India is an agrarian country with around 60% of its people directly or indirectly depend upon agriculture. Agriculture in India is often attributed as gambling with monsoons because of its almost exclusive dependency on precipitation from monsoons. The failure of these monsoons leading to a series of droughts‚ lack of better prices‚ exploitation by Middlemen‚ all of which have led to a series of suicidescommitted by farmers across India. • • • • Farmers’ demands were not taken into account
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The Vietnam War was the longest war in which the United States took part in. This heart breaking war began in 1957. Vietnam is a small country in Southeast Asia that was divided into the Communist-Democratic Republic of Vietnam‚ known as North Vietnam‚ and the non-Communist Republic of Vietnam‚ called South Vietnam. North Vietnamese and Communist-trained South Vietnamese rebel’s goals were to overthrow the government of South Vietnam and to eventually reunite the country as one. The United States
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The Cold War was a constant looming threat of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States and the Soviet Union held a significant amount of power‚ enabling each to reach superpower status. Although‚ the two became rivals through a mutual distrust and constant competition against one another for more power. Uniquely‚ following World War II‚ Germany was left defeated and Britain and France were weak and exhausted. After Germany surrendered‚ the country was split into
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Teen suicide‚ a harrowing but realistic cause of death that is consuming our nations youth. Next to homicide and car accidents‚ taking one’s life is the third leading cause of death of teens‚ ages 15 through 24. Teen suicide is on a rapid rise throughout the us and mostly goes unnoticed until too late. It is important to understand and recognize the symptoms and actions of the suicidal. Causes to make one wish to take one’s life are are things such as depression‚ pressure at school or with friends
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The stress of one’s mortality is constantly questioned by the protagonist‚ Prince Hamlet‚ throughout Hamlet. Despite entertaining the idea of suicide in III.i.‚ it was never really an option for Hamlet because Hamlet was scared off by “what dreams may come”; that is‚ his uncertainty of the afterlife made earthly suffering‚ a familiar agony‚ seem like the better option. Hamlet was able to at least articulate his earthly agony‚ whereas ghosts‚ devilish spirits‚ hell‚ and purgatory were foreign‚ frightening
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Issues surrounding suicide of women in prison is suicide is more common and handled as though it is not a big deal. Prison systems feel as though they are not at fault‚ that they were merely doing their jobs and release unsympathetic messages. The author quotes‚ "Framingham’s superintendent at the time‚ now Commissioner Kathleen Dennehy‚ was reported saying‚ "The reality is‚ people are going to die while in custody" (p188). That statement proves the people over the system does not care about these
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Is Smoking Suicide? Tobacco use is directly related to lung cancer in ninety percent of males and eighty percent of women. Also tobacco use is directly linked to twenty percent of heart disease. What this says to me is that using tobacco is essentially suicide. So‚ yes tobacco use is suicide and tobacco leads to an estimated five million deaths every year. Mean while seventy percent of those five million deaths are in under developed countries. I believe the reason three and a half million people
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How do we stop this problem? Some ways to do so are so simple that you may not even think of them at the right time. Energy Usage Pie Chart - Click drawing for more on air pollution Other ways are a bit more demanding. There are lots of things in the three lists below. Find the right methods and techniques for you. Where can we start reducing air pollution? It makes sense to attack this (or any) problem by examining and addressing the most important factors contributing to it.Handling air
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of social economic stress‚ which greatly impacts their relationship with their children‚ especially the adolescents. Troubled teenagers experience chronic stress and sometimes deep distress that leads to psychological issues and in worst cases to suicide. As poverty takes its toll on the human health‚ it also affects environment in general: Poor areas are well known by the wide spread of infectious communicable diseases‚ such as typhoid fever and tuberculosis. Underprivileged people are also exposed
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Mirikitani’s poem “Suicide Note”‚ parental pressures to be “good enough”‚ “smart enough”‚ and “pretty enough” are causes of teen suicide. Whether these feelings of deficiency come from comments and expressions from the narrator’s parents‚ or from her perception of their opinion of her‚ they drastically change the way she looks at herself. The narrator feels like her parents expressed that everything she did was not “good enough” according to their expectations‚ which led to her suicide. She even goes
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