...Bullying I selected bullying because I believe that it is one of the major issues for this generation. I have four boys that are growing in a society where bullying is a major concern of mine. In my opinion, bullying today is at an all-time high at a level much greater than when I was growing up, do not get me wrong there was plenty of bullying back then, regretfully I was a culprit of it myself, more emotional than physical but still not right. Back then it was more pushing and shoving and making kids feel like they were worthless, still not right. Today, there is a lot more to it, guns and knives and death threats. Emotionally, bullies today push the weaker kids to the point of depression or even suicide. Back twenty or thirty years ago, I do not recall bullying be this harsh or maybe I was too naive to observe it in that way. My hope in doing research on this I can try and understand why and where it all began and how to maybe in some small way try to make amends for the stupid things I did back when I was an adolescent. As for what I know about bullying, is all common knowledge. I do not know facts or figures on what so ever. I have an idea or an opinion on bullying but unfortunately it is based on what I did as an adolescent or a stupid teenager, as I stated earlier if in any way I can give back or reach out to any victim of bullying is my goal of doing this research for this project. Bullying is not a new problem, more people are now aware of this social problem, and...
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...EFFECTS OF WEIGHT BULLYING 1 Effects of Childhood Weight Bullying on College Students’ Current Psychological Well-being. BY: Gloria Hanna Abstract Previous studies have shown that weight stigma and bullying can have detrimental effects on a person’s psychological well-being. Depression, self-esteem, loneliness, and perceived stress were measured as a result of personal experiences with bullying, specifically concerning weight stigma and weight based bullying, in comparison to other forms of bullying (e.g., being shy, having freckles). University students self-reported about times when they experienced bullying using an online survey and also completed measures of current depression, self-esteem, loneliness, and perceived stress. Consistent differences in current psychological well-being were observed when comparing responses from students who had been bullied to those from students who had never been bullied. However, no significant differences were found when comparing students who reported being bullied for different reasons. These findings suggest that bullying for any reason can be detrimental to several aspects of young adults’ mental health, including depression, self-esteem, loneliness, and perceived stress. Keywords: body weight, bullying, depression, self-esteem, loneliness...
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...The dangers of cyber bullying have tentacles that reach all aspects of society. Teresa Pankey Com/172 December 22, 2011 Sheila Bassoppo-Moyo Being a victim of cyberbullying can be a common and painful experience, and can be hard to prove, but with proper knowledge one does not have to be a victim. A cyberbully can be someone the person knows, or thought they knew, and it can stem from anger, frustration, and revenge. A cyberbully can bully a person directly or by proxy. What exactly is cyber bullying? “Cyber bullying” is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones. Cyber bullying usually occurs over several communications, unless the person communicates a death threat or a threat to inflict serious bodily harm. Sometimes after a minor starts a cyber-bullying campaign it can involve a sexual predator who is intrigued by the sexual harassment. The approaches used are controlled only by the child’s imagination and access to technology. A person can be a cyber-bully one-minute and a victim the next. Cyber bullying can sometimes be clear-cut. If someone leaves an overtly cruel text messages or cruel notes posted to a Website. They can also be less obvious, like impersonating the victim online or posting someone’s personal information or videos meant to hurt or if it...
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...No Tolerance and No Bulling Policies: Why They Do Not Work "Zero Tolerance Policies" were first instated into schools, to enforce suspension and expulsion, in response to students; violating; weapons, drugs and violent act policies that were already in place. Shortly after, schools began to instate “No Bulling Policies” partly to a high suicide rate among teenagers due to bulling. The consequences for violating these policies can now go beyond expulsion, and have legal implications. In theory these policies are a great idea. Unfortunately, these policies are rarely implemented and carried out correctly, causing them to not just be ineffective; but causing them to have adverse effects. We have tried these policies in our schools , it has been proven that they have done more harm than good; it is now time to remove these policies from our schools. The “school to prison pipeline," is a recent national trend where children are pushed out of public schools, and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Many of these children have learning disabilities, histories of poverty, and histories of abuse and neglect. There students would benefit from additional educational and counseling services. Instead, they are isolated, punished and pushed out. Many "Zero-tolerance" policies criminalize minor infractions of school rules. Cops in schools are criminalizing behavior that should be handled inside the school. Students of color are especially vulnerable to push-out trends and the...
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...Denay Stockstill English 0900 20 Fall 2011 Child Abuse And Bulling All abuse is violent, whether it’s physical, emotional, verbal, or psychological. I feel child abuse turns into the child becoming a bully, and bullying to someone committing suicide. The abuser is usually an individual who has high anxiety and has not learned to deal with it like others. Most people would disagree or argue that child abusers can be AND are bullies. I think you are what you see. These kids grow up in abusive homes with no one to turn to for guidance. Tim Field, a prominent British anti-bullying activist, states, "Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should be accorded the same gravity." He saying child abuse and bullying have the same consequences as someone getting beat to death. Being abused as a child can result in negative behavior in the future. You either turn into a bully or look at the negative and turn it to a positive. Look at your situation and help someone else from going through what you have. Field founded the UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line and also wrote and published a book, Bully In Sight based on his own experiences. I think when a child is bullied they were a victim of a violent parent, a close family member, or a friend. Whatever the case may have been, research study done by Melissa Holt, showed that out of 700 fifth grade students 14% were bullies, 12% were victims, 8% bully-victims...
