...week’s topic of footballers and their ridiculous paid so called “jobs” and talk to you about a strong passion of mine, bullying obviously I don’t mean being a bully is a strong passion of mine but I CANT STAND BULLIES I have done a lot of research into why bullies bully and I found reasons such as “Often a bully will have a low self-esteem or has been a victim of bullying themselves and they are using bullying as a way of making themselves feel more powerful”. I really don’t understand why people feel the need to make people feel inferior to someone else people should be able to express themselves through what they do, how they act and what they wear without the fear of being downgraded by someone else. Have you ever been called "ugly"? Have you ever been called "Fat"? Or even a sideman? Has someone made you feel totally insecure about your appearance? Everyone in this room has probably been bullied at least once in their life. It’s not the best feeling is it? It makes one feel insecure, humiliated and very uncomfortable. It has the power to destroy lives, mentally and physically. Studies have shown that 1 out of 6 students are harassed or bullied at least once a week in Australian schools. An alarming fact is that 40% of suicide victims had been bullied at school. Bullying behavior is no longer confined to the school room or playground but throughout adulthood as well. ‘Bullying behavior can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums...
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...imagine getting punched and kicked by someone you don't even know? People calling you names and mocking you without knowing who you really are? I know most of us were once a victim of bullying. And I know some of us were the ones doing the hurting and name callings. If you are the bullied, trust me when I say, "It's not you, its them.", and if you are the bully, ask yourselves "What is wrong with me?" Being bullied does not mean that there is something wrong with you. Wearing baggy clothes and nerdy glasses is not a reason to be harassed. And your family's background is not a reason for someone to ridicule you. Nobody deserves to be treated that way. Have self-confidence, know your worth. Doing nothing or taking lots of sleeping pills such as sleepasils won’t change anything. Show minimal reaction to bullying. Do not show the bullies that you feel hurt if they do something that makes you uncomfortable; just walk off. Bullies gain satisfaction from making others feel hurt or uncomfortable, so giving them a reaction may only encourage them further. The bully wants attention and if you show them that they are emotionally hurting you, they will get more pleasure out of doing this. Don’t bully back. Fighting back just satisfies a bully and it is dangerous, because someone could get hurt. You are also likely to get in trouble. Bullies are just looking for attention. They might think bullying is a way to be popular or to get what they want. Most bullies are trying to make themselves...
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...Putting an End to Bullying Therese McMullen Upper Iowa University Being a former victim of bullying, I used to feel that there needed to be stricter punishments for bullies. Out of all of the fallacies we reviewed in class, I believe this falls under “begging the question.” I was biased; because I had so much anger toward the bullies, I felt they needed to be punished. After reading several articles on the issues, I think it makes more sense to stop it before it even starts. Bullying in schools is a problem around the world that negatively affects the general school atmosphere and the ability learn in a school setting without fear (Banks, n.d.). Bullying can also have long term effects on the bully, the victim, and even bystanders. Children that are bullied will be more likely than their peers to anxiety and depression. They may also experience increased loneliness and sadness, and a change in eating patterns and difficulty sleeping. These issues can continue through adulthood. A small number of bullied children may get revenge through extreme measures. In 12 out of 15 school shootings in the 1990s, the shooters had been bullied (Kennedy, n.d.). Bullies also are affected by their actions. They tend to engage in these violent and risky behaviors well into adulthood. They will be more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol as adolescents and into adulthood. They may also become sexually active at an early age, and be abusive with their children and spouses as adults...
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...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 punishment-focused programs as student motivations and definitions of bullying don’t always fit neatly into adult ideas about the topic. Bullying is a highly emotional issue and always will be, but these behavioral psychology studies only serve to further demonstrate the...
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...In 1953, Bernard Carabello was placed at Willowbrook State School at the age of three, by his mother. His doctor misdiagnosed him as cognitively disabled or "mentally retarded". Carabello's doctor advised his mother to place him at Willowbrook. Willowbrook State School was a school for cognitively disabled in name only. It was described to be worse than a prison, a residence for human experimentation. Until the age of 18, Carabello was neglected, abused and treated worse than an animal. Carabello recalls the abuse, "I got beaten with sticks, belt buckles. I got my head kicked into the wall by staff … most of the kids sat in the day room naked, with no clothes on. There was a lot of sexual abuse going on from staff to residents". Also, many...
