Qoute Response # 3

Quote Response for: When Bullying Goes Criminal
By NANCY GIBBS, found here: http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1978773,00.html

New Words:

[The attacks on Phoebe were orchestrated and unrelenting; they "far exceeded the limits of normal teenage relationship-related quarrels," Scheibel charged.]

Definition entries for new words from Longman Advanced Dictionary:

-Orchestrated: To carefully organize an event or a complicated plan, especially secretly: adj.

-Unrelenting; 1. A bad situation that is unrelenting continues for a long time without stopping. 2. Continuing to do something in a determined without thinking about anyone else’s feelings.

Explain what the words mean in the way they are used in the sentence you chose:

-In this sentence orchestrated is used to explain how this was a plan an organization by a group of people in this case by a group of students.

-Unrelenting meaning in this sentence is how Phoebe was in a situation that continued for a long time. Yet nobody did anything about it in this case it is hurting Phoebes feelings and nobody is doing anything to stop it.

New Idea:

[Forty-one states have laws against bullying, and Congress is debating various federal versions. But it's unclear whether lawmakers are stepping in because bullying is more common or just more conspicuous.]

This idea helped me realize that we should take this law more seriously and actually enforce it more. If I had any type of authority in any school I would make it a strict rule that if any of the teachers or faculty hears any time of bullying they should immediately report it. This could stop these suicides among young people. I have a good understanding of what it can feels like to loose someone who committed suicide because she was being bullied in school. I didn’t even think that many states had such a law I think they should make it more public so schools could enforce it and follow this rule.

Tie-In:

[Phoebe Prince went home, picked out a scarf her sister had given her for Christmas and hanged herself in a stairwell. Her sister found her.]



Tell a detailed story from your personal experience to explain the TIE-IN:

It was last year in 2009, when I received a call in school from my mom saying that my cousin had committed suicide. In my cousins situation it wasn’t because she was pretty or because she went out with the most popular most wanted football player, but it was over her over weight problem. She was bullied in a day to day basis over her weight problem. Therefore we couldn’t blame anyone due to the fact that we as a family did not do anything when we could of. I could say that if we would of drawn evn the teachers attention over this situation I think my cousin could of still been alive. Similar to this article she went home after school and did try to hang herself. As she realized that she wasn’t capable of doing that she instead overdosed. This was a very depressing story specially because we all know that there is still many people in this world being bullied. I know as a family member that going through this situation is hard so I hope that nobody goes through this experience.