ipl-logo

Final Essay

475 Words2 Pages

Everyone uses social media. People think that social media is only with mobile devices, but that is not true. There are multiple types of social media such as the social networks, photo or video sharing, bookmarking, news station and blogs. The social media platform is incredible but it can also be terrible because most of the time bullying originates on social media. For example, bullying tends to take place online. The movie “Cyberbully” is about a teenage girl who was harassed on social media. The bullying on social media went viral on her school campus and other students found out. This made it hard for her to be an average teenager. Later on in the movie, she attempted to take her own life. She felt the best way to handle the situation was to commit suicide. In this case, a suicide attempt was used as a coping mechanism. Fortunately, the suicide attempt was unsuccessful and the girl ended up going to therapy. Harassment via social media is visible at any time and will spread rapidly. This is not just in the movies cyberbullying is reality. …show more content…

In 2013 renowned rapper Waka Flocka Flame younger brother Kayo Redd committed suicide. The bullying he received on social media was about his mom Debra Antney being a transgender person. The attention Kayo received across the world because of his mother and brother he was horrifying. There were many hurtful and mean comments that led Kayo to feel his only way to escape the pain was to take his own life. Miss Deb who was grieving her son death started the organization No RIP, with the mission to raise awareness to social media bullying. Then again, there are some benefits to social

Show More
Related

  • How Did Tyler Long Commit Suicide

    712 Words  | 3 Pages

    On September 3, 2013, a sophomore named Bart Palosz committed suicide in Greenwich, Connecticut. Nina Golgowski discussed this in her article, “Connecticut Teen Who Committed Suicide.” Palosz’s story is very similar to Tyler Long’s, a boy who committed suicide in 2007. Tyler Long’s story was told by director Lee Hirsch in the movie Bully. Palosz and Long were treated horribly both verbally and physically by classmates, and nothing was done by their schools to help them.

    Read More

  • Summary Of At Some Schools Big Brother By Kelly Wallace

    736 Words  | 3 Pages

    Wallace writes about a situations where a twelve year-old Florida girl ended her life because of repeated cyberbullying. Specific messages sent to the girls are described in the essay as well. Next, Wallace goes on to explain that the school was unaware of the cyberbullying situation off campus, but on campus the school had separated the girl and the students bullying her and had placed them in different classrooms. The purpose of the story of the little girl was to show that monitoring students’ activity on social media can be helpful; maybe if the school knew about the problem the outcome may have been different. Another situation is described in the article about a college student finding her younger sister’s Tumblr page.

    Read More

  • 'Phoebe Prince' By Helen Kennedy: Article Analysis

    223 Words  | 1 Pages

    Posting status’s, sharing pictures, and direct messaging are just a few ways in which social media is used amongst people. In an article written by Helen Kennedy titled “Phoebe Prince, South Hadley High School’s ‘new girl,’ driven to suicide by teenage cyber bullies,” discusses the story of a high school girl who was bullied physically and via social media and drove her to her suicide. Phoebe Prince was just an average teenager from Ireland who was driven to suicide by her classmates. She received several unpleasant comments on her social media sites, such as “Irish slut” and “whore.”

    Read More

  • What Are The Causes Of Rebecca Ann Sedwick's Suicide

    140 Words  | 1 Pages

    The article “Girl’s Suicide Points to Rise in Apps Used by Cyberbullies” by Lizette Alvarez unfolds the cattuses of Rebecca Ann Sedwick’s suicide. The point of the first section is that Rebecca Ann Sedwick had killed herself, and cyberbullying can lead to teen suicide or other punishments. The point of the second section is how Rebecca began getting bullied by kids online, and how her family attempted to stop her from hurting herself. The third section’s point is how it’s difficult for parents now a day to keep up with their child’s cyber life.

    Read More

  • Final Essay

    1495 Words  | 6 Pages

    My idea came from watching a documentary on how prisons and jails in Europe have a different approach dealing with inmates when being punished for a crime they did. This place was in Norway, their jails are actually treating their inmates with gratitude. Erwin James (2013) labeled Norway jails inmates “live in conditions that critics brand 'cushy' and 'luxurious'.” These amazing jails have positive results because they have the least reoffenders in the world. The results of my topics should be positive, the reason I say this is because it been tested out in different countries and they had amazing results.

    Read More

  • Final Essay

    123 Words  | 1 Pages

    I enjoyed reading your post. Education has a huge impact on nursing excellence. Nursing education is the main focus of both the AACN and the NLN, as mentioned in above post. The AACN supports nursing excellence by establishing high standards for educational institutions; therefore, graduating high quality, knowledgeable nurse ready to improve quality of patient care.