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...Chapter 1: Introduction Background Information: Bullying has been an ongoing problem for many years, it can occur in the workplace, school, or online. Although this can happen anywhere, I will discuss bullying in the school and the measures being taking to prevent it. In Dake, Price, and Telljohann, they state that in the past three decades, school bullying gained increased attention in the United States due to media attention on homicide and suicide cases where bullying was a precipitating factor (Dake, Price, and Telljohann, 2003). The US Secret Service investigated characteristics of students involved in school shootings in the United States. During the Secret Service’s research, they found 37 different school shootings, two-thirds involved attackers who "felt persecuted, bullied, threatened, attacked, or injured by others prior to the incident". While two-thirds of the cases did not directly involve school bullying, "a number of the attackers had experienced bullying and harassment that was longstanding and severe. In those cases, the experience of bullying appeared to play a major role in motivating the attack at the school (US Secret Service, 2000)”. Ethics is another factor to consider when thinking about bullying and its effects on the victims. Burke and Richer break down behavior into two groups. Clearly wrong and conditionally wrong, of the two clearly wrong would be the proper fit for the topic that I am discussing. Clearly wrong includes behaviors which are so...
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...Courtnie Barnes Kayla Diaz Mrs. Baker English 12 13 March 2012 Bullying Cannot Be Ignored Most people see bullying as “kids being kids”, but for Jamie Nabozny that was not the case. Students harassed, taunted, and teased Nabozny for being gay. The harassment started out verbally, but rapidly progressed into traumatizing physical and sexual abuse. The physical abuse was so severe that Nabozny couldn’t even use the school restrooms. One day while Nabozny was using the school restroom, several of his class mates came in and started harassing him. At one point Nabozny was pushed to the floor by one of the students, while kicked and urinated on by the others. The abuse did not stop there, it eventually became sexual. Male students would touch Nabozny inappropriately while whispering in his ear asking him if he liked it. When these situations were taken to the school administration they simply said “boys will be boys” and no one was held accountable (Documentary). School administration must enforce the Code of Conduct to ensure that all students feel safe. In Mark Brown’s article, “Life After Bullying”, he states that bullying is a serious problem. It is known that bullying has become a worldwide problem. “Bullying is a type of aggression in which the behavior is intended to harm or disturb, occurs repeatedly over time, and where an imbalance of power occurs, with a more powerful person or group attacking a less powerful one” (Nansel et al). “Younger children have a different...
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...Violence that Follows Bullied Gay Teens in High School Science Perspective on Global Problems: Aggression and Violence Today in society we push our teenagers and young adults to strive well with their academics in high school. With that being said, there are so many unknown factors that come with it. With trying to strive with academics in high school, teenagers and young adults deal with those un-surfaced factors. They may have to deal with fitting in at school, per pressure, not being confident and cultural differences. These factors are all equally important but a factor that makes it almost unbarring to learn is Bullying. Although bullying affects all victims, one group in particular that is bullied the most is self-identifying gay teens in high schools (Wallace 2011).In my research I am going to note the facts on what it is to bully a gay class mate, the reaction from schools, how often it happens, why it happens, the consequences, and how bullying can be stopped in high schools. Research by Wallace (2011) suggests that bullying is a form of horrible harassment. Wallace (2011) said that conduct that is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive to limit a student’s ability to participate in or benefit from a public school education program or activity is considered bullying. Research by Fleming ,Meadows, Bob (2010) say that bullying creates a hostile or abusive educational environment at a public school including acts of verbal, nonverbal, and physical aggression...
