...The yes side of why cyberbullying should be punished by the school has all of the following; appeals to emotions, uses data or research, and tells why the other side’s argument is weaker. Justin Patchin thinks the school should help with students that are getting cyberbullied. On the other hand, Edwin Yohnka thinks if students misbehave off campus, it should be the parents who decide the punishment. In my opinion, Justin Patchin has a more reasonable explanation why cyberbullying should be handled. During Edwin’s debate, he failed to use data or research in his claim. Therefore, it made justin’s persuasive claim better. Justin W. Patchin appeals to the emotion for the students. The author used words like tormented, mistreated, harassed,...
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...Freedom of speech isn’t just the words that come out of your mouth, it’s the words you write, on paper or keyboard. It’s the ability to say what you think is right or wrong without someone forcing you to think or act a certain way. This absence of net neutrality would not only be violating our freedom of speech but also our freedom of expression. If big business, and in turn the government, could limit or censor what we, the people, could see how could we express ourselves? How could we possibly find out what is going on in the world if our government is spoon-feeding us what they want to? Freedom of expression is so much more than what it sounds. It’s the expression of ideas and ideals, of new discoveries and methods. I don’t believe all these things and more would be possible if the government was controlling our every move on the...
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...Have you ever seriously considered commiting suicide over comments made about you online? If you have, did you ask an adult or elder for help? Between 2011-2013, the MTV-AP survey recorded 66 percent of cyberbully victims who turned to their parents for help said it made the situation better. The first reason why cyberbullies should not be prosecuted is simply the fact that most cases can be handled without law enforcement getting involved. The vast majority of cyberbullying incidents can, and should be handled informally: with parents, schools, and others working together to address the problem. If online bullies were prosecuted, we would make criminals out of kids doing early-stage bullying. Law enforcement agencies should be the last ones...
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...Cyberbullying and How Internet Privacy is Involved Abstract This paper is going to be about how cyberbullying and internet privacy go hand-in-hand with each other. Cyberbullying is the use of electronic communication, like the internet and social media websites and cell phones, to bully a person, usually sending hurtful or embarrassing messages to them (Helen Cowie, 2013). Many of the articles that are going to be using for this paper talk about the different ways cyberbullying affects teens and young adults and also how internet privacy plays a role in cyberbullying. There is an article from Bob Sullivan (2013) that talks about how internet privacy is a complicated issue and there are criminals who break into websites to steal personal information. Since people can get someone else’s personal information, that makes it easier for a cyberbully to create a fake profile on a social media site, and make fun of and belittle someone else. Keywords: Cyberbullying, electronic communication, Cyberbullying and How Internet Privacy is Involved Traditional face-to-face bullying has been identified as a risk factor for the social and emotional adjustment of perpetrators, targets, and bully victims during childhood and adolescence. Bullies have now found a new way to reach their targets, by cyberbullying. They now can go on the internet and social media websites or use their cell phone. With the bully being able to do this they have the power to reach their targets at any time...
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...that they should look, act, and present themselves in a certain manner. For boys, they are expected to be tough, to be strong, and to be a leader. But, why should we try and fit into society's norm? Social media does not help the problem of society's pressure towards teens. It dictates how someone should act, in order to be considered “normal.” Social media has only opened up more and more ways of others trying to change themselves because they aren’t good enough. Many different social media apps allow you to connect with others. Just from the year 2000, there were only 361 million users, compared to the 2.34 billion users now. Even though social media leads people to have more interaction and allows long-distance relationships to actually last, it has a lot of negative things that create many problems for many people. Many social media...
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...Maron John B. Vistan COM/CONT.E TGE002 MS. VIRNA Cause & Effect “Bullying” Bullying as everyone knows is wrong. Doing some pranks, calling someone names, hurting people emotionally and physically has no purpose at all. Moreover, still a bully feels good hurting the people around him but he doesn’t know or even care that he is doing so much damage and traumas’ to the person that he is bullying. Also bullying now is getting even advance because of the internet and it gives more opportunities for bullies to do their thing more through cyberbullying. With cyberbullying the bullies has more tricks to do like blackmail, bad pictures, fake website, bashing through the social media and so many more. Cyberbullying has take so much leap for bullying’s side. The effects of bullying are that it can change the victims life, it can change his whole being. It can cause the person to lose his confidence, his over all personality, he will be change over all and also he might be sad and depressed. Because of this it would be hard for them to try new things, to trust other people again. A bullying victim might have some anxiety and would lose his social life and rather chose to be alone than be with someone. There are still so much worse effects of bullying that leads to serious consequences. Bullied people sometimes become so mad, depressed, scares that they may hurt themselves and feel that they have no where to go anymore. They are so many reports that there...
