Alisa buried her head into her arms, trying to ignore the constant laughter. It was a haunting noise, continuing long after the actual joke. Like an echo. Expect this one kept echoing and bouncing off walls, continuing its hurtful speech. “So stupid!” “That was so obvious! How could you be so stupid?” “Idiot!” These comments stuck to her like glue, following her around. It was like an unanimous agreement to put a label on her, with ‘can’t answer simple question’ or ‘loser’. It had started out as a simple hangman game. It had ended with the end. “Ok class!” The teacher had that annoying smile on her face, clapping her hands for attention. “We are learning nouns by playing hangman!” Who cares for this game… it is so outdated.... Alisa sighed, propping herself on the desk using her elbow. She could hardly care for the ‘review’ game--it was something they had learned long ago. Ms. Atwater turned to the board, taking up a black Expo marker. The dashes stood out so much and yet so did the hangman. The hangman composed of a box, with a line going straight up, curving right, shot straight down. We all knew the rules; it was all too easy. Guess a letter, …show more content…
You can’t say just anything about anyone without consequences. If you say the wrong letters in hangman, the man is hung and it is game over. However, same can be said of real life. Some end their lives by cutting themselves, hanging themselves, shooting themselves, and even overdosing themselves. Some may even jump off high buildings, wanting to die because of those words. In a word, suicide. Most suicides are caused by bullying. Do you know why? Those people, perfectly sane, listen to everything that was applied offensively to them. Everything. That comment about their clothing? They heard it. Soon, they can’t take it and close the book on their
Individuals who say cruel things online could make the victim have a lower self esteem. Having a low self esteem means that the victim thinks poorly of their self and doesn’t want to be their self. Having low self esteem could lead to depression. Depression can really have a bad effect on the victim. According to “The Ophelia Project” , “60% of targets said that their online experiences as a target of cyberbullying affected them at school, home, and with friends, reported experiencing feeling of frustration, anger and sadness.” Victims feel frustrated that these people are making fun of them online which can cause them to be sad that this is happening to them and angry that they won’t do anything about their situation. The victim could also have a lower self concept of their self and just start hating their self to where they don’t even want to look in mirror at their self. Victims who have gone through this should know that the person who said rude things to them will be prosecuted for what they’ve
We address the issue with posters and hotlines in schools and even memes. Incidentally, we have taken a serious threat and turned it into a joke or something too taboo to talk about. Name-calling is a common form of verbal bullying, and is ranked less severe than the other levels because it is easier for the victim to “shrug off.” Spreading rumors is ranked second because it is more damaging to the victim but not as severe as suicide baiting, which is the most severe level because it could result in someone taking their life. Suicide baiting is the intentional, urgent incitement of suicide from onlookers who target a vulnerable and desperate victim, some of whom had already threatened suicide. Often it occurs on social media, and many individuals don’t know that by telling someone to “go die”, “kill yourself”, or anything similar is actually considered assisted suicide if the victim was to take their life. Some claim it’s okay to say to friends or people you don’t like, but they may not be considering that suicide baiting is a crime, assisted suicide. Many people are getting away with this type of bullying because the victim must present proof like screenshots to prove they are telling the
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All throughout Elementary school teachers and parents would say, “Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you”, but in a way they were wrong. My father married my step-mother who had two children around my age. The oldest was a very normal kid, but the second was autistic. Despite his autism, he was a very sweet kid and when it came to the subject of animals he was a genius, however this made no difference to his peers. He would be referred to as “retard” or other hurtful names behind his back. His brother, himself, and myself all went to the same school and his brother and I would have to deal with these immature students. They would pick on him constantly, but the saddest part is he could never tell that they were picking on him; in his mind he thought that was how everyone played. I would have to talk to these students, but they never understood the problem, “he can’t tell” or “he’s having fun” they would say. In no way does that make it right. Just because someone can’t tell that you are picking on them or doesn’t hear you say the hurtful comments, shouldn’t allow you to disrespect them.
"Sticks and Stone may break my bones but words will never hurt me" We have all heard these words at some point in our lives, but the truth of the matter is that words do cause us pain. The wounds that we receive from verbal abuse cannot be seen as they are psychological wounds. These psychological wounds that we receive embed themselves deep into the way that we view the world and can stay with us forever. The fact of the matter is that words may not cause us physical pain but they cut deep into us and cause much more pain and suffering than physical wounds.
