Wednesday, November 14, 2012
All Works Cited
Cloud, John.
"Bullying." n. page. Print.
<htt://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=41&hid=110&sid=fb0b93e2-83af-46a0-8256-02bea920e1b8@sessionmgr114&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGI2ZQ==
(Cloud)
Pearce Thompson, John
Anne. "Practical approaches to reduce the impact of bullying." Archives
of Disease in Childhood. 79.6 (2012): 1-5. Print.
<http://adc.bmj.com/content/79/6/528.full>. (Pearce Thompson 1-5)
Crawford,
Nicole. "New Ways to stop bullying." 1-4. Web. 9 Oct. 2012.
<https://sites.google.com/site/alisonpluim/newwaystostopbullying.pdf>.
(Crawford 1-4)
Facebook
Cloud,
John. n. page. Print.
<http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/vid=41&hid=110&sid=fb0b93e2-83af-46a0-8256-02bea920e1b8@sessionmgr114&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGI2ZQ=
Coleman, Loren.
"Blogger." Mine Shootings And Machine Guns: Aurora and Columbine.
2012. <http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2012/09/mines.html>. (Coleman )
Blood, Gordan.
"College of Health and Human Development main." The Bullying
Epidemic: How Speech-Language Pathologists are Positioned to Restore Balance.
2012.
<http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&tbo=d&biw=1920&bih=948&tbm=isch&tbnid=lW3Uol1oP4UiIM:&imgrefurl=http://www.hhdev.psu.edu/news/2011/bullying.html&docid=AadUksr4KKi2ZM&imgurl=http://www.hhdev.psu.edu/news/2011/images/bullying1.jpg&w=425&h=282&ei=z-eiUIvgCaihyAHm0YDYCA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=316&sig=116910933011333548253&page=2&tbnh=144&tbnw=217&start=53&ndsp=63&ved=1t:429,r:37,s:20,i:325&tx=147&ty=40>.
(Blood )
Stormidae. "Blogger." but the bullies
keep winning: Amanda Todd Nov. 27, 1996 - Oct. 10, 2012 . <http://www.google.com/imgres?start=164&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&tbo=d&biw=1920&bih=948&tbm=isch&tbnid=LjWPf-7z8gy8tM:&imgrefurl=http://stormiidae.blogspot.com/2012/10/but-bullis-keep-winning-amanda-todd-nov.html&docid=ZR1gbajvmt82QM&imgurl=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEaG3cwAT2DxbjI2pq3iptsPGp0RxP766oktuSF-NnAiXK75gK6U8JQeDw3LbSb1xwAYrPy0OqeS2J8E6iTVnMuaESaIGvAzBxps7BJFx7PbmAKIAcxje14tElh_WUlnuhyphenhyphen9o3I4F9nlc/s400/Amanda+Todd+1996+2012_n.jpg&w=400&h=400&ei=OFycUISCHYSC9QStiYGYBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=402&vpy=591&dur=1215&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=141&ty=132&sig=116910933011333548253&page=4&tbnh=149&tbnw=159&ndsp=61&ved=1t:429,r:76,s:100,i:309>.
(Stormidae )
Argumentative Essay
Bullying comes in many forms and causes a lot more harm
to that person than meets the eye. Take a step back and position yourself in a
situation of being a victim of bullying. Being a victim of bullying can cause you physical and emotional
pain and that causes the victim emotional or physical abuse that ties in with
other problems, such as self-harm. In this case, the victim
cuts themselves or even worse. Commits suicide. Now place yourself in the
position of being a bully. How would you feel if someone bullied you to the
point of even considering suicide? How would you feel if you constantly bullied
someone to the point that they even considered taking their own life or took
their own life? Take a sheet of paper, ball it up, and stomp on it. Now unwrap
it and try to straighten out all of its wrinkles. Then say sorry. The moral of
this exercise implies that even though you have said sorry to the paper after
you have damaged it, the wrinkles and scars did not go away. That is exactly
what happens to a victim of bullying. Though the bully has said sorry to the
victim does not mean that the pain and damage caused will just up and
disappear. Those scars will be with that person forever. Most people of this
generation do not quite realize that the tongue is mightier than the sword.
Life and death are all in the power of the tongue! The saying “sticks and
stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” is not true at all.
Words can and do hurt and they are powerful enough to end a life. Even though
people do not really see bullying as a huge issue and are not really putting
forth their best efforts to help end it, people need to understand how harmful
it can be both physically and mentally.
As
examples have been shown in my research bullying is a major cause to self-harm,
suicide and even school shootings. These are all ways of how bullying has an
impact and how the victims of bullying choose to deal with it. In my first article
titled “Bullying”, it has been explained by author John Cloud on page one that in he year of 2010 an 18 year old by
the name of Tyler Clementi leaped to his death from the George Washington
Bridge after being spied on by his roommate kissing another man and being
cruelly tormented. Jumping off of that bridge was Tyler’s way of escaping or
dealing with bullying. Cloud, John. n. page. Print.
<http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/vid=41&hid=110&sid=fb0b93e2-83af-46a0-8256-02bea920e1b8@sessionmgr114&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGI2ZQ=
Another
example of how bullying has led to destructive issues is the suicide of Amanda
Todd. Amanda Todd was a 15 year old,
Canadian, Caucasian, female. She was harshly bullied and judged constantly all
because she made a bad mistake in her past that she never thought would follow
her. Unfortunately, it did. Every time that incident followed her, her problems
just kept getting worse and worse. It all started the day she was with her
friends and they began talking with strangers on webcam. One day someone asked
her to flash them so, she did. A year after that incident she received a message
on Facebook by a strange guy that had her address, phone number, school,
friends, and family. He then threatened that if, he did not put on a show for
him he would send that picture to everyone, but she did not go through with it.
Days after, she awoke at 3 am in the morning by a knocking at the door by the
police. Everyone received the picture that she took. She had to deal with
constant bullying and had to switch school multiple times. Each time, things became
worse and worse. People would talk about her, lie to her, tell her to die, kill
herself, and tell her that no one likes her! She went home and drank Bleach,
but her father carried her to the hospital where they flushed her. After going
home she went on Facebook to see if people were still talking about her. People
were constantly tagging her of photos of bleach, picking on her, and saying
insults like ”she should try a different bleach next time, and not be so stupid”
“I hope the next time she dies for real”. She began cutting herself and taking
anti-depressants. Her anxiety got worse until the day she thought, “Why am I
still here? No one likes me”. Amanda Todd posted a video of her whole life
never ending story onhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej7afkypUsc before committing
suicide by slitting her wrist and bleeding out. The part that really touched my
heart emotionally was her last card that read out “I have nobody. I need
someone :( .”
I have a connection with that because I know how it feels to feel like no one
understands you and to feel as if no one is there for you. I have decided to
use this example because it is very strong and powerful.
I
believe that these examples of bullying are eye openers for people out there to
understand that bullying is a very serious matter. Being, that just a few days before she
committed suicide she posted this video is a very powerful message to others
that bullying can have a powerful impact on people. I have also chosen to make
this example part of my essay because Carol Todd: mother of bullying victim,
Amanda Todd stated that, “This video
should be shared and used as an anti-bullying tool. That is what my daughter
would have wanted.” http://www.minews26.com/content/?p=20232 Amanda’s way of
escaping or dealing with bullying was cutting herself in which led to suicide.
I truly believe that bullying and situations like these can be prevented 100%,
but it will take all of us to come to realization and step up in order to
prevent it.
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