Adam Trevino
ENG 102
Mr. Tackett
29 November, 2011
Pick On Someone Your Own Byte Size
Everyone can remember their playground days in elementary school. The sun would be shining rays of light that fed children energy to go out and run some of the restlessness out of their legs. The grass was as green as the lilypad colored crayon you were just using in class to draw another picture worthy of the refrigerator door. You would feel the slight breeze blowing across your face and through your hair keeping you cool on some of those warmer days. Or how about that red, rubbery ball (that was never really inflated all the way) you got to take out to the field so you and your friends could play a game of kickball, can you remember that? If you can then you might also remember that bully who always came around right in the middle of your game and took the ball right out of your hands, called you a hurtful name or said something to bring you down, and then walked off as him and his friends laughed and made of you some more.
We would all like to believe that bullying stopped after grade school, but unfortunately a new form of bullying is rising throughout the nation that goes on after school is over and harder to prevent. The form of bullying I am talking about is cyber bullying, a way for teens and kids to get on chat room or online social websites and say nasty things about somebody, sometimes even anonymously, making it hard to monitor or prevent. The shame of feeling like an outcast on these sites really affects the victims of cyber bullying as a large number of committed and attempted suicides have occurred because of the continuous harassment carried out on these websites. In order to stop the continuing trend of cyber bullying we, as a society, must inform children and young teens about the wrongs of bullying others, that there are consequences to their words they post, and we must also inform parents about ways to monitor their child’s activity on the internet in order to ensure the safety and security of this young generation.
The Essay on Primary Education and School Children
The Government of India in 2001 launched the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), a nationwide programme to provide universal primary education, thereby encouraging secondary education also. The Center passed The Right to Education Act in 1 April 2010, which guarantees free and compulsory education to every child in the 6-14 age groups. But, the lack of awareness on the requirement of pre-school education ...
Young teens in the world today don’t always grasp that there are consequences for their actions, they feel almost invincible and that they can get away with anything, especially on the internet. Most of the sites visited by teens are websites where you can be whoever you want, all you have to do is create a username and password and you’re in, saying whatever you want to someone on the other side of the screen. In a survey of 4500 students, the Cyberbullying Research Center asked students between the ages of 10-18 some questions about cyber bullying and found that 20 percent of the students have been cyber bullied in their lifetime. Out of those 20 percent they found that 17 percent of them had been cyber bullied more than once in the past 30 days (this survey was taken in February 2010).
The CRC survey also found that another 20 percent were the ones bullying others online, and 11 percent of them doing it more than once on different forms of cyber bullying. These numbers may not sound like a lot on a scale this size, but when you take 20 percent of the roughly 22 million teens that live in the United States, you are looking at 4.4 million teens being cyber bullied at least once in their lifetime if not more. The number mentioned above is outrageously high and in order to bring it down we must tell these kids that spreading rumors and saying hurtful things online, or by any means of technology, is not okay just because you think you might be getting away with it. As the old saying goes, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
“With respect to bullying, all forms were significantly associated with increases in suicidal ideation among sample respondents. That is, youth who experienced traditional bullying or cyberbullying, as either an offender or a victim, scored higher on our suicidal ideation scale than those who had not experienced those two forms of peer aggression. Moreover, it appears that bullying and cyberbullying victimization was a stronger predictor of suicidal thoughts and behaviors than was bullying and cyberbullying offending (Hinduja and Patchin Phd. 2010) This is an excerpt from the journal article “Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Suicide” and as you can see cyberbullying affects those who are victims of it and also those who are doing the bullying. Their research also showed that those who are victims of this immature act are more likely to think about committing suicide or have already attempted it. So why should we let this continue if the facts are this clear?
The Essay on The Effects Of Television For Children
The Effects of Television for Children The Effects of Television for Children Most people own a television, and many households have multiple television sets in their homes. Television is an American is more than just a pass time, but is part of our lifestyle. If we were to stop and think about when we started watching television, then when that would have been? For many of us it was when ...
Parents, you are the biggest role player in this fight against cyber bullying. Your child is looking to you for help, even if they never acknowledge it. If you ever notice a change in your child’s behavior, like loss of appetite, decrease in family interaction, and spending more time by themselves than usual, then you as the parent should make time to sit down with your child and find out what the problem is. He/she may say they’re fine, but they aren’t, and in times where they are being harassed and degraded publically on chat room websites they need someone who will be there for them to pull them out of it. One way a parent can help prevent their child from falling victim to cyber bullying is by moving the home computer into a common room, like a living room, or room where a parent can easily monitor what’s going on (Cyberbullying Research Center 2010).
Consider setting up times when the child can use the computer outside of class assignments, and set up parental blocks for chat room websites. The child may feel like they’re being treated unfairly but they must understand that it is for their protection and will keep them from being targets of nasty comments on the internet.
In this day and age where getting on the internet is so easy and accessible it has hard to stop cyber bullying completely, but with the right information and protection we can reduce the number of victims, and offenders by great numbers. Our goal should be to spread the message of equality, and that being from a different part of town, wearing different clothes, or a lifestyle choice doesn’t make that person less of a person than they are. And yes I said our goal because we are the ones above them that they look up to for guidance, and if we turn our heads away from this problem there will be no hope for the ones being bashed constantly on the internet. So stand up and do something.
The Term Paper on Outcomes for Children of Incarcerated Parents
Most states lack uniform methods of recording the demographic information regarding an inmate’s children. Moreover, many inmates may choose not to identify their children for the fear of the possibility of adverse involvement from various child welfare agencies. A Black child in the United States is nine times more likely than a White child to have a parent in prison. A Hispanic child is three ...
Works Cited
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Hinduja, S. & Patchin, J. W. (2010). Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Suicide. Archives of Suicide Research, 14(3), 206-221
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