Ziyadah's Argumentative Essay

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In Marion County, a young girl name Ziyadah Jackson,18, has been bullied online ever since she decides to change her profile picture on Facebook last week. Ziyadah was confidence and wanted to try something different, It was the first time in years she decided to take a profile picture without wearing her glasses. She felt uncomfortable doing that over the years because her left eye is cross sided. After posting the updated profile picture insulting comments from some of her peers started strolling and being shared among students. One of the comments said “cockeyed LOL”. Jackson could not understand why all the negativity was being targeted at her because she said “ i did not do anything to them, so why did they choose to pick at me”. Ziyadah …show more content…
Words do hurt, they really do hurt”. Ziyadah, said she would not allow those comments to break her dignity she started to reply back to the negative comments with a prayer. Since then many positive people join in and started commented nice things. There is such a thing as abuse being committed on the internet. There are plenty of young and old women and men that have been through verbal abuse second hand from the internet. It may sound like its nothing but in today's world the internet can spread news within seconds. I believe no one would like to be emotionally targeted by anyone especially on the internet because people can take your identity and manipulate it into something you are not. It's quite aggravating because it's mostly females who get bashed on the internet for trying to be themselves.What is the big deal if Ziyadah decides to not wear her …show more content…
Are you jesus christ, Jay z, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Miguel, anybody with celebrity status? Even if they were a celebrity it still does not give anyone the right to belittle another human being by making an individual feel bad about themselves.There are so many issues with online abuse, the biggest issue is people suffering in silence that end up committing suicide. Girls like Amanda Todd, Amy, Kelly Yeomans, and many more are dead and gone because they could no longer go through the hurtful words of people their own age. When I was in elementary school me and my friends use to pick on other kids just for the fun of it.During my young days i didn't fully understand the meaning of bullying and verbal abuse. Thanks to the kids i use to pick on for telling on me, my teasing days were over. I am glad it ended up that way because i would never want to be a accused of someone death because of my own actions. That would definitely scare me for the rest of my life. I have witness the hurt of many girls in toronto and especially the north york area being criminally exposed by their nudity pictures set in conference, that was later released on Instagram pages, twitter, and

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