Throughout my life I haven’t experienced bullying but I do have a friend that experienced it in college. College is where it all started I meet my best friend Morgan freshman year. We were paired in a room together because all the private rooms were taken. Being placed in that room made us grow closer and closer to each other. We got to know everything about each other and did almost everything together. Our families became close also because we were both from the same place and had family in the exact same states. Morgan was the quiet and shy type of girl.
Spring semester came around and she meet a boy name josh on campus. They started talking and shortly a relationship followed. I started to see her acting different and following everything
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He had her buying him high end food while she ate McDonald’s. He even would talk to her any kind of way he wanted to. It started to hurt me that she could allow a boy to talk and treat her like this. I wanted to stand up to him for her but it wasn’t my relationship so I stayed out of it. Josh would also do these things out in public in front of his peers. Kiuru sentse stated “this influence effect held after controlling for the effects of perceived popularity and gender on campus in bullying behavior.” After reading this statement in this article it tells me that him talking to her any kind of way in front of his peers can influence them to do the same because they look at him as popularity. Furthermore I had a conversation with her telling her I can’t stand by and be friends with someone who can allow a boy to talk to her any kind of way. Morgan broke up with me and started to move …show more content…
She started seeing a guy name Brandon who’s from Brunswick but attends college in Florida. Brandon came home one weekend and they meet up to hang out but was ended because she had too much alcohol in her system and a wild side of her came out. She called her friends to pick her up and the next day she received a phone call from josh her ex. He told her he knows everything that she did last night. Which he lied so she would tell him everything because she trusted him. A week later rumors were beginning to spread around the group she called her friends about that night.
To sum up things her ex started the rumors about her that night because he wanted control over her. Everyone looked at her different and started speaking bad about her. Dudes came up to her because they heard the things she did and they wanted her to do these things with them. Everyone was making comments about her and looking at her different. Middleton stated, “African American students experience twice the amount of race based victimization than Caucasian students when in the setting of color.” I could see the hurt and pain it caused her where I could feel her pain and