Words Hurt - Bullying Commercial

Bentley Green - Anti Bully Song - "No More Pain" Cover of Stereo Hearts

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)

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            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 )

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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.

       

My English II Documentary on Bullying

Tre'Dessa Smalls Singing for Bullying Awarness

Amanda Todd's Story: Struggling, Bullying, Suicide, Self Harm

Animoto "Anti-Bullying"

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Annotated Bibliography Works Cited

Annotated Bibliography 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)

Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

            John Cloud argues that from examples of bullying and the victims reactions, kids have been committing suicide and planning school shootings. He narrates that around 7:30 a.m. on the day of February 27, a 17 year old named T.J Lane allegedly walked into a high school cafeteria   outside of Cleveland with a .22 Rugger handgun shooting 10 rounds hitting five students with three dead. Cloud develops his claim by first placing a scene in the reader’s mind about a student’s reaction to bullying. Cloud also uses words like “gut-wrenching” to give the reader the feel of the situation when he was telling a story about a kid who left a post on Facebook before he committed suicide because of being made fun of by his sexuality. Lastly, the author gives examples of situations where victims of bullying have been in and how the problem can be solved via school bullying programs and by bystanders speaking up.

            Nicole Crawford narrates that Susan Limber believes “Bullying is a very common experience for kids in school.” She claims that the in findings of school shootings, “the attacker is rarely impulsive; they plan their actions, in more than 80% in some cases, at least one person knew the attacker was planning something and in 60% of the cases two or more people knew”. Crawford develops this claim by first using an example of the school shooting at Columbine high school. Cloud then explores bullying such as the difference between male and female. She lists the research that Tonja R. Nansel, PhD, and colleagues have found which were how bulling occurs frequently from 6^th grade to 8^th grade with little variation between the school areas, how males and females are bullied differently; males bullies physically, and females bullied verbally. Lastly, the author explains how programs can work at preventing or stooping bullying and making school better and safer for students. Crawford’s purpose was to talk about how bullying has become a serious issue, and how it can be stopped in order to inform the reader how serious this matter is.

            John B. Pearce and Anne E. Thompson argue that bullying can have a long term adverse effect on children in health and in behavior. They claim that some ways that bullying can be stopped or reduced is by  recognizing bullying, changing attitudes about the situation, supporting the victims of bullying, teaching children how to behave in a well manner; setting examples of good relationships, having good aggression control, teach the child that violence will not be tolerated, etc. Pearce and Thompson develop this claim by stating that the first step is to recognize bullying and the typical bully in order to overcome bullying. Pearce states that “Achieving a reduction in the rate of bullying in schools would be a highly effective public health measure for the 21^st century.” Lastly, the author explores ways that will also help with ending the epidemic of bullying such as discouraging bullying in schools, challenging aggressive behavior seen in bullies, supervising aggressive children, etc. Basically, John B. Pearce, and Anne E. Thompson’s purpose in this article is to display strategies that they believe would reduce bullying and help make the problem of bullying less likely to occur.

     

Wordle #1

Essential Questions

 

1. Which one?
• Who is mostly effected by bullying (race, gender,age, grade)?
2. How?
• How do teens escape or cope with being a victim of bullying?
3. What?
• What are some signs of a potential bully and a potential victim of bullying?
4. Should?
• Should adults try to help by being more proactive about noticing bullying and would that help prevent bullying?
5. Why?
• Why do bullies attack and what causes them to attack certain victims ?

 

How do teens escape or cope with being a victim of bullying?

So, we all know that no one likes being bullied and at some point it begins to take a toll on the person being affected. Bullying can lead to other problems such as; suicide, drinking, drugs depression, and even self-harm. According to the http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-school-bullying website, a victim of bullying is twice as likely to take his/her own life compared to someone who is not a bully. Another fact that caught my attention is that one out of 10 students drop out of school because they are being bullied. The reason I felt strongly about this topic is because it hurts me emotionally when I hear on the news that another child has committed suicide because of bullying. I would also like to help kids who are being bullied as well as the people who are bullying them because most of time the person bullying the victim are doing it because they have emotional baggage or problems at home and don’t know how to deal with it in some cases. I would like to end bullying at the source, also so that I can help save the lives of the victims of bullying because I feel that no one, especially a child should have to end their life to escape their problems because they have their whole life ahead of them. I also believe that the victims of bullies should seek help as well and the bullies so that we can prevent things like this from occurring.