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  Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History,  written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman, is a compelling graphic novel of one man's fight to survive the Holocaust. What makes this story unique is that instead of using people, Spiegelman uses mice to represents Jews, and cats to represent the Nazis. Spiegelman also breaks away from the standard storyteller in which he himself plays a role and the order of events is told as if he didn't yet write the Maus series. He is gathering the necessary information from his father, Vladek, to write it. This was a great call on Spiegelman's part because had he not ordered the events as such, he wouldn't have had the opportunity to capture the father's character as well as he did.  Spiegelman succeeds at painting his father and making readers feel attached to the story. In the present, Vladek is old and ailing as he reminisces of his experience in Nazi-occupied Poland. Spiegelman captures his bitterness and that gre...

 #BreakTheChains is a global movement against the inhumane practice of confining and chaining people with mental health conditions. Due to lack of access to mental health care resources, "men, women, and children, some as young as 10, are chained or locked in confined spaces for weeks, months, and even years, in about 60 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas," according to Human Rights Watch . The shackled victims are "forced to eat, sleep, urinate, and defecate in the same tiny area." Most families who resort to this practice believe that mental health conditions happen to the sinned and are caused by evil spirits taking over the body. In state-run, private, and religious institutions, many are victimized to sexual and physical abuse.  "Globally, an estimated 792 million people, or 1 in 10, including 1 in 5 children, have a mental health condition," Human Rights Watch reports. "Yet governments spend less than 2 perc...