ENG WK 4

ARGUMENTIVEESSAY.docx

With the increase in technological advancements, cyber bullying has been on the rise. The first topic of interest regards the preventive measures of cyber bullying in college. The reason behind this choice of topic for my argumentative essay is that I have fall a victim to the cyber bullying in my first years of college in several occasions . As a victim of cyber bullying, I know just how much the effects of cyber bullying can do to a person. The cases of cyber bullying have increased due to "the prevalence of social media platforms as well as digital forums" (Van Hee et al, 2015).This specifically means that both acquaintances and strangers have access to comments, content, photos and posts that are shared by people. This becomes even more worse if the information shared about an individual is personal or private which is bound to cause embarrassment or humiliation to the victim. The challenges am likely to face during my research is that many people do not admit that cyber bullying exits and that in deed there is a need to curb down the vice.

The second topic that interests me is on the effectiveness of death penalty as a means of punishment for major criminal offences like murder, homicide and forcible. This topic interests me because there has been an increase in violent crime cases in the world. My main interest is to find out if the victims of such crimes get justice through other forms of punishment or entirely require death penalties for the perpetrators. Also, this topic provides information on regarding the effects of death penalty on the crime rates. It provides a ground whether this form of punishment will reduce or increase criminal offences. The main challenge of this topic is also the different religious believes with regards to taking someone's life and the aspect of humans right to life.

References

Van Hee, C., Lefever, E., Verhoeven, B., Mennes, J., Desmet, B., De Pauw, G., ... & Hoste, V. (2015). Automatic detection and prevention of cyberbullying. In International Conference on Human and Social Analytics (HUSO 2015) (pp. 13-18). IARIA.

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