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...social network first begin in 2004, the people relied more on online social networks, to gather news, keep in contact with friends and family, and identity. Social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram all have a positive and negative impact on people. The most popular social network is Facebook, it allows people to build and/ maintain with different people around the world. Facebook also help family members and old classmates keep in touch. A person also uses Facebook to promote their businesses. Facebook and other social networks help a lot of business draw more costumers. Not all people use Facebook to do those positive things. Some people use it to steal identity, bully, and to mess us what people build. Some kids/teens use the social network to bully other kids/teens. For example: One girl took a picture of herself naked and sent it to her boyfriend phone. The boyfriend left his cell phone in the limo prom night, so the limo driver brought it the girl mom that’s name star house, since she was the on one who rented the limo for them. She...
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...Back on Track My brother is 16 years old, which makes him one year younger than me. He has always been a bit of a bully, but I’ve never thought, that it would come this far. It all started about one year ago, when my mom, dad, little brother and I moved to a new town. Me and my brother started at the same school, and my brother had a hard time, at start. He was a bit overweight, so he had problems with making friend. But a long last he met a group of boys, there was just one problem. They were bad company to him. They stole, they smoked (in my family, smoking is banned) and they hated the school. My brother became unfortunately one of them, and started to be like them. He started to steal and smoke and he didn’t care about the school anymore. My parents knew about it, and they had told ham to keep away from those boys, but he didn’t care. My parents decided to find another school, so they moved him to a secondary school, men he met a lot worse guys and they were doing drugs. My brother started talking to them, and after a pair of month, he got very close to them. They started to offer him drugs, and the first couple of times he would do it. But they pushed him to do it, and me and my family’s worst nightmare, started. My brother got turned into a sort of a monster. He started to skip classes, and because of that, he got kicked out of the school. After that he didn’t do anything in a long time, and when he finally was awake, he was yelling at me, my mom and my dad. It was so horrible...
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...multi-cultural society. It is pretty ironic that although his amiable behavior, two Paki-stanis eventually end up beating him up. Tony is liberal, he thinks that everyone should have the same chances, and he doesn’t prejudice anyone. “He’d brought Tony up to be liberal, to reckon on everybody being equal, having the same rights an so on.” (p. 42, top) “You could get robbed and kicked up by a white gang just as easy as a black” (p. 43 top) Tony is truly clearly thinking same about all ethnics group in the multicultural society. He is definitely setting a better example than some of the other boys at his school by being extremely tolerant. Tony has a very different attitude on immigrants than his father. This is showed in several of arguments and rows. “Every time they talked about something happening in the paper, even a strike by some poor starving hospital workers or something, he took the wrong side. It made Tony see red, get absolutely fuming” (p. 42, l. 11). “But what had gone wrong with Dad? …Defended them against all-comers. Then it had changed” (p. 42, bottom) These two quotes clearly state how upset Tony is with the way his father has changed to the other side. When Tony is questioning himself, “but what had gone wrong with Dad?”, it is very obvious that in Tony’s head the immigrants should be treated in a different way than what his dad thinks. Therefore it is evident that they are different from each other, when it comes to their attitude on immi-grants and...
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...the table with their own set of definitions and perspectives based upon their background and upbringing. There is a need to examine these varied perceptions and understandings and how people in schools define and respond to bullying. There are critical gaps in the existing research on this subject and by identifying and understanding teacher perceptions of bullying in this time frame of 2013, response to incidents involving student bullying will provide useful insights while also providing future researchers points of comparison. The purpose of Chapter Two is to support examination of my body of research and to determine similarities and differences in teacher perceptions of bullying in their schools. Background information will be provided to the reader on the kinds of bullying and their definitions, and what affects accompany bullying episodes and current existing attitudes about bullying. Review of the Related Literature Bullying has been come to be defined as the repeated aggressive behavior that can be either physical, psychological to intentionally hurt the recipient and is administered either by an individual or a group and usually unprovoked by the recipient. Bullying has been explicitly identified internationally as a problem in schools, threatening the emotional, physical, and psychological Well-being and safety of many students (Ando, Asakura & Simons-Morton, 2005). Bullying can also lead the way to...
