In the news article “Technological trauma: cyber bullies more powerful than schoolyard thugs” (the Age 28/10/2006), Larissa Dubecki assertsin a reasoned and logical tone that cyber bullying should not be permitted or tolerated because it is extremely harmful to young people. The writer appeals to the wellbeing of teenagers through establishing the threats and negative impact of cyber bullying that can be physically and mentally harmful.…
In any war, there are people who are a part of the efforts that make it successful, but go unrecognized as a major “player” in it. The Civil War was no different and Susie (Baker) King Taylor is one of the many African-Americans that served in the “colored” regiments that helped the Union win the civil war. The fact that she was a woman makes her even more unique.…
Love is a major theme in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Rudy’s love for Liesel causes him to stick by her side through good and bad. Liesel is compelled by her love for books and the feeling of conquering new words. Papa’s love for Liesel is very profound throughout the course of the book. Love is the driving force for many people throughout the novel.…
The book I will present to you today is the first book Holly Smale’s best-selling series Geek Girl. This novel is about a fifteen year old girl who was named Harriet Manners that knew she was a complete geek. But no one in her school seemed to like her. She is not that cool, she’s doesn't have the biggest interest in fashion and gets bullied plenty of times by Alexa. Harriet’s best friend, Nat has a biggest interest in fashion and wanted to become a model at the age of 7. Later, Harriet gets spotted by a modelling agency. She has signed a contract and went to Moscow for a fashion show. But on her way back home, problems will affect Harriet and her life.…
Cyber bullying is bullying that takes places using electronic technology (Willard, 2006). Electronic technology includes devices and equipment such as cell phones, computers and tablets as well as communication tools includes social media sites, text messages, chat, websites to harass threaten or intimidate someone. Cyberbullying is often done by children who have increasingly access to these technologies. The problem is compounded by the fact that a bully can be hiding behind disguising she/her identity.…
Real life bullying, or traditional bullying, is exactly like our story of Johnny and Billy. It’s a face to face encounter that usually entails physical, verbal and emotional violence that is generally one sided. A warning sign that someone is being bullied, for example, is if Billy came home from school one day with a bloody nose or a black eye. Cyber bullying never involves physical abuse because as the name states, it occurs over the Internet. The common method people use to cyber bully others is anonymously posting things about a person whether it is hurtful words or an embarrassing picture or video. Cyber bullying is especially bad because the recipient of the bullying is exposed to anyone that wants to see it because anyone with an account can view what is going on. In traditional bullying, the bullied is “only” embarrassed in front of the audience that is there to witness it occurring, saying only as if it isn’t bad enough. Therefore, cyber bullying is very embarrassing and arguably worse than traditional bullying. “Once unsavory information is posted, it’s almost impossible to retrieve,” says Bennett. This is sadly the truth; once someone posts something about Billy it is going to be on the Internet forever, and when someone Google searches his name that post is very likely to pop up. Cyber bullying is a very popular because it can be done so anonymously and usually…
Agatston explains how bullying can’t only be done in person but also through communication or more precise “the web”. Cyber bulling is another form of bullying that can be done through social media accounts where a person doesn’t has to even talk to the other person but just has to send a hurtfully message. Social media today is getting to a point where you can communicate to another person who is in the other side of the world and send messages or photos. However people who bully people in the web are bad people who send hurtful messages or say bad things about people in the web. Patricia explains that “young people are very sophisticated users of technology and often lead the way in adapting new technology to everyday…
When Taylor is called names on this site it reaches school where she hears insults every day. Soon she stops going to school and is crying all the time, at one point she starts taking drugs. “Tormented and afraid to face her peers at school, Taylor is pushed to an extreme breaking point.” (paragraph #1 in “cyberbully”) Taylor goes from having many friends and always joyous to this extreme breaking point. Taylor goes through “harrowing ordeal” her mother says, this is where the identity change…
