Persuasive Essay On Six Flags Accident

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Imagine you are a fifteen-year-old girl’s parent, who promised your child to go to the Six Flags this Saturday as a reward for her good behavior this year. Now, your boss just calls you and ask you to travel out of New York to finish a project and you have to go tomorrow. The boss also promised you, after this business trip you will be promoted and receive $10,000 reward. Now, what would you do, to go with your daughter or go to the business trip?
If you choose to reject your boss, you definitely going to lose this great opportunity and make the boss unhappy. However, you gain your daughter’s trust, which money cannot buy! This kind of trust can make your relationship with your daughter much stronger.
If you choose to say sorry to your daughter
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About 20% of adolescents have thought about suicide, but only 8% of adolescents actually attempted suicide. Luckily, only one person actually killed his/herself in every 25 suicide attempts.
Remember the story I told in the beginning. If you are the girl whose parent don’t go with you to the six flags trip and totally forget their promises to you when they came back from the business trip, do you feel your parents don’t care about you and not want to trust them anymore? Do you want to grab their attention back to you and punish them for the not keeping their promises? If you do, what is the best way to achieve all these things at once? Attempt suicide!
There is a big difference between suicide attempts and suicide completions, all suicide completer don’t want to be alive anymore, but not all suicide attempter want to end their lives. Some suicide attempters just want to achieve their goals by attempting suicide.
According to Explaining the Rise in Youth Suicide, there are three reasons that make people choose to attempt
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These wrong ways of understanding love were the main reasons that cause teens to become depressed and many people believed that depression is one of the leading cause for people choose to attempt/commit suicide.
No one will randomly kill his/herself, there is always a story behind the each suicide.
A ‘model student’ from W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax county, Nick Stuban, was suspended from school on Nov. 3, 2010, for buying JWH-018 (aka synthetic marijuana and was legal to use before 2011) No one can imagine how this strict discipline can affect Nick’s life. Nick was forced to stay away from all his social circle and groups that he belonged to, this harsh discipline makes Nick became depressed and kill himself on Jan 20, 2011, eleven weeks after the discipline was happening. (George)
Nick is not the only suicide case in Fairfax county, according to the youth survey in Fairfax county, about 32% of students have depressive symptoms and 17% of students have thought about suicide. The percent of student feel depressed increased by the grade level the students in. Most people believe that depress is one of the main causes that led people to commit suicide. But where does the depress come

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