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...When children have access to technology and to communicate to anyone, a whole new form of bullying takes place: cyberbullying. Cyberbullying can make a child feel so frightened and unsafe that they feel as though this world has gained a brand new level of danger. A child could feel so helpless that they could take their own life. A man named John Halligan informs an article about his son named Ryan Patrick who killed himself in 2003 after being threatened and bullied by his classmates online for months (“Prosecuting Cyberbullies”). This type of bullying that technology has created makes bullying a child easier because the bullies do not have to see the victim face to face. That gave the bullies more power and led Ryan Patrick to take his own...
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...Social Media: Primary Source of Cyberbullying People are constantly hearing of teen suicides or suicide attempts because of bullying; however, when teachers or students at school are asked about these tragic situations, they claim to have never seen the bullying. In most cases, they haven’t. Teenagers have an easy out of escaping trouble now days through social media. They use fake accounts so that their identity is anonymous when embarrassing others. People believe that if they send or post something on social media it can be deleted and no one else will see it, but people can share what they’ve sent or posted and then everyone can see it. Finally, they have constant access to social media through computers, cellphones or tablets to insult others. The 2011 movie “Cyberbully” is a prime example of bullying over social media being one of the main causes of teen attempted suicides. In this movie Emily Osmet plays a girl named Taylor who is bullied by one of her friends through a fake profile. On this fake profile her friend fronts as being someone names James who spreads a rumor about Taylor that she slept with him. People begin calling Taylor vulgar names like “slut” and “whore”. She eventually tries to attempt suicide by overdosing on pills when her friend finds her. Taylor’s mother did what more parents should be doing, and fought to make cyberbullying illegal. The 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey states “15% of high school students (grades 9-12) were...
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...Cyberbullying: How anonymous attacks changed me forever By: Charlotte Philby (Ord markeret med fed er oversat i gloselisten på s. 2 (står alfabetisk)). Ellie Nudd was a typical teenager, studying for A-levels in English, sociology and business in her hometown of Colchester. Now aged 21, she describes her younger self as “open and trusting”, someone who found it easy to make friends. Soon after joining the social networking site Formspring at the age of 17, she recalls(回想), all that changed: “At the time, it was the latest site; everyone at my school had it. It was one of those sites where you can make your profile (an outline of something, especially a person's face, as seen from one side.) public or private, and comments can be made anonymously(匿名) or you can leave your name.” She made a profile, which anyone could see. It was, she says, the start of a period of bullying that would scar(傷疤)her life forever. “In the beginning, it was comments about my appearance. These were public comments that everyone could see: they wrote about how I looked, where I worked. They knew what car I drove, they knew everything about me.” The scariest part, she reflects four years later, was “this was clearly [being done by] someone I knew, but I knew nothing about them”. With the anonymity the site gave her abuser(施虐者)or abusers, Ellie had no way of knowing if it was a so-called friend or people she worked with. “It could have been anyone; it was obvious it was someone I was seeing every...
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...The internet has a big power to influence what goes on in todays world, to connect one another in real time, and to mobilize the current generation with the help of recent technological advances that many people wouldn’t believe that would happen. But in today’s society, it has happened and the primary focus has been with the rise of social media. According to The Pew Research Center, “there has been an 356% increase of social media use in the United States alone since the rise of Facebook in 2006.” And including about “over 94% of social media use by people through the ages of 12-18 years of age.” Therefore is doubt that social media has been a godsent to young people who want to get in touch with others around the world who also share the same interests and want to know what is going on in their friends and families lives. Even with this upside there is still a downside because with these social media sites are greatly affecting today’s teenagers, in turn are making it a health concern for these teens to be on social media. Communication is key to any thing you do whether you are talking to a friend or speaking to your doctor on your latest test results. Real communication skills are what teenagers are lacking today. These social practices that you have been taught throughout your life seem to be missing in today's generation since eye to eye contact and having conversations without looking down on your phone are very rare to see today. Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair, a clinical...
