St.+Aimee,+Jonathan

SAP Initial Proposal
 * CYBERBULLYING**

My topic for my research project is cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is basicly any harassment through a electronic device or the Internet. I really think people cyberbully because bully's thinks it's easier to harass victims because the message is anonymous and also easier not to get caught, It only shows evidence that a victim is being harassed by email, bulletins, chat rooms or threatning messages.

People ask me at school like" how can we avoid this if we were in this type of situation?, who can I go to? Why do people do this? And what is the effects towards this?. From a victims point of view i suggest that you do not and i repeat DO NOT respond to the emails, bulletin boards or even deal with the bully themselves playing mind games. Another solution is make sure you tell anyone who knows you the most( especially your parents). I also have a question myself, why are we as a whole can't come together as one? why bullys ever exist?. I don't like bullys but when you cyberbully, it's going to be karma for that person so bad, I believe the suspect cyberbullys in order to make themselves look good.

My purpose on writing this topic is because it really caught my attention in a big way. One day in my History class, Mr.Brophy gave us a article about the case of Phoebe Prince and it said that she came from Ireland, wanted to be like the other kids, didn't bother anyone and just wanted to fit in. But Phoebe was a victim of a cyberbully. People at school called her a irish whore and online people called her a slut. Sadly she commit suicide because of this incident. I was on the verge of crying because how do people call Pheobe a irish whore and she didn't even do anything. She killed herself because no one was man or woman enough to say it to her face. This was a REAL WAKE UP call for me,

So Basicly my plan is to do a video on not to cyberbully because not only it could affect the victim, but also realize to the bully that this is not a way to solve a problem.

Annotated bibliography

1. Hardcastle, Mike. "What Is Cyberbullying?" //Teen Advice - Advice and Community For Teens//. The New York Times Company. Web. 02 Dec. 2010. . This gives many solutions, problems, examples and The real reason why people cyberbully and Gives us the cause and effects

2. Piehl, Norah. //Bullying//. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2009. Print. i chose this book for my topic because it gives really good information on what not only what bully is but also what cyberbullying is as well and why people do this, it also gives me the cause and the effects if you do cyberbully.

3. Zimmerman, Jonathan. "To Teach Students the Value of Free Spreech, Sometimes We Must Restrict It." //Newsday// 28 Feb. 2010. //SIRS Researcher//. Web. 2 Dec. 2010. . This is one of the articles that helped me give me a solution towards cyberbullying

4. "Cyberbullying: Statistics and Tips." //I-SAFE Inc.// Web. 15 Dec. 2010. . As you can see, this website gives you the statistics and tips for cyberbullying, it also helps me to get started in my intermidiate proposal

5. Rahman, Minara El. "Cyberbullying: A Rundown of Cyberbullying Laws - School Law - Law and Daily Life." //FindLaw Blogs//. 27 Jan. 2010. Web. 15 Dec. 2010. . this gives me all the states that put a law on the situation of cyberbullying.

SAP Intermidiate Proposal

Solution My original solution was to try my best to stop kids of cyberbullying and help the victims who has been either involved or witness this incident. Making sure that they don't respond to cyberbullying at all. My idea was to make a video on cyberbullying cause i feel like my word will help kids realize that cyberbullying is not a good way to solve anything

After doing my research, I believe my solution is still feasible because in my research there were alot of different ways of stopping cyberbullying. But i do feel like my solution is very specific because it's reaching out to the victims who have been involved in this type of situation. And it should open the bullies eyes that bullying is a very bad thing. Two areas that i will think about more is why do people really cyberbully and how should the victims respond to this. This means by giving examples of cyberbullying, The causes and the effects, And statistics to see how much percentage kids today are having a hard time avoiding cyberbullying

I really feel that the only way victims will ignore cyberbullying is if i do a video reaching out to victims all over the world. Telling the victims that there is a way to stop all of this madness. And now that i looked at my writings above, my overall thesis and solution is

We should care about cyberbullying because now a days, The internet is more easier for the bully to pick on people and makes the bully anonymous. There are laws for cyberbullying but that's not enough because cause it's still going on. As you can see from above, My best solution is to make a video on cyberbullying and to address to not only the kids who been victimize but also to the bullies, so they can see that cyberbullying is not the way to solve problems in major situations. I will try my best to convince you not to cyberbully by giving examples and doing interviews on kids who ever witness or been involved in this situation.

Audience My specific Audience is to reach out to the young teens and adults because we see more victims dying at a early age because of cyberbullying and i want to do a video to stop the effects from cyberbullying before more innocent deaths happens. thats the reason why they should really pay attention to what im saying so i can save peoples lives.

Research

1. Statistics on how much people cyberbully and the victims who ever have been cyberbullied before

2. Tips on how cyberbullying can be avoided

3. The kids such as Pheobe Prince who lost their lives because of cyberbullying.

4. Laws on cyberbullying and how schools handle this situation

5. Causes/effects on cyberbullying. but i need more

The types of sources that gave me the best information were books about cyberbullying, database articles and the Teen Advice@ about.com website cause it gives you the best definition on what cyberbullying really is.

What I still need to know is

How often does cyberbullying occur? How many people get involved in cyberbullying? Are there any types of programs that can work in order to stop cyberbullying?

How will you convince the victim and the bully to realize that cyberbullying is not a way to solve a situation?

Are there examples on how bullies make themselves anonymous or make the bullies pick on people because of the internet?

Rhetorical Strategies

Strategy:

Statistics on how much people cyberbully and the victims who ever have been cyberbullied before. This will work because it proves that cyberbullying is still going on and we need to put a end to it

Strategy:

Causes/Effects. This will work because If we understand why cyberbullying is happening or how often it happens, Then we can come up in ways on how we can avoid it. Informations on postive and negative impacts towards cyberbullying and What are some laws being occured because of cyberbullying

Strategy:

Definition of key terms- Threatining messages, Fake profiles, Spreading rumors on post bulletin boards. This will work because it will help clarify on what is the real meaning of Cyberbullying.

Hi Jonathan,

Excellent start! I can hear your "voice" in this--it's clear that you feel passionately about this topic and that you have a lot of information and ideas.

A couple of things you can do to improve the intitial proposal:

1. Label the assignment because you will be adding more to this page and you will need to be organized. 2. Break this into four paragraphs. It's hard to indent on the wiki, so you can use block paragraphs, which means adding an extra space between paragraphs so they show up as separate "blocks" of text. Follow the outline of the Proposal Template for the different paragraphs. 3. "Purpose" is different from reason. You give the reason you got interested in the topic but not the purpose for your paper. What is the main goal for your project? Are you trying to inform, persuade, entertain?

You can erase this feedback later. For now, hopefully this will be helpful.

Ms. Doherty