Workplace bullying

‘Sharenting’ is the habitual use of social media to share news, images, etc. of one’s children. Often the consequences to social media posts are not thought about before sharing and are jeopardizing one’s future. In the article “The Perils of ‘Sharenting’”, by Adrienne Lafrance, she discusses how sharenting can affect young children in many ways. Although this seems like a more popular issue to happen in teenagers, it is relevant for young children too. Young children, in most situations,…

The song “Best of You” by Foo Fighters explicitly describes a situation between two people who had a really close relationship and one experienced mistreatment and abuse physically or mentally. That’s one way the lyrics of this song could be translated, but the idea expressed in this song, I think, is much bigger than that. The relationship described is a metaphor for anything that constrains an individual in life. The song was written with the purpose of self-help from problems ranging from…

Worldwide one in four women will experience domestic violence sometime within their life. Domestic violence is defined as a pattern of controlling behaviors where manipulation and force are used to gain power over a partner. Yet, many victims do not step forward or speak out against their abuser, possibly because they believe that they deserved it, or nothing positive would come from speaking out. Women who experience domestic violence have affected mental, physical, and emotional health. In…

Brad Cohen the co- author of In Front of the Class has shown many difficulties of living with Tourette's Syndrome. For example, the thoughts of how people view Cohen. Others believe that Cohen was weird and different by the way he acted with his barking and woop! noises. Going to certain places made it difficult for Cohen because Cohen's syndrome was always about shouting and high expression of his ticing. Applying for a job with Tourette’s makes it harder and less likely to get the job because…

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness is a captivating story about a 12-year-old boy Todd Hewitt who lives in a world where every man and animals’ thoughts can be heard in a never-ending stream of Noise. The Noise is chaotic because in our minds there is so many things going on you can only describe it as chaotic. It really shapes the New World because if you can hear everyone’s chaotic thoughts along with your own it would be chaos and that is exactly what the Noise is and what the New…

In the confronting documentary, Audrie & Daisy, film makers Bonni Cohn and Jon Shenk depict a completely biased and illusory stance on the aftermath of two teenage sexual assault victims. A range of conventions are expertly used, positioning the viewers to believe that the government and social media have, to an extent, influenced the victimization of Daisy Coleman, and the tragic suicide of Audrie Pott. Through the perpetuation of socio-cultural values and stereotypes inherent in American high…

Over the years, the digital culture has expanded to a much larger platform for everyday consumers to interact with. Our relationship with virtual reality has triggered heated debates regarding the the negative impacts on our congenital skills and blurring our discrimination between fantasy and reality. This ties in the affiliation of creating a digital self, a kind of avatar, which speaks volume of about ourselves as an individual. Scholars, such as Zach Waggoner, explored this relationship in…

Article Six Analysis: “To Save Yourself from Sextortion, Send Naked Mole Rats, Not Nudes” The New Yorker article by Alan Burdick discusses a recent Canadian campaign against sextortion by instructing teen-age boys to send a picture of the naked mole rat instead. The audience of the article is the general public, mostly parents of teens and teens themselves. One purpose is to inform people about the dangers of sextortion and a way to combat it. Another purpose is to review the Canadian Centre…

My parents were always scared. Scared someone was coming. Scared someone was going to hurt me. They wouldn’t let me go play in the snow alone, walk to school alone, go anywhere alone. It felt like I was in a house arrest. I always dreamt of playing in the snow on a cold winter's day with my friends, doing what a normal 12-year-old should do. But no, I was stuck inside, day in day out. I continuously asked them if I could go to the oval across the road to kick the football, if I could go to the…

Growing up my mother and I had a very difficult relationship, it was a very difficult time in my life. We went through a lot of fights, name calling, hurtful words, wishing each other ill and pain. Growing up my mother used to verbally abuse me by calling me all kinds of names, criticized the way I looked and parts of my body. I was either too fat or too skinny but I was never good enough for her. She was very hurtful with words. Things didn’t get any better as I got older. The way she used to…