...Marisa Cipolla Mrs. Fader Day 2 Block 1 January 29, 2013 All Summer in a Day 1) At the Beginning of the story how did the students feel? Find two details from the story the prove your thought. Explain. All of the children were extremely excited for the sun to come. They knew it only happened once every seven years. The last time almost everyone saw the sun was when they were two years old and don’t remember anything about it or what if felt like, or looked like. They believed the rain would stop and they could finally see the sun. 2) Explain how Margot’s experience of the sun is different from the experience of all of the other children on Venus. Find at least one specific detail to explain. Margot has a different experience with the sun, because she was born on Earth and brought to Venus later in her life, all the other kids had been born there. So Margot had seen the sun every day until she was around four years old. For Example, “...She remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio. And they, they had been on Venus all their lives, and they had only been two years old when the last sun came out...” She had been able to see and feel the sun for four years of her life while all the other kids only saw it and felt it for one hour seven years ago. She is the only one who knows and remembers what it looks and feels like. 3) What Point is made about Margot when the story says that rain had “washed the blue from her eyes”...
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...society today, it has been found that it not only has a negative effect on the victim, but it also affects families, friends, school administrators, and our communities as a whole and it must not be tolerated. It is an urgent need for families, friends, school administrators, and communities to raise their voices. No one should have to live in fear because of their disabilities. What drives a person to act out and bully someone? Is it home life, a lack of self-esteem or confidence, or is just for sheer enjoyment? Bullying can be driven by these things as well as many others. Discrimination is a reason used very often to bully someone. Whether it is because of their color, size, disabilities, social standing, gender, or religion it is still used every day. There are also people that bully because of jealousy. A person may simply have a pair of shoes that the bully wants. The bully may torment this person to the point that they give them to him/her. There are also those instances of the students who have special needs; they seem to be the target of bullies. The bully most likely picks on them because they are seen as strange or weird by their peers. Most cases of bullying are never mentioned or they go unnoticed, even by the school administrators. Everything usually appears to be normal until something bad happens. When a child starts making drastic changes or little things seem to affect them differently, someone should take notice. For instance if a child should go from...
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...Bullying is a worldwide problem that occurs around us every day and everywhere. People experience some sort of bullying at some point in their lives, whether they are the victim or the bully. In this essay, I will focus on the causes and effect of bullies and how chronic bullying leads to psychological disorder which leads to school shooting. What exactly is bullying? There are multiple ways to define bullying. It can be described as repeated negative events, which occur over time; directed at a special individual and carried out by one or several people. Bullying is an act of aggression causing embarrassment, pain, or discomfort to another person. It’s an abuse of power that can either be planned or unintentional In bullying, there’s a clear imbalance of power. Bullying is basically anything that makes a person feel hurt, whether it is physical or psychological. No matter if it is physical or psychological, bullying is wrong. There are two types of bullying. The first type is indirect bullying, which includes intentionally rejecting or freezing someone out of a group. The second type is direct bullying. There are three categories of direct bullying--physical bullying, verbal bullying, and bullying yourself. Physical bullying includes pushing, shoving, hitting, kicking, stealing, etc. Verbal bullying includes mockery, taunting, name-calling, verbal threats of violence, and so on. When you bully yourself, it usually includes emotional abuse. Telling yourself that you’re...
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...A bully is defined as a person who uses superior strength to influence or intimidate another person or to force him or her to do what they want.In Zimmerman’s article on” Homophobia hurts straight men, too,” it talks about a college student who committed suicide after his roommate videotaped him and another boy having sex. Bullying can be found almost everywhere in homes, on the internet, and especially in schools. Bullying has a lot of repercussions that affect people in many ways. Recently, bullying has been blamed for the rising number of teenage suicides all over the country. No one is born to be a bully, it is a taught skill (Kropar). A victim of bullying doesn’t ask to be hurt; it’s a product of ignorance from today’s society. State agencies like the Department of Education could start implementing stricter rules to protect students. Bullying has become a problem that needs to be addressed as soon as possible to protect victims everywhere. Children who are raised by a family that has no structure or morals are at higher risk of becoming bullies. For example, a child that grows up in a substance abuse home usually gets abused by their parents physically and verbally especially when those parents are tweaking for the next high. As a result they tend to express their feelings by inflicting pain on others because they can’t take out their pain on their parents for fear of getting abused more. Another reason could be due to parents getting a divorce leaving this child to...
