One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Power
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Peoples' ability to use power to control and manipulate situations and
people is a skill not many people have. Unfortunately this skill can lead to
conflict as it did in Ken Kesely's novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest when
McMurphy and Nurse Ratched meet each other.
McMurphy has been after Nu ....
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.... in the ward before. He came in singing and
laughing, something that no one had heard in a long time. He walked around the
room shaking hands, introducing himself to everyone, even the chronics. He
taught the acutes how to play cards and he taught them to gamble. His very
first bet though was that he could get the best of nurse Ratched within the week,
and he did. She wasn't going to back down though. To try and stop all the
gambling going on she rationed the cigarettes, so they no longe ....
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