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1. Define and explain cyber bullying. This should be clear, concise, and orignal (you may use research, but your definition should be3 in your own words.

2. How does cyber bullying happen?

3.What does cyber bullying look like?

4. What are some signs that someone may be the victim of cyber bullying?

"What Is Cyber Bullying? Definition, Forms, & Information about Cyber Bullying."//Www.olweus.org//. Hazelden Youth Violence Prevention. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. .  1. Cyber bullying is bullying through email, instant messaging, chat room exchanges, web site post or digital messaging or images send to a cellular phone or personal digital assisitant. Cyber bullying, like traditional bullying involves an imbalance of power, agression and a negative action that is often repeated.  -Technology allows the user to bully anonymously or form an unknown location, It makes it easier for the bully to get to viticm because information is on the computer. -the signs are, unusually long hours on the computer, closes windows when you enter room, secretive about internet activity, getting behind in school work, lack of appetite, stomacheache, fear. -In a recent survey by MindOH!, an educational company that follows youth trends, reported that close to 80% of the 5,500 teens said that they had been exposed to cyber bullying. -cyber bulllying is the fastes growing trend in bullying among teens. technology in itself is not good or evil, it matters how it is being used. The problem isnt the technology; the problem is that we have allowed a culture of meanness and abuse to get to this point of agression.  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Cyber-bullying." //Wikipedia//. Wikimedia Foundation, 26 Feb. 2012. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-bullying>.

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. The way that cyber bullying happens is in many ways it happens through chat rooms ( facebook, email, text messaging, etc) <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Electronic aggression happens in chat rooms 25% <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Electronic aggression happens on websites 23%  <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Electronic aggression happens through instant messaging 67%  <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Electronic aggression happens through email 25%

"What Does Cyberbullying Look Like?" //Education.com//. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. <http://www.education.com/reference/article/what-is-cyberbullying/>. <span style="color: #ffa800; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. Basicly cyber bullying looks like bullying but on the internet. As you may know cyber bullying comes in many forms of electronics. <span style="color: #ffac00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">- computers <span style="color: #ffac00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-cell phones  <span style="color: #ffac00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">- email  <span style="color: #ffac00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-facebook  <span style="color: #ffac00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-text messages  <span style="color: #ffac00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-etc. "Is Your Child Being CyberBullied? Important Signs." //Yahoo! Shine//. Web. 28 Feb. 2012. <http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/is-your-child-being-cyberbullied-important-signs-577100.html>.

3. there are 9 important hints that you need to know in order to find out if your child is being cyber bullied. The main was is being hesitant to go on the computer for some reason.

-Nervous when an instant message, text message or email appears. -Visibly upset after using the computer or suddenly avoids it. -Hides or closes screen when you or someone else enters the room. -Withdraws from friends, falls behind in schoolwork or wants to avoid school.

............................................................................................................................................................................................................ South Hadley Paid Phoebe Prince Family $225,000 to Avoid Lawsuit over Bullying."//Boston.com//. The New York Times, 27 Dec. 2011. Web. 28 Feb. 2012. <http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2011/12/south-hadley-paid-prince-family-avoid-lawsuit/APyWM7t9jv6S0kaMUPZSaO/index.html>. Case study

Name: Phoebe prince

age:15

location: bedford, England united kingdom.

family: lived in ireland, and found out about the incident january, 2010, they filed a complaint with the massachussetts commission against discrimination that alleged the South Hadley public schools failed to protect phoebe prince from discrimination in july 2010.

Relevant history: didn't have many hobbies or friends because she was repeatedly getting cyber bullied and tried many suicide attempts but failed. The first school she attended was Villiers secondary school and started having problems so she immigrated to the U.S. in the fall of 2009 with her mother and four sibblings. The last school she attended before her death was south Hadley in Massachussetts.

Bazelon, Emily. "Entry 3:." //Slate Magazine//. 20 July 2010. Web. 28 Feb. 2012. <http://www.slate.com/articles/life/bulle/features/2011/what_really_happened_to_phoebe_prince/the_untold_story_of_her_suicide_and_the_role_of_the_kids_who_have_been_criminally_charged_for_it.html>.

What happened: she was getting cyber bullied and tried to commit suicide time and time again.

Where did it happen: In the stairwell of her house how did it happen? She hung herself with a black woven scarf with multicolor thread. Her sister gave it to her. After Phoebes death, police officers found several of her drawings. One of them shows a human figure with a noose around the neck. In a note drawn as if it was pinned to the body Phoebe.

Outcome of the victim: dead

Outcome of the bullies: