Suicide Squad

Raced thoughts, feeling of euphoria, unlimited energy, and lack of sleep. These are feelings that I experienced and am well familiar with. I was confused and scared in a mind that felt like an endless tunnel. My thoughts never stopped racing and I felt like I was on top of the world. I felt peace and quiet only after finding myself a patient in a psychiatric hospital. I graduated from Hoggard High School, class of 2012 in early June. That following August I was enrolled as a freshman at Cape…

to have his son tested. Not having parents know about these changes in their children can have dire consequences. For example, “without better education for adults, thousands of young people are at risk of alcohol and drug misuse, self-harm and suicide” (Sprinks 7). The signs of Trent’s mental health were around his parents, sadly, they didn’t know what they were. Because of this, later in their…

Life is not a void filled with despair and difficulties as Hamlet has depicted in his soliloquy. Looking at Roger Ebert and Steve Jobs, we can see that it is possible to be content with your life even though it may seem like an unrealistic dream to some. Just because you can’t see it now doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. And it most certainly does not mean you won’t be able to find happiness later down the road. Life is valuable; it just depends on how you choose to look at it. Hamlet does not…

allegiance." (Barker 249). Rivers comes into contact with many soldiers and successfully fulfills his duty many times in helping them with their rehabilitation. In Border Crossing, shortly after Danny is released from prison, he attempts to commit suicide only to be rescued by a man whom he comes to realize is the child psychologist that he once knew a decade ago. After their fated meeting, Tom comes to realize that Danny is still that troubled little kid from a long time ago and he openly…

digging. But before Hamlet and Horatio come upon them the two gravediggers are talking about where this person should be buried. Well obviously in the graveyard right? Wrong. Religion was very important during that time period. If someone committed suicide they weren’t allowed to be buried in a graveyard. That was reserved for common people. Religious leaders and others were buried under the church. Once Hamlet and Horatio start talking to the gravediggers about the grave and who it is for they…

In today’s society, technology has made it easier for people to communicate with one another. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram allow you to communicate with people at any given moment. Devices such as cell phones, iPods etc., are just a few methods of technology that allow access to the social networking. While presenting the users with an easier approach for communication, they also allow the user to essentially “hide behind a screen”. The act of cyber-bullying has been…

someone could pull from this movie is that there is a price that everyone must pay. The Warden paid the price for his crimes when he knew he had an innocent man in jail just for him to use Andy for his accounting skills. The Warden ended up committing suicide and I feel that was the ultimate penitence that the Warden had to pay in order for his crimes to be forgiven. People never think about the consequences of their actions and if they decided to then a lot of things would be different in the…

Brigham Anderson was but one of many gay characters to commit suicide because of their inability to accept themselves for what they were. But what about films in which gay characters are martyred, indirectly? Queue the 1980’s AIDS pandemic. Along with AIDS being touted as the “gay disease” came films, such as Norman René’s Longtime Companion and Johnathan Demme’s Philadelphia, in which gay characters ultimately succumbed to the disease. This type of martyrdom contributes ultimate scandalizing of…

When kids are young they may live with the horrifying fear that there are monsters under their bed or in their closet. Unfortunately, for many children and adolescents the monster is not living in their closet or under their bed, and they probably wish it were. For many people, the monster is not just there when they go to bed, but instead it is inside them and it never goes away. This darkness is much worse than a monster and it goes by the name of depression. The constant inner battle of…

Sadly, bullying has been occurring very often. I remember reading a story regarding a 13-year old boy name Steven who was a sweet, touchy and aesthetic child. He worshiped his more established sister and he adored skateboarding, baseball, music and his pooch, Finster. He likewise happened to be somewhat unbalanced. He was a smallish child who was distinctive and simply didn 't exactly fit in. To some degree he had dependably been the objective of teasing, yet it was in center school toward the…