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- 8261: Suicide
- ... which means literally "self-killing." For all the uncertainty that has surrounded the phenomenon of suicide, his assessment of the problem is probably as accurate as any. The individual, in seemingly hopeless conflict with the world, decides to end his or her existence in what amounts to a final assault against a society that can no longer be tolerated. In so doing, the person tries to obtain a final revenge on ... Focusing on the negative occurences is what casues the person to commit suicide. The increase in teenage suicides during the 1980s probably resulted from an element of romantic fantasy combined with hostility toward the immediate world. Many suicides result from loss of boyfriend/girlfriend and from loneliness. Closely related to these emotions is the conviction that the happiness of past years can never be recaptured. Sometimes, terminally ill persons choose to ... or lonely individuals may use to get help. City dwellers are far more likely to commit suicide than rural people. Laborers are much less likely to commit suicide than business and professional men. Throughout the world, three or four times as many men as women kill themselves. Male suicides generally hang themselves, or use a knife or a gun. Women often choose poisoning or drug overdose as means of death. ...
- 8262: Existentialism
- ... discipline them. Again, our choice to let them un-disciplined is a fatal choice. As taught in last years Religion class, the choices we make dictate the life we lead. " Look at the misery the world is in. What are you doing about it. To this cynical blackmail the artist might reply: The misery of the world? I'm not adding anything to it. Which of you can say as much (A. Camus - EPW) This quote displays how a existentialist sees the most difficult situations, and some how finds hope and meaning ... s are a part of the reason why the people behind the thoughts of abortion issues have still not come up with a full, complete, conclusive idea. As was stated before, the misery of the world is not a issue pertaining to us unless we add to it. Here is where these words get caught up. In one way or another, issues affect us. Perhaps for Anne Donovan, the people ...
- 8263: John Updikess Pigeon Feather
- ... I? At first glance Mr. Updike's range seems narrow. As a matter of fact, though, it is wide. If he repeats himself it is from choice, not necessity. And he can sketch a whole world, the intellectual world of the swarming foundation grantees, by merely saying that, on a ship crossing of the Atlantic, there was "blackjack with the Rhodes Scholars and deck tennis with the Fulbrights." Yet he is not a pennon ... town, where life was a distant adventure, a rumor, an always imminent joy." Thus Allen Down in "Flight," remembering what looks like this same girl and his mother's jealousy of her, reconstructs a glowing world of details about his grandfather and grandmother (who turns up in several other stories), of school and classmates, of dances and debates. It is a meticulous, loving and beautiful re-creation, and Mr. Updike' ...
- 8264: Comparison of "Queen of Diamonds" and "Aunt Parnetta's Electric Blisters"
- ... and partying until it catches up with her and she decides to take her own life. The other book, "Aunt Parnetta's Electric Blisters", is about a lady who feels out of place in the world because she is Indian, and she lives in the land of white people. Aunt Parnetta and Chrstine's problems are similiar, in that, they are both caused by pessimistic attitudes towards life. "Queen of Diamonds ... good story with almost the same theme as "Queen of Diamonds". The story is about a Indian lady who's refridgerator broke. The refridgerator was a symbol, in the story, of the lady in a world of different people. The refridgerator was surrounded by Indians that were nothing like it, a lot like how Aunt Parnetta was in world surrounded by white people. Aunt Parnetta saw this, and revolved every thought about it. She was overcome by the idea that she was living out of place, and could not bear it. Aunt Parnetta ...
- 8265: Regulate and Reform Euthanasia
- ... carefully regulated policies that will allow euthanasia in selective cases. Such an extreme comparison should not prevent a merciful euthanasia policy for the terminally ill in unbearable pain who request it. As people began forgetting World War II and the atrocities of Nazi Germany, interest in "assisted suicide" and euthanasia was restored. To understand the controversy of euthanasia and assisted suicide, one must understand the difference between the two terms. Euthanasia involves ...