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...I. Introduction What is bullying? A bully is defined as a person who uses superior strength to influence or intimidate another person or to force him or her to do what they want. Bullying can be found almost everywhere in homes, on the internet, and especially in schools. Bullying has a lot of repercussions that affect people in many ways. Recently, bullying has been blamed for the rising number of teenage suicides all over the country. No one is born to be a bully, it is a taught skill (Kropar). A victim of bullying doesn’t ask to be hurt; it’s a product of ignorance from today’s society. Agencies like the Department of Education could start implementing stricter rules to protect students. Bullying has become a problem that needs to be addressed as soon as possible to protect victims everywhere. Bullying has become a main issue and as time goes on it seems as if there is nothing that can done to prevent it from happening. Whether the bully hassles that person or they see it happening to someone else down the road, it is something everyone encounters every day no matter where they go. To understand the actions of bullying, people first need to understand what a bully is. There is no specific type of a bully or their victim; they come in all shapes and sizes. Some bully because they have a hard life at home, others may bully because they simply find joy in making others feel smaller than they do personally. It is easy to identify why people are victims of bullying, but pinpointing...
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...Jerks Everyone has at least ran into a jerk once in their lives. Jerks are not nice people. There are many definitions for a jerk. Jerks can be called many other names and can be compared to a lot of things. They are everywhere and sometimes hard to avoid or ignore. There are a lot of jerks in this world. A jerk is someone that is selfish and mean. They are people that do selfish acts and hurt others. A jerk can be someone that makes rude comments to girls. A jerk can also be someone that doesn’t respect their teachers, by talking when they are talking or making rude comments. A jerk is hated by a lot of people. Some jerks will steal things from stores or people. Over all a jerk is someone that is mean and will do selfish acts. There are a bunch of different kinds of references and meanings for the word jerk. A jerk can be referred to as a tool because they are both self centered. A tool is more of a person that uses people for the wrong reasons. Another name for a jerk is a bully because jerks are rude and mean just like bullies. Unlike jerks, bullies normally pick on just a couple people or a single person and doesn’t stop. Jerks could also be called jocks. Jocks and jerks are really similar because they both do similar actions. Jocks are a little different from jerks because not all of them are complete jerks and some can be nice. The term jerk can have many different works and different meanings for it. A couple years ago I had this one volleyball coach and a lot of...
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...Robert Cooney 1/26/16 EN-102-024 1300 Words Mean Girls In Real Life In most high school’s around the world there is always that clique that is the most popular and thinks they are the best. The teenagers in those cliques are usually the most ill-mannered people you will ever meet. As sad as it is to say, every high school has a clique that is rude. Whether the people like it or not bullying happens. Many people talk about how they were bullied in high school and how they were not treated the way everyone wants to be treated. The film accurately describes female high school bullies , the role of cliques in schools, and bullying. Mean Girls, is a movie that was released in 2004, and is about bullies in high school. This movie portrays female high school bullies very accurately. Whether showing how they act around boys or backstabbing each other. They want to prove the school that they are the prettiest. The character that shows the most competitiveness of being the prettiest is Regina. She creates a book full of...
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...Bullying, why should bullies be held responsible for their actions? Bullying is not a joke, bullies need to be held responsible for what they do, they cause people to hurt themselves and/or others, some people disagree saying that bullies are too young to understand what they're doing well, this statement has others thinking they should be held responsible for their actions, kids should know better, they disrespect adults also which could be held for bullying. Bullies also should know how to treat kids and adults better, if they hurt people they should be disciplined, they could cause people to die or get hurt, continually agreeing that bullies should be held responsible for what they themselves do upon others. why should bullies be held...
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...Bullies are many things, from kids to even businessmen, and the Bandar-log, which are from the story The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, are one of these bullies. When you think about it, the Bandar-log are not actually bad guys, they probably just got their actions from the other monkeys. Yet they forget just like bullies that these victims are not toys to play with, they have feelings as well. So I do not know how they can get out of their bullying cycle, unless of course someone amazing just comes in and creates a society for them, but sadly the story never tells about what happens after. One reason why the Bandar-log bully is because they have no reason! Like bullies they just do it just for fun or not. And actually that is surprisingly...
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...The video “To This Day” by Shane Koyczan, based on the poem by the same name, reveals the permanence of the emotional damages bullying causes the victims with the poet reveals his personal experiences with bullying. Koyczan is a victim of bullying because when he was younger his grandmother would make him pork chops but he would call them karate chops. But then, the was an accident which lead to him getting bursaries and then it getting into an investigation. Most importantly he suddenly he has his first nickname “Pork Chop”. Which lead to more bullying in his lifetime. In conclusion, in the following paragraphs it will discuss how Koyczan had deal with the bullying in the childhood to now adulthood. The issue that is focused on in the video...
