Suicide (Free Writing)

Suicide

Suicide fully prevent suicide, people need to have a better understanding of it and know why it happens. (Key Research Findings, 2015)
One of the leading causes of suicide is depression along with other mood disorders, substance abuse disorders, and schizophrenia. A recent study has shown that people who commit suicide had a mental disorder at the time of their death. Because people who commit suicide don’t usually tell people about their actions, it is important for people to be able to recognize the symptoms.
Because depression is a main factor for suicide, it is important for care provides to be able to appropriately diagnose and treat someone with depression. Having depression does increase the likeliness of someone committing suicide. There are about 20% of the people who have died because of suicide that also had previous attempts at committing suicide. (Key Research Findings, 2015)
There have been studies that suicide may be inherited from family. It’s not so much the suicide that gets inherited, it is the depression that gets passed down. People who have family members who have attempted or committed suicide have a higher risk of doing it themselves. This is because they look to that person as a “social model.” But it can also lead to the awareness of suicide. (Key Research Findings, 2015)
People who have had cancer, HIV, lupus, and traumatic brain injuries are often at a higher risk of suicide. These people feel hopeless. (Key Research Findings, 2015)
In 2013, there were over 40,000 deaths caused by suicide in just the United States. It is the 10th leading cause of death. It is more common for males to commit suicide rather than females. But females are more likely to think about suicide than males. Females actually attempt suicide 3 times more than males. (Save, Suicide Awareness Voices of Education)

Suicide has played a big role in my life, as crazy as this sounds. My 5th grade year, my uncle committed suicide. A year later, on the exact day, my other uncle committed suicide as well. The next year my grandma had died of cancer. It was not suicide but it did have a big impact on my dad. Who then a few years later committed suicide. My dad did have depression and he was bipolar. He never gave any hints that he would do that. So when it happened, it was completely unexpected for us.
But since suicide had happened twice before in the family, you can see that it does have a way of spreading to other people.
Suicide is something I personally take very seriously. I do not tolerate it when people joke about it. It is a serious problem here in the United States and there is so much everyone can do to prevent it. There have been movements on social media where people draw semicolons on their wrists. They do this to show that your story isn’t over. You could’ve ended it but instead kept going.

"Save. Suicide Awareness Voices of Education." SAVE. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2015. 

http://www.save.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=705D5DF4-055B-F1EC-3F66462866FCB4E6

"Key Research Findings." American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2015. 

https://www.afsp.org/understanding-suicide/key-research-findings 

Social Institution of Economy

Social Institution of Economy

An Economy can be defined as “the institution that provides for the production and distribution of goods and services, which people in every society need.” We rely on people to supply goods and services. But some of us also may provide some of those goods and services. But how do we go about getting those goods and services? We have to have some sort of exchange or currency. Here in the United States we have money, we have dollar bills and we also have coins, because we are a more industrialized society. But other countries may use a form of currency in an exchange for another gift or service. (Social Institutions: Economy, SparkNotes)
There are two economic systems that are most dominant. They are capitalism and socialism. A majority of societies use a mixture of they two. When you use a mixture is is often called welfare capitalism and state capitalism. (Social Institutions: Economy, SparkNotes)
Capitalism can be defined as “a system under which resources and means of production are privately owned, citizens are encourage to seek profit for themselves, and success or failure of an enterprise is determined by free market competition.” To put it into perspective, we can use the United States for an example. We do have privately owned businesses but the government does regulate these businesses. (Social Institutions: Economy, SparkNotes)
Socialism can be defined as “a system under which resources and means of production are owned by the society as a whole, rights to private property are limited, the good of the whole society is stressed more than individual profit, and the government maintains control of the economy.” An example of a socialism society would be China. The natural resources is owned and controlled by the government. (Social Institutions: Economy, SparkNotes)
You can use a mixture of the two, such as welfare capitalism. It can be defined as “a system that features a market-based economy coupled with an extensive social welfare system that included free health care and education for all citizens.” To look at this we can look at Sweden. They do allow the people to own their businesses privately, but the government is still allowed to control part of the economy. They do have high taxes to support all of that free education and free health care. (Social Institutions: Economy, SparkNotes)State capitalism is also another one that blend socialism and capitalism. It can be defined as “a system under which resources and means of production are privately owned but closely monitored and regulated by the government. South Korea is a good example of this. The government works very closely with the major companies in South Korea so that they can ensure their success. (Social Institutions: Economy, SparkNotes)
We have our wants and needs. We will always be consuming products, sometimes faster then they can make them. But we need to have a way to regulate these sales. 

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"Social Institutions: Economy." SparkNotes. SparkNotes, n.d. Web. 7 Dec. 2015. 
http://www.sparknotes.com/sociology/social-institutions/section1.rhtml

Religion as a Social Institution

Religion as a Social Institution

Religion can answer some of our questions and explain things that are unexplainable. It gives some people reasons for life and death. Why we are on this earth. And why we die. (Social Institutions, SparkNotes)

Religion is very important for families. It may determine which holidays you decorate and celebrate. Parents and elders, teach their children to also continue with these religion traditions, and so on and so forth. It can be considered part of their culture. I am a Christian so I celebrate Christmas for Jesus's birth. (Social Institutions, SparkNotes)

There are several different religions throughout the world. Several is not the world to use, but there are A LOT of religions. (Social Institutions, SparkNotes)

Christians have the belief that Jesus was our savior and is the son of God. There are several different forms of christianity. Islams also have the same God. But they believe that word of God was revealed to Muhammad in 570 A.D. (Social Institutions, SparkNotes)

Sociologists have 3 religious organizations. Churches, sects, and cults. A church is a religious group that has integrated with society. A sect is s religious group that sets itself apart from society. A cult is a religious group that is not considered normal to the rest of society. Cults usually have a leader that it all is centered around. (Social Institutions, SparkNotes)

Religion plays a role on the class system in the United States as well. It also can depend on race or ethnicity. Some of the wealthiest people in America are protestant. Jews also have a high standard of living. Roman Catholic descendent families, don’t tend to be as wealthy. African-American churches have taken the traditions of Christianity but also keep the beliefs of the slaves that were brought to America. (Social Institutions, SparkNotes)

I went to a Catholic school. So every Tuesday and Friday we went to church. Our programs consisted of Christian music. We studied the bible and what God did. I also was baptized, I had a confirmation, and a First Communion. I did all this because I am Catholic. But another family with a different religion, would not do this. 

My confirmation class at St. Gregory’s Catholic School

"Social Institutions." SparkNotes. SparkNotes, n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2015.

http://www.sparknotes.com/sociology/social-institutions/section4.rhtml