...To begin with bullies Should be held criminally for their actions. They are like an disease and we need the cure now. Many reports of suicide has happened because of bullies taking it too far. Bullies should be held criminally responsible for their actions causing suicide. Since suicide isn't a joke and bullies play around with it, it should be illegal Should bullies be held criminally for their actions. In my opinion bullies should be held responsible. My evidence indicates that bullies are criminals. For example the data on Cyberbullying Research Center states that there's a California law that says parents need to always care and look over their child. If parents can't figure out if their child is being bullied than look for clues:...
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...Cyber Bullying- Should Schools be Held Responsible Abstract We’ve all heard the saying “stick and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” Sure words don’t hurt physically, but to those who have been or are currently victims of cyberbullying words can be the difference between life and death. Technology such as smart phones, tablets and the internet allows students spend more time being connected. With this cyberbullying is becoming more frequent. Texting, instant messaging and over the social networks are just a few ways that the cyberbullies can reach their victims. A few of the forms of cyberbullying are harassment, cyberstalking and impersonating their victim. Cyber bullying has become a serious problem amongst teens. The victim can begin to feel inadequate and self-conscious causing the victim to become depressed to the point of committing suicide. In the past the cyberbully had no consequences to their action. Two such cases are addressed in this paper. States are now passing laws to address this issue and making schools responsible for developing anti-bullying policies. Cyber bullying- Should Schools be held responsible Matt was on both the Citizenship and Honor Rolls in Middle School. Voted by his eighth grade classmates to have the best smile, the best personality, and most likely to become an actor (Eppling, 2006). Taylor was a soccer player, a soloist in the school choir, and on the volleyball team. Although she was taller and a little...
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...that behavior is the appropriate action or not. In the philosophical world of question and counter, british philosopher Galen strawson points out a theory. The strawson's theory of the impossibility of moral responsibility is a controversial topic. He stated that a person is not in control and should not be blamed for his/her actions. Claiming people may have many excuses as why they should not be blamed such as exemptions that show an agent is incapacitated for their interpersonal behaviors in their surroundings. For this they may say “she's only a child” or “it was an accident” basically an excuse...
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...were raised in a different era which may be difficult to relate to. B. Context 1) Cyber bullying has always been controversial because of the great toll that children and teens take when they get harassed at such a young age. Also, who is supposed to be held responsible for these kinds of actions? 2) Having a close family member be a massive victim of cyber bullying, I have witnessed, took action, and experienced many things involving the harassing, positive and negative. C. Audience 1) There are many types of audience this can apply to, mainly those around the victims of the cyber bullies. This includes the victims, bullies, parents of both, school administrators, and those who witness the harassing and such. 2) My secondary audience will be my professor and my classmates, some of whom may have experienced or knows someone who has been cyber bullied. 3) My audience will have similar opinions and will most likely be on my side. II. Evidence A. Research collected so far: I have found authors and scholars who are well known in the field of bullying who have written books and been in interviews. I have also learned what children who witness bullying should do and if school administrators should be held responsible or not, as well as what parents can do to help. B. Research to be collected: What I have left to look for are two things; Statistics and...
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...behaviour, physical verbal or cyber. It is intended to berate, humiliate scare or harass another person. The behaviour is usually repetitive and can extend over a long period of time. In today’s society when bullying occurs not a lot of people know how to handle it and some might not even believe it! If a bully is responsible for a death should the bullies face the force of law if their action lead to loss of life? Absolutely. How are we supposed to survive a judgemental world when everyday young people/teens are getting diagnosed with depression and even taking their own...
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...American and was adopted by a Jewish family and had just started kindergarten, she had just experienced her first piece of bullying by a kid she called “Mean Boy.” She had told her mother of the situation that ensued and all the mother could do at the time was to tell the daughter she will try and handle the situation with the school and see if they could happen to take care of the situation. The school had not observed the boy commit any of the actions he was committed of doing, so Mean Boy continued to bully this young girl because of her ethnicity and her family that adopted her. The little girl once again went home to tell her mother of the situation and was deeply discouraged and did not want return to school, the mother told the girl to return to school with her head held high and prideful and if the boy attempted to bully her say “I do not have time for this.” So the child returned to school confident with her newly found pride and when the bully confronted her she intrepidly said the phrase that she was told to use by her mother. The bully in then turn decided to return with a comeback that left her in shock and the boy was finally caught in the act of bullying her and fellow...
