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 longer ....
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