...education. But although school is necessary and beneficial for becoming productive citizens, there are experiences such as bullying and racism that make them not want to go. These experiences end up marking youth for the rest of their lives. Some children find an outlet to their problems by bulling others. Over the years bullying has grown tremendously affecting our schools and communities and as a result our future generations and their lively hood are at stake. Historically, bullying took place in the mid 1970s. Dan Olweus, a research professor of psychology, was the first to conduct an intensive study on bullying among students using his own systematic researching methods (Voo, 2007, p. 112). He created the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP), which had significant results in reducing school bullying (Hazelden Foundation, 2007). Olweus’s efforts and solutions contributed greatly to the fight against bullying increasing awareness, initiating other professionals to conduct more research, and expanding the knowledge of bullying (Voo, 2007). Because of Olweus’s efforts researchers suggest that there have been a positive impact on decreasing school violence and bringing safety awareness to schools. Bullying and racism are problems that have been a part of America’s history for many years. Bullying can be verbal, physical, I chose to discuss bullying and racism because there have been an increase in our future generations. By discussing these problems, my goal to increase awareness...
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...Tswane Muslim School. Grade; 10B Due date; 8 September 2014 1.1) INTRODUCTION * RACISM- The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. Therefore, it is Discrimination or prejudice based on race * BULLYING- Aggressive behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. This behavior is usually regular and rarely a one time thing. Bullying is not only physical but also verbal and in today’s times it is also cyber. 1.2) CAUSES RACISM * Xenophobia, the fear of people who are different. The element of xenophobia is present in racism. * Fear of sharing power with other groups of people. * Lack of empathy- Empathy is the ability to put oneself in the shoes of another person, and understand and feel what that person is going through. BULLYING * To get power, they think if you push people around and make them do what you want them to do you will be noticed. The * Some people have problems at home and want to take their feelings out on others and so they bully. * Some people just have an aggressive personality, and low self-confidence issues 1.3) IMPACT: ON THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES: RACISM * It separates communities because some people cannot except people of different races living together thus drive a wedge between people in the community. * Racism does not allow for a collective contribution of its citizens, which I believe to be a critical...
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...message across to others - meaning no more racism, bullying, and gender equality. We need to have love, tolerance and respect for each other. We can make the choice to end these issues and make Canada even better! Racism has been going on forever! We need to stop hurting people just because of their color, heritage or beliefs. Immigrants are in constant fear of being the target of a hate crime. Global News reported that “The number of police-reported hate crimes targeting Muslim-Canadians more than doubled over a three-year period.” The hate crime rate across Canada is 3.7 per 100,000 people. Ontario has the highest...
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...Ask for an anonymous survey to learn how many kids are being bullied…..Your parents or guardians can ask your school to focus more on bullying. We have information for adults on the bullying page in our section for parents and caregivers.Your parents or guardians can ask your school to focus more on bullying. We have information for adults on the bullying page in our section for parents and caregivers.Bullying can be prevented, especially when the power of a community is brought together.Bullying doesn’t happen only at school. Community members can use their unique strengths and skills to prevent bullying wherever it occurs.Local businesses may make t-shirts with bullying prevention slogans for an event. After-care staff may read books about bullying to kids and discuss them. . Hearing anti-bullying messages from the different adults in their lives can reinforce the message for kids that bullying is unacceptable..Involve anyone who wants to learn about bullying and cut its impact in the community. Consider involving businesses, local associations, adults who work directly with kids, parents, and youth.Identify partners such as mental health specialists, law enforcement officers, neighborhood associations, service groups, faith-based organizations, and...
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...Racism in schools hurts both individuals and the learning and working environment. It generates tensions that distort cultural understanding and narrow the educational experiences of all students. Afraid of going to school? Have trouble focusing in class? Getting depressed? Making bad choices? These are all effects of what happens when students are being bullied. Racism occurs in explicit forms such as name-calling,teasing, verbal abuse and bullying. Racism can have a profound effect on students, teachers and can generally affect the overall school atmosphere. Students get affected the most by their race. They get called the wrong things and people say stuff about their religion. Not many Students care when they see this happen. If you see...
