...Today most people would tell you that the stocks, pillory and other tools of public punishment are barbaric. We’ve moved passed them, having figured out more humane ways to deal with crime. Why, then, the resurgence of public shaming, namely the mainstream acceptance of the “dox,” which, in its purest form, is the digging up of a target’s personal information—name, phone number, address, Social Security number, familial relationships, financial history—and exposing it online to encourage harassment from others? This practice has gradually been popularized by Anonymous, the amorphous collective of trolls and “hacktivists” that alternately terrorize tween girls and disable government websites. In 2012, this practice was broadly adopted by media outlets. In October, Gawker unmasked a creep, notorious for facilitating the sharing sexualized images of women (underage and otherwise) taken without their consent. Gawker declared him “the biggest troll on the web.” Its sister blog Jezebelcalled for the naming of names of such creeps, and later exposed a bunch of teenage Twitter users making racist remarks about Obama, going so far as to personally alert the administrators of their schools by phone. This trend runs silly, as well—Buzzfeed ridiculed spoiled teens whining about their Christmas presents, while every media outlet covered Nice Guys of OK Cupid, a blog that ridicules clueless misogyny by sharing photos of hapless bros with regrettable stances on gender politics. Prepare...
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...Analytical Summary of Cole Stryker’s “The Problem with Public Shaming” In “The Problem with Public Shaming,” an essay that first appeared in the Nation, Stryker argues against the form of public shaming promoted by online networks and how people have figured out a way to deal with crimes but not with social media. Stryker introduced the essay’s subject matter through social media examples, while reflecting on past experiences and stating important details that reinforce the subject of public shaming as well as “dox” and discusses this term throughout the essay. Stryker helps define the term “dox” by listing the common traits and information “doxxers” try to gather, which include—name, phone number, address, social security and financial history. To provide backing for this claim, Stryker cites a well-known company who is an expert in this subject. He then suggests that these shared characteristics by “doxxers” may in return create an opportunity to help catch these criminals and offering a safer place for people to live, which is shown through many examples to support his thoughts. After defining “doxxers” characteristics, Stryker reveals the problem at hand: the practice that has been popularized — by anonymous trolls and “hacktivists” — collectively terrorizing teenage girls and disabled government websites (Stryker 587). Stryker explains how the First Amendment protects all kind of speech and because of that people have found a new way to speak out without getting in trouble...
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...depression and anxiety. Lots of constantly bullied people commit suicide. Bully victims are 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims. A lot of people who have committed serial murders and violent crimes were bullied in their past such as Rarely bullying will have a positive outcome by the target standing up for themselves and repaying insults with kindness . Causing the target to develop skills that can be used in the future to solve problems Addressing bullying is very hard. A lot of bullying now is committed anonymously through social media and can often not be prosecuted through the current laws we have in place due to difficulty of solid evidence. Many organizations address the problem by making it a known public issue, having support available 24/7 online and through call centers. One Organization the National Education Association has...
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...Alicia Morales DED 051 Professor Payne Final Research Paper 25 February 2013 Cyber Bullying Bullying is a form of aggressive behavior with physical contact, words to cause a person injury or discomfort. Bullies have been around forever as we are growing up. Technology in the 21st century has given bullies the option to go further more with their actions. This has led to cyber bullying, also known as Internet bullying or e-bullying. Cyber bullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, and embarrass another person. Now, this is a serious problem because it has become hard to control and keep anyone safe from cyber bullying. In America, 19 million youths have the Internet in their homes, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Projects (Sam, 2008). This increases the probability of exposing ourselves to be easily cyber bullied. Studies have also shown that one third of teens that have internet access have experienced harassment. Cyber bullying is not limited to a computer but any digital device that is in our reach of our hands. This has given bullies the option to increased power and freedom to create greater fear into their victims. It has made possible to cyber bullies to go completely anonymous making it harder to stop and control. The introduction of social networking has been one of the leading forms of cyber bullying today. Most used networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Tweeter and IG have made it easy for bullies to access all kinds of information...
