Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Police Clear Camp of Offshoot Demonstrators in Denver

Article/Link: Police Clear Camp of Offshoot Demonstrators in Denver by Dan Frosch and Kirk Johnson

Published: October14, 2011; accessed: October 18, 2011



Summery:
Occupy Wall  Street movement at the park in front of the State Capitol had been cleared by police officers. The police arrested 24 people who refused to disperse. Police came early in the dark morning with flashing lights and announced that the park will be “closed until further notice.” Gov. John Hickenlooper, the first state leader to take an aggressive stance, met protesters on Thursday and required all the protesters to leave the park by 11 p.m. He also said, “We have state laws and city laws that have to be obeyed by everyone” at a news conference on the same day. Despite of his multiple requests and warnings, the protest movement had been continued at the Colorado State Patrol and many other cities like Boston. As a result, the police have moved to stop the protest from expanding to additional locations and demonstrated extreme restraint and professionalism as they encountered a very difficult situation. By 8 a.m., most of the protest was dismantled and Mr. Hickenlooper praised the protesters for staying peacful.

Response:
This article clearly depicts an image of the "combine" and "manipulator" in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The United States and Gov. John Hickenlooper is an example of the combine and Nurse Ratched. Mr. Hickenlooper, as a representative of the United States, is crushing all the protesters and maintaining the order of the combine world like Nurse Ratched controlling all the patients in the mental hospital. In this case, protesters who are fighting against the government are manipulator like McMurphy. They are disturbing the order of the United States by rebelling against the United States. Despite their strong rebellion, Mr. Hickenlooper sends a group of police officers and easily clears most of their protest. However, some protesters resisted and refused to disperse. This depicts an image of McMurphy sacrificing himself to defeat Nurse Ratched and the system. Mr. Hickenlooper, however, demonstrated hammering down all the sticking out nails by arresting these people as Nurse Ratched forced electroshock therapy and lobotomy on McMurphy.

Vocabulary:
1.Dismantle
"The police in other cities where protests have spread have not yet sought to dismantle them."
To disassemble or pull dow; take apart/ To deprive or strip of apparatus, funiture, equipment, defenses
Origin: 1570-80; < Middle French desmanteler
Today I will dismantle Hostel refrigerator so that no one can store anything in it.

2.Cue
"We don't see that as a cue for any group to camp out in any park."
Anything that excites to action; stimulus/ a hint, intimation; guiding suggestion
Origin: 1545-55; spelled named of the letter qas an abbreviation (found in acting scripts) of Latin quandowhen
Mr.Anderson will cue me before I go up to the stage for today's announcement.

3.Restraint
"State troopers and Denver police demonstrated extreme restraint."
The act of restraining, holding back, controlling, or checking.
Origin: 1350-1400; Middle English restreinte< Middle French restrainte, noun used of feminie past participle of restraindre to restrain
One day I will be freed from the restraint of the school!

1 comment:

  1. Good start, especially with the sentences for the three words.

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