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Girl Interrupted and Suicide

By: Kimberly Polly

English 102 Section 1

Professor Diane Emmolo

8/12/06
Outline:

I. Brief Film Synopsis
II. Suicide statistics
a.) men vs. women
b.) suicide rates for ages
III. Thesis
Personal feelings
caution
IV. Causes
V. Treatments
a.) types
VI. Facts
signs
VII. Conclusion


Kimberly Polly
English 102
Research Paper
Girl Interrupted and Suicide
The 1999 Oscar winning film Girl Interrupted starring Angelina Jolie is based on the true story of Susan Kaysen’s 18 month stay in a mental hospital following a suicide attempt. The movie envelops a multitude of mental disorders so I am choosing to focus on the suicide attempt that brought Ms. Kaysen to the hospital because it is a subject that I have dealt with closely and still demands resolve.
In 2001 suicide took the lives of 30,622 people. Although women attempt suicide three times more often than men, men are four times more likely to die from suicide......

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