...Bullying: the act of hurting one person or a group repeatedly as a way for the bully to feel superior; usually the bully is stronger than his or her victim. A bully is a person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people. “1 out of 4 kids are bullied” and “1 out of 5 kids admit to being a bully or doing something bullying.” Bullying is a worldwide thing and just about anyone can spot a bully when they see one. When this action goes on it rises many questions like, how are kids bullied today and why do bullies do it. Also many people ask including me, what are some consequences for both the bully and the bullied, and how can bullying be prevented. To start, “282,000 students are physically attacked in secondary schools each month.” Bullying today has reached a new peak from what it used to be back then. Most bullying was just verbal or intimidation. Now that were about to hit the year 2011 it’s added physical bullying, indirect bullying, social alienation bullying, and the popular cyber bullying to the list. Indirect bullying is when a bully spreads rumors and tells others about something that was told to them in private. Social alienation is when someone excludes another person from a group on purpose. Cyber bullying is when messages, pictures, or information is sent electronically, mostly by computers and cell phones. Cyber bullying is the one that is increasing today. I myself have once witnessed cyber bullying. To end, today...
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...Ryan, Chad, Mrs Jones Phone rings to Chad home because Chad has been caught bullying Ryan once again. Mrs. Reynolds: Hello Mrs. Jones: Hello Mrs. Reynolds this is Mrs Jones, principal at James River High School and the reason for my call is that Chad has been found bullying another student again. this has been the 5th time in a month that he has done this. And as you know we have a non tolerance for this behavior. We have given him detention, suspended him. Now we are starting to think that maybe there is another underlying reason for his sudden change in behavior. If you don't mind we would like to set up an meeting with you, your husband, and Chad so that maybe we can get this issue resolved. Mrs Reynolds: I am so sorry I think maybe I know why this has been happening. But I can not talk about that right now. I can come in the morning but I am afraid my husband can not make it. Mrs Jones: Ok 9 am but I do believe it would be best if your husband could come. Mrs Reynolds: (nervously) Please my husband can not know about this. I will be there thank you. (The next day at the principal office) Mrs. Jones: Ok thank you for coming in, After our conversation yesterday I became a little concerned, Mrs Reynolds is everything ok at home? Mrs. Reynolds: Yes everything is fine and can we get on with this I have to be home to fix my husbands lunch before he gets home. Mrs Jones: So Chad can you tell me what is going on that is making you bully other kids...
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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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...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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...I would commend her on the hard work she has been doing. I will also commend her on being a team leader. However I would inform her that being a team leader does not include belittling other people. I would ask her why. Why does she think it is ok and what is the reason for belittling people. It has to be something going on with her mentally to think that is ok. If it is I would offer her counseling. I would give her a verbal warning. I will let her know this is not tolerated If she continues to would receive a written warning and write up. What type of behavior is Julia demonstrating? Explain your answer. Julia is showing workplace bullying. Workplace bullying is when someone mistreats or repeatedly threatens, humiliate, or intimidate a person. They try to sabotage a person or the work a person does. They try to control the person he or she is bullying. Julia is doing all of these things. She humiliates me by criticizing me in front of the nurses station in front of people to belittle me. She is being a bully and intimidating me by making me cry and appear weak in front of others to make herself feel better. SHe is also threatening me by yelling at me. As a Staff RN, how will you handle this situation with...
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...verbal, or psychological. I feel child abuse turns into the child becoming a bully, and bullying to someone committing suicide. The abuser is usually an individual who has high anxiety and has not learned to deal with it like others. Most people would disagree or argue that child abusers can be AND are bullies. I think you are what you see. These kids grow up in abusive homes with no one to turn to for guidance. Tim Field, a prominent British anti-bullying activist, states, "Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should be accorded the same gravity." He saying child abuse and bullying have the same consequences as someone getting beat to death. Being abused as a child can result in negative behavior in the future. You either turn into a bully or look at the negative and turn it to a positive. Look at your situation and help someone else from going through what you have. Field founded the UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line and also wrote and published a book, Bully In Sight based on his own experiences. I think when a child is bullied they were a victim of a violent parent, a close family member, or a friend. Whatever the case may have been, research study done by Melissa Holt, showed that out of 700 fifth grade students 14% were bullies, 12% were victims, 8% bully-victims and 66% not involved in bullying (Holt).This shows what’s going on in our schools. I think a lot of children bully others...
