...aggressive behavior towards another person depending on how often it happens and who its happening to. At the same time its different types of bullying such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally. According to (Lisa Garby 2013), “bullying has been around for ages, but in the past decade it has been in the spotlight because of suicidal deaths and a push for legislation to put these bullies behind bars”. Because it’s not just child’s play, bullying involves a real or perceived power imbalance between the one who bullies and their target. Bullying isn’t just a school issue; it can happen in the community and it can also be in the home. It’s very important to define bullying accurately, I think we can see that bullying is something that we should be concerned about because it actually really harm kids. Also that there’s a lot of conflict that kids get into that just isn’t bullying, a fight or drama that goes back and forth, he say she say. You can cry bullying when fact the conflict is more mutual. Kids that’s being label as bullies, that’s a label that creates a lot of moral outrage. We want to be sure that we’re using it correctly and sparingly. “Abusive conduct is defined as an act that a reasonable person would find hostile, based on the severity, nature and frequency of the defendant’s conduct. The entire concept of bullying is subject to individual interpretation” (Judy Greenwald,...
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...MTV-AP survey recorded 66 percent of cyberbully victims who turned to their parents for help said it made the situation better. The first reason why cyberbullies should not be prosecuted is simply the fact that most cases can be handled without law enforcement getting involved. The vast majority of cyberbullying incidents can, and should be handled informally: with parents, schools, and others working together to address the problem. If online bullies were prosecuted, we would make criminals out of kids doing early-stage bullying. Law enforcement agencies should be the last ones...
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...Bullying has become such a major problem within our education system that we have to result to anti bullying laws and criminal punishment just to try and save our children from this horrific and cruel act. Students’ right to learn in a safe and secure environment without fear has been destroy, because of this act. Bullying once thought of as harmless behavior, and seen as kids just being kids has now evolved into explosive tragedy in some cases. This horrendous act is such a widespread problem, that students are ready to go up against the government in order to get harsher punishment enforced in the school system. In a research article by Morais, C. (2012), two specific questions were asked that helped guide the course of study. First, were the actions of the teen warranted of a felony charge, because in the state of Massachusetts where this article is referenced from. The two crimes that the teens committed if they were tried as an adult would carry a maximum prison sentence of 10 years. So what age limit that an adolescent can no longer be tried in the juvenile court? Second, should the status of the victim weigh-in on the punishment? Case in-point, the victim ultimately committed suicide from the constant badgering and tormenting. The focus of this article case study was on the torture that 15-year-old Phoebe Prince was subjected to from her high school classmates. This young lady was stalked and harassed by fellow students for an excessive period of time. Feeling of isolation...
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...individual is introduced to the prison life, after violating rules and laws, he or she must come to terms about the journey he or she are about to take behind bars in prison. No one can save them, or do their time for them, and a majority of their freedom has been stripped from them either temporarily or permanently. Prison life deals with all walks of life and is not discriminative toward any race. In this paper I will discuss my perspective on prison life, policies I would enforce an inmate’s need for respect, changes on correctional policy, and why people commit crimes. I have learned many things about prison life. I have in fact changed my perception of what I thought prison life was like. Prison is in fact a fight for survival where the stronger inmates will abuse the weaker inmates. Not only survival from inmates, but from a few corrupted correctional officials as well. When entering prison, one must be perceived as a tough individual to avoid being abused or bullied by other inmates. In addition to other inmates, there are some correctional officers that bully and abuse certain inmates for many reasons. This also gives reason for inmates to hold a sturdy ground while incarcerated. S.D. (2003), currently, prison administrator’s house inmates together based on their desire for violence, misconduct, and escape. The idea behind this is that grouping dangerous inmates together allows prison administrators to concentrate surveillance resources on those most in need. I have...
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...achievement and school participation. They are more likely to occasionally skip, or completely drop out of school.” A very big frailty in hiding, behind bullying, is the deep effect it has on the emotionally immature people. And it seems like the idea behind it is that people are much more sensitive to peer pressure at such a young age, so especially sensitive potentially problematic children get picked on...
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...hungry and many people try to take over to become leader Main Characters: There are many important characters in Gone, however the main character is Sam Temple. The book starts in his point of view and returns to it often. He’s also on the cover of the book. * Sam Temple Sam has the power to shoot deadly greenish white light beams from his hands, and create balls of light. Sam is Astrid Ellison’s main love interest. He is the son of Connie Temple and biological fraternal twin of Cain Soren. He does not like considering himself a hero although that’s what he is. * Cain Soren Cain attended Coates Academy, and was the one who took control of Perdido Beach. He has telekinesis; the power to move things with his mind, and is the only 4-bar besides Sam. He is the main love interest of Diana Ladris. Although she only believes he is capable of puppy love. * Gaiaphage Also known as The Darkness, the Gaiaphage is a sentient alien virus who gave everyone their powers and caused the mutations. It appears as a green glowing slime with the capability to touch people’s minds. It lived in the mine shaft. In Gone it is only a mystery that can read people’s minds and it gave Drake his whip hand and made him leader of the coyote pack. * Peter Ellison The four year old brother of Astrid Ellison who is diagnosed with autism and is incapable of understanding anything other than what is happening on his Gameboy. He is discovered to have powers like telekinesis and teleportation. * Drake...
