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As the issue of bullying continues to be an overwhelming presence, some were pushed to their limits. In one girl’s case, the bullying was so harsh that she took her own life. Megan Taylor Meier, was described as a young girl who was very enthusiastic. However, Megan was also seeing psychiatrist regarding her problems about her own image. In the seventh grade, Megan Meier “had tried desperately to join the popular crowd at Fort Zumwalt West Middle School, only to be teased about her weight” . (Maag) As Megan moved to a Catholic school, she had lost 20 pounds and also gained a new group of friends. However, Megan’s life would soon take on a huge twist. Megan had a MySpace and it soon that through this website that her universe would change. It was through MySpace that she meet Josh Evans, a seemingly nice home schooled, phoneless boy of the age 16, and the two messaged one another continuously. The boy and Megan quickly became close and formed

Encountering vicious messages constantly, either through media or speech, Nicole Edgington and Lizzie Velasquez were faced with difficult bullying circumstances that they describe in the articles: “The Girl Who Got Even: A True Cyberbullying Story” and “Lizzie Velasquez: My Anti-Bullying Story.”

The same night, Sam went to her school dance with her best friend by her side and also the foreign exchange student her grandparents were hosting. The geek that had a crush on her would not leave her alone the entire night. Due to this fact, Sam decided go to the auto body part of her school and was sitting in a car. She just wanted to be alone because she was her crush Jake and his girlfriend dancing and she was getting upset. As she was sitting the geek came along and they began to talk , as they were talking in the beat up car. He told Sam that Jake was asking about her like and she got really excited. After, the geek told her this Sam started to practice talking to Jake in the hallway but could not find the right words. Later, that night when the dance was over she saw Jake in the coat closet but froze and did not say anything. On the other hand, Jake froze too when he saw her and did not say

Ronnette Jones was just like any other teenage girl. She attended school at Riverside high school, where she was a member of the school’s dance team. While balancing school and dance, she also got a job serving food at the local hospital. Going to football games and going out with her friends were a common Friday night for her. In January of 97’, on a breezy fall afternoon, Ronnette and some of her friends were out for a stroll in the park when they came across a group of guys. Ronnette began talking with one of the guys, Shaun Washington. They

In this situation, Sedwick was being tormented and stalked by two of her former classmates on Facebook, however this whole dispute all started over a boy that the former student of Sedwick dated and so did Sedwick. One of the girls was upset that Sedwick had once dated her current boyfriend and began bullying and harassing her more than a year ago when they both were students at Crystal Lake Middle School.

All I had on my mind was that my little brother was falsely accused of vandalism. When I woke up and went to school the following morning, I immediately got called to the office. There I found Branden, Bryson, and Jack. They are football players that cause a lot of trouble . As soon as I walked in, Jack said; “Jake did it and you know it.” Me, knowing this wasn’t true, raised my voice and replied, “You’re a liar and don’t be accusing my brother of something you didn’t know he did! You and your friends probably did it!” At that point, the principal and resource officer pulled the three boys into the office. Soon after, another officer walked in the door. “Emiley, come with me please.” he said. Once we walked into his office, he had the tapes pulled up from that Friday night. “Which one is Jake?” he asked. I replied, “Jake isn’t in it.” While watching the tapes, I saw a blonde haired girl, she reminded me of Anna. I asked the officer, “Who’s that girl?” and he replied “I can’t tell you, is there any reason your brother might’ve done this? Vandalism may be an act of revenge, a way of expressing a political opinion, or a means of intimidation.” At this point, I was so annoyed I got up and walked out. As I left, I walked past the football players as they snickered and laughed. While I was walking back to class, my phone vibrated. My mom texted me saying, Your dad and I are on our way to

She now works for a bank, but it is not the best job. The person she works for procrastinates and makes Birdie run to do her work right before it is due. One day while she was waiting for the bus to go home, she meets a guy. She dates him for a couple of month and then one day, he vanishes. Birdie goes to the place where he worked and the person there says that the guy always lied about his life and drifted from place to place. This is another example of something going wrong for her. She finally finds a guy who, she thinks, likes her and he ends up lying to her the whole time, then he just

Our story started back in the year 2013. A young, quiet, 13 year old girl by the name of Jade Runo started eighth grade. She was so nervous she shook just thinking about going back to that trailer park of a school. She had knots in her stomach, her already pale skin was whiter than snow. She started sweating as she brushed her long indigo hair out of the way of her eyes. She looked in the mirror, her bright blue eyes drifting, looking at her beat up ripped jeans and scrubby T-shirt.

Before Hadlei went to the basketball game, her parents reminded her they would be gone at the movies that night. They also asked her if she would go to Wal-Mart to get some a few groceries before heading to work concessions. While driving, she noticed a car had been following her for over five minutes. She decided it was probably nothing, and didn’t pay much mind to the car behind her for the rest of the time it took her to get to Wal-Mart. When she arrive, she quickly ran through Wal-Mart to get all of the groceries her parents needed her to get. While making conversation with a kind check out lady, Hadlei noticed a rather peculiar looking man, standing by the exit, about 30 feet from where she was standing. As she continued to consult with the cashier, she couldn’t help to notice how the strange man would not stop staring at her. While she bagged her groceries, she looked to her right, and notice the man still continued to stare at her. By the time she had all the groceries bagged, and started to head out to her car, she saw that the man was no longer standing by the exit. She looked all around the store, yet could not see him

