Durkheim stated that suicide is a social moral phenomenon that deals with the connection of social ties between a person and society. A person can have either a connection with society that is too loose or too strong. ... Egotistic suicide has too loose of a connection between a person and other people and/or institutions in society. ... It is these three worlds and the back rounds of each person that make up the lifeworld. ... The terrorists who hijacked the four airplanes were committed to killing themselves and the thousands of other innocent civilians for their terrorist organization. ...

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But though she has great justification for what she has done, and the reader must partially sympathize with her, her action injures many innocent people and cannot finally be justified. ... Her child, now her master, becomes a sickly and pernicious person who takes particular delight in treating Roxana with open contempt. ... But the impossibility of openly addressing these sins by humans, who are so decidedly not innocent, forces society to operate within a web of lies that enables the civilization to limp along without complete anarchy. ...

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Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of famous radical writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; both of whom exemplified the ideologies of the French revolution. Shelley's mother was a pioneer feminist writer who had made her name with her revolutionary ideas opposing the patriarchal oppression of the female gender. Her father was made famous by his radical ideologies of political and philosophical anarchism. Thus it is not unusual that, as the product of such revolutionary parents, Mary Shelley would harbour the same feminist and Romantic ideologies and subsequently challe...

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