Summary Of When Bullying Goes High-Tech By Elizabeth Landau

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The effects of Lack of sleep In her article, "When Bullying Goes High-tech" by Elizabeth Landau, Elizabeth discussed the issue of cyber bullying. She mentioned some similarities and differences between online bullying and school bullying such as both behaviors include harassment, humiliation, teasing, and aggression." Also, most of the perpetrator who bully online also tend to bully at school. However, in online bullying, the perpetrator has an advantage of attempting as anonymous, and attacks can happen at any time of day or night. This will create a whole students bullying. in addition, Landau gives examples of victims such as If they talk aloud, they can make a difference among their friends and in the world. She also brings some affects …show more content…

Because of the numerous pressures of college, students become more and more busy every day. They spend their time studying for quizzes and exams, doing homework, waking up early to attend classes, taking care of a family, and working part time jobs. Furthermore, students become Stressed with every experiment, project, and essay assigned. They are forced to study and work continuously in order to receive good grades. All those responsibilities make students lose a lot of needed sleep. On many opportunities, students will be writing, studying, or reading at night instead of sleeping. This will have negative effects on AUD students’ performance and concentration during their daily …show more content…

Actually, students need to sleep 6 to 8 hours a day in order to do their tasks properly. The absence of sleep decrease some students’ alertness, and the excessive daytime sleepiness impair the memory and the cognitive ability to think. For example, because the absence of sleep decreases the attention, many students can read the same information many times without understanding. In addition, without concentration a lot of AUD students tend to respond slowly. This can be stressful since their memories are greatly affected by how much sleep they get each and every night. In addition, lake of sleep can make some AUD students less aware of what is going on around them. For instance, as soon as some students turn in the class, they feel asleep, and they yawn constantly , so they will be less motivated and not be able to concentrate in class. Less concentration makes it harder for a lot of AUD students to learn. To illustrate, if some student are sleepy, it can be harder to listen and even to write down notes either in normal class or in exam. A lot of AUD students can lose concentration because of lack of

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