In recent years, we have seen more and more suicides related to cyber bullying then ever before. An example of this can be seen in the case of the United States v. Lori Drew. Lori was an older woman who pretended to be a teenaged boy and began to talk and soon after started an online relationship with a 14-year-old girl. The girl eventually began to fall for the fake 16-year-old boy that Lori Drew created. After a series of conversations, their “relationship” ended with a message from Drew telling the girl that nobody actually liked her and she should instead kill herself. Unfortunately, the 14-year-old girl, being highly impressionable and because of her feelings for this fake teenage boy, took the advice and ended up killing…
While school-yard bullying has remained ever-present in society, the concept of cyber bullying has increased in steam within the last few years. Cyber bullying occurs when someone harasses someone else on social media, through text-messages, or through any other technology based medium. The unfortunate reality is that 8% of Canadian teens claim to be the victims of cyber bullying, and 35% say they have seen hateful comments about someone online. Cyberbullying is very unique in nature, as the very act is sometimes caused by the aggressor being bullied by other students themselves, and the effects, other than becoming a bully, are the detrimental impacts on the victim’s mental health.…
Cyberbullying targets and uses the virtual community as a form of "piling on" a particular target. This is similar to how the community target Tessie. The fact that Tessie says "It isn't fair" and"It isn't right" with little in way of support is also representative of how the the victims in both Jackson's story and the cyberbullying landscape find their voices silenced by the tyranny of…
The methods used in cyber bullying by children are only limited to one's access to technology and imagination. Children always change roles either as the bully or as the victim. At one time, a child can be the bully and shortly after become the victim (Jacobs, 2010).…
When people hear the word “bully” they often think of the tough guy in school who seems to push and shove his peers into lockers and take away their lunch money. The idea of this type of bully has become popular and many people today would consider it a means of toughening up and is also widely known as an inevitable part of growing up or a phase in a child’s life. Recently there has been a rise in a new form of bullying; cyber bullying. With the fast acting rise of technology and the expanding power and popularity of the internet there’s a new bully in town and it exists in your child’s computer.…
Cyberbully shows that what people say can hurt others. If someone says something hurtful to someone else, it can cause issues like depression. People can get depressed by something someone else teases because it can really hurt their feelings. In this movie people were calling the main character, Taylor, names that were hurting her feelings. When someone gets bullied, they can become insecure about themselves. If someone is getting bullied about something like the freckles on their face, they can become insecure about those things and try to cover up the freckles or whatever it is. Being bullied can also cause someone to develop anxiety issues. Being bullied everyday and having people laughing about it can make someone so scared to mess up or look bad. Taylor was scared to go to school during all of this because she was scared of being bullied more. They will come to…
It was 7:00 a.m., and Skylar rose out of his bed just like any other day. He got dressed, combed his hair, brushed his teeth, grabbed a pop tart and was out the door. Skylar is in the eighth grade and he has been bullied since fourth. Chris Jacobson has picked on him with his “gang” for the past four years. They tease him about his braces, the way he wears his clothes, being too skinny, and anything they can think of. On top of that, Skylar has suffered depression since his father’s sudden death when he was 10. One day, Skylar decided to get MSN messenger so he could contact his cousins, that live out of state, anytime he pleased. His mother gave him permission and he was very happy. Skylar got a friend request the day after he made it from someone named LizGirl6. He accepted and she immediately wrote “Hi, you look familiar.” He replied by asking if she went to his school and how she found him. “Elizabeth” did not go to his school, but was supposedly a friend of his older sisters. They continued to talk day, after day, after day. Skylar was feeling more confident at school, his grades were rising, and Chris was not messing with him as much as usual. Elizabeth was giving Skylar the respect he finally deserved. One night he decided he wanted to tell Elizabeth how he felt about her. He logged on MSN, saw that she was on and wrote her a message saying, “Elizabeth, I really like you and I want to meet you and hangout so that maybe we can become more than friends.” She replied, “Skylar I don’t like you, your fat and ugly.” Skylar took this hard and replied with questions like “Why were you leading me on?” and “Are you really serious?” Elizabeth wrote that he was a no good loser, he had no friends, he would never be able to get a girl, and that he was a useless piece of crap that no one cared about. The last thing Elizabeth said was, “You should go die, just like your father did.” Then she signed off. Skylar got up, ran to…