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    ’” This would be commanded from a guide to help his soldiers get past the telephone wires that had fallen in the trenches. This was a command that Robert Graves‚ a young officer would hear while he fought in the trenches in World War I. Graves was part of the Third Battalion under the Royal Welch Fusiliers. While in the military‚ Graves wrote about his interactions with the trenches and how they affected the war. Similarly‚ in Warfare in the Western World 1882-1975‚ Jeremy Black addresses the topic

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    Barbusse‚ Jünger and Graves all describe life in the trenches of World War I. Barbusse has an interesting way of describing the events that he is recounting‚ and seems to be writing his memoir as if the audience is with him at the scene that he is showing to us. Jünger‚ on the other‚ glosses over some of the horrors of the war‚ and instead likes to describe the changes that warfare has brought to the landscape that he is describing. In general‚ he is very descriptive‚ and has a preoccupation with

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    Suicide The natural end of every human life is death. Some people‚ for reasons that have never been fully understood‚ choose to end their own lives. This is called suicide‚ which means literally "self-killing."   According to Dryden-Edwards (2013)‚ Suicide is the process of purposely ending one’s own life. The way societies view suicide varies widely according to culture and religion. For example‚ many Western cultures‚ as well as mainstream Judaism‚ Islam‚ and Christianity tend to view killing

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    Emile Durkheim was to become one of the most influential writers in regard to the subject of suicide and its link to the state of our modern society. For centuries before his writing‚ suicide was regarded as a moral and psychological problem that was caused by differences inherent to the individual. Durkheim’s work was the first to imply that the study of suicide could not be based on individuals and it was crucial to create a sociological approach regarding the external causes of society itself

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    "Suicide creates a monstrous emotional upsurge of shame and guilt. Everyone participates in feeling responsible and even shamed at knowing the suicidal candidate. If these feelings are not healed the vampire of suicidal death can strike again and again." Every 40 seconds somebody dies by suicide. 20 numbers of failed suicide attempts for each successful one. Women are more likely than man to attempt suicide‚ while men are much more likely to succeed.India ranks 43rd in descending order of rates

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    Imagine yourself walking in and finding a friend or a loved one hanging from a rope or seeing them dead‚ lying next to an empty bottle of pills or in a pool of blood‚ with a razor in their hand. Suicide is not rare to society today. Every 14.2 minutes someone in the United States dies by suicide. Suicide has become a neglected subject‚ in my opinion‚ because it is not an easy subject to talk about. Many people fear losing a loved one‚ especially if they feel that they could’ve done helped that person

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    Suicide (Latin suicidium‚ from sui caedere‚ "to kill oneself") is the act of intentionally causing one’s own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair‚ the cause of which is frequently attributed to a mental disorder such as depression‚ bipolar disorder‚ schizophrenia‚ borderline personality disorder‚[1] alcoholism‚ or drug abuse.[2] Stress factors such as financial difficulties or troubles with interpersonal relationships often play a role. Efforts to prevent suicide include limiting access

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    fought each other in trenches four hundred miles long. Soldiers spent weeks at a time sitting in seven feet deep and six feet wide trenches consuming diseases and experiencing harsh conditions. Life in the trenches was hell on earth‚ men suffered from trench foot‚ body lice‚ and the attacks from trench rats that were almost impossible to prevent‚ and there were dead bodies everywhere. In a letter to parents living in East Grinstead‚ England in 1915‚ Private Livesay wrote‚ “Our trenches are... ankle deep

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    In the novel “Letter from the coffin-trenches”‚ written by Ken Catran‚ is about a young lad participating in the army to fight for his country and also writing to his girlfriend for communication. So whenever he is away they won’t lose their bond. One of the characters that I like in the novel is Harry Wainright and he is the youthful guy among the soldiers. He is the bravest man that they’ve had in the team as well. I like him because of his characteristic of heroism‚ by showing us his courageous

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    attacked or even be ordered to attack. I can’t promise you both my safe return‚ but I can promise you that I will do my very damn best to make it home alive‚ maybe not in one piece especially cause’ of this trench foot‚ but alive. Life in the trenches is worse than I could ever imagine. We wake

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