...Bullying: An Argumentative Essay Bullying has engrained in American society since the country’s founding. Bred from a capitalistic economy and competitive social hierarchy, bullying has remained a relevant issue through the years. It is the most common type of violence in contemporary US society. Bullying occurs in schools, workplaces, in homes, on playgrounds, in the military, and in nursing homes, for example. Today bullying and cyber-bullying have become an increasing problem in the schools. Cyberbullying is a form of aggressive behavior that occurs through electronic devices such as mobile/cell phones (calls and SMS/text messages), e-mail and the internet (blogs, chatrooms, newsgroups, social networks and web-pages). Like other forms of bullying, cyberbullying is usually defined in terms of intentional and repeated interactions on the part of the perpetrator who is perceived to be more powerful than the victim: the perpetrator’s ability to act anonymously is indicative of a form of power he or she holds over the victim As in the case of traditional bullying, cyberbullying often occurs as a result of such relationship difficulties as the break-up of a friendship or romance, envy of a peer’s success, intolerance of particular groups on the grounds of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or disability, and ganging up on one individual (Duncan, Neil, Rivers, Ian, 2012). Bullying has taken on new heights and sometimes victims of bullies suffer severe and lasting consequences...
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...is traditional bullying from cyberbullying? Studies are beginning to show that the way youth bully online is a lot different from traditional schoolyard bullying. Teens may think what they are posting or texting is just a joke, but if you're on the receiving end it may not be all that funny. In fact, if the "joking" is repetitive, it could cross the line into bullying, more specifically cyberbullying. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics cyberbullying is the "most common online risk for all teens and is a peer to peer risk." In traditional bullying you're usually working with a bully, victim or bystander but that's not the case in cyberbullying. In fact, it's not uncommon to play multiple roles such as cyberbully, target and witness. Previous research indicates that cyberbullying is rarely pre-meditated like traditional bullying, where the bully plans his or her line of attack. In many cases cyberbullying is done impulsively and not planned out like in traditional bullying where the bully pre-meditates the next attack. Also, traditional bullying has the following characteristics that may not be present in cyberbullying cases: •a need for power and control •proactively targeting the victim •aggression...
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...The Need for Enhanced Anti-Bullying Laws and School Programs Lisa Aparicio Saint Joseph’s College The Need for Enhanced Anti-Bullying Laws and School Programs Bullying was traditionally considered rites of passage, something all children and youth must go through. This is a myth. In today’s violent growing society, bullying has been responsible for several acts of non-punishable crimes. The lack of attention to implementing and enforcing anti-bullying state laws, and funding anti-bullying school programs, is only making this problem worse. There is not enough being done to help prevent bullying, and the reason behind this is merely because, not enough is being enforced by our government and schools systems. There are those who believe that enforcing and creating anti-bullying laws are somewhat of a psychological Greek tragedy. There are those who believe that “When we advocate for laws against bullying, we declare the failure of psychology to solve the problem” (Kalman, 2010). They fail to realize that the lives of victims can’t be relied on the “slight chance” of psychology solving the problem. The truth of the matter is, there are people committing suicide and/or thinking about it, because of day to day bullying. It’s going to take more than just trusting psychology to do its magic. Anti-bullying laws have been claimed to be placed in almost every state in the U.S. However, after going through several of the state laws shown in the State School Healthy...
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...Bullying has been a very challenging issue to resolve for many years. It is increasingly spreading by the use of social media, where most bullies spread malice at the touch of a button. Bullying’s prevalence has lead to numerous consequences such as anxiety, depression, diminished effort in academics, and suicide. Many schools have implemented effective anti-bullying policies to prevent these consequences from occurring, but this school’s current policy hasn’t incorporated strict rules and consequences to battle issues associated with bullying. In order to eliminate bullying as a whole, the school must implement a new policy which imposes strict consequences on bullies. Bullying is a very prevalent issue that is easily caused by many different...
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...As technology progresses, new doors open and more opportunities are available. However, people can take advantage of this freedom by harassing and cyberbullying others. Cyberbullying is the act of bullying or harassing through the internet or social media from electronic devices. This form of harassment and intimidation is becoming increasing popular among students so much so that public schools believe that they should monitor and limit what students say online in order to prevent cyberbullying. Due to this new form of bullying, schools should be allowed to limit students’ online speech. The first image that comes to mind when the word “bullying” is mentioned is a scrawny kid having his lunch money stolen. Nowadays, bullying can come in many different forms, such as cyberbullying. Although it is a form of bullying and harassment, cyberbullies do not always get punished. For example in Document C, the student was not punished for creating an offensive myspace page dedicated to a classmate. The Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights says that if a student is harassing someone, whether it is in person or online, the schools...
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...the best are driven into these dark places. Kids with tons of potential. Bullying is the cause of this and our goal is it help raise awareness and help try to stop bullying. Our project is on how bullying in schools is one of the main problems with children today. The thing is it doesn’t only affect the kid that is being bullied it also affects the parents, the kids who witnessing...
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...act of bullying. Many young kids are facing problems with bullying in school all over the United States. According to the article “Preventing Bullying With Emotional Intelligence” by Marc A. Brackett and Susan E. Rivers, the smartest way to end bullying is with the act of teaching young children about how our emotions work and their consequences. Marc A. Brackett and...
