Friday, September 28, 2012

Bullying, A Novel by Google

So, I realize that this post is kind of long, but perhaps you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.  I added all the links so you could follow them at any time.  I followed some of them while I was writing this and some of them are very interesting.

We open with a scene from stopbullying.gov where "[b]ullying can happen anywhere and to anyone.  Get information here to stop bullying at school, online, and in the community."  

But, wait.  What is bullying?  Find out from the all knowing oracle Wikipedia.  

Now that our hero knows what bullying is, he is worried about his friend being bullied at school so he looks up Dealing with Bullying on kidshelp.org

Oh no! Not enough information! Never fear Bullying: Medline Plus and Bullying | American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry are places to go for information. 

The scene shifts.  We are in the den of our hero.  He is looking at the news: Facebook bullying catches attention of NM police Social Bullying Common in TV Shows Kids Watch, and Homecoming bullying prank turns to civic 
support of victim Whitney Kropp (+video) are what he sees.  

While online, our hero discovers just how many anti-bullying sites there are just like the opening scene for both kids and adults.  It's My Life . Friends . Bullies | PBS Kids GO! and Kids Against Bullying are more for kids just like our hero and his friend while Bullying at School and Online | Education.comNational Bullying Prevention CenterBullying — National Crime Prevention Council and are better for their parents and other adults dealing with bullying.

While we wait for our next scene, we view pictures of kids being bullied, kids being left out, cartoons, memes and fan art.  Some of these images make our hero want to do something, others make him want to cry, while others are slap your leg funny.

And a word from our sponsors libertymutual.com/Responsability "Is Bullying Getting Worse In Our Society?  Join The Discussion."

We come back to a scene with Bullying in Boys and Girls: How to Stop Bullying just for parents.  

But, that is not all!  We must never forget our academic writing from www.apa.org on 
Bullying.  "Yet, with greater understanding of the extent, seriousness, and dynamics of this problem, the amount and consequences of bullying can be greatly reduced" (Eyes on Bullying).

Now that our hero's parents have a greater understanding, they now learn to prevent bullying from 
stopbullyingnow.com.

The scene now shifts to CBS News where our hero sees Bullying: Words Can Kill - 48 Hours.  Now our hero and his parents goes to theaters to see Bully that they learned about from Bully | Now Playing In Select Theaters | Official Site.  This documentary was rated "R" and was recently dropped to "PG-13" because of one young woman who made a stand so the target audience could see the film, bullies and their victims in schools.

Home again, our here looks to see what more can be done and finds more information on www.stompoutbullying.org/ while his parents learn that bullying is not at school: Workplace Bullying.  They view together another video on YouTube:
KIDS REACT TO BULLYING.
And we close with a word from our sponsors libertymutual.com/Responsability "Is Bullying Getting Worse In Our Society?  Join The Discussion."

1 comments:

Megan said...

Wow, you included so many links! I love the way you organized the narrative around a kid and his parents- that made the whole thing much more relatable and relevant.

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