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    Every single person endures‚ it’s how much you can endure until you break that makes people’s endurance different and unique. Weather you’re mentally enduring talking politics with your opinionated family on Thanksgiving or you’re enduring the physical pain of a gunshot wound‚ you continue to endure the pain and see the day through. Endurance is the ability or strength to continue‚ especially despite fatigue‚ stress‚ or other adverse conditions. In Ernest Hemingway’s book‚ The Old Man and the

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    Emile Durkheim had a theory that suicide was caused by society more than individual choice. Durkheim defines suicide as “...the term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself‚ which he knows will produce this result.” -Durkheim‚ 1897. He broke suicide into four types. Egoistic suicide comes from a prolonged sense of not belonging. Altruistic suicide is the sense of being overwhelmed by the goals or beliefs of a

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    Teenage suicide‚ unfortunately‚ occurs in every corner of the world. It is a very serious problem and has been labeled as a growing epidemic by many health professionals worldwide. In Malaysia‚ the rate of suicide is alarming. According to the report of a local newspaper in Malaysia‚ Nanyang Siang Pao (2011)‚ there was 445 suicidal cases (347 males and 98 females) reported for the first eight months of 2011 as compared to 290 cases in 2008. This accounts for the generally higher record of suicide attempts

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    without her parents. This means that she had to be extra brave to go to a place she has never been too. She had no clue what could happen if she entered that tunnel‚ and she used courage and braveness to get her through it. The “Not really” part also shows you that she has doubts. She may be scared‚ but she’s still brave enough to go through with

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    he couldn’t read. If Bannister can’t read the Bible. We can tell that Bannister learned about the Bible thought sharing of ideas. Cates shared his ideas of evolutions to the kids that he taught but instead of getting recognized for his teaching he was sentenced to jail. Drummond flipped the case around by giving two identical situations with different outcome.

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    Teenage Suicide The killing of own life intentionally is referred as suicide. Over the past years‚ American society has been concerned about this issue‚ especially teenage suicide. The suicide rate among teenagers is not constant for a period of time; it keeps changing over time. Most of the time‚ the suicide rate among boys is greater than that among girls. Different types of people in our society respond to this issue in different ways. Earlier in this year‚ some 932 parents of adolescents

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    nation headlines though out the week‚ with extensive reporters and news coverage spread the news even further. The Airship was distorted in a madder of 30 seconds. The once beautiful airship had a very wonderful season before its fiery demise. It started its successful season by completing round trip from Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil to Frankfurt‚ Germany. The Hindenburg’s return flight was fully booked with passengers planning to attend the festivities for King George and Queen Elizabeth in London the following

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    looked upon as an inspirational document that has guided this country through its ups and its downs. The road to make the Constitution was very rough and challenging‚ but the Americans pushed through and rose to the challenge. In the year 1765 the relationship between the colonies and Britain was very hostile. The new enforcement of the sugar act by Britain was the first attempt to tax the American colonies. The sugar act did not sit well with the Americans which led to the beginning of the journey

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    demonstrates courage in many ways. He shows courage when he learns to read and write‚ when he stands up to his master(s)‚ and when he escapes slavery. Not a lot of people can say that they truly have courage‚but Douglass is one of the few that can. Here are a few examples of how he shows courage. The first way he shows courage is when he wants to learn to read and write. In chapter nine‚ his master’s wife‚ Mrs. Auld‚ starts teaching him the ABC’s and teaching him how to spell three or four letter words

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    Commit Suicide

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    Commit Suicide is one of the serious social issues in the world. Nowadays‚ suicide rate in Malaysia is become higher and higher. According to The STAR online‚ Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said that the ratio of suicides was 1.3 for every 100‚000 people from 2007 to 2010‚ but it added that it could be higher. Cases of commit suicide are increasing every year. The majority people who commit suicide were aged between from 24 to 44‚ which is productive age group. From the research‚ we could

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