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..."Should Cyberbullying be Punishable By Schools? Lots of people ask this question but do not pursue an answer. For me I think it's a smart thing to have schools be able to punish this sort of bullying. I have experienced cyberbullying, but in a way that I feel is not as common. In my situation there was a girl in my grade; and my neighborhood; that was getting mean messages by someone. When she asked who they were, they gave a vague answer as to seating in a class we had together and when she gave my name they approved. The following days to this I was getting comments from people that she was friends with, asking if I wanted to fight her, and why i would say these things. We later resolved the situation when she came back to school three days...
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...Cyberbullying is a big problem in many teens lives. Cyberbullying has many consequences such as being expelled from school. But many teens don’t pay much attention to the consequences. The U.S government wants to go through extreme measures in order to stop the bullying but that would just cause more trouble. The federal government should not prosecute those individuals in order cause to cause awareness. For example, instead of prosecuting cyber bullies they should show them what they are doing to others. Second, there is always another to way to punish people for what they did. Lastly, there is always a different side to every argument and they are good and bad things about it. First, Prosecution is not a way to show awareness is a way to scare them. Many cyberbullies are teens who don’t even know they are actually bullying others it might just be they think they are funny. The federal government wants to give those who have cyberbullied criminal charges when...
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...Bullying in schools Bullying is one of the biggest problems in schools, bullying in USA and in Japan is the greatest, they have that largest number of reported cases of bullying Bullying today is a threat to children and tenagers 83% girls 79% boys, 35% suffers from cyber bullying, six out of 10 teenagers witness bullying in schools once a day this leads to a 75% of school shootings incidents, this have been linked to bullying and harassment Bullying has serious side effects, students who are target of this experience extreme stress that can lead to symptoms of physical illness and a diminished ability to learn also depression which can lead to death In the 21 century we were introduced to the to great technological advances including...
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...Have you ever wondered why that kid sits alone on the benches at commons or why he/she gets picked last in a game and everybody laughs at them? Let me explain. Overall, Bullying can affect a middle schooler emotionally, socially, and may cause them to fall behind in school academically. First of all, Bullying can affect a middle schooler emotionally. Bullies make victims hopeless and make them feel like they don’t belong. Bullies also make victims change themselves into something they're not. Victims who can’t stand bullying may turn into aggressive parents and adults themselves and go through emotional problems. Furthermore, Bullying can negatively impact everyone involved including the bully, the victim, and the bystander. From...
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...There have been dozens of cases of students being severely damaged by the symptoms of bullying. A large amount of these occurrences were due to the absence of a school or other neighborhood officials in the situation. But, if schools were to assist a student when bullies are significantly hurting them, lives could be saved. Despite many believing a school should not be responsible with what happens between each of their students outside of the classroom, it is important for a school to step in when a child is being bullied due to parents' inability to help on certain occasions, to prevent a bully’s negative effects on other teenagers, and to lessen high suicide rating due to bullying. One important reason as to why schools should be involved...
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...Bullying and its Effect on the Brain This paper is going to discuss the chemical effects on the brain regarding bullying. It is going to explain what happens in our brain and the consequences as well as outcomes from bullying and being bullied. Bullying is something that occurs everywhere which concerns people from all ages. Children, teenagers as well as adults bully as well as are being bullied every day around the world. Bullying is the unwanted and aggressive behavior amongst students which increases an imbalance as well as decreases the self-esteem of the ones being bullied. There are three types of bullying. The first is verbal bullying which includes teasing, name-calling, taunting and threatening them of different things. Another is...
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...Thesis: Bullying is a big problem. Have you ever gotten bullied before? [pic]Bullying is a big problem. Bullying is the biggest problem I know of as a fact. My reasons for this thought are that; [pic]more and more kids get bullied every day. Bullies don’t get blamed for what they do. Kids get hurt by bullies and I personally want that to stop. [pic] All of this is important because you can hurt someone or some can hurt you in bullying. Bullying is a big problem because more and more kids get bullied every day. That should stop immediately; children do not deserve that kind of treatment at school and at other places. It is frustrating. [pic] Hard to deal with a bully. Maybe a bully shows up at your soccer practice or even at a park or where you are and bullies you. I am disappointed at those bullies out there. [pic] I have information to support this serious problem that is going on; [pic] it affects over 60 of [pic]kids in the world, I want to stop that. [pic] On this chart what it shows is, to me I see that in fourth grade there is a lot of bullying, [pic] there is less in the fifth grade for some reason than it sky rockets in sixth, seventh and eighth grade. The reason for this information about grade bullying is that more kids bully and more. [pic] I used to think that the bullying is evened out, but know I realize that as you get older there are more bullies. The chart that I showed shows the percent of kids getting bullied in grade order...
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...As a parent, you may not realize that your child is being bullied. It is important to maintain open communication on a daily basis with your student, and discuss as much as your student will share. Sometimes a parent can share stories from their own past, and relive a bullying circumstance complete with a resolution or regret. This can open the door for your child to share his own problems and rely on you as his moral compass. When a parent steps in, their strength can bring hope to this predator/prey scenario. The child should learn how to handle the bully themselves, and learn how to take back their own power. Depending on the brutality of the bully, this can be as simple as standing up for oneself and saying “no”. Handling a bully can be tricky, especially when the intimidation or insults occur online. Social media has become a platform for cruelty not seen in generations past. Cyberbullying has become a popular way to attack other children and the psychological damage to the victims can be devastating. Rumors are easily spread, and often believed when published online. Maybe a cyber bullying essay can help. When a parent becomes aware of online abuse, it is important to not retaliate or become directly involved. It is advisable to document the behavior by printing out everything, and keeping a log. In a notebook, record all displays of abuse; this will prove a pattern of cruel behavior whether it be rumors, name-calling, or sexually inappropriate comments. Going to the...
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