Survey Result

I think my group topic is really heavy to American. But I want to know about American's thinking about teenage suicide. Actually I was surprised. American teenage suicide is also really high. So, I was wondering about the main reason teenagers commit suicide. I went to Student center, Faner hall and Neely hall for our survey. I met many people in there places. Some of them refused to survey. But most of them were participated in this survey. The total people were 30 which are 14 of male and 16 of female. The age of "19-22" was the biggest group of the entire age groups.

I had two hypotheses. One was many Americans feel stress in relationships. Another was American never heard of teenage suicide happening to someone they knew. But I was wrong. Of course relationships make them stressful. 1/3 of them feel stress in relationships. But over 42% of them feel stress in academic pressure. Interest thing is they feel stress in academic pressure, but they don't think academic pressure is not the main reason teenage suicide. And less than 50% are heard of teenage suicide around them. Other interest things are two. One is many American choose mid-number of teenage suicide happen in U.S. I asked one of them why choose that number of multiply choice. She told me she didn't want to choose big number. That was really impression. Another is American think the best way for decreasing suicide, as parent is counseling and as school is education. During survey, they were always serious, and careful. Even I was a Asian stranger to them they were willing to accept survey. So, I noticed Americans don't hesitate to accept a request. I think this is really nice. In Korea, many people don't like take in survey or they doubt of that. It was a hard experience to me ask people to survey. But It was really fun.

Burdened with studies, another teenager ends life

The title of my article is Burdened with studies, another teenager ends life This article is about teenager boy who is just 16years old, and his name is Anand Tank. He lived with his mother and elder brother in India. His father was dead 7years ago. On sunday, his mother went another town. That night he went to sleep, next morning he didn't open door. So, his brother and his neighbor broke the door and found his body hanging from the fan. He left a note. The note said he is too afraid about exam, so he dicide to ends his life. However, his town, named Rajkot had another teenage suicide last month. three student killed themselves. So, education office dicide to start counselling programs, but suicide is still happened.

In my opinion, that program can't help teenagers. Counselling can't help to rise exam score. Every parents want their children get good score, naturally they will push their children. I think parents need counselling. They should know about their children's feeling. And they should learn how to encorage their children, instead of shouting or get angry.

In Korea, we have a big exam to enter the college. That exam is just once in the year. So, if some students get low score in that exam, they should study one more year. That exam is very important in Korea, because everyone want to enter the college which is the best in country. Someone graduated great college can get better job than others, and can earn many money. So, after that exam, some students killed them selves. It's a really big problem in Korea. To enter the great college, many teenagers and elementary school students should go academies after school. Last year, one boy who 10years old killed himself, because he don't want to go academies. But it's really stupid that college dicide someone's future, and someone killed themselve because of getting low score in exam. However it's real life. Many people should get over it. Competition is always in our life.