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...instances of bullying… Since then, the percentage of students reporting that they were bullied two or three times a month or more, in the past month dropped by about 38.3 percent” (Curtis). Schools need to recognize programs as a huge benefit in their battle against bullying, especially when they have them at their disposal. In knowing that the use of these programs are effective, schools need to use “Olweus, which costs about $1,500, is paid for by school districts, parent groups federal grants or private foundations. Many consider it a worthy investment including schools in California and Virginia, which saw an average 15 percent decrease in bullying after one year” (Tyre). From the article, Olweus’s worth has been proven to be sufficient. Why do schools rely on laws that negatively affect young innocent lives even though they have Olweus as an option? Having to deal with bullying is not an easy problem that cannot be dealt by only one person. Experts believe that exposing more people to prevention is needed to end the problem. Sam Chaltain, author of American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community, said, “ ‘Like any democratic environment, a school community should have civic ground rules that govern personal behavior. That will help kids understand what is acceptable to say and do so they can become their own anti-bullying program’ ” (Tyre). Schools that have rules are the most advantageous in leading...
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...faster and easier than ever. But the cost of the networking is also greater; not going out and being anonymous online can do a lot. Cyber bullying is one then and it has become a side effect of Internet and social media. Cyber bullying is a more serious problem than people thought, and by stopping cyber bullying we can make the world a better place. The consequences of cyber bullying are real, brutal and ruthless, it can ruin people’s reputation and life, cause from mental health problems to suicide; to make world a better place cyber bullying can be stopped by compassion empathy and caution. Cyber bullying is a common practice in many nations and have led to many disasters. Internet brought home many good interventions but this one was the wrong one in the generation. It is believed that a million number of people get exposed by cyber bullying each day. The fact that the cyber bullying has gone far in affecting our young generation it unstoppable. It is the action that we can all take so that we could stop these actions from happening again in the future. Cyber bullying have raised fighting actions among those individuals who are affected by the action. In addition, cyber bullying have increased the emotional hurt among many people since it is accompanied by stress and depression. Although more and more facts shows that cyber bullying has been a problem that affect people’s life but there are a lot of people refused to admits the consequences of Cyber bullying and underestimate...
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...They need to learn how to interact and have real face to face conversations; if parents want to see their kids be successful in the real world, they need to monitor and guide them down the right path while they’re on electronics. There’s a lot out there that can lure kids down the wrong path. I think pretty safe to assume that parents want to keep their children on the right path towards freedom from the bondage of electronics, if so they need to take action by regulating their activity on these devices as well as mentoring them so they learn how to be...
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...be anything from hitting, pushing, kicking, spitting, and even stealing. Most of this type of bullying occurs in and around schools. Physical bullying is a serious problem, affecting not only the bully and the victim, but also the other students who witness the bullying. Parents, teachers, and other concerned adults and young people should be aware of what physical bullying is and some of the ways to handle it. Physical bullying can start at any age, although it is most common around the middle school age. Males are more likely to be involved with bullying than girls. However, girls can be involved with bullying too. Usually when a person wants more control of another person, he or she gains that control by becoming a bully. Some reasons why people are bullied can be based someone’s weight, height, strength, race, gender, and/or appearance. Bullies usually have extremely low self-esteem or he or she has been an actual victim of bullying. There are many signs to look for when...
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...No Cell after the Bell “No cell phones! Unbelievable, right?” Wrong! Almost everyone in today’s society owns a cell phone. Even though cell phones have become a fixture in everyday life, they still have no place in the classrooms. Some people may argue that these phones are essential in case of an emergency or for safety, but this does not change the fact that cell phones can be a distraction, can cause antisocial behavior, increase theft, and can be used for non-educational purposes like cheating, cyberbullying, and sexting. Most students are easily distracted in the class room; therefore, by allowing students to bring their cell phones to school will not only distract teachers, but also other students. An example of this is a cell phone ringing. If someone’s phone rings in class, it will cause everyone to lose focus of what is going on and pay more attention to the person whose phone rang. Other students are distracted by the many features on their phones’. Cell phones nowadays are like mini laptops. In “Updating Policy on Latest Risks for Students with Cell Phones in the School,” Vanessa St. Gerard discusses the negative and positive uses of cell phones in school. St. Gerard argues, “As technology continues to advance, more issues with cell phones and other electronic devices in schools will surely arise” (45). St. Gerard also points out, “Cell phones are not designed for simply making and receiving phone calls anymore. Advanced technology now developed for cell phones...
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