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…. But remember, start big and you’ll end big…(47) Willy works hard to provide an income for his family, but fails to do so thus the play ends in tragedy. Willy commits suicide in order to financially provide for his family with the insurance receipt of twenty…

…in a loss of personality. Therapists, teachers, and social workers have seen victims of abuse grow into stages of depression, suicide, and most commonly, have a poor self-image and a low self-esteem. Television exposure has a negative impact on attractiveness…

…population low, and to keep society in order as a whole. However, at the end of the novel, after Alex has attempted to commit suicide by jumping from a rooftop, it is clear that the treatment the British government had imposed on him had not effectively worked…

…, it was ruled by courage and strength, but he chose to end it with a weak escape from every challenge he had ever been given, suicide. As his life began he was given nothing. His father, Unoka, was a disgrace to Umuofia. He was extremely lazy, and more in debt than…

…is being improperly handled or in play. Because guns are preferred for troubled people, the rate of suicide increases. In fact in 1996, 18,166 people committed suicide using a gun they obtained from home. When people allow guns that are improperly secured…

…. The old waiter is preoccupied with the notion, “it [is] all […] nothing and a man [is] nothing too.” The old man, we are told, “tried to commit suicide.” Both men can be described as broken, but they still have their dignity. For them life has “no priori…

…they had been divorced or separated because of gambling; thirty-four percent had lost or quit a job; twenty-one percent had filed for bankruptcy; sixty-six percent had contemplated suicide, and sixteen percent had attempted suicide. Indeed, gambling may…

…and On Discovery by Maxine Hong Kingston. The novel, Ordinary People by Guest, is about a teenager boy who tries to commit suicide after his brother died in a boating accident. Conrad, the main character, feels that it is his fault his brother died, and therefore…

…in order to go and be away from her children and paint. Towards the end of her life, Edna realizes that she is becoming consumed by her family. They are taking over her soul. "But she knew a way to elude them." (p. 115) Her actions around her suicide greatly…

…is to win the liberation of Palestine and establish an independent Islamic Palestine. During the fighting against Israel it grew up quickly and turned into a most powerful terrorist group. Hamas made a lot of attacks against Israelites by use of suicide…