Phoebe Prince Research Paper
Ryan Nuu
WRTG 1250
Phoebe Prince, an Irish-Immigrant, was a girl new to America and high school drama. She was just a freshman and didn’t fit in with any clique especially the cheerleaders or jocks. But somehow for a brief instance she dated a senior football player. The senior cheerleaders did not look on it very kindly. For two months they made it their mission to make Phoebes life a living hell. They would confront her and call her unspeakable names. They would attack her via facebook, text, and twitter. There wasn’t a facet of Phoebe’s young life that these vicious girls could not intervene and attack her through. Phoebe persevered through the attacks and was asked to the snow fling by the senior boy. Two days before the dance, …show more content…
It does not just leave the mind of the victim one day. Short-term effects involve: poor engagement in learning environments, anxiety, and depression. However the more alarming effects come in the long-term. Starting with the effect in school, “Nearly 50% of survey respondents report that bullying majorly affected their planes for further education” (Dealing with bullies par. 4). Emotionally 50% of these survey respondents have suicidal thoughts and 20% of them have attempted to kill themselves. To put this in perspective, students who are not bullied have only a .07% chance of contemplating suicide (par. 5). Because victims have not had the chance to effectively devise coping strategies and abilities, they can often find themselves dealing with more struggles later in life as a result. Long-term relationships are harder to form and sustain and sadly, the pattern of bullying continues but now in adult life the victim becomes the bully and is more likely to resort to the same type of aggression and violence they were attacked with. Again, there seems to be a repetitive cycle that seems impossible to break. Going along the same lines there are effects on the bullies as
WRTG 1250
Phoebe Prince, an Irish-Immigrant, was a girl new to America and high school drama. She was just a freshman and didn’t fit in with any clique especially the cheerleaders or jocks. But somehow for a brief instance she dated a senior football player. The senior cheerleaders did not look on it very kindly. For two months they made it their mission to make Phoebes life a living hell. They would confront her and call her unspeakable names. They would attack her via facebook, text, and twitter. There wasn’t a facet of Phoebe’s young life that these vicious girls could not intervene and attack her through. Phoebe persevered through the attacks and was asked to the snow fling by the senior boy. Two days before the dance, …show more content…
It does not just leave the mind of the victim one day. Short-term effects involve: poor engagement in learning environments, anxiety, and depression. However the more alarming effects come in the long-term. Starting with the effect in school, “Nearly 50% of survey respondents report that bullying majorly affected their planes for further education” (Dealing with bullies par. 4). Emotionally 50% of these survey respondents have suicidal thoughts and 20% of them have attempted to kill themselves. To put this in perspective, students who are not bullied have only a .07% chance of contemplating suicide (par. 5). Because victims have not had the chance to effectively devise coping strategies and abilities, they can often find themselves dealing with more struggles later in life as a result. Long-term relationships are harder to form and sustain and sadly, the pattern of bullying continues but now in adult life the victim becomes the bully and is more likely to resort to the same type of aggression and violence they were attacked with. Again, there seems to be a repetitive cycle that seems impossible to break. Going along the same lines there are effects on the bullies as