...ASSESSMENT DETAILS Unit/Module: Introduction to Contemporary Society Assessment Name: Bullying in schools Assessment Number: 1 Word Count: 524 DECLARATION I declare that this assessment is my own work, based on my own personal research/study. I also declare that this assessment, nor parts of it, has not been previously submitted for any other unit/module or course, and that I have not copied in part or whole or otherwise plagiarised the work of another student and/or persons. I also declare, if this is a practical skills assessment, that a Client/Interviewee Consent Form has been read and signed by both parties, and where applicable parental consent has been obtained. Bullying in schools is, a social issue which has been around for as long as anyone can remember. While in the past this issue has been recognised it has not been treated as seriously as it has been over the past three decades. The aim of this paper is to define bullying trace its historical roots and identify its social context. There are many complex definitions of bullying. A simple definition is the abuse of power by an individual or a group who are stronger towards someone who is weaker. What is this abuse of power? This abuse of the power can be described where someone has some form of power over another and uses that power to the detriment of the weaker individual. Ken Rigby (2007) states, “It occurs where there is an imbalance of power between people” (p. 15). This...
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...Technology and Communities of Knowledge (Digital essay) Children of today are growing up surrounded by social networking through blogging, instant messaging, and short message services such as Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter enabling children in which they produce, share, and sometimes exchange ideas over the internet and in virtual communities, it has become a virtual aspect of their lives. These sites have a significant impact on the lives of children. Social networking is transforming the manner in which young people interact with their parents, peers, as well as how they make use of technology. Clearly there are positives with the use of social networking involving a great way to communicate and learn, however unfortunately negative effects on the youth also, a major risk associated with social networking is cyberbullying. Without children having a correct understanding of the inherent dangers that are associated with social networking sites children are at more risk every day. The effects of social networking are twofold.It is inevitable to ignore the fact that nowadays social networking plays an essential role in children’s lives with social networking and other related online communication activities comprised 64 per cent of young people’s total internet time (an average of 49 minutes per day on these activities, (AMCA, 2007). One may ask how spending all that time on the social media sites may have a positive impact on them. Well, social media helps the youth keep...
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...Bullying is very wrong but some people mistake bullying for something else for instance if someone teases you once they think that that’s bullying but it’s not bullying, bullying is when one or multiple verbally abuse you or constantly physically abuse you, But in most cases bullying is very wrong and there should be human dignity in everyone. Bullying and Human dignity are to completely different things there is no Human dignity in Bullying. I hope that we can stop bullying in every place that someone doesn't show human dignity and that everyone can just get along and brings out the good human dignity in everyone. The definition of human dignity is to be nice to won and another and to pretty much be nice and respectful to one another. Matthew said in the bible “So in everything, do to others the same way you would like to be treated”. Matthew: 7.12. This is the golden rule it pretty much tells us what human dignity is and how we can use it in everyday life....
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...Kayla Vasquez April 21, 2014 ENC 1101 Professor Feldman What is bullying exactly? Bullying is described as repeated verbal, physical, social or psychological behavior that is harmful and involves the misuse of power by an individual or group towards one or more persons. It can have long-term effects on those involved. Bullying isn’t something that has just started; it’s been going on since the dawn of time. It has become a major conflict in today’s society, it affects so many people and sometimes causes them to preform destructive actions to themselves and other people; therefore, it needs to be taken seriously. Despite all the fights against bullying, it still happens. Whether at home, school, or work, bullying is an epidemic for children, adolescents, and adults. One of the unfortunate experiences that marks many childhoods is bullying. Bullying generally brings to mind children being taunted on the playground. According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, “Close to half of all children will experience school bullying at some point while they are at primary or secondary school. At least 10 percent of children are bullied regularly.” Childhood bullying is a serious problem in schools everywhere, and it can be very harmful, long term to children. Bullying damages their own self-image in ways that can affect them for life. Children who are bullied can be stunted emotionally and socially, as well as see their schoolwork suffer. In some cases, serious...
