The Pros And Cons Of Cyberbullying

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In the United States, an estimated 1.6 million school students undergo bullying at least once a week and 1.7 million youth bully others (Kuykendall, 3). Bullying has become a big problem in today’s society. Bullying refers distinct form of peer aggression involving negative actions that represent intentional, repetitive, and involve an imbalance of power between victim and perpetrator (Thomas). Bullying happens everywhere and to anyone. It can happen at work, school, and even at your own home. Also, bullying not only happens to little kids or teenagers, but even to adults. Also, since technology and interacting websites have became more and more popular, a new bullying way has started to form called cyberbullying. Cyberbullying can happen …show more content…

Egoistic suicide represents people who carefully consider their own lives and circumstances and express sadness of life that seems to have no purpose or they seem to have no place in society. These people feel like they don’t belong in this world and wonder why they were even born and still alive. An example would be someone who has no friends, unmarried, and have no goals or achievements committed this type of suicide. Altruistic suicide represents people who appear highly connected to their social group and have the ability to differentiate between personal needs for safety and security from the group 's overall needs. This suicide defines when people consider to die for others and that they do not care what happens to them. An example would be a soldier who falls on an armed grenade to save his or her comrades. Anomic suicides represent suicides that result from a disconnection with basic cultural values or norms. An example is a person who doesn’t fit in his or her society. Fatalistic suicide defines when a person continues to show excessively regulated, when their futures undergo pitilessly blocked and passions violently choked by oppressive discipline. An example would a person going to prison. They would rather die than go to the prison and get abused and being prohibited them from pursuing their …show more content…

One boy named Barry Loukaitis, 14 years old, undergoes physical and verbal abuse at school, including an incidents where one student held down while another student urinated on him. So on February 2 1996, Loukaitis took a revolver, pistol, and a handgun to Frontier Middle School in Moses Lake, Washington. Another boy named Scott Pennington, who exists as a 17 years old, struggles with teased for stuttering, called names, and physical attacked. On January 18, 1993, Scott entered his English classroom with a gun. Nicholas Elliott, who exists as a 16 years old, struggles bullying over his skin color, so Elliott opened fire on teachers and students at Atlantic Shores Christian School, Virginia Beach on December 16, 1988. All of these teenagers got charged with life sentences (Kuykendall 18-20). No one understands why one victim picks up a gun and heads to school while other bullying victims shrug it

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