Letter To Zdenek's Suicide Letter

It’s easy to feel worthless. Almost every person feels this deep emotion at some time in life, but people handle it different. Everywhere people are always judging. Judgement from parents, from family, and even from friends is inescapable. People can tear themselves down in many ways, such as through school, not feeling they look good enough, and even just not feeling like they’re ever good enough to be living on Earth. In Janice Mirikitani’s poem “Suicide Note,” it talks about an Asian-American student currently in college. She tries her hardest, she wants to succeed and make her parents proud. Her parents have high standards for her, as they want her to receive a 4.0 grade point average. Although she gives her best effort, her grade point average is still less than a 4.0, and for that reason her parents are not proud of her, she’s not their perfect, ideal daughter. So she enters that point where she no longer feels proud of her accomplishments, she feels worthless, and unintelligent. She decides to commit suicide by jumping out of a window in her college dorm. In her suicide note she apologizes to her parents for not being good enough. “Suicide Note” is a free form poem, it has no set stanzaic pattern, the sentences break in unexpected places, and the structure varies throughout the poem. It uses imagery to connect with the reader, and the stanzas are set up in way that make the lines to appear as they are falling. Through the use of enjambment, and end-stopped line the

There are times when we feel like we must be perfect in other to please others. No matter if we did the best we could, if it isn’t perfect, we felt like a failure. We want the approval that comes with perfectness but perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it 's a shield. Perfectionism is refusal to accept any standard short of perfection. “Suicide Note,” by Janice Mirikitani, is about an Asian American college student who commits suicide by jumping from her dormitory window. This poem is read as the suicide note that was left behind by this young woman to apologize to her parent s for having received less than a perfect four point grade average and not being perfect in life. Her last thoughts and feelings were left on this note, describing why she did what she did. The pressure to succeed that this student felt from herself and her parents was far too much to overcome. Even though the girl worked really hard and did her very best, it wasn’t good enough in her mind and maybe in her parents’ minds to be worthy of her parents’ love or life itself and so her only option was death to atone for her sin of imperfection. Sometimes pressure to succeed that a student feels from herself and her parents is far too much to overcome.

Kaysen illustrates the suicidal thoughts that she had, and the state of mind a person must be in in order to attempt suicide. She mentions that you must mentally and emotionally detach yourself from life so that one may feel that life is not worth living anymore. Dissociative symptoms are also a part of borderline personality disorder. This is evident in an episode of depersonalization that Kaysen experienced. Kaysen becomes worried that she does not have bones in her hand. She recalls the incident by saying:

I am sorry for the late submission of week ten assignment. I did not feel well the last week and could not finish the assignment before the deadline. I am pregnant in the last trimester and expecting my baby this week. I attached “the week ten assignment”, please find it and accept my apologize

Throughout history, there have been many wars that were fought. When thinking of combats, many citizens associate battles with the thought of physical wars, but many don't think of the mental battles that might occur within a person. Teen suicide, which is known as the second leading cause of death globally, is frequently overlooked and underestimated as a problem when confronted about it. The poem, Romeo and Juliet by the famous author William Shakespeare, uses literature to profoundly go into the concept of how suicide can affect everyone. The community of Orland Park has taken their part to inform the society, by setting up basic services for people to learn or get help about suicide prevention. While resources are available in our

Fighting for justice in “Revolutionary Suicide” presents two conflicts between suicide and salvation. In Oakland California around 1970, African Americans were being so mistreated that a movement was created to fight for black power which is known as Black Panther Party. African Americans were going up against the police and government of the racist south. This was a time Jim Crow laws had just ending along with segregation ,but that dosen’t mean that the whites of the south still didn’t have the same intentions they used to have about blacks. Which lead to many confrontations that resulted in death or injury causing revolutionary suicide. In poem “Revolutionary Suicide,” The style of the poem is built of a cause and effect. First, the speaker addresses that having nothing causes him to have everything .“By having no family I inherited the family of humanity …By having surrendering my life to the revolution I found internal life.” Readers can get an impression that the speaker would make a great leader. Especially when he tells the audience that he is willing to sacrifice himself in order to gain revolution. The speaker is confronting the opposition letting them know he is not afraid of death nor them. He also writes this in the poem

“Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter,” an epistolary novel by J. Nozipo Maraire, discusses social and political African history in the letters sent from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter. The mother relates lessons she has learned throughout her years living in colonial Rhodesia. Violence, culture, and racism are prominent themes in the letters sent to Zenzele.  "Rhodesia", named after a so called "Cecil Rhodes", was under a predominantly white government. Native Africans were banned from all manners of opportunity and enterprise. They were systematically barred from chic-European suburbs except, of course, if they worked as house maids. Blacks lived in a state of constitutionalized racism that limited their education and circumstance. Deprivation, austerity and hard labour was the limit to a black Rhodesians achievement. Until, after years of bloodshed and struggle to obtain equality, the independent state of Zimbabwe was declared. The keys to the kingdom now belonged to the oppressed. However, in the process of ensuring that their children received every opportunity of "western privilege," something went wrong. "Well being" was translated into a material definition of success. A desire to be like their colonial masters sprang up instead of the cultivation and rejuvenation of their own culture; a culture Zenzele’s mother seeks to revitalize within Zenzele. The letters serve as translation, to apply the old language of community and culture to the context of today.

The poem “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” by Amiri Baraka uses vivid images of sights, sounds, and daily activities to symbolize a heartfelt story. In the poem, Amiri, is one of the African American slaves who is frustrated about the discriminatory treatment by whites. So frustrated he wants to commit suicide. The writer used transition words starting with “lately”, “now”, and “then” for each stanza. He was imagining how he acted before his death and how his daughter reacted to his death.

Janice Mirikitani’s words in this poem is depressing and her message is blunt. This poem has a way of making the reader feels like they going through the same thing that the young asian american was going through. “Suicide Note” illustrates an individual's need to be themselves, as well as parents instinctual nature to want the best for their children, and how both of these things go completely

JayKob is on his first deer hunt and it is making me irrational that I did not have the time to take off to go with him today! Furthermore, a huge thank you to the real father figure in my son’s life, the one who is showing him how to be a man, and also the one who has helped inculcate Christ into him. My dad, the best Papa in the whole world. Thank you for loving us unconditionally and for being the best example of a REMARKABLE man for

The suicidal signs are easy to identify, and if you identify them early enough you could save a person’s live that could be in danger.

From the many theorists that we have read so far where they argued on the way that people think, shapes important features of the social world. That includes both theorists Durkheim and Weber who argue something along those lines; both theorists focus on the moral binding dimensions of ways of thinking. Durkheim sees that arguments revolve around shared representations. By contrast, Weber sees arguments being revolved around a certain idea of Protestantism. Durkheim and Weber use notions of broadly moral ways of thinking in social explanation.

In Leelah Alcorn’s suicide letter she wrote, “I want my death to mean something.” Leelah Alcorn was a teenager who was forced to undergo conversion therapy after she came out as transgender because her family did not accept her. Leelah wanted to stop the practice of conversion therapy because of its harmful effects. After Leelah’s passing some states proposed bills to ban this practice called “Leelah’s Law.” Her story made me realize the impact one person can have and anything that involves giving back to the community or others can constitute as community service.

Looking back in time at the great composers of the world, only one foreign composer stands out for his many contributions to classical music and in helping America to find its own music. Antonin Leopold Dvorak was born on September 8th, 1841, in a small village of Nelahozeves in Bohemia that lies on the bank of the Mauldau River. The village Dvorak was born into was in good company and surroundings however also retained much of its native luster even through the worst times of political oppression (1).

Have you ever known someone who’s committed or tried to commit suicide and thought, “I wish I would’ve done something, said something, to stop it from happening?” I know I would ask myself that question everyday if I hadn’t. A few years ago, a good friend of mine thought her life was so bad she wanted to end it. I did the only thing I could think, and told the nearest teacher. It may sound so childish or stupid, but it worked. Luckily, she’s still alive and well. I’m here to make sure you can make the difference and help a person who might be, or is suicidal. Just think of what would happen if you didn’t try to help.