''Over 1,000 studies point overwhelmingly to a causal connection between media violence and aggressive behavior in some children.". The effects of media violence on society,especially children and teenagers, are doubtlessly very negative. Several studies done in the United States and Canada have shown a positive relationship between early exposure to television violence and physical aggressiveness in later life. Media exposure leads to a desensitization to violence and is associated with violent and aggressive behavior, bullying, fear, depression, nightmares and sleep disorders. The results of a longitudinal study tracked 700 male and female youths over a fifteen-year period.
For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it. Bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims, according to studies by Yale University A study in Britain found that at least half of suicides among young people are related to bullying 10 to 14 year old girls may be at even higher risk for suicide, according to the study above According to statistics reported by ABC News, nearly 30 percent of students are either bullies or victims of bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of fear of bullying This is one reason, one out of many on why you should not bully. These people are depressed and from personal experience you are always down and you do not care about anything. Some people don’t care about other people’s feelings.
In the blog The Plagiarism Epidemic by Karen Bojar, she talks about how the internet has made it very easy for students to cheat. Karen Bojar is a retired school teacher, and she considers herself old school. She was a teacher at a community college in Philadelphia. According to Bojar the educational system has failed many students and there is no way to “make up for miseducation.” Bojar feels she should not have to be a cop. Many teachers do not like “catching plagiarists and bringing them to academic justice.” As she states, it is not hard to just cite the author that originally had the information you are using (Bojar).
I agree with Clayton’s points about cheating. Being a college student, I know from experience just how common cheating is. The internet makes it so much easier for students to cheat because when you search for a topic, papers are offered to you right away whether you want them or not. I believe that colleges think that enforcing honor codes and educating students on cheating will stop it, but it will only stop a small amount. So many students have cheated their entire life, through everything, without ever getting caught, so being threatened by an honor code will not stop them now.
Introduction Academic fraud as defined by wikipedia.org (2010) as “any type of cheating that occurs in relation to a formal academic exercise.” Academic Fraud has been a problem in our school system for many years now. This is also on the increase; a follow up study on cheating at one institution reports an increase from While about 20% of college students admitted to cheating in high school during the 1940's, today between 75 and 98 percent of college students surveyed each year report having cheated in high school according to Cheat fact sheet (1999). Which proves that this is a problem that we have been struggling with and will continue to struggle with unless change is made. This essay will explore academic fraud, and why it has become a growing phenomenon in today’s society. First, we will examine various types of academic fraud.
She then brings up a statistic that 25 percent of the children under 15 represent total court cases. With this statistic we begin to ask ourselves as the audience what percent actually accounts for tweens alone. To go along behavioral changes she brings up topics of suicide, sex, eating disorders, drugs, and alcohol. Sex among tweens is increasing and Hymowitz again brings up before the age of 15. Hymowitz explains that even though numbers of suicide remain small, it has more than doubled in the last thirty years.
But government statistics suggest that a substantial number struggle emotionally. Among Asian American high school students, 29 percent have reported feeling “sad or hopeless” for at least two weeks in a row during the past year, enough to interfere with their daily lives, according to a recent national youth survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That figure is slightly higher than that of teens from all racial groups, 28 percent. With suicidal thoughts, the gap widens. When the CDC asked Asian American students if they had seriously considered suicide during the past year, 19 percent answered yes, compared to 16 percent of all high school students.
The addictive nature of social media leads to eating disorders, obesity, heart problems, sleep disorders, and other pertinent health issues. These youths similarly displayed more narcissistic tendencies, which are bolstered by their ability to relentlessly broadcast information about themselves through Facebook. Not shockingly, middle school and high school students who logged into Facebook at least once during a 15-minute study session received lower grades. Rosen and his team found that most students were only able to maintain focus on their studies for two or three minutes before distracting themselves with technology, like text messages, mobile apps or the Web. People who use social networking sites for their daily communication
While this article had little to no bearing on this paper on hand, it gave some interesting information-- what a student would most likely cheat at. Students were more likely to cheat on an exam or test more than a homework assignment or even a long-term project or typed paper. Logically, I would assume a student would be more likely to cheat on something that would cost them a huge part of their grade if he or she were to do poorly on it. However, I do not know if this applies to college students, but the article hints that most students maintain the same way of thinking even through college. The next article came from the Journal of Interactive Online Learning, a short titled "Perceptions of Academic Honesty in Online vs. Face-to-Face Classrooms" by Michael Spaulding, professor at the University of Tennessee–Martin.
There are different types of hazing, which are subtle, harassment and violent. Each type of hazing is a form of bullying and abuse. Hazing is common among high school and college students, but it can be prevented by learning the warning signs of victims who have been hazed. Statistics show that 250,000 students experience some type of hazing to join a group or an organization in college each year. In most colleges 5% of the college admits to being hazed and 40% admit to knowing about hazing activities that take place on campus.