After being the target of public humiliation and keeping silent for almost twenty years, Monica Lewinsky walked onto the Ted stage and shared with the audience her personal experience as a victim of cyber bullying and humiliation, as well as her calling for a more compassionate and empathetic world. Her persuasive speech titled “The Price of Shame” is well written, organized and delivered, and is worth learning from. Lewinsky delivered this speech in Canada, a developed country where most people are highly educated and have daily access to Internet. And her audiences, as shown in the video, are most middle-aged adults with plenty of life experiences,…
It’s Never Over “On April 20, 1999, Dylan Harris and Eric Klebold walked into Columbine High School armed with guns and explosives, killing twelve students and one teacher before taking their own lives. The motive behind their murderous and suicidal rampage indicated revenge for apparent mistreatment by other students” (“Criminal Defense”). This is just one of many stories of kids going nuts just because someone bullied them. It’s so sad knowing anyone can bring anything to school without being…
In today’s world of unfortunate tragedies bullying has been one the biggest, and has affected us here in the U.S. Most school shootings have happened because of bullying and peoples negligence towards others feelings. Reported by authorities, who say most of the shooters had been repeatedly bullied, physically assaulted, made fun of or put down and humiliated by fellow classmates. This type of bullying is unacceptable and it should not be tolerated at schools. But when do you draw the line…
one mistake. Tangney says, “Feelings of shame involve a painful focus on the self-the humiliating sense that “I am a bad person,” (577) which is true because it will make them really ashamed of their actions. But because they are ashamed, they can also get irritated with everyone knowing what they done, so they will blame others. In Tangney’s essay, she states that people who receive shame punishment will feel embarrassed and will lash out and blame others. “They may seek to hide or escape the…
Importance of an Anti-Hazing Policy in a Sports Program When an athlete joins an athletic team, he/she needs to feel safe while around the team. Team members should not initiate other members with hazing. Athletes do not want “to submit themselves to mental and/or physical humiliation, degradation or physical punishment” (Crow, Ammon, & Phillips, 2004, p. 15). According to Hoover (1999), hazing is “defined as any activity expected of someone joining a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses,…
language in which they speak, non english speaking students will feel more welcome, and essentially more inclined to learning. For some kids, school is very stressful because they are afraid of saying something that will potentially embarrass them in front of the class. These are the kids who dread getting called on, and aren’t confident in their reading or writing skills. In an essay written by John Holt titled “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading”, he explains why students are afraid of…
My greatest strengths are my appreciation for Beauty & Excellence, Humor, Fairness, Humility, and Teamwork. My top three strengths are my appreciation for beauty and excellence, humor, and courage, I personally think that these three are the basic building blocks to being myself. First off my appreciation for beauty and excellence/curiosity has always been there, other cultures have amazed me, I’ve learned what I like and what I don’t like and I’ve learned that other people could have…
Cyber Bullying : Cyber bullying is bullying that place using electronic technology for example computers, cell phones and tablets as well as other communicating tools including text message, social media sites for example twitter, facebook etc. Things like sending messages, posting pictures or messages about the others in blogs or on websites, using another person’s name to spread rumours or lies about someone else, in other words, bullying happens everywhere. Due to rapid development of…
the main bully, which signifies that he/she participates in the acts of bullying but is also sometimes a victim of the bully he/she follows or supports. This individual takes on the two different roles. Hence he/she knows what it feels like to be bullied but does it to others anyway. The last participant of a bullying is the victim who is obviously the bully’s target (Vanderbilt 2010, 315). As said in the introduction, there are different types of bullying. On the one hand, Dr. Pottinger and…
opinions on what age is appropriate to breast feed, and what age isn’t. Huron’s valued humility. For this reason, the way in which they disciplined their youth varied from what is considered to be the norm today. In seventeenth century Huronia physical punishment was never used as a discipline, as they didn’t believe in humiliating their young. It is important to remember that although the humility of the child was protected, this did not mean that they were not disciplined; just the manner…