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…schools (madrassas), the rallying power of the call to holy war (jihad), the cult of martyrdom through suicide (shahid), the mastery of modern technology, and the networking opportunity of globalization. President Bush declared that the U.S. will make…

…the start of the war in Chechnya. Finally, in 1995 the number of murders began to outstrip the number of suicides. ("Russia struggles with population crisis") Today Russia remains the world leader in the number of prisoners and one of the leaders in the number…

…the poverty line. Also, youngsters who grow up in single-parent households are at a much greater risk of drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, suicide, poor educational performance, and criminality, according to the National Commission on Children. The effects…

…' to cope with the suicide of her brother Seymour (Bloom in Bryfonski and Senick 69). Salinger is able to use this prayer as a means of comfort for Franny. The prayer stands for the last hope for Franny in this situation. Franny would be lost…

…'An Inspector Calls' is a touching and moralistic play written by J.B. Preistley. The play is set in pre-First World War England and describes the part each member of the Birling family plays in the eventual suicide of the character we do not see, Eva…

…. After a victim had died it appeared as though it was a suicide. “Why would this man have purchased a $2,000 computer if he was going to commit suicide two days later.” (A Single Death pg. 179). Said Salter cleverly as he convinced himself…

…, she should work doubly hard at making a living by weaving cloth. If she did not have any dependents, an ideal course of action would be suicide. 6 Didactic books from Ming times through the early Qing dynasty commonly held up the suicide of a widow…

…tricked it" (Faulkner 92). Faulkner even uses the words time and shadow to foreshadow Quentin's future suicide -- drowning himself -- when he says, "Niggers say a drowned man's shadow was watching for him in the water all the time" (Faulkner 90…

…understand a story, if he or she can point out certain images. images create ideas and images for the reader to better understand the story. Mabel, one of the two main characters in this story, is depressed and suicidal. After her mother died, she feels like…

…the owl was a baker's daughter" (Act IV, Sc. V, L.42). This is summed up by her eventual suicide, which follows fast after her fall into madness. "Your sister's drowned, Laertes." (Act IV, Sc. VII, L. 164) The very fact she actually commits her suicide…