Analysis Of Tyler Clementi

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It was during the summer after his high school graduation that 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, a talented violinist, began sharing that he was a homosexual. Clemenit’s room mate during his freshman year at Rutgers University, Dharun Ravi, used a webcam on September 19, 2010 to stream footage of Clementi kissing another male. According to the Tyler Clementi Foundation, the teenager learned through his room mate’s Twitter feed that he had become “a topic of ridicule in his new social environment.” On September 22, 2010, Tyler Clementi committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. Less than a week after Clementi’s death, Ravi and Molly Wei, the hall mate whose computer Ravi used to spy on Clementi, were charged with invasion of …show more content…

I know what it is like to get verbally bullied by my other peers. From elementary all the way through middle school I was teased about being overweight. I honestly believe that I was a victim of bullying for such a long time because of failure to notify an educators and also because I did not feel as though as though my teachers paid enough attention to notice it. With me feeling like they were not attentive, I believed that if I did tell them about my situation that it would not make much of a difference, and that if it did make a difference that it would be for the worse. The amount of verbal bullying has remained rather constant over the last couple of years. The verbal abuse from the aggressor can do a lot of damage to the victim. It can affect the victim’s image, can take a toll on them emotionally and psychologically, and can also cause issues such as low self- esteem and depression. Recently, I have noticed a lot of bullying cases where a person is bullied so much verbally, that they chose to commit suicide. The best way to deal with verbal bullying is to ignore the bully, tell an authority figure, and to look for sources of enjoyment. Another form of bullying would be physical bullying. Physical bullying increases …show more content…

In many cases social bullying has occurred in real life at school or at a person’s workplace. In order to prevent cyber bullying, parents should make sure that their children know the rules of respecting one another on the internet, cut down on their children’s computer time, and often check your child’s social media network profiles. In order to deal with cyber bullying or at least most recently people has chosen to get the law involved. When the law gets involved they can pull any and all information that the cyber bully could try to hide. You could also report cyber bullying to online officials. You can also report cyber bullying to your child’s school

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