Suicide bombing

and not the truth. Eve Weiderhold, a feminist professor at George Mason University, believes that “the narrator’s wife, while married to a military officer, attempted suicide and that this act prompted her to contact Robert after she quit her job. Here, the narrator’s apparent lack of interest in talking about his wife’s suicide attempt would be of interest, particularly when exploring the text’s representation of gender (Weiderhold).” Personally, I disagree with Weiderhold on this matter…

Teen Suicide In the United States, “Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC” (“Bullying”). That many deaths per year are too many for adolescences under the age of 18 years old because the majority of them are still in school and under the care and supervision of their parents. Unfortunately, this number of deaths will continue to increase unless something changes and soon. Presently, teen suicide is a…

Willy purposefully seeks out death, attempting suicide, and finally committing suicide. Troy wants to avoid death. He believes he can fend off death until he loses his strength. Willy welcomes death; meanwhile, Troy struggles to defend himself from Death. The comparison between their attitudes towards death and their…

Assisted suicide: suicide committed by someone with assistance from another person, many think it’s unethical but fail to consider the circumstances of the people that request it (“A Right” 2015). It is now legal in several countries and a few U.S. states including: Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, California, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont (Kafer 2016). Although it’s legal in some places, there are many requirements and steps to applying for assisted…

mindfully. The purposes for a high school students suicide or attempt of committing suicide can be perplexing. Despite the fact that suicide is generally uncommon among youngsters, the rate of suicides and suicide endeavors increments enormously amid youth. The danger of suicide increases drastically when children and adolescents have admittance to guns at home, and about 50-60% of all suicides in the United States are conferred with a firearm. Suicide rates vary amongst young men and young…

terminally ill people are suffering everyday. While some people agree with legalizing physician assisted suicide, many others also disagree. Physician assisted suicide should be legalized because it helps people stop suffering and pass comfortably. In an article titled "Why I Believe in Voluntary Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide", Humphry states that "there is a second form of suicide-justifiable suicide, which is rational and planned deliverance from a painful and hopeless disease" (Humphry),…

Drain: The Effect of Mental Illness on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel Poems Sylvia Plath’s death was one of the most famous in literary history. Her chilling suicide added immeasurable weight to the work she left behind. The Bell Jar and Ariel and Other Poems gave the public a personal look inside the mind of their creator. Her Ariel poems are her suicide note. All her insecurities, fears, and experiences laid out in these poems. The writing of Ariel was Plath’s life flashing before her eyes. She…

when American culture changed infinitely. Despite this, Holden seems doomed to this static lifestyle due to his worldviews, and by extension, the reader is doomed as well. According to Baumbach, “Salinger’s idealistic heroes are doomed either to suicide (Seymour), or insanity (Holden, Sergeant X)...” (Baumbach 134), all of Salinger’s ‘heroes’ are forced to be in a static state after their stories are done, so they may not grow to see another viewpoint of the world, and the characters they…

Major Depressive Disorder is a mental disorder that involves a constant low mood and sadness as well as low self esteem and lack of interest in various activities. MDD is also often called clinical depression, this can impact how we behave as well as our mood and often times affects various aspects of our lives. Depression has been around for many years now, since the B.C. era, when it was first discovered it was known as “melancholia.” “At this time, all mental illnesses were attributed to…

A person’s mental health greatly impacts how they handle certain situations. Most of the time, it can be unstable and cause them to do things they normally wouldn’t do. A loved one’s death can significantly affect a person’s mental health, leading to mental and emotional instability. In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the main character, Holden, still struggles with mental instability as a result of the loss of his younger brother. He wanders around the streets of New York trying to…