Deborah Ahrens Cyberbullying Analysis

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Deborah Ahrens provided great credible knowledge on the issue(cyberbullying) and its relations to the new policies. There are several of connection that were made with names that are familiar and most popular from tragedies such as the columbine.Her goal on making connections were clear and easy to follow along with. This differentiates from other articles by the discussion of evolution of social issues and how and why they are changing and the importance of the school relations to it. (2)

Deborah Ahrens article can be used in a research paper because it provides tons of researchable topics by connecting one issue with another. Laws were mention a little but not as much because of the article was geared more towards the evolving world and

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