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...Child Abuse and Bulling English 0900 20 Fall 2011 Child Abuse And Bulling All abuse is violent, whether it’s physical, emotional, verbal, or psychological. I feel child abuse turns into the child becoming a bully, and bullying to someone committing suicide. The abuser is usually an individual who has high anxiety and has not learned to deal with it like others. Most people would disagree or argue that child abusers can be AND are bullies. I think you are what you see. These kids grow up in abusive homes with no one to turn to for guidance. Tim Field, a prominent British anti-bullying activist, states, "Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should be accorded the same gravity." He saying child abuse and bullying have the same consequences as someone getting beat to death. Being abused as a child can result in negative behavior in the future. You either turn into a bully or look at the negative and turn it to a positive. Look at your situation and help someone else from going through what you have. Field founded the UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line and also wrote and published a book, Bully In Sight based on his own experiences. I think when a child is bullied they were a victim of a violent parent, a close family member, or a friend. Whatever the case may have been, research study done by Melissa Holt, showed that out of 700 fifth grade students 14% were bullies, 12% were victims...
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...In Erin Gruwell’s The Freedom Writers Diary, Ms. Gruwell, a teacher, helps change students for the better. Ms. Gruwell starts her new job at Wilson High School. Her new co-workers start to judge her for that class she is assigned to. She is assigned to teach delinquent students because they are failing and other teachers refuse to teach them. However, Ms. Gruwell is determined to teach her students new information. The reason why she is so determined is because only a few know about everything in the world. While Ms. Gruwell tries to teach the class anarchy occurs throughout the class. Fights breakout and bulling occurs because of different races and gangs. She breaks it up and yells at the students. Ms. Gruwell then assigns everyone to start...
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...En 102 Prof. Nuredinoski 4/26/13 Cyber-Bulling In School Children According to Oxford dictionary, Cyber- bulling is the use of the Internet and related technologies to harm and attack other people, in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner. With the fast emerging of the new internet technology, we all have experienced new things that have come through this technology. Particularly, it has become more common among young people. Although the innovation of the new technology has brought a significant change in our life style, it also caused for the rise of cyber- bulling. We all have passed through the traditional bulling type. However, this kind of bulling is not as serious as cyber- bulling. Cyber -bulling is a current burning issue that has to be solved. Currently, school children are victimized the most through cyber-bulling. Adams, Caralee, an instructor, says “…Approximately 20 percent of students admitted having been cyber bullied” (Para. 5). According to Caralee, all this happens on school children. Lane, Darcy argues “Schools should talk to students about the harms associated with using technology as a social weapon against their peers” (15). According to Darcy, School teachers have to work together with parents to prevent children from cyber- bulling. On the other hand, some other scholars believe that parents have the responsibility to prevent their kids from cyber-bulling harassment. Adams Caralee says, “Just as parents wouldn't let their kids run around an...
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...Communication and Personality in Negotiation: Cyber-Bulling Paper Name MGT/445 Organizational Negotiations University of Phoenix Date Instructor Communication and Personality in Negotiation: Cyber-Bulling Paper Bullying has been a part of student’s life since the beginning of time and has evolved with each passing generation unfortunately. When I was student in grade school bullying consisted of 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...
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...Binalfew Mecuriaw EN 102 Prof. Nuredinoski 5/13/13 Cyber-bulling In School Children According to the an author, Zetter, Kim, a neighborhood women setup an account in MySpace anonymously to contact one of her daughter’s classmates. The goal of the woman was to find out why the girl did not go along with her daughter. After she set up the account, the women started contacting her daughter’s classmate. The girl thought the account was for a 16 years old boy. She did not realize that she was contacting her schoolmate’s mother because the woman created the account anonymously. After they started contacting to each other, the woman started abusing the girl with her repeated and mean messages. She started insulting the girl via MySpace repeatedly. Finally, the girl was found hanged behind her house. We all remember that when we were in elementary and high schools, teachers would have to stand on the play ground during break time and monitor the bullies, who would try to take another child’s lunch money, or to take a note being passed around in the classroom that would read something like “I will see you on the play ground after school.” We all passed through this kind of bulling. This kind of bulling used to be performed by physically bigger students and it was not also that much serious. However, over the past few years, with the improvement and tremendously changed of networking technology, the way of life and interaction among people has been altered completely in both...
