Introduction Suicide prevention is an idea often talked about to help people understand the resources available to prevent suicide. Over the years, the suicide rate has been slowly increasing, making it the third leading cause of death among young people. About 44,193 Americans die every year, and worldwide, the suicide rate has gone up by […]
Introduction Did you know in 2017, 47,173 Americans died by suicide, being the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. according to the “American Foundation for Suicide Prevention”? Many teens and adults have different reasons to take their own life, but suicide is never the answer. It only ends the victim’s pain, although the […]
Introduction Suicide has become one of the alarming social problems of our time, affecting all our lives in one way or the other. It is a very common experience and everyday news in our society. Moreover, it is still considered a silent issue of discussion, with fewer or no efforts being made to prevent or […]
Introduction My overall response to this video is that it’s really informative and really digs into why people commit suicide and how it can be prevented. The video addresses the questions of: What kind of unhappiness leads to suicide? Many people face struggles in their lives, and as these struggles continue to grow, many people […]
Burning Books: Society’s Disturbing Standard Dystopia is “a world in which everything is imperfect, and everything goes terribly wrong.” Fahrenheit 451’s society is living in this type of world, and it is very different from the society that we live in today. In Fahrenheit 451, firemen burn both books and the houses that contain them. […]
Bradbury’s Exploration of Oppression in “Fahrenheit 451” Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, originally published in 1953, is a dystopian novel that imagines a world in which the prevalence of television and audiovisual media of all kinds has become a means of oppression. The written book has been banned, and with this taboo comes a number of various […]
Montag’s Journey: A Fireman’s Revelation in Fahrenheit 451 When someone tries to fix one thing, another thing can get ruined. In the science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, one individual attempts to change society’s perspective on the idea of censoring books. This was an action that turned into a disaster. In the story, […]
