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    outside of working with policy makers? Another article that I researched through this semester that I think would be beneficial to discuss within the literature review is the experience that denied asylum seekers experience‚ much of my work in Oxford‚ England was with those who had been denied asylum and were currently working to re-apply or to submit an appeal. I think that if the European general public was aware of these types of experiences‚ they may have different opinions about refuges and

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    century‚ prison and asylum reform began with the need for a change‚ an attempt to improve the conditions inside prisons‚ establishing an overall more effective penal system. American prison and asylum reform‚ characterized by the complete change of correctional facilities‚ the activists and organizations that supported the system‚ and the primary systems of prison reform‚ allowed for the success of the prison reform movement‚ and paved the way for the American prison and asylum system

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    In the modern world‚ the topic of refugees and asylum seekers is becoming an increasingly common point of interest. This is due to the trouble in places such as Syria‚ and other countries that have a population that are suffering in some way. Often asylum seekers are placed in a position of life or death. If they do not leave the country they are at risk of being persecuted in‚ they may die. However‚ attempting to enter other countries as a refugee can be dangerous‚ and very hard. Australia and Japan

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    is suffering from nervous breakdown. All these things about the house are in her mind rather than it is in real. The narrator’s own clues contradict the description of the setting. The house that the narrator thinks is the “house” is more like an asylum where she is having a treatment for her illness. Hallucination is common among the patient of nervous breakdown and a depression. They fantasize things and live in their own world. In the process‚ they do not realize the reality of what they are going

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    retarded people treated on the 1900s and how are they treated now? Back in the Middle Ages‚ insane asylums were created to take the mentally ill people off of the streets. But actually these asylums were in reality prisons and not treatment centers. They were filthy and dark and the inmates were chained. These mentally ill people were treated more like animals than human beings. Finally in 1792‚ at an asylum in Paris an experiment was conducted. The chains were removed from the inmates‚ and to the amazement

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    become abject spaces‚ abjection manifesting within both the mise-en-scène and cinematography. In relation to the asylum‚ abjection further emerges in the nature of mental illness. Referring to Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010)‚ I correlate abjection with the loss of identity that the film’s protagonist experiences‚ considering how abjection visually manifests in the physical spaces of the asylum‚ and propels the narrative trajectory forward. Julia Kristeva’s 1982 account of abjection usually has connections

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    of society include: thief‚ criminal‚ guilty‚ et cetera. Though labels are not limited to crime‚ some of the most prominent ones are commonly associated with crime. An asylum seeker (also frequently referred to as a refugee)‚ is a person who flees a country to live in safety in a new country. By definition‚ they are “seeking asylum”‚ which means they are looking to find a place that will give

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    carefully taking down everything we do with their giant yeottabyte-computers deep in the Utah Desert? We know about this NSA scheme because of the leaker Edward Snowden who has been recently granted a one-year temporary asylum by the Russian government. Why Russia granted the asylum and why Snowden is even there can be tied to three basic concepts of intercultural communication‚ those of culture & social group‚ perspective‚ and cultural relativism. Edward Snowden was a “security contractor at the

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    but pitch black inside the theatre.” This dark verse light theme is introduced and developed throughout the first scene. At a more figurative level‚ this contrast can be perceived to represent the insanity within the asylum and the sanity outside. A stereotypical view of the asylum as being filled with mad people is created. Mistreatment of the mental illness patients can be seen from Justin’s quote “Coat of paint and it’ll be fine” and the stage direction that describe the theatre ‘burnt out’

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    him in need. This is an example of homophobia. However the sex discrimination act of 1975 should occupy this. However an example of sexual discrimination to an asylum seeker could be that of homosexual American man‚ who was born the South of America (the Bible belt) and has been given death threats to emigrate from the country and seek asylum somewhere else‚ so he did. He moved to England‚ however he recently had a back operation so he needs physiotherapy‚ he could be using a local physiotherapy clinic

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