In this article " Teenage Wasteland " the author speaks about teens and older adults from the age of 15 years to 24 years old has been committing suicide. However, young teens and young adults would commit suicide from drug over doses, alcohol and car crashes. The author is trying to figure out what's making these teens and adults to commend suicide. In the article the author cities about "Burn Outs" which mean the drugies, drop outs and dirt bags students perhaps, the burnout's are the most that commend suicide because they barley have anything going for themselves so they just intend to give up on their life as dropping out of school and not working but just being lazy or been bullied.
The author states in the article that schools should provide students with more activities such as sports or clubs. For students can feel they have extra circular things to do instead of being depressed, stressed or doing any type of drugs and other dangerous things to commit sucicide. Futhermore, the author starts to mention about teens and adults should not give up and end their life because their's a step to everything as setting goals and if you work hard then they will become somebody in life and would keep them away from commending suicide. However, the author Gaines has use a lot of research to be able to explain her theory. She points out the key questions and explains the data that she has collected to get a better understanding of why things like this is really happening to people in their lives.
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