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 Submitted by Griffin Nameroff
+.	Both Dix and Bly highlight that there are persons without mental illness being confined, what, if any, do the records say of these cases particularly those of immigrant women who could not communicate or understand their circumstance?
+.	It would not be another forty years before women were given the right to vote, did a figure such as Dix gain political leverage for her plight and did this threaten her own chance of being placed in an asylum as a woman who did not follow the status quo.
+-	Janis Shurtleff
 .	Nellie Bly paints a horrific picture of the degradation women suffered on Blackwell’s Island. Superintendent Dent states that it was in part due to lacking funds (197). How much do you believe this to be true?
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 Submitted by Chris O'Neill
+. On-Page 60-61*, Nellie Brown writes, “ With all bravery I felt a chill at the prospect of being shut up with a fellow-creature who was really insane.”. I want to know if vocabulary such as “fellow-creature” and other similar language was used to describe the mentally ill. Were people with mental illness during this period always dehumanized in this way, to be likened to an animal.
+. In Chapter six, Nellie Brown accounts the nurses talking all night and making noises. The next day the “handsome doctor” asked her if she heard voices at night. To which she replied, “Yes, there is so much talking I can not sleep.” Which was true, she could not sleep the night before because of the nurse’s loud chattering. I wonder if a simple misunderstanding like this could cause a person to be committed to a mental institution during this period. On that note, although Ms. Brown went through many steps to finally get declared “insane”, it seems that getting into the Asylum was too easy. I could see people how that could have lead to “sane” individuals being committed to Asylums.
+*I read this zoomed in on my computer, so page numbers may not be correct.
+Submitted by Jayden Jordan, I pledge.
+. This is more of a general question that isn't as specific to the readings, just to Dorothea Dix. She was such an advocate for those who were in asylums and struggling with mental health and cared deeply about the condition of the patients and asylums she visited, but did not seem to care for issues other than that as much. Since the issue of mental health and asylums are intersectional with other issues like gender, race, socioeconomic status, etc., why do you think she didn't care as much about those other things?
+. Why did the New York World want Nellie Bly to commit herself and then write about her experiences? Was it to prove the poor conditions? Or to just get an inside look into the lives of those at the asylum? Why at the time was a woman journalist entering the asylum; does this play into the commonly seen idea (in our past readings) that women could be committed for just about anything?
+Submitted by Carson Berrier (I pledge...)
+. After learning about the different methods used for curing patients and the positive impacts of moral treatment in our past readings, this week's readings shows that quite the opposite was happening in the asylums. Was the mistreatment of patients and horrific living conditions the norm in these institutions?
+. How successful was Dix at gaining the buy-in from the states to reform their mental hospitals?
+Submitted by Allison Love (I pledge...)
+) Did Dorothea Dix need to appeal the emotion of her audience in her appeal to pass legislation because she was a woman?
+) Did Nellie Bly need to be admitted into Blackwell’s Island in order to get a full understanding of the treatment of patients or could she have explored it from the outside? Dorothea Dix did not need to participate in “detective” reporting to gain and understanding of the treatment of patients, so why did Nellie?
+Submitted by Mallory Karnei (I pledge...)