After all this, the blackmailer had reappeared, creating a Facebook profile which used the photo of Amanda’s breasts as the profile picture and contacting her classmates at her new school. Because of this happening all over again, she was teased and eventually moved schools a second time. However, she came into contact with an old friend online and the friend invited her to his house where they ended up having sex while his girlfriend was on vacation. The following week, the boy’s girlfriend and 15 of her friends confronted Amanda about sleeping with her boyfriend. They shouted insults at her and also the girlfriend had physically attacked Amanda by punching her in the face and she fell to the ground and she stayed laid in a ditch where her

That day at school, she saw some kids picking on a little boy with really fluffy hair on the playground. She gets upset seeing someone being hurt so she storms over there and stands infront of the crying boy and yells for the bullies to stop it. They see her arms and laughing asking her if she scribbled on herself because she thought it would make her look cool. She gets more than upset now, she's angry, really angry. Not because they made fun of her (even though it did hurt) It was because they were still trying to hurt someone. Her eyes arent blue anymore, They're a deep Purple. The kids that were just bullying the boy dont know whats going on. It's like a flash and Kathryn can see again, but shes horrified at what she's seen. The bullies were all on the ground, one was bleeding, another screaming for help because of his leg. She turned around and saw the fluffy haired boy looked horrified and before she could say anything to him, he got up and ran away in fear of being hurt. Kathryn ran home that day before school even ended. When she got home she cried to her father saying she was a monster and that she hurt

I had the privilege to have John Halligan speak at my High School and share the story about his 13-year-old son Ryan Halligan, who committed suicide due to cyberbullying. Ryan shared an embarrassing personal story with a friend who used that information to start a rumor that Ryan was gay. The taunting continued until almost everybody knew the rumor. Ryan was taunted day in and day out, he got to the point that he wanted to move to get away from the torture. Ryan thought he had finally struck a friendship with a pretty, popular girl through AOL. He later learned the girl and her friends thought it would be funny to make Ryan think the girl liked him and use him to share more personal embarrassing information which she

Many cyber chats, although good for online communication however also has the potentials to cause emotional distress. Insults, profanity, humiliation and much more are some of the causes of which resulted many people to depression, suicide to ‘get out of this misery’. Through social networking, online reputations are being humiliated through verbal communications or offensive images that are being posted up onto social networking sites, such as Facebook. Chanelle Rae, a 14-year-old former student at Geelong’s Western Heights College, took her life on Friday the 17th of July 2009 in another cyber bullying incident, of which Chanelle’s mother, Karen reported to 3AW radio on the 21st of July 2009. Her mother reported, ‘she wanted to die because of the message that was given to her that night.,’ This highlights the fact that lives can also be lost while having the benefits of social networking on Facebook, Bebo, Twitter and much more. Thus shows that social networking can have a severe impact on many of our lives through what we say or post online.

Today was Ray’s homecoming day, Ray woken up and went to her sister’s room to wake her sister Breanna up, so they can leave to get some things done for homecoming. Whenever Ray and Breanna was ready the girls called their papa to meet up with them to give them money. Then the girls went from place to place to get their nails and eyebrows done. They finally found a nail and the eyebrow place right beside Walmart . When the girls were walking in the place Ray seen her best friend Katelyn in there cause she was getting ready for the homecoming dance too. When Ray and her sister Breanna finished, they went home. While they were home Breanna had to go somewhere before the dance, when Breanna left. Ray took her hair down out of braids that were in the other day and then Ray turned on the shower. So Ray was in the shower for like an hour, because she had to shave her legs, Ray had to wash her hair she even had to wash her face really good. When Ray got out she got dressed, ate some lunch that her mother made for her, and played on her phone until her hair was dried cause Ray don’t like drying her hair. Before her hair was fully dried Ray started doing her makeup, while Ray was doing her makeup she listened to music. When Ray finished doing her makeup, she started doing her hair. Ray brushed her hair, then she put her hair in a side bun, and then she got the curling iron out when the curling iron was ready Ray curled the side parts of her hair so it won’t look simple and so that it looks cute. When Ray finished, she noticed that she still needed to brush her teeth and put her lipstick on. When Ray finished with brushing her teeth and putting her matte lipstick on she went and talked to her mother a little and then she went and put on her dress on and her heels on. So when Ray finished, she called her big sister Breanna and asked her where she was at because she was still not at the house and the dance was about to start. So while Ray was on the phone with her sister Ray was yelling at her sister and told her that they have 20 minutes until the dance starts and Breanna said that she will be there when she done talking with her boyfriend, she also said that she will be there as fast as she can. While Ray was waiting Ray

I parked my car on the side of the road and sat aimlessly in my car. I sent Hailey the “here” text and waited. She was in there. Morgan Tenaglio was actually in there. A girl of her status and beauty had never given me any sort of consideration. “I wont mess this up”, I told myself. Hailey presented herself at the front door and I got out of my car and walked towards her. We exchanged hellos and she asked me, “are you ready to see Morgan?”. I swallowed my breath and murmured “yes I am”. She escorted me to her basement door as I said hello to her mother. Hailey opened the door and step by step, started walking down. I followed close behind. As I walked down I heard the voices of Jake, Leila, and Stevie... But no Morgan. I turned and walked past the wall to my right. My eyes were closed and ready to see her. Everyone said Hi to me as I opened my eyes and gaged the room. Morgan was nowhere in sight. I was confused and discombobulated as leila shouted, “haha jokes on you. Morgan isn’t even here”. Following this, I heard a faint muffled voice come from under a stack of blankets in the corner of the couch that laid rest in Hailey’s basement. All the sudden the blankets started to move and out of nowhere, she popped up. I froze...Speechless....caught off guard. She was beautiful. The most beautiful girl I had ever seen. Her angelic eyes, a greenish brown that could put a man to sleep. Her straight brunette hair looked as gorgeous and smooth as a photoshopped models out of a