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...in the United States and sometimes, it cannot be stopped effectively. Bullies are everywhere. They are in offices, at home, in the neighborhood, and many other places. It is a huge problem in schools as well. Many schools in the country have anti-bullying policies. These policies are all different and are implemented in different ways. Most of these policies are not effective though. Anti-bullying policies are not effective against all bullying because school bullying and its effects are still seen, because of the growing use of technology, and because of family influences. Anti-bullying policies are not effective because school bullying cases are still frequently happening in schools. Bullying is a major problem in the world today and it can be seen almost everywhere and it happens every day to people. It most commonly occurs in schools though. Many schools have adopted policies that they use to help prevent bullying in their establishment. However, these policies are not always effective. A study by a University of Texas in Arlington found that students at a school that had an anti-bullying policy, “were 1.2 times more likely” to be bullied than students who attended a school without an anti-bullying policy (Antoniades, pg. 1). This confirms the fact that these policies are not always effective. A school that does have a policy actually is more likely to have bullying. A student is often challenged to bully because they see that they can’t and that urges them break the rules...
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...people and sometimes causes them to preform destructive actions to themselves and other people; therefore, it needs to be taken seriously. Despite all the fights against bullying, it still happens. Whether at home, school, or work, bullying is an epidemic for children, adolescents, and adults. One of the unfortunate experiences that marks many childhoods is bullying. Bullying generally brings to mind children being taunted on the playground. According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, “Close to half of all children will experience school bullying at some point while they are at primary or secondary school. At least 10 percent of children are bullied regularly.” Childhood bullying is a serious problem in schools everywhere, and it can be very harmful, long term to children. Bullying damages their own self-image in ways that can affect them for life. Children who are bullied can be stunted emotionally and socially, as well as see their schoolwork suffer. In some cases, serious depression and attempted suicide can result from childhood bullying. It’s been reported by Make Beats not Beat Downs, that 90% of 4th through 8th graders are victims of bullying. There are many types of bulling such as physical, verbal, and cyber bullying just to name a few. Many children today are subjected to physical abuse due to bullying. Children who are subjected to this type of...
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...BULLYING Bullying is everywhere. Have you ever been bullied? Bullying can occur your whole life, involving various situations. Bullying occurs as a regular basis at schools. Bullying comes in many different forms, from cyber bulling to physical bulling. Bullying in any form is wrong and has to stop. Bullying can affect a person’s life. Those that undergo bulling a lot can get pushed to a breaking point, where they can end up hurting themselves or even hurting others. Students bullying other class mates, maybe to impress other students. Bullies like the attention they get from others. Hurtful actions make them feel powerful and popular. Bullies pick on students they think are weak, unpopular, and easily intimated. Bullying gives them a identity, becoming well known in school. Bullying behavior occurs for many reasons, some of which are TV violence, lack of parent’s attention, bad moods, not being taught rights and wrongs and also being around bad influences. Parents aren’t aware of the aggressive behavior that their children are exhibiting, either inside or outside the home. Parents lack giving children attention which causes their children to become aggressive without their notice. In many families both parents might work causing them to have no time to pay attention to their children’s needs. Bullying is happening everywhere. You may not see it, you may not know it is there, but it is happening and it causes pain to the victims. The only way to end bullying...
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...proposal is, should the state or federal government put laws into place to prevent bullying? People who don’t get attention at home like to bully others so that people around them can laugh an give the bully all of their attention. Bullying is one of the reasons why teenagers drop out of school, commit suicide, or become outrageous to where they hurt the one who bullied them and others around them. Bullying affects kids from having an education and it even affects family, friends, and loved ones when they lose someone they adore so much over bullying. There are always two sides to everything; one side is with it and the other side is against it. People in this world see bullying everywhere they go, there are higher percentages of people for wanting bullying to be illegal and then there...
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...spreading rumors, not allowing certain people in your cliques, teasing, getting groups of people to attack a student, threats and hitting. Since this type of bullying was done in person it was more visual and adults were able to intervene in most cases. With the introduction of the internet bullying has escalated to a whole new level. Now students are able to Cyber bully other students and being limitless while doing so. Cyber-Bullying “is defined as an individual or group willingly using information and communication involving electronic technologies to facilitate deliberate and repeated harassment or threat to another individual or group by sending or posting cruel text and/or graphics using technological means” (Mason 2008). Cyber-Bullying has been slowly creeping its way into our children lives. Cyber-Bullying has become a regrettable part of school for students across the world. It can go unseen by adults, unreported by the students/victims and sadly unresolved. Nowadays, bullies are able to prey on their victims via social networking websites, blogs, cell phones, email and instant messages. By using computers, “a bully can send harassing messages through e-mail or instant messaging; post obscene, insulting, and slanderous messages in chat rooms or online bulletin boards; or develop personal Web site to promote and disseminate defamatory content” (Mason 2008). Students are forced to endure bullying anywhere in the world because technology is...
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