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...Projective processes: gangs, bullying, and racism Groups and gangs When does a group become a gang? Hamish Canham (2002) defines a gang mentality as one in which de- structive forces have taken over. It is paranoid-schizoid functioning where there is no thinking, only a need to rid oneself of parts of the personality that might expose the individual (or group) to feelings of neediness, ignorance, or weakness. Within the personality, this is achieved by imposing a reign of terror on the vulnerable parts. In gang behaviour, the reign of terror is directed towards other groups. A gang is anti-thought, anti-parents, and anti-life. Hamish offers a commentary on William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies and tracks the way in which the boys lose touch with an idea of parental function and give way to the lure of the gang. He draws attention to the way in which Ralph and Piggy manage to impose some structure by making the rule about the conch: in community meetings, boys cannot speak unless they are holding the conch. At the beginning of their time on the island, the older boys are in touch with the idea of rules (which Hamish suggests are a representation of parental function), and they agree to this arrangement. Later, the rule is cast aside, the conch smashed, and order is overthrown in an outpouring of paranoid-schizoid behaviour. Jack, the leader of the choir, represents the pull in the group away from feeling lonely, afraid and dependent on each other ...
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...yourself or others. The holocaust was made up of a bunch of bullies. This is because Hitler and the Nazi’s didn’t see the jews as a race. They made people feel like they needed to hide in order to be safe. This is what bullies do to make people scared of them even though the bullies are the ones actually threatened. The Holocaust is like bullying because the Nazi’s felt threatened by the Jews. Hitler felt eliminating Jews was the best option....
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...As children, we are taught about racism and physical differences that make us diverse; however, have we genuinely grasped the concept of how we are not different? Outside we may look different, but what is inside has no discrepancies. Coincedently, this belief adds on to what goes on in people's minds. Two reasons; internalized racism and internalized white supremacy. M;l.,m/any people get confused and mix these two reasons and their meanings up. People seem to think that the internalized racism is correlated with whites and the internalized white supremacy is correlated with African Americans. This has become the result of our school systems failures. In this day in age many people need to understand the differences between these two terms....
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...Cruelty is unavoidable in society, always has been and will likely continue to be throughout many centuries to come. Capturing the cruelty of society is a concept that William Golding and John Steinbeck both vividly exemplify. Steinbeck’s use of racism and discrimination through characters powerfully demonstrates cruelty. Golding illustrates cruelty through examples of bullying, self-preservation, and abandonment. However, although man's cruelty to other men is expressed clearly in William Golding's work, Lord of the Flies, as well as John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, they are both epitomize the concept in alternative ways. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, cruelty is shown by targeting people over things they can’t control,...
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...“He was different and us kids don’t like anything different” Discuss this attitude in relation to your understanding of the concept of outsiders. “He was different and us kids don’t like anything different” is a view that suggests difference is unfavorable and disliked. Difference is perceived as unfavorable because it is misunderstood and kids don’t think for themselves. This attitude has implications that create insiders and outsiders and inadvertently justifies bullying. It does not recognize that difference is misunderstood, and rather suggests that it is wrong altogether. This ignorant and unsophisticated attitude is exemplified in Archie Waller’s story Herbie, about a young indigenous school boy who is rejected by his community because he is black. His understanding and connection of the land is misunderstood, as well as his culture and identity. Herbie’s character and mistreatment is revealed through a powerful selection of language features employed to convey the racism explicitly. The attitude “He was different and us kids don’t like anything different” creates an insider/outsider relationship. The relationship consists of the outsiders who are different and therefore vulnerable, and the insiders who use this to gain power. Exemplified in Herbie, an particular insider describes Herbie by stating “[Herbie would] flit around the shadows like a crow, he was as black as one too”. This clearly demonstrates Herbie as an outsider to the central group (the insiders)...
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...This essay looks at how is how personal prejudice, cultural assumptions and structural power relations ignite oppression and discrimination. I have chosen to look at this in relation to poverty and race. This essay aims to define discrimination and oppression, and relate this to what is evident when talking about poverty and race and discuss the implications for the young people I work with. The literal meaning of discriminate is to identify a difference. When the term is used in a legal, moral or political sense it is generally used to refer to unfair discrimination, this refers to the process where a difference is identified and used to impose unfair treatment. Oppression is the outcome of unfair treatment. associated with discrimination has oppressive consequences for the people so affected. It is important to note the differences between anti/discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice are primarily semantic, rather than theoretical or ideological. What is paramount is that as care and social workers we all must tackle this issue head on, without fear of opening a can of worms. Poverty is an issue that has been talked about for many years in Scotland. Nethetheless, in despite severity of the situation, and regardless of the impact on our youth, and ultimately the future of our country. Even though legislation put in place to ensure the well being of our children, it can be argued that not enough is being done to tackle the issue. Poverty is an issue which raises...