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...Title: Student: Professor: Course Title: Date: Topic: Information Law Cyber crime involves criminal activities conducted using the internet and both the computer together with the individual behind it are victims. The Australian Institute of Criminology (2011) finds cyber crime to include fraud, hacking, money laundering and theft, cyber stalking, cyber bullying, child sexual exploitation, child grooming and identity theft. The crimes mostly go unreported making it hard to quantify (Australian Institute of Criminology, 2011). However, the most common cyber crime incidents remain malware code and virus attacks that corrupt software. The Australian Cyber crime Act which was assented in 2001 and commenced on 2 April 2002 added new offences streamlined to check on those kinds of cyber crime that impair the security, integrity and reliability of computer data and electronic communications. They are; a) Unauthorized access, modification or impairment with intent to commit a serious offence, b) Unauthorized modification of data where the person is reckless as to whether the modification will impair data, c) Unauthorized impairment of electronic communications. There is a maximum penalty for these offences. Investigation powers relating to search and seizure of electronically stored data have been increased (Find Law Australia, 2012). Culprits of cybercrime can ignore the realms of Australian jurisdiction and launch an attack from anywhere in the world or even design attacks that seem...
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...woman, named Brodie Panlock, suicided after her colleagues’ long-term bullying. After this horrible tragedy, Victoria has set up an anti-bully act named after Brodie. From then on, serious bullying is defined as a crime and can be punishable by up to 10 years in jail. (Government of WA, 2013) 2.2 What does Brodie's Law cover? All forms of serious bully are considered as crimes under Brodie’s law. It involves physical bullying, psychological bullying, verbal bullying and cyber bullying. (Department of Justice Victoria, 2013) It normally includes behaviours such as threats and abuses and offensive words or behaviours. In addition, Brodie’s Law is not only against bully in work placement as Brodie has suffered, but also applies to other places where bullying can be possibly conducted, such as schools, and even on the internet, for instance bullying through email or on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. 2. What is workplace bullying? In section 55A (1) of the Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Act 1986, it defines that 'Workplace bullying means any behaviour that is repeated, systematic and directed towards an employee or group of employees that a reasonable person, having regard to the circumstances, would expect to victimise, humiliate, undermine or threaten and which creates a risk to health and safety.' (Stop Bullying in SA, 2008) Frankly speaking, workplace bullying refers to any repeated, unreasonable, ongoing behaviour that was doing...
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...Bullying Student’s Name Here XXXX University Introduction There are so many incidents on television where teenagers are being bullied via Facebook and other online sources. Almost every adolescent has access to the internet nowadays and most of them have a mobile phone. Therefor it is not surprising, that cyberbullying or bullying through these new communication technologies is increasing. In order to put cyberbullies to a stop it is necessary to know, who these teenagers are, what they do, and why they bully. This research will introduce briefly the suicde of Megan Meier and the foundation what is set into effect today to prevent children and teenagers from being victims like her. Another young victim of cyberbullying was a local teen, Viviana Aguirre, an El Paso girl who was being bullied and picked on and her tragedy caught media attention. She received messages via Facebook telling her to kill herself. This impressionable girl was tormented mentally and her self-esteem was seriously damaged. She ultimately became a victim of cyberbullying which lead Viviana to commit suicide. There must be an end put to this. The reason for this study is to identify the threats and the environment that exists in our local high schools providing a dangerous basis for committing cyberbullying. By conducting a survey we intend to find our weak spots and therefore create solutions that will prevent cyberbullying in the future. Just the mere researching into this negative phenomena serves...
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...Impact of the Internet on Today’s Youth Jennifer L Benca Columbus State University Author Note CRJU 3155 – Summer 2014 Impact of the Internet on Today’s Youth The Internet is an amazing invention that is used by billions of people worldwide. It allows people from all walks of life all over the world to be connected. Use of the Internet is growing at an unbelievable rate. So fast parents are not always able to keep up with it. The Internet is a great resource to people of all ages, but with that it brings some negative. The Internet can have a huge impact on the youth of today. How it impacts this very vulnerable group of people will be explored in this paper. What Is The Internet? Before we can establish how, we must first explore what. Before the invention of the Internet, nothing had the same capabilities. Inventions such as the telegraph, the telephone, the radio and the computer, helped to prepare the world for what was to come. None of these can even begin to reach the number of people and amount of information as the Internet. The Internet Society says that the Internet allows people to communicate with no consideration to their physical location. The Internet allows us to transmit information and communicate with others throughout the world. (Leiner et al., n.d.). The first host computer was connected in September 1969. Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) installed the first Interface Message Processor (IMP) at the University of California, Los Angeles...