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...LS-03 Introduction to Law and the Legal Profession Unit 6: Criminal Law: Summary What constitutes discipline? What constitutes abuse? Different cultures – different cultural connotations – difficult to universalize Punishment in Schools: 31 states do not allow corporal punishment in schools; southern states allow teachers to discipline children. Now there is a tremendous emphasis in our culture on abuse/neglect of children. Death Penalty: there are many cases where people are exonerated after many years. At least they can get out and have freedom. They got rid of Apartheid – people who took a stand, i.e. Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela “committed” civil disobedience – yet were the catalyst for new/better laws to evolve. Bullies in school is a problem – if teachers hit a child, it adds to corporal punishment. Does corporal punishment in schools have a positive affect? The evidence shows that countries an states that do not have a death penalty – murder rates are lower. Criminologists believe that having a death penalty in place – creates a cycle of violence. Are the shootings in the schools a result of corporal punishment? We must look at Colorado to explore this question. Identifying Criminal Law: Elements of a Crime – criminal law is straight forward. Every crime has 3 elements: GUILTY MIND: to punish intentionally wrong conduct OJ Simpson case – he was charged with murdering his wife and waiter on Goldman. The prosecutor had the burden of proof. OJs attorneys...
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...This theme of brotherhood follows Watson throughout his entire family life and into his seal team career. In chapter six, Watson is training in seal team two where he meets most of his friends that will later on join seal team six with him. One night they were out at a bar and one of his buddies gets into a confrontation with a citizen, the confrontation results in violents. Still Watson joins in and gets his friends back "the four of us left the four Tunisians in a pile" (93) the three of Watsons buddies plus Watson...
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...Program Reflective Essay Mechelle Harrison Bethel University Masters of Art in Conflict Resolution Susan Wells First, this student wants to comment on how she enjoyed being a cohort in the Master of Conflict Resolution (M.A.C.R.) program at Bethel University. The instructors were educated in their fields, patient, and kind. I am proud to say I earned this degree at Bethel University, and I know it will take my in the direction I am aiming for. I have different outlook on life, I am more confident, and satisfied with my decision. The fundamental principle of mediation is “Self Determination” and I plan to abide by this for the rest of my life. We learned how to deal with conflicts in the home, school, field, workplace, etc. We learned the five styles of conflict, “Collaboration”, both parties agree, “Accommodation”, make someone happy, “Competition”, power struggle, “Avoidance”, don’t deal with it, and “Compromise”, each side makes a concession. While studying these styles of conflict in class I reflected on my pass and present conflicts and understood the difference in how they were handled, not knowing there was a word for styles of conflict management at that time. We also learned the roles of in conflict management. You have the “negotiator” gets involved in creating a deal,...
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...Sticks and Stones by Trezza Azzopardi He races to the top of the dune and looks down onto the strand. There is water and wet sand and dry sand and small pokes of sharp grass dotted along the beach. He stands on the lip of the concrete defence; looks east, to the line of groynes, then west, to the lighthouse in the distance. There's no one he can see, no one he can call to for help. Below him, the drop onto the beach is fifteen, maybe twenty, feet. He jumps because he has to, jumps out into the air, and sees as he falls one more thing; a cloud of white birds hanging on the skyline. There is a hot taste filling his mouth, like molten iron, and a black pain, and the knowledge that his teeth are through his lip. It's always this same dream that Lewis has, and he does the same thing when he wakes; he reaches up to feel the place where his bottom lip was opened, running a finger over his chin. He has a scar there still, almost imperceptible to the casual eye, like a ghost mouth that never opens, like a horizon. It has been fifteen years since he jumped and fell, and he has never been back to the beach. He has spent his adult life in the heart of England, at the very core of the city, as if putting himself in the dense centre of a world would protect him from another fall off the edge of it. But now he has returned to his mother's house, and the dream is more vivid here, in colour, with sound effects and rising panic, as if it too has finally come home. “There's a letter for you”...