- 8266: Personal Territories
- ... feel so defensive about their own personal territory is that we can feel secure and comfortable in our own territory. No other people can interrupt or step into it once you are in your own world. You are the only owner of your territory. Others who come across may be viewed as invaders. Even if they don¡¦t have the intention to take away your territory, a great opposition against them ... Despite the fact that it is our own nature to protect ourselves from attackers, our feelings also make us reveal how you actually feel inside your heart. If someone wants to enter in your personal world, your may first feel angry and irritated. Then, you realize that you have lost something that seems to be important and have a lonely feeling. There are many different kinds of personal territories such as ... some tricks on it so that I was not able to use the computer without his help. Although it is only a small quarrel between sister and brother, it seems to me that my own world was taken by him. I had never been as angry as how I feel that time and I realized the existence of my personal territory. As we know about the importance of our own ...
- 8267: Why I Believe In Voluntary Euthanasia
- ... fact that the law calls all forms of self-destruction 'suicide.' Let me point out here for those who might not know it that suicide is no longer a crime anywhere in the English-speaking world. (It used to be, and was punishable by giving all the dead person's money and goods to the government.) Attempted suicide is no longer a crime, although under health laws a person can in ... But giving assistance in suicide remains a crime, except in the Netherlands in recent times under certain conditions, and it has never been a crime in Switzerland, Germany, Norway and Uruguay. The rest of the world punishes assistance in suicide for both the mentally ill and the terminally ill, although the state of Oregon recently (Nov. l994) passed by ballot Measure 16 a limited physician-assisted suicide law. At present (Feb ... Even if a hopelessly ill person is requesting assistance in dying for the most compassionate reasons, and the helper is acting from the most noble of motives, it remains a crime in the Anglo-American world. Punishments range from fines to fourteen years in prison. It is this catch- all prohibition which I and others wish to change. In a caring society, under the rule of law, we claim that ...
- 8268: Persuasion 2
- ... How the message is communicated, the third element to persuade, stresses the importance of message delivery. ³Communication is the most important and complex thing we do. It can shape our careers, our lives, and our world... You can control the outcome of your important interactions if you control your communication style.²(3) The studies have shown that interpersonal contact influences behavior and attitudes much more than the media. Of course media ... made a strong commitment. Keep in mind, however, that this persuasion resisting technique can be forced on you by others as seen in the cases of ³brain washing² of American POW¹s during the Korean war. The POW¹s were asked to repeat mildly anti-American or pro-communist statements. Once they willingly complied, prisoners were asked to make a list of problems in America, which they had to discuss in ...
- 8269: The Scarlet Letter: Use of Romanticism in Development of Characters
- ... Letter, the use of Romanticism plays an important role in the development of his characters. He effectively demonstrates individualism in Hester to further our understanding of the difficulties of living in Boston, the stern, joyless world of Puritan New England. It is all gloom and doom. If the sun ever shines, one could hardly notice. The entire place seems to be shrouded in black. The people of this society were stern ... child in gleaming colors, imaginatively arranged. Hester dresses her child in her own "wild, desperate, defiant mood, that flightiness of her temper" (66). As Hester's new garments represent her restraint in dealing with the world around her, Hawthorne uses Pearl's attire as a vehicle by which Hester deals with her new life after being imprisoned. Since Hester is unable to dress in colors that please her, she uses her ... readers a feeling of her radically changed personality, Hawthorne's intention was to give us another meaning. Condemned as an adulteress, Hester has become a free thinker, something far more dangerous in this stuffy, illiberal world. Once she was a dissenter, a person who broke with her society over a single law. Now Hawthorne gives her the role of a heretic, a person who questions the basis of every law. ...
- 8270: Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms": Henry - A Man of Action, Self-Dicipline, and One Who Maintains Grace Under Pressure
- ... Henry - A Man of Action, Self-Dicipline, and One Who Maintains Grace Under Pressure It is the nature of the beast within that fuels our inclination towards conflict and destruction. During the surreal powers of war, life hangs in the balance setting the stage for an elite group of individuals who triumphantly rise above the rest amidst the chaos. As Ernest Hemingway illustrates in his book, Farewell to Arms, the character ... the one and only love of his life. He has an uncanny ability to weigh and analyze the choices he makes without getting emotionall y involved. Frederick is sentimentally detached from the rest of the world which enables him to deal with intensely climatic moments with such aplomb and ease. When being transported to his room in the American hospital, Henry graciously acknowledged the stretcher bearers even in such grueling pain ...
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