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...Effects of Bullying Introduction Having been recognized as an expected yet serious problem in the society, bullying is no longer considered as new problem in the society. Bullying can come in various forms and it can happen to both children and adults. There is a high likelihood that most adults and children each have stories to share which relates to each of their personal experiences either of bullying, or victimization, or witnessing acts of aggression toward others. As perennial as it can get, becoming a victim of bullies has often received the notion of being viewed as a normal part of growing up, or as some have put it, a rite of passage for children and adolescents. In the late 1970s, perspectives began to change as this outlook was looked into by the different researches. It sheds new light on the damaging effects on youths’ growth and development with respect to bullying and victimization. An increase in the awareness of bullying and victimization as well as how it resulted to be a widespread societal problem has been the initial outcome of the innovative research which has encouraged other research on this phenomenon. The beginnings of research on this social issue have been primarily conducted in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries for a number of years. As the research has been shared with other experts the world over, it resulted to the spawning of the exploration on this topic and has reached other countries, including Japan, England, Netherlands,...
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...Escape, Delete. Cyber-bullying is poised to turn into the biggest online concern, already affecting up to 35% of all children says Dr Martyn Wild C yberbullying can be best described as an aggressive, intentional act carried by a group or individual, using electronic forms of contact, repeatedly and over time against a victim who cannot easily defend him or herself. There are many ways in which this can occur; through phone calls, a website, chat rooms, e-mail, and pictures or even through videos. Margaret Rouse argues that because the use of mobile and online communications has grown so rapidly and the crime is relatively new, many jurisdictions are deliberating over cyberbullying laws. However, the crime is covered by existing laws against personal threats and harassment. In 2007, 43% of teens were a victim of cyberbullying, but only 11% of teens talked to their parents about cyberbullying incidents. It used to be that bullies were found roaming school hallways or threatening children on playgrounds. Now, bullies can be right in your home, threatening your children, they’re called Cyber Bullies. Being anonymous in the internet makes it easy for Cyber Bullies to day or does hateful things. These faceless tormentors can bully others without the direct contact and often away from adult supervision. And since they are anonymous, many online bullies believe that they may not face any consequences for their actions. 70% of students report seeing frequent bullying online. Filling...
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...networking websites that allow you to connect with people across the globe. There is protocol standard that all websites must use to make all their users’ personal information safe; these are called privacy settings. They are set to conceal private information such as email addresses, phone numbers, their real names and other information. Users can change the settings at any time to make their profile even more private or open. The virtual environment makes online communities an easy target place for cyber bullying and stalking. Bullies can direct unwanted attention to the unsuspecting victim, pose as a person they are not or even steal their identity without their knowledge and this is a contemporary issue that affects the community. Should there be legislation to prescribe how Facebook is to protect their users by using affective privacy settings? Legislation should be enacted to prescribe the way privacy settings are to function on Facebook to ensure that users are safe from cyber bulling, harassment, assault and deception. Issues that have been raised over 12 months Over the past 12 months, there have been some re-occurring attacks of people who use online communities. A majority of them are associated with the popular Facebook. Many predators sign up for online communities looking for vulnerable people and design a profile claiming to be someone they are not. The case of Nona Belomesoff’s was the start of this issue. Authorities were asked to investigate the sudden disappearance...