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...identify and understand the cause and effects of cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is a new form of bullying that has harmful psychological side effects on youth such as depression and anxiety. Although I am no longer in high school a friend of mines cousin has recently committed suicide because she was maliciously bullied online. Her story is one of many and the number of teens committing suicide because of cyber bullying seems to only be getting bigger. My goal on this casual analysis research paper is to educate parents and educational professionals on the consequences of cyber bullying and how to help prevent it. Outline: Thesis: Cyber Bullying leads to psychological damage in our community’s adolescents. I. Extent of the issue: a. Explain what cyber bullying is. b. According to CBC 78% of victims of bullying have been cyber bullied. c. Compare how an adult using social media is different then adolescents. IV. Cause of cyber bullying: a. Children do it to prove their social standing 1. Boos their egos 2. Gain praise from peers b. Children use social media as an outlet for revenge 1. Use out lets like face book and twitter to spread mass and public rumors 2. Quick and public way for kids to humiliate others III. Effects of cyber bullying: a. Cyber bullying gives fuel to prejudice issues 1. Can lead to racism. 2. Can lead to mental discrimination b. Cyber bullying can lead to psychological issues in teens 1....
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...Racism Racism as defined by Merriam-Webster is poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race and or the belief that some races of people are better than others however some may agree and some may disagree with this definition. I tend to agree with this definition because it is very plain and easy to understand. Some may want to define it as the hatred of one person by another or the belief that another person is less than human because of skin color, language, customs, place of birth or any factor that supposedly reveals the basic nature of that person. Racism has existed for many years and it is still present in today’s society. It has influenced wars, slavery, the formation of nations, and legal codes. As I have read in an article I have cited below racism is ugly and it divides people into “us” and “them”, based on where we come from or the color of our skin. It happens when people feel that it’s okay to treat others badly as they go about their daily lives. Racism can happen in many different forms such as making jokes, verbal abuse, name calling, bullying, make offensive comments, physical abuse, etc. As this article also mentions not all racism is obvious for example a store manager may follow someone around and think they are stealing only because of their skin color, or an employer may look through applications and decide not to hire or even interview someone for a job only because of their last name. We are not born racist, it’s not in...
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...Social Actions on bullying A social problem is any certain condition or a group of events that causes public attention/troublesome situation, and requires a change for the betterment of the society and the individuals affected by it. Human beings face plenty of issues in their lives and not all of them become social problems. The construction of social problem highlights how the society defines to be the appropriate way to do things. The critical thinking model has been used to analyze today’s social issue “Bullying”. What is critical thinking? Basic critical thinking is inquiring the nature of the issue using problem solving skills. It involves maximizing and minimizing parts of the social problem, keeping in mind its’ importance. Changes are required as action plans and hence they need to be clearly identified. What is bullying? Bullying is any kind of unwanted behaviour where an individual mistreats anyone to a point such that his/her personal or mental stability gets in risk. These situations affect directly the victim and the witnesses, it´s existence and lack of attention affects the human rights of the principal victim and the witnesses. Who defines bullying? Bullying can be defined in many different ways depending on the nature of bullying. Bullying can be done in various numbers of ways: i. One-on-One, where the stronger individual has the upper-hold of the weaker one. ii. A group of people bullying a single individual. iii. A superior group of people...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this report is to describe and analyze the detriments and implications of a workplace tainted with harassment issues, as well as to provide recommendations to assist organizations on how to avoid legal liability regarding harassment claims and how to achieve a harassment-free work environment. Drawing on scholarly sources, the report identifies three forms of harassment, which are bullying, sexual and racial harassment. It examines the differences in people’s perception of harassment in general as well as the factors influencing individuals’ experience of it. The report describes the risks for businesses experiencing harassment in the workplace; it examines the negative effects they can have on organizational environment, and its impacts on the organizations’ professional image. The findings of this report suggest that organizations can prevent and resolve harassment in the workplace by improving leadership and communication among employees, and by implementing and enforcing a clear and effective anti-harassment policy. The recommendations made in this report are to: * Provide basic guidelines on how to create and enforce effective human rights policies in organizations * Provide the necessary elements an effective anti-harassment policy should have * Provide adequate training and education programs for everyone at the organization INTRODUCTION Over the last years, there has been a rising concern over the issue of harassment...
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