mainly because that is one of the traits he has that they, being the combine, cannot take away from him. The authorities do not like it because it resembles chaos. 16. The oppression of the government at the time could be symbolized as Nurse Ratched. 17. It portrays liberation because McMurphy shows them that she is just a person like you and I and we can leave at our will, he just opens their eyes to what truly is happening behind the scenes. 18. I noticed it particularly when he would put the wrong tense of a word, or just the wrong word in the incorrect position within the sentence. 19. Laughter is a theme because the patients have not heard it in a very long time. It kind of momentarily liv=berates the patients when they hear McMurphy laugh. 20. Within a crazy world, if one was to act insane, they would actually appear as sane because the rest of the world is insane. But if they were to act sane in a world of crazies, that same person would actually appear to be insane. 21. 22. He uses repetition to constantly show the oppressive power of Nurse Ratched.

Pg. 126 Research #2

The relationship between Hinduism and Islam are that the Hinduism is a group of religious traditions, established over a period of time, through revelations received by innumerable saints, seers, incarnations and emanations of God. Islam derives its name from its central doctrine of peace and submission to God. It is a religion founded by a prophet.

The two beliefs in their own way have similarities. Both religions accept God as being the Supreme Being and Absolute Lord of the universe. They also acknowledge that God responds to prayers, the God recues the faithful in times of distress, but just as they have similarities, they also have different ways on doing things.

Hindus have to bear the blame for escalating the competition into conflict by using their numbers to oppress the Muslims during the era of self-rule between 1935-39. Neither one of the groups could trust each other to rule over them, and the hatred ensured that the new nations of Pakistan and India would be enemies of each other. (“Hindu-Muslim Conflict and the Partition of India”, hyperhistory.net)

Pg. 116 Research #2

I will have to say, that the example of a sweatshop for me, would be the building of the San Marcos Train Station. Mexico’s Yaqui Indians were sold as slaves for merely 25cents ahead. There were hundreds of native people in concentration camps dying of hunger and disease. They were forced to walk 300 kilometers to San Marcos.

They were beaten bloody every morning at role-call, forced to work in the blazing sun from dawn till dusk on little food, locked up every night, and beaten again if they failed to cut and trim at least 2000 henequen leaves per day. The Yaqui people were famed for their strength and being hard working. Women were separated from their family and married off to Chinamen and every child born afterwards at the plantation, was sold or worth $1,000..

Between 1904 and 1909, they had rounded up about 15,000 and were forced along the tortuous route to Yucatan and enslaved. Despite their extraordinary strength, most of them died within the 1^st year. The San Marcos Train Station should have a commemorating plaque of the pain and sorrow suffered throughout the building of the train station for them. ( “San Marcos Station, Jalisco, Mexico: Witness to Yaqui Slavery”, saudicaves.com)

Pg 95 Research #1

General Winfield Scott arrived at New Echota on May 17, 1838 with 7000 men. Early that summer he and the United States Army began the invasion of the Cherokee Nation.           The Cherokees who were removed from their land were one of the saddest episodes of our brief history, men, women, and children were taken from their land, herded into makeshift forts with minimal facilities and food, and then forced to march a thousand miles (Some made part of the trip by boat in equally horrible conditions).

Under the general indifferent army commanders, human losses for the first groups of Cherokee removed were extremely high. John Ross made an urgent appeal to Scott, requesting that the general let his people lead the tribe west, General Scott agreed. Ross organized the Cherokee into smaller groups and let them move separately through the wilderness so they could forage for food.

 Although the parties under Ross left in early fall and arrived in Oklahoma during the brutal winter of 1838-39, he significantly reduced the loss of life among his people. About 4000 Cherokee died as a result of the removal. The route they traversed and the journey itself became known as "The Trail of Tears" or, as a direct translation from Cherokee, "The Trail Where They Cried" ("Nunna daul Tsuny"). (“The trail of Tears”, ngeorgia.com)

Pg. 73 Research # 1

The signers hoped to accomplish, to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

These lines suggest that the whole purpose of government is to secure the peoples right and that government gets its power." If that consent is betrayed, then "it is the right of the people to alter or abolish" their government. When the Declaration was written, this was a radical statement. They believed that, even if it meant their lives to sign the Declaration, they would do it for the rights of the people.

Fifty-six men, appointed by their fellow citizens of each Colony, meeting in Congress assembled, determined that the only logical course of action by which they could throw off the burden of dictatorship was to declare the independence and control of the individual colonies, and join together in a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, dominance, or trade. (“The Declaration of Independence and Its Legacy”, ushistory.org)

Pg 26 Research #1

Most slaves in ancient Rome were acquired through warfare, with Roman armies bringing captives back as part of the reward. Turning defeated soldiers into slaves brought much income, and would also serve as an alternative to imprisoning or killing them. Slave ownership was most widespread throughout the Roman citizenry from the second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) through the 4th century AD.

Slaves were freed for a variety of reasons; for a particularly good deed toward the slave's owner, or out of friendship or respect. Slaves were also freed through testamentary manumission, by a provision in an owner's will at his death. After emancipation, the former slave was free to make his or her own way in life.

The process for which slaves became free citizens in ancient Rome was called manumission, which also means, “sending out from the hand”. The process itself was a public spectacle. In Ancient Rome, a slave was freed by a master in a ceremony that included placing the pileus (a brimless hat) on the former slave’s shaved head. Among the Romans the cap of felt was the emblem of liberty. When a slave obtained his freedom he had his head shaved, and wore instead of his hair an undyed pileus. (“Slavery in ancient Rome”; pbs.org)

P.43 Research

           The Magna Carta was mainly created to suppress the overly powerful monarchy of England, which was ruled under King John's authority. It was in 1215 that the Nobles, Barons, and basically rich people of England were tired of how King John was running things and banded together to creat the Magana Carta in which forced the King to sign. In signing, this allowed "Freeman" a trial by jury, a punishment fitting and not excessive to the crime, and no taxation without representation.
            Who were the "Freeman?" The freeman were basically only the rich within the villages which were the nobles and barons. Well at first that is how the Magan Carta was intended, but after many years, american colonists were still forced to pay taxes yet still were not allowed representation. But thanks to Sir EDWARD Coke, representation was given to the colonists, further expanding the rights of the Mana Carta to many groups across the land and eventually leading to the Declaration of Independence.