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...It is important for all adults to understand that bullying does not have to be a normal part of childhood. All forms of bullying are harmful to the bully, the victim, and to the witnesses. The effects can last well into adulthood. Bullying and not-confronting bullies are morally wrong (Education.com, 2009). 1. The bully learns the behavior is acceptable and continues to be a bully as an adult. This behavior is passed to the bully's children; learned by observation and modeling, the bully becomes a regenerator of spousal abuse, children abuser and perhaps a criminal who delights in killing homeless people. It is up parents, leaders, educator, and community to teach that bullying is wrong and it should be done to anyone (Yahoo, 2012). 2. Other...
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...Cyber-bullying among juveniles is a growing and severely dangerous problem that most are unaware of. Many educators and legislators are afraid to cross the line of right and wrong and will not punish these children as they should be. Unsurprisingly these juveniles are doing this when the parents are not present. Surprisingly though most of these children are in elementary school and are not even old enough to have a Facebook or other social network sites. “The incidence of cyber-bullying increases during elementary school, peaks in middle school and decreases in high school.”(Snakenborg, Van Acker, Gable page 90). This goes to show that parents need to be more aware and more controlling over what their children are doing and who they are hanging out with. Cyber-bullying also has a different outcome when looking at the aspects of males and females. During face to face bullying, “males are the primary instigators and victims.” (Snakenborg, Van Acker and Gable. Page 90.) When cyber-bullying females are “25% more likely victims.”(Snakenborg, Van Aker and Gable. Page 90). This increases the one that is bullying’s control over the situation because they believe that they are reaming anonymous. Having a sense of control can heighten a juvenile’s belief that they fit in and can be with friends with a certain crowd of people. A juvenile’s behavior is a major factor into why they would bully another peer on through electronic devices. This depends on the motivation which varies from...
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...over the world hear on a day to day basis. Bullying is a worldwide epidemic (Kalman) that kids from all ages have to deal with. There may be laws in place, but if you ask me they are not really doing their job. The laws may prohibit bullying, but they don’t address the problems that bullying causes such as suicide, mental problems, family problems, and school neglect. Studies say about 77% of student’s are bullied everyday weather it’s verbally or physically(Bullying Statistics), and about 14% of those students suffer from psychological problems(Bullying Statistics); like low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and even suicide(Bullying Statistics). Each day 160,000 students miss school because they’re afraid of being bullied(Bullying Statistics), also 1 out of 10 high school students drop out of school because they were bullied(How to stop Bullying). Schools often say they want to decrease the dropout rate, well if they take the time to acknowledge the bullying problem some of the numbers would decrease.. Not only does bullying affect the body, but it affects the mind as well. In 2002 at least 15 school children from the ages 11 to 14 committed suicide (Jeff Lett), and in 2005 270 school children from the ages 10 to 14 committed suicide (Jeff Lett). Every day children go to school with a constant fear. School should be a safe lace not a place of torture. Many students find school as a safe get away from home, but with the constant bullying they go from one bad place to another. This...
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...and destruction in communities, and in the people who you care about. Excessive television watching for children over the years has become an epidemic in regards to safety. Figure1 Television in this day and age has definitely changed for children since the 90’s in those years’ shows such as The Bill Cosby Show, Family Matters, 7th Heaven, Saved by the bell and many more shows. Now, the media has quietly added violence to what once where wholesome shows and also have geared most of their shows to violence. Figure1 is a prime example of how children today conceive what they see is right, they might not think anything of it, but in all reality what they see on television is what they will try to do in real life and that is not at all ok. The “Monkey-see Monkey do” term is widely used over the internet, it basically means what someone see’s and experiences they in turn will do that as well whether it is right or wrong. “Television programming as of 2010 is all about showing reality without censorship, meaning that child watchers are inundated with shows depicting physical and sexual violence, as well as the use of illegal substances and harsh language” (http://www.livestrong.com). Given this statement children are brining what they see on television...
