Kassandra Barragan
Ms. Filar
English 4/ Per: 1
9 May 2017
Bullying
While doing research on bullying, I found studies on subject like cyber bullying, physical bullying, and verbal bullying. Bullying is a big problem now and has been in our society for some time. What is disturbing is that school is supposed to be a place where students learn and try to get away from outside problems but sadly some see it as a battlefield or place of survival. According to Webster 's Dictionary, a bully is someone who is "habitually cruel, insulting, or threatening to others who are weaker, smaller, or in some way vulnerable". There are different factors that may affect a person 's behavior it may be caused by their environment, history, and/ or other
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Sometimes groups of young adults will target and alienate a peer because of some adolescent prejudice. This can quickly lead to a situation where they are being taunted, tortured, and beaten-up by their fellow classmates. Regardless of how young or old a person is, there is always a chance that someone could harass or abuse them. Sometimes with children, bullying happens away from home, but physical bullying can also take place in the home. Physical bullying can have a tragic ending and therefore must be stopped quickly.
The next type is cyber bullying which is currently the most common form of bullying in our generation. Cyberbullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person. Examples of cyberbullying include sending hurtful texts or instant messages, posting embarrassing photos or video on social media, and spreading mean rumors online or with cell phones. With all this new technology and social media apps bullying has occurred a lot more.
The last common type of bullying is verbal. Verbal bullying is the use of words in a negative way such as insults, teasing, put downs, etc. Many times verbal bullying goes unnoticed, for example, when you make a joke about a friend they may get offended. There are definitely many more types of bullying that occurs but more importantly why does it occur?
There are a variety of reasons why bullying occurs. Victims are usually targeted because of their
Bullying is a situation where one person abuses power over another. Bullying is about power, control and abuse. Bully’s come in all shapes, sizes and forms. Bullying occurs throughout a human’s life span. The most-critical development stage of one’s personality is adolescence. Bullying during adolescence has been a major issue in every community. Bullying can happen in three known forms; direct, indirect, and cyber. Both gender and sexual orientation are associated with all forms of bullying. Bullying affects self-esteem and family cohesion.
Bullying is a very touchy subject for people to talk about. It deals with a lot of mental, physical, and emotional damage. Bullying is violent and unwelcoming behavior among various different aged children in school that involves a lack of power for one kid and a lot of power for another. The behavior of a bully is repeated numerous times over time and becomes more aggressive as the path goes on. The bully has an imbalance of power over the one being bullied. They bully uses their power for giving out embarrassing information, control, physical strength, popularity, and harming others. Kids who are being bullied and bullying others have serious lasting problems throughout their lifetime. Bullying is becoming a major issue in today 's society and somebody needs to make a stop to it.
Bullies may abuse their victims verbally, physically, or psychologically. Bullying may involve name-calling, pushing or hitting, or preventing an individual from joining a social group or participating in an activity. It may also involve harassing, embarrassing, or threatening a person using cell phones, text-messaging devices, interactive games, instant messages, or websites. This type of bullying is called cyberbullying (Funk & Wagnalls). Unlike traditional bullying, which is most likely to occur at school, cyberbullying can occur anywhere that children and youth have access to technology, leaving targets accessible to perpetrators at any time of the day or night. Although bullying is often associated with children, bullying of adults by adults is just as pervasive and harmful. Adult bullies are characterized as often being subtle in their attack by starting harmful rumors or by using sarcastic or demeaning language to dominate or embarrass, being self-centered, lacking empathy for others, spontaneous in their attacks, and/or using the threat of attack (as opposed to using physical violence or actions) as a means to frighten and demonstrate power (Kowalski).
An important subject that is affecting a broader amount of people today, especially our youth, is bullying. Bullying is a continuous growing field that is being examined constantly due to its complexity. An important and well known website named stopbullying.com unleashed factual information that helps, as well educates families on this topic: “In 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Department of Education released the first federal uniform definition of bullying for research and surveillance … there are many different modes and types of bullying. The current definition acknowledges two modes and four types by which youth can be bullied or can bully others. The two modes of bullying include direct (e.g., bullying that occurs in the presence of a targeted youth) and indirect (e.g., bullying not directly communicated to a targeted youth such as spreading rumors) … the four types of bullying include broad categories of physical, verbal, relational (e.g., efforts to harm the reputation or relationships of the targeted youth), and damage to property.”
One of the reasons why someone bullies another person, is that the bully feels left out or feels lonely. In their mind, they decide to pick on another person to make them feel they way they feel. Sometimes, the bully may not get enough attention at home, as compensation they bully someone to fill that void. Another reason could be that someone bullied at home by a sibling or family member or even a friend. As an outlet, they choose to bully another person. The last reason being that the person has a past of bullying so they feel that they should “live up” to their
Many kids all around the world are abused by their parents, peers or even by complete strangers. One of these types of abuse is bullying. At a first glance, we might think that it is an older kid beating/teasing a younger classmate however; bullying consists of much more than this. The basic definition of bullying is when your behavior hurts or harms another person physically or emotionally. There are many different types of bullying, which may lead to a victim becoming violent later on. There is teasing and name calling, there is also picking and shoving the kid. However, the most extreme one would be beating up the child, hurting them physically and mainly, emotionally.
Bullying is a serious problem found in schools in the United States, and it cause of approximately 4,400 deaths each year. Bullying is a repeated unwanted aggression between individuals causing an imbalance in power and control of the situation. It can occur in every school, whether it might be done physically, socially or verbally. Examples of physical bullying would be getting punched, kicked or even slapped. Social bullying can occur when being excluded purposely from a group or posting of private pictures or videos. Verbal bullying can happen when being called a name or a rumor being spread about a person that is not true. Researchers are discovering the long-term effects bullying has on everyone. They are studying what happens to the bullies and their targets as they get older. The effects of an individual incidents may not seem bad, but as you look incidents that happen as a whole, you start to see that bullying not only affects the person being bullied, but the people close to them. Bullying continues to be recognized as a serious problem in our schools. Without bullying prevention programs being taught bullying will continue to affect everyone.
Some people do not realize that bullying can happen to any child. It can come from a single person or a group of people and it occurs during or after school hours. Most often bullying happens inside the school and a large portion can also transpire on the playground or on the bus. It can also occur in the child's own neighborhood or even on the internet. (keepyourchildsafe.org)
The issue of bullying may seem insignificant and petty, but the truth is we are conditioned to ignore it. The fear of being the next victim has caused many to lose sight of their moral compass when it comes to defending one another or standing up for what is right. Instead we cower and turn our attention to giving way to the biggest and loudest voice. Most people are prone to neglect the fact someone is being bullied, because once again they fear becoming the next victim. School bullying is a problem found all across the United States and around the world. It can take many forms, including physical violence, psychological bullying, name-calling, taunting, teasing, and social exclusion. Bullying was once thought of as a normal
There are several types of bullying and I want to acknowledge all of them to clear up any misunderstandings. The first type of bullying I want to address is Physical. This is any bullying that hurts someone’s body or damages their possessions. A few examples include stealing, shoving, hitting, fighting, and destroying. The second type is Verbal. Verbal bullying is a means of using words in a negative way such as insults, teasing, put downs, etc. Third form of bullying involves hurting someone’s reputation or relationships like leaving someone out purposely, telling others not to be friends with them, and spreading rumors. The final act of bulling is Cyber, which is the biggest and most common. Cyber bullying takes place using electronic technology including cell phones, computers, and tablets. The sites of the bullying are social media, text messages, chat, and websites.
Bullying in schools was perceived to be a normal part of adolescent, however, when people begin to have this mentality, they forget that bullying is physically and psychologically harmful to both the bully and the victim.
In this world we see a constant issue of bullying it is an everyday issue that affects a lot of victims each day. Bullying causes many illness and disorders which can lead to many issues.
There are various types of bullying experienced in schools among the students like: teasing, taunting, threatening, hitting, spitting, and embarrassing others in public. All these actions may assault one’s dignity. Bullying is a serious problem in schools today. Most students become bullies due to stress from home life or low academic performance. Bullying also is due to lack of social communication
Bullying has been an issue for people since the very first nations started fighting each other in order to establish a hierarchy of the strong and servants of the weak, but today bullying has changed and evolved. Today there are a multitude of tactics that bullying can be done, such as physical, teasing, cyber, and psychological, which makes it easier for the bully and harder on the victim. But why is this a bigger issue now than in the past? It is because children now have improper ways of handling bullying. They start to look for other solutions to solve it other than trying to themselves even when it is a small dispute. Although, bullying isn’t just minors situations, it can grow to very dangerous for a victim. Once a child feels bullied or upsetted by another, whether it is actual bullying or not, cause problems and changes everything around them and for everyone. The proper tactic to discover if a child is really being seriously bullied or is handling it improperly can be discovered by looking at the definition and types of bullying, the way adults and children handle it, to look at the similarities and differences from a generation ago, and to pinpoint the actual problem of bullying.
Not only does bullying affect many throughout the world, but there is many different types of bullying that affect many people. There are commonly four different types of bullying. These include physical bullying, in which is when one hits, punches, kicks, or pinches another person. Also there is verbal bullying, that is when any type of rude remark is made upon another. Another type of bullying is social bullying, in which it results to one trying to harm ones social reputation, by humiliating them or spreading rumors about them. Lastly is cyber bullying, and that is a type of bullying where it occurs through technology, and it can happen to anyone at any time. Even though there are different types of bullying, it does not matter which one is done by to someone, it just takes one bully to hurt another’s feelings, or put their self-esteem down.