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...would have thought that waking up in the morning and going to work would be so bad and targeted by violence, discrimination and even some retaliation at work? This has become so sad and disturbing. Now-a-days, children cannot even go to school without being bullied or harassed. The article that was chosen is called “Trends in the Workplace Violence in the Remote Area Nursing Workforce”. This is a very informative article that speaks about the types of violence and how it has increased within the last decade. The article has taken some of the present data of violence in the workplace and compared it to the data that was collected about 13 years ago. The setting of this article took place in Australia and was focused on a few hundred nurses whom worked in rural areas throughout Australia, who worked in the health facilities. According to the article it stated that there has been an “increase in all incidents” that were “reported violence in the workplace between 1995 and 2008” (Opie, Lenthall, & Dollard, 2010). Several times of violence that had been reported were either verbal aggression, physical and property damage. The three types of violence that were listed are the most frequently experienced and very common throughout other workplaces. In reference to the article, some parts were taken into consideration and compared to ones with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder also known as PTSD. With that being said in the article it stated that “some violence in the workplace correlates...
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...Position Paper on Bullying in the Schools Prevalence of Bullying Behavior Peer victimization is a significant problem in U.S. schools. In 1999, an estimated 5% of students ages 12 through 18 reported fearing attack or harm at school (U.S. Department of Education [USDE], 2000). In a recent national study, Nansel, et al. (2001) found that about 30% of 6 t h - through 10 t h -grade students had been involved in bullying incidents with moderate or frequent regularity. Similar prevalence rates can be found in the state of Florida. For example, in a study by Bully Police, USA, they found that of the 2, 701, 022 school age children in Florida, approximately 442, 157 students were involved in bullying. Defining Bullying Researchers commonly define peer victimization or bullying as a negative act of aggression (or oppression) which is unprovoked, is deliberately intended to cause harm, is carried out repeatedly over time and involves an actual and/or perceived imbalance of power in which the aggressor or group of aggressors are physically or psychologically more powerful than the victim (Boulton & Underwood, 1992; Farrington, 1993; Olweus, 1999; Rigby, 1996; Smith & Thompson, 1991). To clarify further, the USDE (1998) indicates that bullying can take the form of physical abuse (e.g., hitting, punching), verbal abuse (e.g., name-calling, threats), emotional abuse (e.g., ostracizing, humiliating, maliciously gossiping, rating/ranking personal characteristics...
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...BULLYING Tamaine Aries Leak Devry University Bullying is described as an aggressive behavior that inflicts harm on the physical and mental well-being of a victim that causes them to have feelings of fear and intimidation. As stated in Boulton et al (1992), “Researchers commonly define peer victimization or bullying as a negative act of aggression (or oppression) that is unprovoked and discriminately intended to cause harm, while carried out repeatedly over time and involves an actual and/or perceived imbalance of power and control in which the aggressor or group of aggressors are physically or psychologically more powerful than the victim” (Boulton & Underwood, 1992; Farrington, 1993; Olweus, 1999; Rigby, 1996; Smith &Thompson, 1991). Bullying has been known to occur from the minor range from one-on-one bullying to more aggressive methods of the bully incorporating random or volunteered partakers, who may or may not willing assist the primary bully with his or her bullying assaults. Bullying from my perspective, is a serious issue that needs to be handle in high consideration due to the increase reports of homicides and suicides that are have occurred based on the devious and abusive acts of bullying. As stated by Barbara, E.F. (2012), “Bullying or bullies from other observations of society can be overlooked as, “that’s just the way people are or “there’s nothing that can be done” (Barbara, 2012). But what truly bothers me about bullying the most, is that some...
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...The use of social media by young Australians has become increasingly popular. This essay will show that social media can have many benefits to young Australians by enabling them to engage with peers, the creativeness it brings out and enhanced learning opportunities. Cyber bullying and privacy issues are some of the challenges that can arise with the use of social media. Firstly Social Networking is becoming more important in schools and universities day after day, because it offers more opportunities of learning and now on teachers take advantage of social networking skills to create discussion forums, videos, class blogs, tutorials etc. Also team -working with students and teachers through online social network it is really helpful, students are able to build stronger school communities and teachers can give extra information to a group of students same time. Facebook, Email sources (Gmail, Hotmail, live, yahoo, and student email) are often used by teachers to contact and communicate with students for out of discussions , feedback, difficulties, and also submission to due assignments when there is no class the day the assignments due. Student can have interchange of different ideas and also it is a big chance to improve them mental level and keep them busy in a way not to get bore. Although student of all age level can explore topics, articles, that they may interested online. Making connections of other students with same interests can learn from each other and swap...
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