Combine

The Combine is mentioned quite a lot in the story that we are reading. Chief uses the combine to portray an image to us, the readers. The Combine, is simply the Chiefs way to represent the higher, more powerful people in society that mow down the individuals that are below them. It is depicted by him as if it is a machine. Each part of this "machine" like force is depended on other types of machines to run this type of civilization, and for it to run smoothly, and thoroughly. The Chief notices this machine, and he is able to see how it is working. He notices the potential of this machine, and how it is able to mow down an individual, and transform him into whatever it wants him to be. He knows that if anyone tries to go against this machine, it will try its best to go after that individual and turn him into practically nothing.

 Anyone can say that anything is run like a combine. A job, a school, a prison, even the world? Yes, all of these could be said to be a combine. All of these things have rules. They also have people who are higher socially, and politically. Like in school, we have rules that we must obey while being inside the facility. When we leave these certain rules will no longer apply to us. We have disciplinary acts in case we do something out of hand. We have things that we must do during the time we are behind the walls of the school. We cannot leave whenever we feel we want to. School is like a combine. Without there being some sort of combine, school wouldn't be as organized, as it is. There would be way too many riots, or students misbehaving.

rules rules, and more rules..

I think I can speak for everyone, when it comes to how absurd some of the rules at Framingham High school are. There are also some rules that were never really looked at as serious as they are today. I dont like the tardy rule. Why should you get a saturday school for being tardy? excused, or unexcused. For some, I know their parents are the reason to them being late everyday. Students should not be punished for their parents taking them late to school. That is just ridiculous. I have yet to have had a problem with this rule, and I'm pretty sure I never will, but for those many students who have had trouble with this rule, I feel bad for. I know a few who have saturday school throughout the end of the year all due to tardies. When you hear this, you began to see how crazy this rule is.
There are also rules like the new ipod policy this year. I know many who like to tune the world out when they aren't feeling to well. Comfort is brought to them by their ipod on a bad day. Now students can't do this anymore. I find this ridiculous. If students use their ipod in class thats their own faults. They're the ones not learning why punish everyone by making this rule? Listening to your ipod isn't distracting anyone, unless it is loud, but thats when you ask them to put the volume down. Some teachers dont seem to care if you have your ipod, but then there are other teachers who get furious. I feel like that due to it being a new rule, it doesn't get enforced as much.
There is also the no phone policy. There have been times where I have had to text my mom to tell her that I will be staying after, or that I will not be staying after. How else would I be able to do this considering she is at work? This rule is just not right. We should be able to text during school. Maybe not during classes, but why not during breaks? Our school is like an asylum in a small way. It is mainly like it due to the rules that we have to follow. Both FHS, and an asylum like the one in One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest have strict rules for the place present. There are rules that are more enforced then others, but rules are rules. These rules limit your individual freedom while you are present at that specific location.

finding a cure, or experimenting for it

When doctors cannot find a cure for an illness or ailment, it is never alright to experiment on human beings in order to find a cure for the illness, or ailment. What if the so called cure you made was not a cure at all? You cannot use humans to experiment on. What if while experimenting on them you take their lives? What do you do then? There are always other ways to experiment on whether the medicine is a cure or not. You can experiment on an animal that functions similarly to a human being. Why would you want to take a human life, when there are other options. Why would you want to take that risk, when you can do more work, and have the cure be a working one or one that needs more development. I would never want to think that the vaccines we got were only experiments, and not foul proof. Why bother taking them if you’re not sure that they will actually work. Why would you want to risk you’re life when it is not even near its end. I highly doubt anyone would. It seems ridiculous for this to even be a question. It just goes all against morals. It endangers the lives of anyone who would be trying this cure. Would it be alright if a doctor said I can not find a cure for cancer, so I’m going to experiment, and then experiment and the result would be making it worse on the patients who take it. That would be plain wrong. It should even be a question. In class we saw the doctors perform lobotomies. In my opinion that is immoral and should never have been done. Why try and mess with a humans brain, when it clearly was not working?