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  • Essay / Instigator - 566

    There is a story about a teenage girl who was just recovering from bone cancer that started when she was ten. She had lost all her hair and had to have her left leg amputated. Four years later she started college and thought her life had finally begun, she was wrong. Two months into the school year, vicious cyberbullying began. A child was diagnosed with cancer, battled it, and no longer feels safe at school because of death threats on the Internet (Parks 8). The Internet is a dangerous place where society manipulates people on a daily basis. Society influences the act of cyberbullying because it teaches people to judge, provides them with an easy way to bully, and encourages it. Society definitely influences people to bully and judge because it gives biased opinions and advertisements on the internet. Kids can go online and see virtually anything they want. These advertisements can persuade people's opinions about other people. Advertisements give unrealistic ideas about women's weight and beauty. They regularly show women who are twenty-three percent skinnier than the average woman (Ef negative...