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...California. Lennie is a huge, powerful and mentality incapable, and experiences challenges with himself. George is the intelligence of the duo as they both travel from ranch to ranch. They have their own version of the American Dream. "Someday we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs... an' live off the fatta the lan'. Their secret power going through this heartache is their friendship. ''Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They got no place... They ain't got nothing to look ahead. With us, it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go... Not us... Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why. George, however, often sees this friendship between each other as a inconvenient and problematic, to say that the least, largely because Lennie likes to pet soft objects with his colossal, forceful hands. It's one thing when those are mice, which he often unknowingly crushes and kills, but when it's a women's soft dress and...
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...used to make us understand certain points in the text. Victor reacts differently than Evie expected because he understand his situation. Victor seems to care very little about his grandmother’s death. At least compared to what you would expect but there is one thing you need to understand. Victor is in for murder and has done 5 years. He will be doing a lot more years and there is no point in becoming soft now. He knows the rules in the prison. “Is there anything you’d like me to do? I can find out the time of the funeral if you like?” “I won’t be able to go though will I, Miss?” (p. 4 l. 140-141). He would like to go if he could but he knows that he cannot so he does not want to seem like he cares. Prison is tough and when you are behind bars for as long as a man with a murder sentence is, your hard surface is very important. He is not trying to be intimidating or frightening but I he is trying to come across careless about the world outside the prison. He asks Evie as she enters his cell if he got a spot on the SORRY-course. That sounds like some kind of course where you talk about why you are in prison and you work with being sorry for what you have done....
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...Acknowledgement---------------------------------------------------------------------Page 1 Introduction-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 2 Statement of Problem-----------------------------------------------------------------Page 2 Reason for choosing topic------------------------------------------------------------Page 4 Method of Investigation--------------------------------------------------------------Page 5 Method of Data Collection-----------------------------------------------------------Page 6 Procedure of Data Collection--------------------------------------------------------Page 7 Presentation of Data-------------------------------------------------------------------Page 8-10 Analysis and Interpretation-----------------------------------------------------------Page 11-12 Findings --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 13 Recommendations---------------------------------------------------------------------Page 14 Implementations-----------------------------------------------------------------------Page 15 Bibliography---------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 17 I would like to express appreciation to my father for his assistance in the completion of this School Based Assessment (S.B.A). I also pleased to express appreciation to my teacher Ms. Barrett for her assistance, patience, cooperation and lending support when necessary...
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...BOB7024 Organizational Behavior & Design, Stephen P. Robbins & Timothy A. Judge, Organizational Behavior, 14th edition, 2011, Pearson Education Chapter 1 Case Incident 1: “Data Will Set You Free” Ford CEO Alan Mulally is known for starting meetings by saying “Data will set you free” and for trying to change Ford’s culture to one that is based on increased accountability, more information sharing, and hard metrics. “You can’t manage a secret,” he is also fond of saying. Although it’s not clear whether Mulally’s approach will work at Ford, which is known for its self-contained fiefdoms where little information is shared, some companies have found that managing people according to hard metrics has paid off. Consider Freescale Semiconductor, a computer chip manufacturer based in Austin, Texas. Freescale has discovered that in order to have the right people at the right time to do the right job, it needs an extensive and elaborate set of metrics to manage its 24,000 employees in 30 countries. Of particular concern to Freescale is retention. “There’s no greater cost than human capital, especially in the technology industry,” says Jignasha Patel, Freescale’s director of global talent sourcing and inclusion. “When you’ve got a tenured employee that decides to walk out the door, it’s not just one person leaving, it’s that person’s knowledge and network and skills.” To manage talent and prevent turnover, Freescale holds line managers accountable for recruiting, hiring, and...
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...Interview With 'Soon We'll Be Found' Director 17-09-2008 03:15 | 0 comment(s) | As a special treat, siamusic.net brings you an interview straight from the director's chair as we speak to Claire Carré - the magnificent mind behind the video for Sia's forthcoming single, 'Soon We'll Be Found.' What inspired the basic concept of the video and who came up with the idea of using sign language? Was it input from Sia or was it your visual response to the lyrics? It was Sia's idea to incorporate sign language in the video -I was told she would like to include it in some way when I received the song to write the treatment. I loved the idea of doing the entire video in sign language instead of lip synching the vocals. A music video is a visualization of the song, and the sign language is an interpretation of the song into a visual language, so it's a perfect fit. What was the purpose behind using so many different kinds of light sources and the shadows they create? I wanted to explore different aspects of sign language. In the first section where Sia is performing under regular lights, the sign language is treated in its linguistic form as a method of communication, and the focus is on the performative aspect of the ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation. The shadow section is kind of a creative expansion on the relationship between signs and their meaning. The shadows of the hands directly transform into things themselves, and create an imaginary world around Sia. Where the shadow...
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