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...The characters in the book represent the meaning of strength, but their strength is not always physical. For instance Curley and his wife have the most power; they control and bully the others on the ranch. Curley’s wife likes to let people know that she has power, and she can do as she pleases without being punished (Beatty). For example she bullies Crooks because he’s black, she explains to him that she could have him lynched if he does anything wrong (Steinbeck 81). Although her biggest strength was her beauty; she knew how to use her looks so others would do what she wanted (McMurray). She has the ability to make all conversations cease when she walks in a room and because of her flirtatious ways everyone moods shift in another direction (Beatty)....
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...was at least one physical attack, as well as cyber bullying, which was accomplished via messages on Facebook. On the night before Rebecca jumped to her death she messaged a boy she had befriended online, stating: “I’m jumping, I can’t take it anymore.” On the following day Rebecca climbed a ladder, which was attached to a pair of silos at an abandoned concrete plant and jumped to her death. According to a news report, prior to Rebecca’s death she had cut her wrist in December 2012, in an apparent attempt to commit suicide. From a sociological perspective, bullying is a social problem that impacts both genders, all races, ethnicities, and many cultures. There is usually no justification as to why some individuals are targeted by bullies while others are not, except for the bully’s own personal prejudices, and motives to control. Bullying can start at a very young age, and most often will occur in the school setting. Their behaviors in the classroom, not only affect those that are being bullied, but also the other students in the classroom as well. Bullying is very hurtful and it can have a lifelong effect on the victim. Bullying victims may develop poor self-esteem along with feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, which can be overwhelming. Tragically, the case of Rebecca Sedwick and...
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...Bullying and cyberbullying cases have been increasing each year. The number of suicides related to bullying has increased as well. I have always been interested in the school’s liability in bullying cases. I have also wanted to know how responsible the courts held the bully for the victim’s emotional distress, or death. With these inquisitive thoughts, I continued to question whether or not the bullying laws actually protected the recipient of the bullying, or if they were put in place to not hold schools or districts responsible for the suffering these children went through. In my research I have found there is no federal law that addresses bullying directly. However, schools have an obligation to resolve the harassment, majority of bullying concerns aren’t adequately resolved. Sometimes the bullying escalates after the bully is reprimanded for their actions. When families feel the issue hasn’t been resolved and/or the bullying has worsened, they are able to file a lawsuit against the school or school district. Although there aren’t any federal laws against bullying, there are instances in which bullying overlaps with discrimination which are covered under federal civil rights laws. These laws are enforced by the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Justice. Whether it the harassment is referred to as bullying, hazing, or teasing, schools are obligated to provide a safe learning environment for all students. This is to be done regardless of race...
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...blink, smile or cry. For me, such a moment occurred on January 3, 2013 when I read in The Staten Island Advance that a 15 year old girl threw herself in front of a bus while carrying a suicide note in her pocket. This young lady had lived close to my home in Staten Island. Her name was Amanda Cummings, a high school student and a very attractive young woman. It was revealed that she was the victim of bullying both at school. She was also bullied on her cell phone and on the internet when she was at home. Apparently there was some romantic imbroglio over a boy that triggered a group of teenagers to target Amanda with relentless bullying. The young Romeo was 19 years old and apparently he was also involved with the ringleader of the bullies. The gang of bullies urged Amanda to kill herself on numerous occasions. The 19 year old male eventually broke up with Amanda, but the bullying did not cease. Faced with non-ending bullying and the loss of the boy, Amanda felt that she had no choice but to end her short life. In the days that followed Amanda’s death, students at her school posted the vilest messages on her Facebook page and continued their bullying even after she was dead. They expressed happiness over her decision to die and ridiculed her. Not everyone on Facebook was abominable and cruel. There were also many heartbroken messages from her friends and fellow students who recalled how she always wore skirts and heels at school and how much they would miss her smile and positive attitude...
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...Bullies Behind Bars Creating and Enforcing Bullying Laws in the United States ENG120 Abstract In the past decade there have been a growing number of teenage suicide attempts and successes. Many of these come from some form of bullying and harassment in our schools. Bullies leave scars on our children that last long into their adulthood; if they are lucky enough to make it to adulthood. This behavior has long been accepted as “boys will be boys.” Well boys are no longer boys and girls are sometimes more cruel than boys. It’s time we as parents and adults tell these bullies that their behavior has consequences and we as a society will no longer accept their behavior. Creating and Enforcing Bullying Laws in the United States. After my parents split up, life as I had known it for 9 years had changed. My father was gone and we were now living in a small apartment and my mother was on food stamps. I didn’t get my clothes from the store any longer. My clothes came from the church and lots of kids in school let me know it every day. I was called poor, told I was wearing others trash, called names and even tripped a few times. It only lasted a month or so, and then they moved on to the next one and left me alone. Today the bullies are going worldwide on the web. They are harassing you until you want to crawl in a hole and die and unfortunately some do just that. I was fortunate that my bullying experience was short lived, but it never left my mind. When I had my daughter...