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...A Teenagers Appeal to Parents To be young and frivolous in this new age of technology and people is easier said than done. It’s not easy to be ambitious to become something when it feels like so many obstacles are holding you back from it. Us teenagers, we appear to be unsure, unprepared, naïve, and confused of ourselves as we get older, indecisive of what we want to achieve in life. For me I fit in with the learning stage of my peers needing to find my calling in life by learning how to become a better person in general. But it’s not as easy as it’s told to us on daily basis, because times are different from our parent’s generations like school, people, media, .etc. What’s so unique about my generation is that we are so diverse and have so much character. We are more open in our thoughts and can achieve much more than our elders could’ve ever even imagined. Like for instance the subject of bullying has been going on for years affecting many schools nationwide. But I feel it’s finally being openly spoken about instead of being just pushed aside as pettiness. But this happened in our generation to make this change and I believe we don’t realize how much we matter in our community or anywhere to be exact. Another reason is I feel adults look at the negatives of my generation more than the positives. For example how they say we watch too much television or we aren’t as smart as other countries of the world. They believe that pushes us to strive harder to be smarter...
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...becomes educated so she commits to that and finds a way to get an education. Laila and Miriam’s loyalty is shown to each other in the book by going forth with their confronting of the abusive husband they once shared as well as helping each other raise their kids even though they have to practically do it on their own. Discrimination of women is a major theme in this book. This is a result of the Afghanistan society that is surrounded by this book. This book takes place solely in Afghan during a harsh period of women discrimination. Men have complete power over their wives and in this book, the Taliban makes it law that men have complete power over their wives. These women experience heartbreaking attributes such as abuse, murder and humiliation which is completely tolerated in this time. Inner strength of a women is also displayed throughout this book. Mariam and Laila experience mass amounts of heartache with being women and being apart of an abusive marriage. Though, they continuously pull it together and take care of their children the best they can. Mariam faces a father who refuses to claim a child of her decent as well as an abusive...
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...Journal Review Tesira Slaughter 5/13/12 HCA 250 Nancy Munoz Today’s society is faced with violence in the workplace. One of the main things that happens and continues to happen is “Cyber bullying”. Cyber bullying is defined as any type of negative act that happens on a frequent basis, whether it is face to face, via text message, via email, or on the Internet. Also, bullying can come from the manager and/or supervisor, as to where they constantly are bothering you about the workload. There are many forms of bullying that may lead to violence in the workplace: face-to-face, cyber bullying, e bullying, SMS bullying, mobile bullying, digital bullying, and online. Bullying has been found to occur between children and adolescents. Face to face bullying happens because of an imbalance of power, which is when a person has insecure issues about themselves they try to bring other people down as well. When individuals bully it is more then likely because they have had a rough upbringing or they want people to feel the same pain that they are going through. Cyber bullying is when a human being uses computer technology to send derogatory or life threatening messages to an individual. They might also post personal information and make it publicly noticeable so it will embarrass that individual. E-bullying is another that can lead to violence in the workplace, personal information, hatred messages, or threatening messages are sent through emails. Technology has changed...
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...announcing that it was her favorite dish on Christmas. After everyone had gone, Amy’s mother had implied that she could looked like an “American girl on the outside but must remain a Chinese girl on the inside”. The author uses details to reveal that an embarrassing experience is about to change how she felt about her family’s heritage making her realize that her feelings of “shame” were based on other people’s reactions more than her own feelings. The author’s main purpose for writing “Fish Cheeks” was to show her description of her embarrassment throughout the short story. This is definitely something that everyone can completely relate to. This is greatly expressed when she describes her family’s manners at the dinner table. I felt her humiliation; I also have had people come over to my house who I’ve wanted to impress but didn’t because I knew I was going to get humiliate by my family. There have also been multiple occasions where my mother has said and done things that I never would tell or show my friends. What people should enjoy most in this short story is the way in which she understands her mother’s words and realized that everything was done in her favor, and that she shouldn’t feel bad about...