    Read More

  • Final Essay

    1352 Words  | 6 Pages

    Obesity means that human body has an excess amount of fat, caused by environmental and genetic factors. A Body Mass Index is a measuring tool for obesity, the body mass index of an obese person is 30 or more. Also, there is another tool to measure obesity which is the waist circumference, women waist circumference of 35 inches or more is considered obese, and for men 40 inches or more is considered obese. There are many diseases are considered consequences of obesity such as heart diseases, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, obstructive sleep apnea, high cholesterol, some cancers, and gallbladder diseases. There are many factors contributed to obesity.

    Read More

  • Media Influence On American Culture Essay

    818 Words  | 4 Pages

    Because of the power and influence that media has on today’s society, suicide due to cyberbullying has increased dramatically over the years. Additionally, studies have found that social media use is significantly associated with an increase in depression. The negative effects of technology and social media on mental health and well-being cannot be ignored. Children and young adults like Nate Bronstein, Phoebe Prince and Ryan Patrick Halligan all were victims of cyber bullying. According to a CBS News article many of the children were 15 years of age who were ignored by teachers years before they finally gave up.

    Read More

  • In What Is Cyberbullying Affect An Individual's Life?

    400 Words  | 2 Pages

    This information shows that people just do whatever they want without thinking of the repercussions. This shows that cyberbullies take individual’s innocents away from them that can never be returned. In What is Cyberbullying “60% of targets said that their online experiences as a target of cyberbullying affected their school, home, and with friends and reported experiencing feelings of frustrations, anger, and sadness.” This shows that cyberbullying affects everything going on with the victim.

    Read More

  • Final Essay

    867 Words  | 4 Pages

    After some research, I discovered the multitude of concentrations of engineering. From broad topics like materials engineering, all the way to extremely specific topics, such as aerospace engineering, there is a variety of branches to choose from. Engineering is truly a wide subject that engages subject fields of both math and science. I realized that my future was in the electrical aspect of engineering. I was not aware of all the various areas that were in strictly electrical engineering.

    Read More

  • Suicide In Social Media

    750 Words  | 3 Pages

    Suicide in Social Media Social media now plays a major role in our generation, which can be accessed at the tip of our fingers now making it hard to ignore the things we see. Allowing many people to share almost every minute of their life all over some form of social media. Social media can be addicting “An increase in suicide rates among US teens occurred at the same time social media use surged and new analysis suggest there may be a link” ( “Newsela”) Technology has changed over the following years, but that doesn’t change the fact of “cyber bullying” still exists in our generation. It’s just displayed as a different form of “bullying”, there’s a billion things that are posted on social media each seen in a different perspective giving a

    Read More

  • History Of Cyberbullying

    1421 Words  | 6 Pages

    Fast innovations, such as the Internet, are constantly changing how people interact. Although this development has been approved human beings to make great progress in many areas, they have also allowed the form of violation to become more widespread. This is evident when looking at how traditional bullying has grown became today's issue known as cyberbullying. Although bullying and cyberbullying are often similar in shape and their technique also has a lot of difference. Unlike traditional bullying, cyberbullying allows offenders to close his identity behind the computer.

    Read More

  • Bullying: Society's Biggest Problem In Our Society

    1051 Words  | 5 Pages

    Following the suicide, Hannah 's older sister, Jo, described how, just days after discovering her younger sister 's body, she started receiving abusive messages on Facebook mocking her loss and blaming her grieving father 's parenting skills for the tragic death." As you read Hannah Smith was only 14 years old when she died. She felt belittle everyone else, and wasn 't happy with life, all because of what people were saying about her. If those people would have just taken some time to read what they had typed to Hannah, and thought about how that would affect her they wouldn 't have sent it. Suicide is definitely not something to play around with and that 's what bullies

    Read More

  • Persuasive Essay On Cyberbullying

    1152 Words  | 5 Pages

    Since the expansion and headways in technology, cyberbullying has been on the rise. The use of the Internet and technology to purposely harm another person in a hostile way. The viral idea of online life makes sending embarrassing or humiliating messages, pictures, or recordings straightforward and prompt and mysterious. Screen names effortlessly camouflage spooks ' characters. Frequently they can even put on a show to be the casualties, posting remarks that resemble the casualties kept in touch with them.

    Read More

  • Informative Essay On Cyber Bullying

    740 Words  | 3 Pages

    Cybercide Meet Ryan Halligan, a sweet and gentle thirteen year old who was ridiculed and humiliated by peers online. His friends spread many embarrassing rumors about him and they spread quickly, and eventually led him to suicide. Things like this happens to millions of children around the world and these kids suffer from embarrassing pictures, mean texts, and horrifying social media posts. Cyberbullying is a major online issue, so Cyberbullying is much worse than face to face bullying. First, cyberbullying is anonymous so it is much more da`maging to the victim for several reasons.

    Read More

More about Final Essay

Open Document