Essays Tagged: "commit suicide"

Death of a Salesman

story of a salesman whom is in deep financial trouble, and the only remedy for the situation is to commit suicide. In the stage production of this tale, the specific lighting, set, and musical design ... ointment after disappointment Willy decides that his only way to provide for his family would be to commit suicide. The number one son of the salesman, Biff, is paving his way for a discouraging life. ...

(8 pages) 536 1 3.9 Apr/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Character Study On Mercutio

Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written by William Shakespeare. It is about two lovers who commit suicide when their feuding families prevent them from being together. The play has many chara ...

(3 pages) 57 0 5.0 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

at at the conclusion of Arthur Miller's classic dramaDeath of a Salesman, Willy Loman determines to commit suicide because his older son Biff has at last openly andunequivocally declared his 'love' fo ...

(3 pages) 388 2 4.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Physician-Assisted Suicide

ided in her suicide by A Canadian Physician in violation of Canadian law. Throughout North America, Committing suicide or attempting to commit suicide is not a legal offense. However, helping another ...

(5 pages) 256 1 3.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Euthenasia

suicide

of30,000 suicide deaths occur in the United States. It isestimated that 5,000 of those suicides are committed byteenagers(SAVE, 2). One major reason that the suicide rateamong teenagers is so high, is ... eoccurring, and decisions about the future are being madeduring the teenage years.Teenagers tend to commit suicide after large changes,significant losses, or abuse has occurred in their lives.An impor ...

(4 pages) 299 0 3.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide

The Bell Jar.

r. She has an emotional crisis and is given outpatient shock treatment, after which she attempts to commit suicide. She is sent to a psychiatric hospital where she recovers.Mrs. Greenwood is quite hel ... n her life. Esther stops sleeping and finds that she can not read nor write anymore. She decides to commit suicide by slitting her wrists, but doesn't succeed because of her lack of sleep. The next mo ...

(3 pages) 74 0 3.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Ben Hogan

called Dublin. He was oneof three children. When Ben was only six years old he witnessed his fathercommit suicide while playing in the same room. ' At age nine my childhoodwas shot through the heart' ...

(2 pages) 22 0 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Character is molded by experience. Refers to Flaubert's "Madame Bovary"

father's disinterest in her mental happiness become the force which eventually leads Emma Bovary to commit suicide.When she was 13 years old, Pere Rouault took his daughter, Emma, to town to put her i ...

(2 pages) 73 0 3.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Our society Isn't Doing enough To prevent Suicide

Once every minute someone tries to commit suicide. Sixty or seventy times a day these attempts succeed.( Earl A. Grollman, Suicide: Pre ...

(4 pages) 89 0 3.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

D. H. Lawrence "The Horse-Dealer's Daughter" an analysis

to her three verbally abusive brothers."The Horse - Dealer's Daughter" is about Mabel, who tries to commit suicide by drowning herself in a pond. A young doctor, Joe Ferguson, saves her. She then beli ... bel finds out that he saved her, she convinces herself that he loves her.The reason why I think she committed suicide is because she felt unloved. Her father had recently died, her brothers were mean ...

(2 pages) 22070 0 4.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Title: The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D.H. Lawrence. The relationship between two characters: Mabel and Dr.Ferguson.

us brothers. In addition, suicide and love play an important role in the story. When Mabel tries to commit suicide, her life changes. She falls in love with a doctor which helps her to forget the mise ...

(2 pages) 86 0 3.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Graham Greene: The Destructors, A Shocking Accident, and The Blue Film. This is a biographical essay on Graham Greene, which critiques as well as explains three of his short stories.

ed Greene because his father was the headmaster of the school in which he attended. He attempted to commit suicide on numerous occasions. Pursuant to the attempts at taking his own life and running aw ...

(10 pages) 161 2 4.1 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Summary of the novel "Ordinary People"

novel begins. After the death of Buck, Conrad became deeply troubled, blaming himself. He tried to commit suicide by slashing his wrists; his attempt failed when Calvin found him, before he died, in ... lots of time with Jeannine. One night, however, he reads in the newspaper that his friend Karen has committed suicide. He is suddenly thrown into shock, and he spends the whole night in a dream-like t ...

(4 pages) 67 0 3.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Factors Of Teen Suicide, Can We Stop It? Symptoms, main factors, causes, significance, results, and solution of teen suicide.

l of my best friends called me a loser and left. In school I am making straight D's. Maybe I should commit suicide...Today an estimated 276,000 teenagers between 14-17 a year attempt suicide and 5,000 ... are known as substance abusers. They get distorted perceptions and then get depressed and then they commit suicide.Many symptoms of suicide are talking about suicide, statements about hopelessness, he ...

(2 pages) 188 0 3.9 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide

Type of motivation used in the novel Ordinary People, by Judith Guest

Conrad's desire to be able to control the events that cross his path of life, was his intention to commit suicide. Plainly, Conrad had a desire to alleviate himself of the obligation that was emotion ...

(3 pages) 62 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

This is a short essay about the character flaws in "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet". It show the flaws of 3 different people who had crucial parts in the play.

and Juliet"Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's plays about tragedy. It is about two lovers who commit suicide when their family rivalries prevent them from being together. The play has many chara ...

(3 pages) 99 0 3.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

Behavior Development in Violence

ado's high school in April 1999. Many more lives could have been taken, but why did two young teens commit suicide after killing twelve fellow students and an inspiring teacher? "Coach Sanders, I love ...

(4 pages) 157 1 4.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Artists that commit suicide.

Lots of artist commit suicide due their successful.e.g:Kurt Cobain,Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing.When you become an inter ... ness.Its recall me of the dead of Leslie Cheung (the legend,famous actor and singer in Hongkong)who commits suicide on Tuesday,April 1st.He commits suicide by jump from mandarin hotel,HK on 24th floor ...

(1 pages) 44 1 3.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath.

result, she breaks down in public. Continuing her path of self-destruction, she tries many times to commit suicide, and at one point, she almost succeeds. "...as I approached the bottom of the bottle, ... ter had spat me up into the sun" (160). In this scene, Esther describes one of her many attempts to commit suicide, this time trying to drown herself. She is so unhappy with her life that she feels th ...

(4 pages) 69 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Modifying the Perceptions of Body Imagery.

ative Body Images, Society and Media," "chances are that you will know at least two people who will commit suicide during their teen years" (Overstreet 4). These may or not be people who are in one's ...

(17 pages) 285 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine