...---------------------------------------------------------- 11 - 12 IIA. INTRODUCTION In our everyday life, we always receive opinions from other people. These can be criticisms and good or bad comments. We are free to express these opinions but there are some who express it over that sometimes they may hurt someone’s feelings. If this will be repeatedly done and is getting worse that they can really affect the mental behavior of someone, then this will be called as bullying. Bullying is the repeated and systematic harassment or attack on someone. It is a habitual abuse and forcing someone to act in involuntary manner. Actually there are three types of bullying; emotional, verbal and physical. The most common thing is the verbal bullying. It’s the bullying with the use of words. It can be a form of racial comments, sexual comments, insults and name-calling. This type of bully is done everywhere but for students, verbal bullying is common in schools. Words are...
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...Analyzing a Major Issue Bullying Bullying is a major issue in your country today. Many people think to themselves what does bullying really mean. “Bullying is an unwanted aggressive behavior among school age children that involves a real perceived power imbalanced”. (Stop Bullying) Bullying happens all over our country and happens in many different places. Here are some examples of Bullying teasing, name calling, inappropriate sexual comments, taunting, and threating to cause harm. As you can see bullying has many different forms. Bullying does not have to be right in front of a person. People could be spreading rumors, bad-mouthing a person and that still considered bullying. Now a day with the technology children and teens are being bullied by the phone, texting, emailing and video recordings. Bullying does not only have to take place in our schools. It takes place with sport groups, youth groups and yes it does take place with our adults in the work place. Yes its true bullying does happen among adults also in the work force. It seems weird and wrong because we are all adults and should know better but it’s true it happens. Bullying is also taking place with our seniors in their groups, nursing homes and senior living facility’s. Being bullied has many effects on children and teens. Some might become depressed and think that they aren’t loved, which will also play a toll on them always feeling sad. Anxiety could also become a problem with a child or teen because they won’t want...
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...Position Paper Teen Suicide 04 November 2014 Instructor: Course: Identification of the Issue The term suicide is defined as the intentional taking of your own life, or by deliberate inaction, allowing your life to be taken (according to www.mentalhelp.net). The ways people commit suicide varies, but the act of suicide itself remains the same. Some people overdose on prescription pills, slit their wrists, shoot themselves the list goes on. In 2010, The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that suicide is the third leading cause of death for college aged youth and ages 12-18. Teenagers experience low self esteem issues as a result of peer pressure, bullying, love lost, stress and confusion within the family whether it is due to divorce, financial uncertainty, domestic abuse or substance abuse. And for these reasons teens may associate suicide with being the solution to their problem. Causes for the Problem The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collected data in 2012 (most recent year for which data was obtained), 40,600 suicides were reported, making suicide the 10th leading cause of death for Americans. In that year someone in the United States died by suicide every 12.9 minutes. Shockingly, after cancer and heart disease, suicide accounts for more years of life lost than any other cause of death. Statistics also shows that males are twice more likely to commit suicide than females. As far as ethnicity rates,...
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...Teenage Suicide – The Forms, The Damage, The Thoughts, and The Help Being young in today's world is not the easiest task to do. Many young people have to deal with all the many complex, intense pressures and pains of daily life. Unfortunately, most adolescences don't believe that they can cope with all of the disbarring problems that today’s society throws at our youth. They believe that no one cares enough to listen or help them cope with their stress. When these thoughts enter into their minds and occur often enough they begin to think that they have to end their lives to rid themselves of these matters. To some people this is the only way out, and this needs to change. Reasons for teen suicide in today’s culture can be very complex. Depression, Stress, Media Pressure, Bullying, Emotional and Mental Problems, Family, anyone of these can lead, or give a reason for a teenager to commit suicide. There are tons of resources available to teens in present society that offer help and guidance to the young adults of the world, whether it be someone to talk to or therapy sessions there’s always something available to them. Depression and stress are the most common factors that lead most teens to suicide. As adolescence grow into young adults they experience a great amount of stress in their family lives. We all long for independence, and freedom, this leads to us finding out our sexuality and our position in life. Our position determines our habits, in with the new habits, and...
