Write two messages to different audiences about your big idea. One should be formal, such as a letter to the editor (of local paper, national newspaper, or magazine) or a letter to a politician or organization leader who could help to implement your big idea. The second can be an informal message for venue of your choosing (a Facebook posting, blog post, an e-mail to a friend, or a flyer that would be distributed in your community).
For a review of the differences between formal and informal writing, see What is the Difference between Formal and Informal Writing?
Your post should be
at least 250 words.Now below is all the work done up to now:
From unit 1-
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Hi Class,
A problem that I find that has potential to be fixed in my community is BULLYING with-in the school system. The first step I believe I should take is meeting with the school administrators along with other staff to get permission in order to get other resources involved. When I get permission from the school I plan on going to the Family Violence Project to see if they can spare anyone to meet at the local schools on a monthly basis. They would come and talk about the effects of bullying in the schools. The second step I would take is to talk to the Augusta Police Department to see if they could spare a police officer as well for the meeting. The final step I would take would be to find a bullying survivor along with a “retired” bully to speak with the kids to explain the how to survive a bully attack and why they were bullying.
The reason behind having an advocate from the Family Violence Project there would be to stress the long term effects of bullying on both the one being bullied and the toll it takes on the family. I wanted to involve a Police Officer because I wanted to stress the legal ramifications of bullying and cyber bullying. The thinking behind having a person there who has survived bullying is to show them it will end and things they can do to make it easier by talking to their families, teachers, and school guidance consolers. Finally having someone there that used to be a bully and explain to the students what made them become a bully and how being a bully affected their life in a negative way.
This is a subject that I really feel strongly about because my daughter has been bullied due to skin color and something as simple as having new school cloths. I am hopefully going to be able to do this in my area. I hope after that it will continue to more schools before more kids are lost.
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From unit 2-
Hi Class,
Q- What makes bullying an offensive and psychologically damaging to people in the social community?
Answer- Bullying is offensive and psychologically damaging among social communities because, it makes a handful of people think that they hold supreme authority to tease others based on their caste, creed or color. It is totally a non acceptable way of thinking.
Q- What are a few recent modified trends in bullying?
Answer- In fact, I am not very sure about it, however, I think people bully others apart from the traditional issues. Any issue that makes their thinking uneasy or hurts their ego anyway causes them to get motivated for bullying others. This is done either face to face or on the internet.
Q- How bullying can be studied as a research topic?
Answer- Obviously, bullying can be studied as a research topic because it exists in various forms and structures.
Q- What can stop bullying in the society?
Answer- Bullying can be stopped only through social awareness. People ought to realize their duties as responsible citizens in society to give equal place to every other individual. There is no need to have an bullying so severe that it becomes the source of physical violence to others or person being bullied, and affecting the wholesome growth of society. Nobody has to be treated with an inferior perspective due to his skin color or to what religion he or she belongs to. That is just a few examples by the way.
Part 2
Bullying happens more then the media leads us to believe because it is happening in every school in America. It needs to end because not only are they killing themselves, but they are hurting themselves, and losing there self esteem as well. We as a society need to put an end to this and save our children from the harmful effects of bullying.
From homework-
Thesis
To promote the prevention of bullying school administrators, educators, and socially dominant figures need to work together.
Research overview
I would make efforts to persuade my audience by appealing to all those who can help in preventing the bullying process in schools and society. I would like to plan my research by targeting and identifying people from administrative departments like police, educationalists who form academic policies and also the people who hold enough significance in the society. I would like to gather data as much as possible about such people because with the help of their experience and expert opinion, it is possible to reach over a positive conclusion about the bullying issue.
After identifying such people, I would propose an inspiring campaign inside schools and societies suffering severely from bullying. This campaign will have several steps and through the means like media and entertainment, the problem will be presented before people in a light way, conveying a deep message that we should follow the principle of fraternity. The people involved in the campaign would like to respond directly to the questions of people, helping and guiding them in understanding the issue in a broad way. These people would also be responsible to form effective strategies like strong laws and social polices once the campaign reaches to its success. I would include all these details in my proposed research topic.
The library database that appears to be helpful is in the Kaplan University library called Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL). It display’s numerous topic overviews on the subject of bullying. A government website I found with the some useful information is stopbullying.gov, where they cover a number of topics on the subject. One other website is bullingstatistics.org covers more of the statistical side of bullying.
Finally, I would like to end at a note of persuasion that bullying is not an issue in itself and if we can go into its roots, we can abolish it. We just need to take an extra step and shape a few abstract ideas into concrete ones to defeat this so called ‘invincible’ terror hovering over our human civilization.