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...Fiorella Gomez-Sanchez Monday 1 – 5 Class Research Paper Bullied to Death Bullying has become an epidemic that due to technology has spread profusely during the last couple years, causing fear, severe depression, and even death. Bullying is something that has existed throughout the years, but the recent violent cases that have surfaced due to the consequences of this; is something that cannot be ignored. Such consequences include the suicide of many innocent teens as well as the acts of revenge in cases such as the Columbine shooting misfortune. The big question is, with all these tragic events taking place, who do we hold responsible? Should these students be held responsible for their actions, should the school be held responsible for not taking action and dealing with the problem from the beginning? It is more than apparent that action must be taken in order to stop this hateful violence. Dr. Olweus, PhD, of Norway, describes bullying as “repeated negative, ill-intentioned behavior by one or more students directed against a student who has difficulty defending himself or herself. Most bullying occurs without any apparent provocation on the part of the student who is exposed. (Olweus)” The praying begins at a very young age; it can even begin in kindergarten or first grade, but the bigger targets are in middle school and high school. Usually it is for minimal reasons such as, having an accent, not dressing or looking like “others”, not being from a wealthy family,...
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...There have been dozens of cases of students being severely damaged by the symptoms of bullying. A large amount of these occurrences were due to the absence of a school or other neighborhood officials in the situation. But, if schools were to assist a student when bullies are significantly hurting them, lives could be saved. Despite many believing a school should not be responsible with what happens between each of their students outside of the classroom, it is important for a school to step in when a child is being bullied due to parents' inability to help on certain occasions, to prevent a bully’s negative effects on other teenagers, and to lessen high suicide rating due to bullying. One important reason as to why schools should be involved...
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...of Bullies Katherine Canales Mrs. McCracken A2 The story begins “A cute Irish girl moves to a new town, South Hadley, Massachusetts and starts dating a popular football player. Other girls, alpha girls, get jealous. They taunt her, cross out her picture on a student-body poster, and fling abuse on Facebook. It goes on for months; her mother tries to get the school to do something. Finally, on Jan. 14, after a day when she was allegedly harassed in the library, in the hallways and on her way home from school--a canned drink thrown at her, and the words "You Irish slut, you Irish whore". Phoebe Prince went home, picked out a scarf her sister had given her for Christmas and hung herself in a stairwell. Her sister found her. The mean girls? They logged on and mocked her death.” (Gibbs, 2012) She is only one in many victims that could have been saved. “By words alone perpetrators of bullycide kill their victims without laying a hand on them.” (Wallace 2011) These girls should have been held responsible for their actions, yet they were not. Everyday many adolescents are being bullied to extreme measures, pushed to the verge of death, in most cases, by suicide. And just like the young Phoebe, nothing was done to help them. Is this the life we want our children to suffer through? Clearly no, but what’s the answer. Surely there has to be a way to stop this abominable act. It is clear that those who partake in bullying should be prosecuted for their incredulous actions. ...
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...iBullying At one point or another, we were all members of the education system. We all were victims of it cruel and unmonitored bullying. But when will people start to realize that bullying is not the same thing as it once was. Back some odd 30 years, it was a Goliath-like figure and some David-like figure being hassled for lunch money, but now its Sally beating up Sue because she said the wrong thing to her on MySpace. Bullying has come to a new era. The new era of Bullying is called “Cyber-Bullying.” This kind of Bullying is unique, in the sense that unlike other types of bullying, this doesn’t start physically; it starts with words. “Responding to victimizations questions, 10 percent had been threatened with a weapon within the past year. About 20 percent of the youth reported they were offered, sold or given drugs at least once in school. Also within the past year, 24 percent had been teased about their race and 29 percent had had property stolen from them or damaged at school.” Cyber-Bullying starts on most social networking sites such as, Facebook, MySpace, or Orkut. Almost every teenager and young-adult has a social networking profile. About 87% to be exact. This makes cyber-bullying much more likely to occur. About 4 out of 7 kids have been bullied through social networking websites, and this number doesn’t show any signs of going down. People don’t realize that cyber-bullying causes more problems than actual bullying. There’s a wise saying “Problems out in the...
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