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...ROLE-MODEL BY HELPING WITH VARIOUS CHORES AROUND THE HOUSE AND TAKING CARE OF MY YOUNGER SIBLINGS, AS WELL AS MY FAMILY. MY MOM VALUED EDUCATION AND LOVED TO TEACH ME MATH ON THE RARE DAYS SHE HAD OFF FROM WORK. MY MOM IS SMART AND A HARD WORKER; SHE WORKED THREE JOBS AND WAS STILL ABLE TO MAKE TIME FOR MY SIBLINGS AND ME. I HARDLY EVER ASKED HER FOR THINGS SUCH AS TOYS OR CANDY. SHE IS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSON IN MY LIFE. DURING SECOND GRADE, THERE WAS A BULLY WHO WOULD CONSTANTLY VICTIMIZE ME BY TAKING MONEY FROM ME EVERY DAY. EARNING SOMETHING, THEN HAVING IT FORCEFULLY TAKEN AWAY MADE ME FEEL WEAK AND POWERLESS. MY FRIEND, AND SAVIOR, DANH CAO PUT AN END TO THIS BULLYING BY TELLING OUR TEACHER ABOUT WHAT THE BULLY HAD BEEN DOING TO ME. I WAS BOTH GRATEFUL AND INSPIRED BY HIS BRAVERY AND CONFIDENCES. I FELT EMPOWERED TO STRIVE TO BE LIKE HIM, TO SOMEDAY BE STRONG ENOUGH TO STAND UP FOR ANOTHER PERSON THE WAY HE DID FOR ME. MY PARENTS TOOK ME TO AFTER-SCHOOL TUTORING, MARTIAL ARTS, SWIMMING LESSONS, SUNDAY SCHOOL, AND...
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...Bullying at School What is Bullying and How Does It Differ in Boys and Girls? What is bullying?1 * An intentional act. The child who bullies wants to harm the victim; it is no accident. * Characterized by repeat occurrences. Bullying is not generally considered a random act, nor a single incident. * A power differential. A fight between two kids of equal power is not bullying; bullying is a fight where the child who bullies has some advantage or power over the child who is victimized. Strategies students use to bully others:1 * Physical - hitting, kicking, beating up, pushing, spitting, property damage, and/or theft. * Verbal - teasing, mocking, name calling, verbal humiliation, verbal intimidation, threats, coercion, extortion, and/or racist, sexist or homophobic taunts. * Social - gossip, rumor spreading, embarrassment, alienation or exclusion from the group, and/or setting the other up to take the blame. * Cyber or electronic - using the Internet, email or text messaging to threaten, hurt, single out, embarrass, spread rumors, and/or reveal secrets about others. Bullying and gender:2 * Boys tend to be physically aggressive. * Boys may be more accepting of bullying than girls. * Boys are more likely to both bully and be bullied than girls. * Girls tend to bully other girls indirectly through peer groups. Rather than bully a targeted child directly, girls more often share with others hurtful information about the targeted child...
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...Bullying in Schools 1 PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION EXPERIENCES, PERCEPTIONS, AND ATTITUDES OF THIRD GRADERS TOWARDS BULLYING A RESEARCH REPORT RESEARCH ADMIN 5163 BY Jimmy C. Clark. PRAIRIE VIEW, TEXAS 2008 Bullying in Schools 2 Table of Contents Page Abstract……………………………………………………………………………3 Chapter 1. Statement of the Problem Introduction-Background and Content………………………………………….5 Statement of the Problem……………………………………………………...10 Purpose of the Study…………………………………………………………..11 Research Questions…………………………………………………………....11 Null Hypothesis………………………………………………………………..11 Significance of the Problem…………………………………………………....11 Operational Definition………………………………………………………….12 Chapter 2. Review of Literature……………………………………………………12 Chapter 3. Method…………………………………………………………………...20 Identification of the Research……………………………………………………20 Design……………………………………………………………………………20 Target Population………………………………………………………………..21 Sample of Participants…………………………………………………………...22 Sampling of Procedure…………………………………………………………..22 The Instrument…………………………………………………………………...23 Statistical Techniques……………………………………………………………27 Summary of Research Procedure………………………………………………..27 References……………………………………………………………………………28...
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