Subject: Cyber Bullying
Overall Purpose: To Enlighten
Exact Purpose: To enlighten my listeners about the intensive issue of cyber bullying
Thesis: Cyber bullying is a serious issue that is affecting people today and these needs to be addressed.
- Introduction
- Attention Getter:
Dalai Lama (b, 1935) once illustrated that ‘Life is all about helping other people and getting help from others. If by any chance you choose not to help, then ensure that you also do not hurt them’
- Reason to Listen:
Cyber bullying is one of the greatest crimes in the world today and it is important to understand how and why it happens.
- Thesis Statement:
Cyber bullying is real, it continues to increase and its effects on the victims are devastating.
- Credibility Statement:
I love privacy and am surprised by the way that the world today has made Privacy to become a thing of the past with people posting their every move in the social media
- Preview of Main Points:
- First of all I am going to try and define what cyber bullying is and how it happens.
- I will then go ahead to define the effects that cyber bullying has on its victims
- And lastly, I will explain ways in which we can try and increase awareness on cyber bullying in a quest to try and reduce its increasing rates.
- Body
- Cyber Bullying is one of the greatest crimes in the world today
- Cyber bullying is bullying that takes place through the use of electronic technology such as smartphones and computers and any other communication tool for instance social media.
- Bullying actions include actions such as harsh text messages or emails, false rumours passed through social media and even private embarrassing pictures and videos circulated through social network sites.
- Cyber bullying can happen can happen at any time of the day and with the current society where smartphones are owned by almost every person, it only takes a short time to reach every corner of the society.
Transition: Now that we have discussed what cyber bullying is all about let us discuss the effects that it has on the victims
- Cyber bullying has a great effect on the victims
- Embarrassing texts and images can anonymously post and they get distributed very fast. These posts are not easy to delete because it is sometimes impossible to trace the source.
- Many students who are bullied opt to skip school and look for every reason to avoid going to school just to avoid the embarrassment. It is estimated that about 16, 000 students skip school on a daily basis all because of bullying.
- Bullying causes depression on the victims which in turn lead to increased suicide rates. A bullying victim in most cases always feels rejected which cause them to be aggressive and isolated. Most victims of bullying especially the young people lose hope in life which leads them to engage in self-destructive behaviours and in the end contemplate suicide.
Transition: Having learnt of the effects that cyber bullying has on the victims let us now understand how we can spread awareness in the quest to try and reduce the cases of cyber bullying and its effects.
- Spreading awareness is an important element in helping reduce cyber bullying.
- Everyone is different in their own way. People should be accepted for who they are without discriminating them and making feel less because of their beliefs or characters.
- Bullying victims should understand that just because they may be different doesn’t make them less of a person. The world accommodates everyone with their special characters and other people should not make you feel like you are less of a person; just because they do not believe in what you stand for.
- Inflicting pain on others is selfish and one should always ensure that they treat others in the same way that they would like to be treated.
III. Conclusion
- Review of main points:
- I first discussed what cyber bullying entails.
- I then discussed the effects that cyber bullying has on the victims
- Lastly, I discussed the importance of spreading awareness on cyber bullying to encourage the victims also help people understand the effects of cyber bullying.
Closure: No one knows what tomorrow holds, the person you are bullying today maybe the person you will be begging for a job because you wasted too much time bullying while he or she was busy working hard for his tomorrow.
References
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Dilmaç, B. (2017). The Relationship between Adolescents’ Levels of Hopelessness and
Cyberbullying: The Role of Values. Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 17(4), 1119–1133. https://doi.org/10.12738/estp.2017.4.0610
Bullying and Cyberbullying: How to Deal with a Bully and Overcome Bullying. (2017).
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