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    The movie is based on Ken Kesey’s best-selling novel‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. We discover in the film that the Chief is not really dumb and deaf‚ Billy can speak without stuttering and others do not have to live under the harsh rules of Nurse Ratched. McMurphy will cure them‚ not by giving them pills and group sessions but by encouraging them to be guys. To go fishing‚ play basketball‚ watch the World Series‚ get drunk‚ get laid‚ etc. The message for these mental disturbed men is to be like

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    What if your definition of victory? Is it doing your best to keep order for your own benefit or is it making changes good or bad for the convenience of others? That is the debatable question of Ken Kesey’s‚ One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Some say McMurphy won‚ while others argue the winner to be Nurse Ratched. In the battle of McMurphy versus Ratched‚ McMurphy Reigned victorious Before McMurphy entered the ward‚ the men had no idea how to enjoy life. They didn’t even laugh. McMurphy changed that

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    In the literary criticism Madness and Misogyny in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Daniel Vitkus‚ he argues that generally the people that are in the ward are not actually insane‚ but just think differently from society. This different ideology and “reasoning” the patients have cause them to be rejected by the world around them and sent off to the mental institution (Vitkus 64). He also believes that society has this innate “hegemonic power” over everyone (Vitkus 65). The patients

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    Nurse Ratched Won the War In the work One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ Nurse Ratched and McMurphy constantly battled over power and dominance. Both Nurse Ratched and McMurphy tried to assert on paitents in the hosipital. The patients were continuously persuaded to be on either McMurphy’s or Nurse Ratched’s side. The patients swayed back and forth between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched depending on who was more persuasive. However‚ Nurse Ratched ultimately won the war because she won the card game/ Cheswick’s

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    Kesey explores a society that is ruled by women to reflect how males are damaged both physically and mentally under such control. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ Nurse Ratched’s lack of femininity and the consequences of the matriarchy reflect

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    The significance of allusions in literature is further seen in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Kesey’s most apparent biblical allusion is seen within Bromden’s depiction of the Combine‚ he states‚ “... endless machines…swarming with sweating‚ shirtless men running up and down catwalks‚ blank faces and dreamy in firelight thrown from a hundred blast furnaces‚” (Kesey 86). The gloomy atmosphere as well as the mechanical and brutal nature of the ward‚ is perhaps an allusion to Hell and Dante’s novel

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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest takes place in a mental institution in the Pacific Northwest. The narrator of the novel is Chief Bromden‚ also known as Chief Broom‚ a catatonic half-Indian man whom all of the inmates and staff assume is deaf and dumb. Bromden often suffers from hallucinations during which he feels the room filling with a dense‚ overwhelming fog generated by a huge mechanized matrix called The Combine which controls everyone in its grasp. The institution is dominated by Nurse Ratched

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    CHAPTER 2 Cuckoo Search Algorithm This chapter provides a breif introduction to the area of Nature Inspired Algorithms and its classification. Among all the categories‚ Swarm intelligence will be the main area of focus. Various swarm intelligence techinques will be discussed in the later sections. Cuckoo Search Algorithm is also one of the latest swarm intelligence technique which is focused in this dissertation to solve the problem discussed in chapter 1. 1. Nature Inspired Algorithms Nature has

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    seminar presentations sometimes a certain critical theory can be used more successful for certain pieces of text. Having the knowledge of the many different ways there is to analyze a text I can choose one that will be more accurate. Also‚ in many cases you can use a bunch of different lenses to analyze one text‚ but being able to see the different views can help build a more detailed understanding. Although I was somewhat aware of certain lenses such as marxist or feminist theory a lot of the theories

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    Violence is prevalent in many literary works. As Ken Kesey delves into his piece‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ he develops his own iteration of this issue. Chiefly‚ he focuses on electroshock treatments and castrations. Thomas C. Foster’s gives a broad definition of violence in chapter 11 of his piece. Specifically‚ he says that violence is a personal and intimate act between humans‚ yet it can “be cultural and societal in its implications” (Foster 95). In Ken Kesey’s piece‚ Maxwell Taber‚

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