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...Teen Suicide Research Paper People need to be informed on why teens commit suicide and what signs to look for. Teens are slowly slipping away because of this deadly subject and people need to start noticing. Sometimes people can get caught up in their own personal lives and not even notice when a loved one is considering suicide. In the seven articles read, there were a variety of things that people seem to overlook often. Why teens are committing suicide and what people can do to help victims who are considering, are two main points that are important for people to know. In a Kids Health article about teen suicide, it talks about teen suicide and different things people need to know about it. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15 to 24 year-olds. Most of the time, people don’t realize that they could have helped a victim because they didn’t know any of the warning signs. The article goes on to talk about the risks of suicide, that 60% of all suicide in America are used with a gun. This is why no one should ever have a gun unlocked or kept in a place where it is easily out of reach. In 1996, more teenagers and young adults died of suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia and influenza, and chronic lung disease combined .In 1996, suicide was the second-leading cause of death among college students, the third-leading cause of death among those aged 15 to 24 years,...
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...experienced by many teens in the US, this is called bullying. Many teens kill themselves over a situation such as this. 500,000 teenagers try to commit suicide and only 5,000 actually succeed (Jaredstory.com). There are many types of bullying but, the most common form of bullying, that is on the rise, is Cyber bullying. “Cyber bullying is the number one cause of suicide” (Jaredstory.com). Not only does bullying affect the victim but the victim's family as well. Bullying is negatively affecting the United States today. One way Cyber bullying is negatively affecting the United States today is academically. “Cyber bullying is when a child, adolescent or young adult bullies, harasses or repeatedly threatens one of their peers electronically through email, instant messages, blogging, text messages and Web Sites dedicated to humiliating another child” (How Is Cyber Bullying Affecting Your Kids). Cyber bullying does not affect the child only personally but academically. A person with an unstable home will most likely not be able to focus on their work in the classroom. Stress is put upon that person and so they have many other things on their mind instead of their classwork. When writing papers, one may try to avoid using the computer, to keep themselves from getting hate emails, messages or tweets. “The person being bullied grades will start to lower, “because their lack of confidence will prevent them from contributing and asking questions in class”(How Is Cyber Bullying Affecting Your...
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...Bullying is now becoming a major and current issue across the U.S, especially in the education system. It’s messing with student's academic behavior, and normal behavior either during school or afterschool. The mental, and physical stability of teens is being affected negatively in many different types of ways because of bullying becoming an issue. One of the main reasons of why bullying is affecting teens is because of the different ways the bully is carrying out the action. Another aspect affecting teens is the mental and emotional instability causing bullies to mess with teen’s heads. The last main issue is the different types of side effects that comes out of bullying, for instance depression, social anxiety, and etc. which all have a high...
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...having the school believe he saves her, he leads everyone to believe that Violet was actually the one who helps him down. Finch then requests that he and Violet be paired together for a project that has them explore Indiana. Their teacher allows Finch to work with Violet. This leads to them becoming romantically interested with one another. Finch helps Violet in becoming herself again and getting her out of her depression. He, despite having a girlfriend and everything going right for him, still finds himself not able to suppress his past. In All the Bright Places, Niven tells the reader that Finch is abused by his father and shows how Finch attempts to handle the repercussions that come from that. He is also said to have a plethora of mental illnesses which helps in understanding why he thinks and acts how he does. Niven uses this novel to show how teens are affected by their own thoughts and their peers. The perfect example for this would be the character, Theodore Finch. He allows himself to believe that nobody would care if he died because he gets bullied so frequently. All the Bright Places shows the struggles that kids face in masking their pain because they are afraid to be...
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...Disturbing Behaviors of Bullying Ralph Smith Yout 301 Foundations of Youth Ministry June 1, 2015 The 2013 youth risk behavior surveillance system (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) indicates that, nationwide 20% of students in grade 9-12 experience bullying. Bullying has been around for years, but has gone to another level. Bullying use to be considered a rite of passage, parents, educators and community leaders now see bullying as devastating. It was a way of life and most people were bullied by survived. It’s causing all kinds of reactions with kids that are being bullied. 17% of Americans students report being bullied 2 to 3 times a month or more within a school semester. Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year. Approximately 160,000 teens skip school every day because of bullying. There are several types of bullying social, physical, verbal and cyber bullying. All of these has brought devastating results to kids all round the world. Why does this happen? How do they chose who to bully? Is it a certain look or style? The bullying that I will be discussing is social bullying. Let’s first define bullying. It is the use of force, threat or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively dominate others. So this is different from your typical agreements and /or conflicts that you might have with your classmates’. It’s about having power. Social bullying sometimes referred to as relational bullying involves hurting someone’s reputation...
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...Speech Class 11/19/2014 Bullying: Real Harm Deserves Real Consequences During the school year, children go off to school to get an education. Unfortunately for some, getting a good education can feel almost impossible. Imagine a child not wanting to go to school because they are afraid to. Imagine the child’s grades dropping because they cannot concentrate. Most would agree that they would want to do everything they can for their children to be comfortable going to school and feeling safe. The ongoing and growing problem that is causing such disturbance is bullying. Bullying is a social interaction where a more dominant individual, who is the bully, exhibits aggressive behavior that is intended to, and does, in fact, cause distress to a less dominant individual which is the victim. The aggressive behavior can be direct physical contact and/or a verbal attack that can be direct or indirect (Bullying). Bullying includes harassment, intimidation to varying degrees, taunting and ridicule (Ferrell-Smith). About 50% of high school students said they have bullied someone in the past year. Forty seven percent said they had been bullied, teased or taunted in a way that seriously upset them in the past year. Nearly 40% of bullied girls and 46% of bullied boys in grades 3 through 12 have been bullied a year or longer, yet fewer than 50% of bullied students have told a parent (Billitteri). Many students that are being bullied are suffering silently. Because bullying can have harmful and sometimes...
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...“How to End Bullying” Every individual longs to be accepted and happy, but in today’s society it is not so simple as too many people are engaging in the terrible act of bullying. Webster’s Dictionary defines bullying as the use of force, threat or coercion to abuse, intimidate or aggressively to impose dominance over others. Bullying in its various forms is one of the new emerging problems that many children and teenagers have to face daily at school or while practicing extracurricular activities away from their parents’ view and protection. This behavior is often habitual and is primarily because of a difference in class, race, gender, religion, sexuality, appearance, behavior, just to name a few. Bullying is a leading social issue among adolescents today whom of which are trying to find their place in the world. In fact, StopBullying.gov expresses that “28% of U. S. students in grades 6–12 have experienced bullying at some point”(Facts About Bullying). It is also important that the victims have an individual of which they feel secure to report the incidents before it is too late. Two solutions to prevent future students from being victimized and put a stop to bullying once and for all include promoting anti-bullying campaigns and mentor programs regarding the effects of bullying and encouraging how the victim can take a stand as well as implementing laws and policies that punish the bully for their actions. Though these acts differ, both contribute to end of bullying. ...
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...Stopping Bullying Jessica Messer DeVry University Stopping Bullying Rachael, a seventeen year old high school student from Kentucky just wanted a regular high school experience just like everyone else gets. She wanted to be able to go to classes, dances, and the prom without having to look over her shoulder for someone stalking her and might even be trying to kill her. The great high school experience did not happen for her because she started getting harassing and threatening e-mails on her MySpace account. The e-mails consist of her activities during school hours and after school so she knew it was someone at her school. Her parents went to the principal with the problem, but the school did nothing about it. She received an e-mail stating, “I am not going to put you in the hospital; I am going to put you in the morgue.” After receiving this e-mail she committed suicide on October 9, 2006. Many of the children that take their own lives have bullies that don’t understand that their “words hurt”. (Neblett, 2010). Rachael was not the only life that was lost in that year. She had two friends Kristin Settles, (Settles, 2010) and Karissa Smith, (Smith, 2010) that took their own lives after Rachael did. The three teens all went to the same high school and was known as “The Three Musketeers.” Bullying has caused this community so much heart ache and pain that we as human beings need to step in and try to stop another child from making a choice that can never...