Some bullies may argue like murders that it was not intentionally, but it transpires. Also, like murders a person may end their life because they may feel terrified that there is no freedom from the act and no purpose to live. The impolite words cyber bullies use and put out on social media is accessible to the whole world, which can ruin victim’s reputation and cause them to be hated by others. Even if the cruel comments and rumors are removed it still will not change anything because most likely other people have already recited and chatted about it with friends. Suicide rates among 10 to 14-year-olds have grown more than 50 percent over the last three decades. (Bullycide, 1) As a kid and teenager, younger years are years where the fun and enjoyment of life should be. There should not be a reason why a child oversights that enjoyment, especially due to frustration, anger, and evilness caused by
(Kipling , ) Picking up words you are not suppose to hear? An example is a cuss word which the Bandar-log and bullies think are “cool”. And do not the bullies follow the rules of society and the adult authority? No.
Many children are ridiculed and bullied via social media pages such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. They are publically shamed for various reasons some being considered not popular, promiscuous, or homosexual. They receive messages and are included in posts or tweets that target them for who they are. Others who see these posts can take part in commenting and ganging up on the individual. On ABC News most recently, teen girls have targeted others by posting “silly photos of themselves then altered to include blunt advice to each other, about things like how to dress more appropriately.” Today the person being targeted eventually commits suicide because the humiliation becomes unbearable. To shame a person to death is unacceptable, it is their right to be who they are without being judged. Society and the people within need to worry about their own
... to everyone else's idea about you. Pretty soon, it affects your life in a much larger way than anyone intended it to. Although at times we do it unintentionally, it does not change the fact that an individual can be hurt by a simple word. The author Jane Porter once wrote, "I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another."
Words can be used in a variety of different ways from giving somebody a compliment, making an observation, singing a song, or simply just talking to a friend. Words are extremely powerful, and they can be used to accomplish great things such as inspiring millions like Martin Luther King Jr. did during the civil rights movement. However, not all people use words in a responsible, respectful manner. Along with all of the great things people can achieve through the use of words, there are many cases in which words have proved to be dangerous. Words have started wars, been used to bully people, tell lies, and even discriminate against entire races of people. Despite how powerful words are; people often misuse them, or say
We live in a society where we judge everyone no matter what, if we see someone different from us, we make fun of them, it could be either the way they dress, or the way they act, their color, their race, just anything. Judging leads to bullying and some times bullying can lead to suicide. Bullying is when someone or more people with more power abuse, intimidate, force, harm another person or group of people who feel helpless. Most of the people when they think about bullying they imagine someone punching other kids, which is called physical bullying but there are other types of bullying, physical bullying is the most obvious one, the second one is verbal bullying that’s when someone calls ugly names to other person, making offensive remarks, making jokes about their gender, religion, they way they look and so on. 46% of bullying in school is the verbal type. The third type would be indire...
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Many people in our world believe that they have the authority to determine someone else 's worth. In our society, people are being called degrading and horrible things constantly. This is known as bullying. Bullying is defined as unwanted or aggressive behavior towards an individual that is usually repeated over time. The way someone views themselves is important to their character and way of life. If a person is constantly told that they are "ugly" or "worth nothing", it might shape them into what they see in the mirror on a daily basis. Dark thoughts that result from bullying can lead to a dark way of life and even suicidal thoughts. Bullying should be a crime because it can lead to depression and suicide in some cases.
In movies you always see a kid getting picked on, usually at school. Not everyone knows that those are just movies that, in reality that’s never really the case, most of the time the most bullying you’ll ever see is two good friends nudging each other or, on the guys side, punching each other just for the fun of it. You walk down the hallways, and not very often you see a kid getting shoved around or getting yelled at by someone that actually means it. If you go on Twitter, Facebook, or any kind of social media website you will always see people fight or telling someone something that could really hurt them. People don’t think about how words can hurt someone, so they say stuff that they feel like saying, most of the time, it’s something that they would never say in person. Most people don’t think about what they say before they say it and how badly it can affect a person, no matter what age, gender, everyone will feel the hurt in words that you type and with one press of a button it can ruin someone. So, if you haven’t noticed yet, my paper is on how cyber bullying is worse than the actual thing.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words feel more like daggers. This simply says that mere name-calling does give rise to a cause of action. It is not necessary to be physically harmed in order to suffer lasting harm. Bullying is usually the intimidation, the process of intimidating or mistreating someone weaker or in a more vulnerable state. This could be teasing or taunting a class mate because they are in some way different. But what happens when our school yard bully becomes our Facebook harasser? This is definitely nothing new to society but thanks to the internet, instant messaging programs, E-mails, text messaging and social networks teens are now being bullied online. Some may feel that bullying is a part of growing up, they may assume that it builds character but in many cases this form of harassment has become a huge problem and the results have become fatal. The experience of being bullied can cause lasting damages to an individual. Victims of cyber bullying may endure and experience long-term emotional damage, anger, low self-esteem, depression, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.