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After reading all the great reviews on this book I was excited to be getting a copy and eagerly waited with intense anticipation, just to be extremely disappointed. I was left feeling like a major part of the book was missing. There were no illustrations just a reference to sketches at the end of the article. Very little was mentioned about the experiences while inside the Asylum.

Everyone else must have read a different issue or something. I do NOT recommend buying this particular issue - ISBN is in photos, as well as pic of the book cover and the "notation" about sketches. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. She was born in May of and died in January While she was working for a newspaper in New York City she was given an undercover assignment to feign insanity and allow herself to be committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island in order to write an expose of the inhumane way the women in the Asylum were being treated by caretakers, nurses and even doctors.

This book is the true account of what she observed while in that Asylum.

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She is amazed at how readily people in the medical profession proclaim her insane and how quickly they decide she needs to be committed to an Asylum. Once an inmate in the "Lunatic Asylum" she is dismayed when she sees the patients being taunted, laughed at, and even struck by nurses. The patients were also given inadequate clothing to keep them warm in a hospital that has no heat because the heat is turned on only for certain months of the year.

She observes the cold, disgusting and inedible food that is served to the patients while the nurses are being served hot meals and being given fresh fruit. This book, which she wrote from notes she took while in the Asylum, singlehandedly brought about serious reform in this country in the way people are diagnosed as mentally incompetent and also in the way they are treated if they have to be committed.

I can't say I "enjoyed" this book but it was very enlightening. Dee Arr Top Contributor: There are a number of publishers offering this book. In any of the publications, readers will find the main story of how journalist Elizabeth Cochran Seaman pen name Nellie Bly posed as an insane person in order to gain entry into Bellevue hospital on Blackwell's Island.

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This is a revealing look not only into how people were institutionalized years ago, but also the lack of knowledge of medical doctors at that time. The book also includes two short articles on employment agencies and women working in paper box factories. What makes this publication different than others? There are hand drawn illustrations throughout other publications depicting Ms. Seaman at various stages of her investigations.

The backs of those books feature pictures of Ms. Seaman and a list of words that might not be well-known to modern readers. Her other books are also listed. This publication offers the main story and the two articles, and nothing else. Excellent book for those interested in history or just curious about this slice of life in New York over a century ago. What a badass Nellie Bly was.

I've been wanting to read this for a long time. I remember learning about Bly in school but was reminded again of her investigative reporting when I saw a 4-D film at the Newseum in Washington, DC that touched on a few groundbreaking events in the history of journalism. It has taken me too long to finally get around to reading her personal account. I can only imagine how shocking this must have been at the time if it's release in Today, we have seen so many depictions in popular culture of the unsympathetic nursing and inhumane treatment of institutionalized people that I can't help but wonder what an uncensored Nellie Bly would write today without concerns of being improper.

What she did was courageous in a way that is inconceivable in , where someone with a cellphone camera can effectively expose inhumane treatment to the rest of the world with far fewer risks than a woman working undercover in the 19th century. Nope, nope, nope, nope. Not a shot could I do what she did. She had quite a lot of faith in her editors to get her out of the asylum, too. They would leave the inmates to roast to death. What a horror those poor people lived once they reached that island! And what a brave woman Nellie was to enter into their suffering in order to effect a change.

Nellie Bly was the pen name of a fearless young reporter in New York City in the 's when she deliberately got herself committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on infamous Blackwell's Island to create a clandestine report on the horrible conditions there. As a result of her reporting, and her later testimony before a grand jury, major changes were made in the way people with mental problems were treated.

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The book is particularly valuable to those specifically interested in the histories of either New York City or mental health care, But it was also an important early chapter in the life of a brilliant young woman, an early feminist who went on to become one of the most famous reporters of her day. The writing is clear, concise, and very accessible to modern readers. Once you have that out of the way, the platinum is an easy steal.

I just got a bit frustrated with a couple races and stopped playing even though i was so close to the platinum. Probably from seeing other folk playing the game when they download it for free next week. Vita is getting good games once in a while, but PS3 is just awaiting burial. I am happy PS4 gets better titles lately, but if you are supporting PS3 and Vita at this point, put some good games once every 2 months or something.

Especially when Sony already said they will stop supporting older consoles next year…. It makes no sense to keep scraping the barrel for games to include on that system, when such a small percentage of subscribers will even bother downloading. It makes no sense to keep funding free games that barely anyone will play. Personally, I am disappointed Vita is being phased out but I think we are still seeing s Personally, I am disappointed Vita is being phased out but I think we are still seeing strong titles from time to time being given away.

Sony repeating games hoping no one notices. Mad Max was surprisingly good, and Trackmania might be fun with friends. I mean, I hate to be a beggar and chooser but…. It is cross buy.

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I kinda thought the Mad Max game kinda sucked. Been meaning to pick both those up for absolutely ages! Mad Max is a good fun open world experience and will keep people playing for a good hours if they want to see and do everything in the game. Mad Max is a great game. Mad Max is a lot of fun, it has the usual WB Arkham combat system, but the addition of cars you can upgrade brings it into its own.

Instant reset stops it from being overly frustrating, at least until later levels where the game gets incredibly hard. But great fun until then. Any chance of a compensation scheme for people who already own the games digitally? Kidding… keep them coming. In the end, one group ends up with an advantage, at the cost of the other which gets nothing for the same price.

Mad Max is a good game, lovely use of the DS4 speaker as well. I had been thinking of buying Trackmania Turbo when it was on sale some months ago. Honestly, Sony… Before this generation you were like the best gaming had to offer me. After a little check, I think there are some mistakes in this article about the cross-buy features of some games namely 99vidas and In Space We Brawl. I remember them making it a clear marketing point before. Really happy with the last 2 months, keep it up. Apart from Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max..

Most of the indie games for Vita were not for me, but I find something once in a while here and there. But man oh man, those two PS3 titles look like absolute stinkers.

Add To Library, but never actually download them. Surely something like Yakuza 3 or even Yakuza Dead Souls seeing 6 launches in a few weeks? Could we possibly see the final 12 months of PS3 and Vitas titles out without including another neon indie twin stick shooter? PS4 line up is good Mad Max is a great game, when PS3 was the main console it was giving away those sorts of games at this price which made plus really good, the last few months have been really good in terms of PS4 line up.

THe PS3 and Vita though those are jank and have been for ages, it just feels like whats the point whenever I see them, if just giving us one would increase the quality I would definitely prefer that if not it kind of just seems like you should end support for them now. So we get whatever they will throw at us this last year, but I was hoping for some little gems even unknown or underrated ones.

Right now, it really feels like unnecessary and boring filler. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel for those PS3 games. For more info or to change settings, click here. Log in to comment Log in. Posted 28 March Share this post Reddit Pinterest Email. You can download the following from 3rd April: Trackmania Turbo Staying squarely with the theme of over-the-top vehicular mayhem, second in our April line-up is mad-cap racer and all-round affront to Newtonian Laws, Trackmania Turbo.

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