Suicide Rates
Timon Fennema
SSC 111
British English, APA
28 September 2006
873 words
Essay 2: SSC 111 Introduction to Sociology
Suicide
In this essay I want to compare the suicide rates in the Netherlands with the suicide rates in Japan. I will take a look at the relative numbers of suicide in both countries and compare these numbers. I want to find a reason for the possible difference or similarity. I also want to take a look at the increase/decrease in percentage of suicide cases in time for both countries. For this rise/fall in percentage of suicide cases in time, I want to find a possible explanation.
I have chosen for these two countries for my survey for two reasons. I chose the Netherlands because I am Dutch and I wanted to gain more knowledge about Dutch suicide rates. For the comparison I chose Japan, because I have read in an article that suicide occurs often' in Japan1. I wanted to compare Japan for this reason with the Netherlands, because I already could know that......
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