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...Suicide Amongst Youth November 21, 2013 INTRODUCTION Barry parr, a window cleaner in a small town, was working as usual in December 2001, not expecting anything interesting to happen. Suddenly, he heard a yell from afar and saw a 14 year old girl who was preparing to hang herself from a nearby tree. He showed signs of his incipient heroism as he quickly grabbed his ladder and ran across the road to try and talk her into retreating. He tried, and that was when she got real about committing suicide. As Barry started to climb up his ladder, the girl jumped off. Luckily, Barry was close enough and strong enough and he caught her in his arms, holding her high enough to save her life. Unfortunately, however, Barry was now in an unlucky situation. Barry was out on a cold winter day when people hardly walked by, and he had in his arms, a 14 year old girl who was trying really hard to squirm out of his grasp and kill herself. Barry held on to her for an entire hour before someone passed by and called the cops. The come eventually came and helped, but not before Barry had proven to the girl, how far the world was willing to go, to save her life and keep this one lonely girl around. Suicide is a tragic and preventable mental health problem. Suicide is irrational to those who are not suicidal, but to those who are, it is the only means of escape that there is. The reason most people consider suicide to be irrational is because suicide is a permanent solution to a problem which...
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...Cyber Bullying- Should Schools be Held Responsible Abstract We’ve all heard the saying “stick and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” Sure words don’t hurt physically, but to those who have been or are currently victims of cyberbullying words can be the difference between life and death. Technology such as smart phones, tablets and the internet allows students spend more time being connected. With this cyberbullying is becoming more frequent. Texting, instant messaging and over the social networks are just a few ways that the cyberbullies can reach their victims. A few of the forms of cyberbullying are harassment, cyberstalking and impersonating their victim. Cyber bullying has become a serious problem amongst teens. The victim can begin to feel inadequate and self-conscious causing the victim to become depressed to the point of committing suicide. In the past the cyberbully had no consequences to their action. Two such cases are addressed in this paper. States are now passing laws to address this issue and making schools responsible for developing anti-bullying policies. Cyber bullying- Should Schools be held responsible Matt was on both the Citizenship and Honor Rolls in Middle School. Voted by his eighth grade classmates to have the best smile, the best personality, and most likely to become an actor (Eppling, 2006). Taylor was a soccer player, a soloist in the school choir, and on the volleyball team. Although she was taller and a little...
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...Dealing With Bullying by: Shaun Black May 1, 2014 BSHS/325 Stephanie Munro Hello my name is Shaun Black, I will be addressing the dangers of bullying in this report. I will be explaining the following topics: why bullying is an issue to study in human development, the three components or types of bullying behavior, as observed by researchers, how gender and sexual orientation influence styles of bullying, how self-esteem affects bullying, and how family interactions are affected by bullying. Why is bullying such an issue in the study of human development? The growing interest in bullying over the past decade hasn't been without just cause, as a saddening number of school shootings, student suicides, and other tragic incidents have demonstrated the heartbreaking consequences of unchecked bullying. As a result, schools have been taking a hard line on students accused of bullying, parents are speaking out, and the issue has become the rallying point for a number new anti-bullying organizations. Yet while bullying is doubtless a major problem and one that should be addressed with the utmost seriousness, the reality is that many who are speaking out against it and proposing legislation on it really know little about the psychological and sociological research that has been done on the subject. While some stereotypes about bullies and their victims have proven true, other studies demonstrate that a more measured approach to bullying may be more effective than current...
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