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...cyber bullied. That 1 in 5 may be your friends, your siblings, or even you.” (Cyber bullying Stats 1). II. As the majority of my audience “think” they know what cyber bullying is, I am here to inform you all exactly what its and the causes and effects it has on people III. Speaking of cyber bulling who would know more about it than someone who has actually gone through it themselves? I was cyber bullied as a early teen, therefore I am a very credible source to be informing you about cyber bullying. IV. I am informing my audience about cyber bulling and about its causes and effects it has on people. A). Cyber bulling is defined as the use of technology such as the internet or text messaging to post derogatory or hateful material about another. (Admin 1). B).Cyber bullying effects many people involved including the victims and the actual bullies themselves. C.) Cyber bullying caused the death of thirteen year old Megan Meier. Body I. I would first like to inform you of what cyber bullying actually is. A). Cyber bulling is defined as the use of technology such as the internet or text messaging to post derogatory or hateful material about another. A). Synchronic bulling is “live” bullying. 1). Synchronic is like Instant Messaging, chat rooms, or cell phones. B). Asynchronic cyber bullying is delayed. 1). Asynchronic is like Myspce, Facebook or Emails (Admin 1). Transition- Now that I have told you what cyber bullying is I would like to inform you of...
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...looking and prying on someone that they see they can take advantage of either physically or mentally. I think the physical part is mostly in young adults and children. I think the mental bullying come into place in the work place and a lot in relationships. I think it is important to define the word bulling accurately because there are several types of bulling. It could be physical.it could be mental. It could also be verbally. The reason I say verbal and mental is because verbal you could call someone names and etc... Mentally you could play with someone’s mind by placing thoughts of threats and losses. I think in the two article the same problem was punishment. Who should get punished and should there be a standard for bulling. I think that this is a problem due to fact that there are different types of bulling it is hard to set a standard when at most times we are talking about children and who is to say if they are aware of the severity of being a bully. I think this affects the victim mostly because they never get justice. I think it’s hard to make right are take back the effects of being on the receiving end of being bullied. I don’t think that my definition of bulling has changed after reading the articles. I think that it was reinforced by both of the articles because they was on two different topics but surrounding the main subject knowns as...
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...his stomach is. Other students from his class and all over the school make remarks that are hurtful. This type of abuse is one of the many of kind of Cyber bulling. Cyber bulling is when you get on some type of media and make hurtful comments about people. “The growth of computer and information technologies and the creation of products and services incorporating these innovations have brought many benefits to public education.”(Hvidston1, Hvidston2, Range, Harbour, 297) Bringing technology in the classroom has help students succeed in the classroom but it has also brought a lot of problems to students when it comes to cyber bulling. Cyber bully has become so extreme that it has been brought to the Supreme Court, “Cyber bulling has been identified by school leaders and researchers as one of the most serious adverse consequences of incorporating information technology into the classroom. (Hvidston1, Hvidston2, Range, Harbour, 297)As a teacher I wouldn’t allow phones out while they are in my classroom. I would take them up every day and give them back at the end of class. As a parent I check my daughter’s social media. If more parents would talk to their children and also check to see what is going on with their children’s social medial it would help to prevent a lot of cyber bulling. Cyber...
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...Book Report - Egghead Author: Caroline Pignat Historical One of my interest is social justice and how social justice isn’t just the big things you do but the small things as well such as helping the less fortunate by donating money or sending some food for them. It relates because in the story it talks a lot about bullying. Bully can become a really big impact even if it seems like it’s a joke and starts out small but turns into something big. It relates to me well because in some way everyone has probably encountered bulling and that there’s really only one small portion of the people who would stand up to bulling. There’s some cases in the book where one of the bully’s friend has been peer pressured and he was supposed to do something that would affect other people, but instead he saw who was the target and stopped his two friends. There’s times in school where that has happened, it just takes that one step forward to do something about it, like tell them to stop. Like sometimes in a game your friends don’t want to lose so they tell you to target someone else, but when this happened to me instead of getting the easier person I just went to get a friend and it was that easy to stop someone from getting their feelings hurt because they were it over and over again. In the story it’s being narrator from different people’s perspective. If you read in between the lines then you would understand it’s hard to make a difference and I think that’s something many people can relate...
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...cyber bullied. That 1 in 5 may be your friends, your siblings, or even you.” (Cyber bullying Stats 1). II. As the majority of my audience “think” they know what cyber bullying is, I am here to inform you all exactly what its and the causes and effects it has on people III. Speaking of cyber bulling who would know more about it than someone who has actually gone through it themselves? I was cyber bullied as a early teen, therefore I am a very credible source to be informing you about cyber bullying. IV. I am informing my audience about cyber bulling and about its causes and effects it has on people. A). Cyber bulling is defined as the use of technology such as the internet or text messaging to post derogatory or hateful material about another. (Admin 1). B).Cyber bullying effects many people involved including the victims and the actual bullies themselves. C.) Cyber bullying caused the death of thirteen year old Megan Meier. Body I. I would first like to inform you of what cyber bullying actually is. A). Cyber bulling is defined as the use of technology such as the internet or text messaging to post derogatory or hateful material about another. A). Synchronic bulling is “live” bullying. 1). Synchronic is like Instant Messaging, chat rooms, or cell phones. B). Asynchronic cyber bullying is delayed. 1). Asynchronic is like Myspce, Facebook or Emails (Admin 1). Transition- Now that I have told you what cyber bullying is I would like to inform you of the...
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