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...Bullying Report BY: Sarah Adams Course: BSHS/325 Instructor: Lynn Hall In this paper we will talk about how bullying can affect human development and we will explain how gender and sexual orientation affects the way of bullying. We will also talk about the affect’s that bullying has on an individual’s self-esteem. We will discuss how family interaction may be affected by someone that is being bullied. After this paper you will have a better understanding as to how people bully and how it may affect individuals and ways that may help individuals that are being bullied stop bullies from continuously attacking them. Bullying is an issue in human development because of the way it affects the person that is being bullied. The bullies take control over the person by attacking someone they feel is weaker than they are and by continuously either verbally or physically abusing this individual. By the bullies doing this it can make a person feel like their life is not worth living and that they are not good enough to here. It makes individuals feel like they did something wrong because they do not know why these people are bullying them. Being bullied can interfere with the human development by making people not socialize, being withdrawn from family, seeking out negative attention. When a person is being bullied they need to find a positive source they can trust and that they are able to talk to in order to get the...
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...Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying Justin Ensley Professor Lunsford SOC 100 May 15, 2016 The first critical step in a student’s guide to research is to frame the question that you are going to ask when it comes to bullying. The topic of bullying has, any different aspects associated with it. It could be anything from cyber bullying, relational aggression, verbal bullying, physical bullying and sexual bullying. With all of these different aspects to look into, it would be best if you were to just pick one and solely focus on that for your research. You can acknowledge those other aspects briefly but when it is time to do your research and announce your findings, they will have to be in line with the type of bullying you have chosen. The video spoke volumes to me in the way that she laid out how easy it was for something like bullying on the playground could lead to the horrors that accrued in Rwanda. It only takes a small seed of hate talk and judgement by a few to turn a whole society against one another. Bullying doesn’t just have to do with kids. Adult can be bullied and bully others on an everyday. This can be members of a family, a workplace group or even between a group of so called friends. Bullying overall has to start somewhere. As this assignment is about cyber bullying I will discuss that as well as bullying when comes to the family environment. Parents just do not realize the true impact of their actions or words. Their children are watching and...
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...property, drugs, weapons, disruptions and disorder.” School violence goes as far back as the 1920s, possibly even before that. One such incident happened in Maine in 1927, when a school board official blew up a school and killed 44 people. Other related incidents include the Columbine and Virginia Tech shootings. This kind of deviance is not OK and affects so many people and societies. The definition stated above shows that “violence in schools” doesn’t always mean “school shootings”. There are actually many forms in which this takes place. One form of school violence is bullying. Bullying can be caused by a vast number of reasons. Children can bully others because they are abused at home, are influenced by their group of friends, have no role model so they simply don’t know any better, or because they are bullied themselves elsewhere outside of school. The affect bullying has on the victim can be quite severe. They may end up dropping out of school because they are scared or just tired of being pushed around. This leads to all the downfalls which result from not having a proper education. The bullying can also mentally affect anyone to the point where they end up needing counseling. Sexual assault is another form of school violence. Adults, whether they are teachers, janitors, or principals, do it. An adult can sexually harass...
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...Good afternoon Maria and Ming, how’s it going? Now, I will continue to talk about the workplace bullying video, so, first I will mention what a victim can do after being bullied, and then I want to talk a bit about how we can manage a bully. A/ Let me start with some solutions for a victim of bully that video stated. Let’s also imagine Maria is a victim. 1/ So, the first point is that Maria tries and manages it herself. If somebody starts taunting her, she wants to nip it right at the start, and she needs to be assertive. You need to be able to say, I don’t like it when you do that, or I don’t want to do that. After that, you explain that you don’t want it being done. If it continues, you may even take it further, and say, it upsets...
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...relationship with his brother Erik. Throughout the story, Erik constantly belittles Paul, by bullying him, making him feel like he’s powerless and invisible. Being bullied by Erik throughout the story makes Paul feel scared and defenseless. For example, Paul says at the beginning of the novel, “I’ve always been afraid of Erik.”(page 42) Being the younger sibling makes it harder for Paul to stand up for himself. This shows Paul feels powerless and can’t do anything to stop Erik from bullying him. Paul goes from feeling powerless to feeling invisible. For instance, Paul mentions,“Football season and soccer season happen at the same time Dad. It’s ok if you don’t pay attention to both.”(page 92) Paul’s dad has always been more interested in “the Erik Fisher football dream” rather than Paul’s interest in soccer. Paul has felt invisible and he is okay with that because he understands that his dad will always be more interested in “the Erik Fisher football dream”. As you get further and further into the novel, Paul slowly...
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