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...Looking back at ones past often resembles memories that are treasured forever or resented. In, “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke, “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, and in “Photograph of My Father” in His Twenty-Second Year by Raymond Carver, all the narrators have a relationship with their fathers. The narrators describe the negative memories of their father of either: drinking, being abusive, being fearful, or being a negative role model but, all still find the love for their fathers. In “My Papa’s Waltz,” the narrator describes his father as a drinker, “the whiskey on your breath” (line 1). The narrator wasn’t happy with his drinking, it made him feel sick, “Could make a small boy dizzy” (2) Similar to the narrator in “Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year,” demonstrates he was bothered and ashamed of his father, “I study my father’s embarrassed young man’s face. / Sheepish grin, he holds in one hand a sting/ of spiny yellow perch, in the other/ a bottle of Carlsbad beer” (lines 2-5). Both narrators have a negative memory of their fathers drinking. Different from the other narrators, in “Those Winter Sundays,” the narrator has a negative memory of his father calling him, “When the rooms were warm, he’d call,/ and slowly I would rise and dress, /fearing the chronic angers of that house” (lines 7-9). All the narrators had negative memories of their fathers. All three narrators had role model figure from their fathers. “In My Papa’s Waltz,” the narrator...
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...I was going under, further and further. I was losing more and more air and getting more water in my mouth. Then suddenly air, glorious air filled my lungs. I was being lifted of the water and onto the ground. Someone started giving me CPR to help me breathe. I could feel a cold hard stare piercing my eye lids waiting for me to open my eyes. I opened them. Instead of seeing my teacher with her Ms. Know It All head, I saw 5 of her heads. She looked kind of like one of those alien dogs with 3 heads in a movie. Before I knew it, I was unconscious with a lack of air dreaming of scoring a goal in rugby. " Buzz, buzz," the sound of faint murmuring had snapped me out of my dreams. It was the teacher telling me that I had drowned of embarrassment. Suddenly an image flickered into my mind which made me remember that kids were poking me with a stick and ripping the lost property togs I was wearing. It had been an hour of torture for me. The worst hour of the day had thankfully been over when I remembered that I was swimming in the swim carnival. I walked home repeating the thought of swimming in the swim carnival. It was as bad as a nightmare, a terrorising thought. I mean why would the swim coach want me to swim in the swim carnival. The person who almost just drowned in class. Did she want to see me be so humiliated that I would never come back? Just as I was thinking all these possibilities, I heard some snickering coming from behind. I looked around wondering who it was. It was Jason...
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...Brett Phillips 9/27/15 Hum 11 Mrs. Rossi Struggling to act her own age during an embarrassing birthday, Cisneros shadows her emotions when in front others. Traveling back in time, eleven year old Cisneros explains her embarrassment during a specific moment of her life. Rachel attempts to have a stiff upper lip her teacher, Mrs. Price, humiliates her. But the powerful first person point of view conveys Rachel’s despair. This flashback of Cisneros’s childhood is produced as if it was happening to her the day you read it. For example, Cisneros states that “only today I wish I didn’t have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box”. This sentence shows that Cisneros was truly living in the past while writing this personal memoir. This proved to be an influential factor in the telling of this story, and makes the reader feel has if they were there while this incident occurred. The first person point of view in this memoir also lets the reader understand and interpret Cisneros thoughts and feelings when her teacher belittled her in front of her whole class. Her anxiety stormed feelings are shown when she almost had a nervous breakdown in class....
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...Sticks and Stones COM/220 March 31, 2013 Sticks and Stones Today is Friday, the year is 1969, it is about 3:15 p.m.; the grade school-aged kids of bus number 7 are picking their seats talking, laughing, and excited about the weekend. A sad and lonely boy meekly walks up to the door of the bus, climbs the two steps, walks to the fourth row and sits down hoping with all his heart they won’t notice him today. It has been a rough week and he just wants to be home. His hopes of going unnoticed quickly disappear as his homework falls to the floor again. He does not want to look up; he knows who did it again but he doesn’t understand why. He is not that different from the others, a little thinner and smaller maybe. Tears well up in his eyes, he holds them back for now, he wants to yell but he remains silent for now. The boy sits down in the seat behind him again the boy “accidently” spits on him again. From somewhere behind him he hears the names again too embarrassing to repeat. A piece of trash from the can lands in his lap. Seconds later a food wrapper with goo all over it bounces off the window and hits him with a slimy splat in the face. His face red with embarrassment and anger, he yells at them, begging them to stop, to leave him alone. Finally, the driver steps onto the bus but his tormentors do not stop, they discretely continue for another 20 minutes until the bus slows as it approaches the drive of his rural home. They were relatively tame today no punching, no tripping...
