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    RISK AND CONTROL: • high profile homicides led to Care Programme Approach (1990) to co-ordinate support‚ provide full needs assessment and care plan • supervision registers (1994) and Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995 tightened co-ordination and control over patients • Mental Health Act 2007: supervised community treatment and wider role for mental health professionals CARE AND RIGHTS • National Service Framework 1998‚ 2009: set national standards and guidelines and targets

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    Schizophrenia There are various things in life that one goes through‚ and most of our learning comes from childhood. Although‚ while a kid is supposed to have a wonderful and exciting time. It does not always happen‚ some kids get mature before their age because life shows them the worst sides of the world at an early part of life. In the poem “Schizophrenia”‚ it illustrates and gives a particular point of view; in which develops a terrorizing memory. To start off‚the main symbolism in the poem

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    A shimmery golden gossamer curtain blowing delicately in the wind twinkles provocatively in your mind at the thought of sweet power being just within your grasp‚ doesn’t it? Don’t be afraid to be honest as this is the reality of many humans and even some animals. In fact‚ the classic novel Animal Farm‚ written by George Orwell in 1945‚ is an allegory that symbolizes the powerful politicians and those close to them during the Russian Revolution. This fairy story quite successfully uses pigs to represent

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    stuck out to me was the extent in which Joseph Conrad describes the un-human like qualities of Africans. At one point in the excerpt Conrad calls africans a “prehistoric man”‚ and at another point describes the way in which the Africans live as a “madhouse”. It seemed to me as if he was not looking at a people rather Conrad was looking onto Africans as if they were caged animals simply there as a resource for Conrad and his men. The overall condescending nature of the excerpt frankly made the passages

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    he takes it almost as a compliment. He is honored to be this madman and believes it is what makes him great‚ while in the past he feared becoming mad. At the end of the first paragraph‚ he shows readers his enthusiasm for madness‚ “Hurrah for the madhouse! Oh‚ it’s a rare place” (Dickens 575). Dickens finds it ironic that he inherited a large estate and much money because he was not deserving of it. He believes other men of higher class or power would have been better suited for this inheritance.

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    "Schizophrenia" By Jim Stevens "Schizophrenia" by Jim Stevens is a poem depicting the way a schizophrenic person ’s brain works. In the first line of the poem Jim Stevens says "It was the house that suffered the most". Although he is using the visualization of a house‚ I believe that he is really just using imagery to portray a human. I believe that each stanza portrays a different symptom of Schizophrenia. Through my studies of this poem‚ I was unable to find any documentation of the poet‚ Jim

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    Rachel Gonzalez November 30‚ 2010 “ Psycho “ Psycho is a suspense horror film made in 1960 by Alfred Hitchcock. When Alfred wanted to produce this film‚ Paramount did not want to produce it and refused to provide the budget that Hitchcock received from them for previous films with the studio. No one thought the film would be a success‚ so Hitchcock took matters into his owns hands and set a budget of less than 820‚000 dollars. The film is about a young women named Marion Crane who steals

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    visit the men in jail‚ Dede would become a nervous wreck. On their last journey to the prison‚ Dede stood by the jeep preventing it from leaving. She told Minerva‚ “I’m going crazy with worrying. I’ll be the one locked up forever‚ you’ll see. In the madhouse.”(Alvarez 288) As a reaction to her sister’s death‚ Dede was paranoid of her relatives being on the road after dark. After her

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    Causing students to feel like the are still in elementary school is not a good way to start them towards their college career. The school shows no faith in their students and their ability to leave school for lunch. It is student’s responsibility for what happens to them when they leave school for lunch. Mlive.com states that‚ “French students have a two-hour lunch break from 11:30am to 1:30pm. During their lunch break they can eat at home or at a restaurant‚ having several positive aspects about

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    The main character in this play is Antigone. It begins with Antigone not being allowed to bury her brother. Antigone decides that she doesn’t care that Creon‚ the king of Thebes‚ forbid her to do so. She was angry about this and tells her sister Isemene that that night she is going to sneak out‚ and bury their brother. Isemene advised against it because she was afraid Antigone would be caught‚ and killed‚ but Antigone insisted. Seeing that there was no way to talk her out of it Isemene promised that

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