"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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Samantha Albert Mr. Jordan Antigone Fear/ Pity Fear and Pity Shown in Antigone The Greek Philosopher Aristotle defined tragedy as a form of drama that evokes fear and pity in the audience. The tragic play Antigone conflicts that definition because although pity is evoked throughout the play‚ modern audiences have difficulty experiencing fear because they fail to acknowledge the role fate plays in their everyday lives. At the end of
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The Themes of Antigone Antigone is credited as one of the best works of Sophocles‚ ranked by most modern critics above Oedipus the King. There are many aspects of Antigone that make it the play critics love to decipher and rave about. "Antigone must be received as the canon of ancient tragedy: no tragedy of antiquity that we possess approaches it in pure idealism‚ or in harmony of artistic development" hails critic Berhardy (Theatre History). He goes on to rave "It is the first poem produced by
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Sophocles was born in 496 B.C.E in the deme colonus. He had grew up during the most brilliant intellectual period in Athens. He had two sons named Iophon and Ariston and also a wife by the name of Nicostrate.He was the son of Sophillus who was a wealthy amour manufacturer in the rural community of the Hippeios Colonus in Attica that was just outside of Athens.His artistic career had began in the earnest in 468 B.C.E when he had took the first prize in the Dionysia theatre competition that was over the
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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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Kennedy faced great Congressional opposition during his short presidency and this was a very large reason for the aims of the New Frontier largely going unachieved. However‚ there were other reasons for the limited success of the New Frontier‚ such as Kennedy’s lack of strong mandate due to the very slim majority through which he was elected which was a margin of only 113‚000. This led to many of Kennedy’s proposals being struck down by Congress such as much of his plans for social welfare and unemployment
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Ancient Greek society was patriarchal to the point that women were not even considered to be citizens. Unsurprisingly‚ this dynamic of male dominance extended into their theatre practice‚ in which men played all of the characters--even the female characters--and men composed the entire audience (Della Gatta). Remarkably then‚ Antigone and Lysistrata both feature strong and assertive titular heroines‚ despite the androcentric culture in which they were were conceived and performed. Rather than challenging
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Suicide What is Suicide? Not every self-inflicted death is a suicide. A man‚ who crashes his car into a tree after falling asleep on the wheel‚ is not trying to kill himself. Edwin Shneidman (1999‚ 1993‚ 1981‚ 1963)‚ one of the most influential writers on this topic‚ defines suicide as an intentioned death—a self-inflicted death in which one makes an intentional‚ direct and conscious effort to end one’s life. Intentional death may take various forms. Shneidman distinguished four kinds of people
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The Great Depression was when America went through a downfall and the stock market crashed severely. Two long term causes were that many businesses were closed down‚ causing many to be unemployed. Millions of people also lost their savings due to bank failures‚ after banks have given loans without receiving money back. President Herbert Hoover was elected in 1928‚ shortly before the Depression occurred. Hoover believed in rugged individualism and voluntary help from the community‚ without the government
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Stalin he was able to establish himself as a successful dictator through totalitarian rule. He became the undisputed leader of the USSR and the factors that enabled him to do so were Industrialisation‚ his social policies and his ability to defeat Hitler in World War Two. However‚ through Stalin’s political career he also encountered many failures. These were Collectivism‚ the purges and the terror he caused by the people living in Russia during his reign. Stalin’s reign was successful through
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