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...There are many barriers to learning. The one barrier that we, students, know of the most is bullying. Bullying is when someone says or does something hurtful to a person who has difficulty defending him/ her. With gender, boys are more direct and physical; some example are hitting, kicking, or making insults or threats. More girls, on the other hand, are more indirect and mentally abusive. Examples include excluding one from the group, backstabbing, or manipulating friendships. Most bullying occurs at school. 40%-75% of bullying occurs during school breaks on the school grounds or playgrounds, bathrooms, and hallways. Bullying can occur in classrooms too, if the teacher is not attentive. Being bullied can result into depression and anxiety, increased feelings of sadness and loneliness, changes in sleep and eating patterns, and loss of interest in activities they used to enjoy. These issues may persist into adulthood with health complaints, decreased academic achievement and school participation. They are more likely to miss, skip, or drop out of school. Those who bully tend to come from homes where problems are handled by physical punishment. This is frequently paired with caretaking that lacks warmth and empathy. Bullying can also result into more serious problems, like suicide. Although kids who are bullied are at risk of suicide, bullying alone is not the main cause. Many issues contribute to suicide risk, including depression, problems at home, and trauma history. Bullying...
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...far in life because interpersonal skill is one of the most important predictors of success” (207). As he grows and becomes more socially capable, he is able to recognize his interpersonal shortcomings and work to change his awkward habits. Because of this, he inherently has more social problems when he is a young boy. “Starting at about six years of age, [he] learned not to submit [him]self to repeated humiliation from people and institutions” (239). Unfortunately, humiliation was the impetus for Robison’s education in interpersonal self-regulation. In chapter 3, Empathy, Robison’s mother has one of her friends over. She comments on a tragedy of someone’s son being killed by a train while playing on train tracks. For lack of an understanding of social and emotional norms, Robison decides to smile at this remark. “She turned to me with a shocked expression on her face. ‘What! Do you think that’s funny?’ I felt embarrassed and a little humiliated. ‘No, I guess not” (29). His response, “No, I guess not”, is key because this is how he learned, through embarrassment and humiliation, that it is not acceptable to find humor in one’s tragic death. For Robison, learning interpersonal self-regulation skills is a bumpy road of learning from his mistakes and differences. 2.) Identify one example of the use of...
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...I spy – Graham Greene 1. Setting: Place: * England, Norwich (page 93) * In a private home, waves (sea) (page 93) Time: * Late evening * 1930 * War time: enemy airships (page 92) Charlie: * Unstable family * Afraid * Bullied * 12 years old * Doesn’t like his father Mother: * Means the world to Charlie, because she takes care of Charlie (as the only one) Father: * Owns the tobacconist shop * Push Charlie away for him * No contact * He is unreal to Charlie Links: * Spies introvert * “His father was very like himself, doing things in the dark which frightened him” (page 95, line 39-40) Pair work: 1. Where and when does the story take place? The story take place in Charlie Stowe’s privates home and in his father’s tobacconist’s shop in England under the first world war 2. What is Charlie Stowe doing at the beginning of the story? He moved with caution and tiptoed to the window, so he can steal cigarettes in his father’s shop. 3. How does he feel about what he is doing? He is frightened to be discovered. 4. Why is he doing it? He is doing it because the other boys at the school are bullying him for not smoking. 5. Why does Charlie mutter “taunts and encouragements” (p. 94, line 7)? He taunts himself, because he is embarrassed, that he does not have enough courage to lighting up a cigarette. 6. Who are the two strangers? They are police officers/...
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