Essays Tagged: "committing suicide"

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

A Critique of the Book "Feeling Good" by David Burns

e time of their death. Irwing and Barbara Serason (1996) also state that one of the risk factors in committing suicide is the presence of mood disorder. Silverman (1993) states that suicide among youn ... up a valid issue in addressing the pertinence of depression as it pertains to peoples tendencies of committing a suicide; other academics have agreed with the same findings. However these academics ha ...

(10 pages) 101 0 3.5 Apr/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Individualism and how it is evident in Ralph Waldo Emerson's story "Self Reliance".

merson p.867) He explains that if you are not true in the sense of individualism, then you are then committing suicide. As society will look at you with a different perspective than at other people; i ...

(3 pages) 138 0 3.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Sylvia Plath's Poems "Tulips" & "Stings".

ips" and "Stings". Within each, there lays pieces of sadness and anger, which Plath succumbed to by committing suicide at 30. Plath's indignant tone combined with colorful images of her own hatred and ... d a sunken rust-red engine.They concentrate my attention, that was happyPlaying and resting without committing itself.The walls, also, seem to be warming themselves.The tulips should be behind bars li ...

(10 pages) 80 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Oedipus and Antigone.

and is killed. Creon's fate is also doomed because by killing Antigone, results in his son and wife committing suicide. Oedipus, Antigone and Creon must learn to accept fate because no matter how hard ...

(4 pages) 72 2 2.3 May/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

Youth suicide, a growing issue on Australian shores.

highest suicide rates in the world. A closer look at this statistic means that over 2000 people are committing this act each year. After traffic accidents, suicide is the leading cause of death in thi ... Australia, one of the world's most democratic societies, with plenty of opportunities and freedom, committing suicide?Even with improved management of mental illness, dramatically improved and easily ...

(3 pages) 67 0 4.8 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

The relationship between children and parents from the 2 essays: Nights Below Station Street and Joy Luck Club.

ation between parents and their children. One can simply open the daily newspaper to find teenagers committing suicide or various crimes due to stress derived from family issues. These incidents revea ...

(5 pages) 20358 0 0.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Hamlet.

s more significance in dealing with the dreads and destruction of life or putting an end to them by committing suicide. Hamlet eventually learns the hard way that indecision and deep analyzing rather ...

(6 pages) 75 1 5.0 Oct/2003

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

How Central America suffers and struggle to create high standard of living and how sad is their everyday life. Prostitution, suicides because of lack of employment.

arents are not able to get jobs. All of this constant disappointment and depression leads to people committing suicide.In addition, high levels of crime are the main problem. Teenagers tend to join ga ...

(1 pages) 44 0 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

It's about a man who is going to commit suicide.

dly anyone else would have waited for a train with such an excitement before.The thought that he is committing suicide tonight and thereby, getting relieved from all the earthly obligations fills his ...

(2 pages) 22 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

Explore the view that 'Thelma and Louise' is a feminist film.

become closer, revealing more to each other about their past. The film ends with Thelma and Louise committing suicide together as an act of defiance. I believe that 'Thelma and Louise' is a feminist ...

(2 pages) 96 3 4.2 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Should a death row inmate be saved from a suicide attempt?

self would take away justification for the victim that the inmate killed. From a religious outlook, committing suicide is a sin, according to the Bible. And from a political perspective, a last minuet ... hically, I do not believe the death row inmate should have the privilege of taking his own life for committing such a heinous crime. The courts set forth this death penalty in lieu of the fact that he ...

(2 pages) 24 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

A Doll's House Characters

le of what you call feeling, you know." He visits Nora to check on her, and he discourages her from committing suicide. Moreover, Krogstad has reasonable motives for behaving as he does: he wants to k ...

(4 pages) 82 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Teenage Suicide

Suicide is the third leading cause of death among teenagers and young adults. Nearly all teens committing suicide are suffering from extreme emotional pain and distress and feel unable to cope wi ... , stress build up, self doubt, sexual issues, peer pressures. Feeling helpless and/or hopeless, are committing suicide by the thousands each year, thus making themselves a fatal statistic but unfortun ...

(7 pages) 111 0 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Cultural Madness. A closer inspection of Japanese culture using the "Chrysanthemum Tryst" a tale from the Ugetsu Monogatari.

s inherently flawed. Furthermore, the extent of warrior like fortitude that Akana demonstrates when committing suicide, only confirms the lack of rationality that the character suffers from.The cultur ... the foundation for blind faith, one has to grasp the entire situation before acting out rashly and committing suicide. This is strictly from a Westernized perspective, perhaps there is a spiritual fo ...

(4 pages) 43 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

What is literature

ch mistakes become clear but impossible to correct. Such is the fate of western civilization. It is committing suicide as a result of its ill-gotten policies of human rights and multiculturalism.Weste ...

(4 pages) 55 1 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

An Investigation into World-Wide Causes of Suicide

etween 1950 and 2000, and every year over 1,000,000 people around the world take their own lives by committing suicide. In addition, according to a new report (June 2002) from University of Oslo, suic ... suicide is likely to rise by 15% by 2020. In fact, it is very simple nowadays to hear about people committing suicide around the word. So, this study aims to focus on the suicide reason.Data about su ...

(7 pages) 77 0 3.7 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Analysis of "Quentin Section" of "Sound and Fury" by "Willaim Faulkner"

lysisQuentin section is the thought of a person who's living in that last moment of his life before committing suicide, where he is already dead and detached form the world, at a place where there is ...

(7 pages) 35 0 4.3 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

It's all a game (poem)

winThen your lovely life will truely beginIf you quit because you just can't decideWell hey, that's committing suicideLife is a gift to keep or returnOr in the dark flames of hell do you burnLife is a ...

(1 pages) 22 0 3.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Life of Ben Hogan

Ben Hogan was born in Stevenville, Texas in 1912.He had to live with the calamity of his father committing suicide when Ben was very young, only ten. When Hogan and his family (his older sister an ...

(3 pages) 20 0 3.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History