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What do you see as the advantages or disadvantages of social
networking sites?

Essay 3: Cyberbullying

As social networks have become more popular, cyberbullying has

arisen as a threat among high school and sometimes college

students. What are some ways that parents, teachers, and students
can fight cyberbullying or prevent it in the first place?

Some Things About That Day

Debra Marquart

Debra Marquart, an English professor, poet, short
story writer, and novelist, writes about a half-

remembered but unforgettable day.

The placards I walked through. The wet raincoat on a hook. The 1

questionnaire on a clipboard placed before me. Couples sat around

me in the waiting room. They were young. What am I saying? I was

only thirty-two.

But I remember, the men seemed the more bereft. Facing forward, 2

their elbows resting on knees, their faces covered with hands. Or

pushed back hard in the seats, gazing at a spot on the floor, legs

stretched out in the aisles.

Difficult to remember the order in which things happened. The 3
clipboard taken away, my name was called—our names were all