Bullying Issues In America

The purpose of this study is to find out if bully-victims are bullied and affected more than pure victims in terms of physical and verbal bullying. It is also to figure out why some children become victims and bullies, and others do not. What I will be discussing about in this essay would be the weaknesses and strengths of each study, the differences and similarities between the two, the implications of five other articles and at the end either support or contradict what was studied.

Relational aggression can be direct or indirect. Direct Relational aggression behaviors defined as the use of confrontational strategies to damage social relationships, include deliberately ignoring someone, threatening to withdraw friendship or support, and excluding someone from a group by telling him or her that he or she is not welcome (Xie, Swift, Cairns & Cairns, 2002). Indirect behaviors are behaviors that attempt to damage someone’s relationships but do not involve direct interaction with that person. Such behaviors include gossiping, starting rumors, and stealing friends or romantic partners (Crothers, Field, & Kolbert,

Bullying Can Be Prevented Bullying is a form of violence to pick on victims because they are different from their bullies, have insecurity/jealousy or home problems. The hate towards their victim has something to do with the victim having an unusual gift or being intelligent the bullies has yet to become. It is important that this behavior should be prevented or it will become worse. Bullying is one of the main issues public and private schools have to face on a day-to-day basis. When the bully takes it too far, the victim snaps and retaliates by fighting him/her back physically or verbally.

The theme in this play that our adaptation would be focusing is on Hysteria and Demoralization. We will be adapting this to modern society’s issues of bullying specifically cyber bullying. The definition of cyber bullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. Today, Cyber bullying affects many teenagers because they are being harmed by others. In The Crucible, Abigail ends up ruining Proctor’s reputation as well as many other characters by accusing them of witchcraft.

For further explanation, bullies are targeting girls because of their appearances. Bullying is one of the main reasons of suicidal thoughts or actions of teens in America. In fact, Bullying is one of the main reasons of suicidal thoughts or actions of teens in America. “Girls think about suicide twice as often as boys, and tend to attempt suicide by overdosing on drugs or cutting themselves” (Kid’s Health Organization 1). This shows how serious a situation can get, and this is more proof of the fact that many girls are clinically diagnosed.

The final form, indirect aggression contains gossiping, spreading rumors, and inciting others. (Rockville, 2002, p.1). Moreover, the aggressive behaviors in children sometimes

Therefore because of the poor treatment of women, the young being taught hatred and the violence

Bullying is the use of a person’s strength or power to frighten or hurt weaker people. These children said that bullying is wrong, bullying can hurt and bullies should be severely punished. Some of these children think with a sense of revenge. As a consequence, they think that if someone bullies them that person should also be bullied or “beaten up”. In the eyes of these children, bullying is “when someone is doing mean or hurtful things to another person”.

Physical bullying causes both short term and long term damage. Emotional/psychological Bullying- is a form of abuse, characterized by a person subjecting, or exposing, another person to behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder. Verbal Bullying- Verbal bullying includes name calling, insults, teasing, intimidation, homophobic or racist remarks, or verbal abuse.

Most of the time, it could be seen as giving a name or mocking with physical appearance, but sometimes it can include violence; however, both of them can affect bullied students ' life negatively and permanently. There are two main effects of bullying on students who are bullied. First of all, when students are bullied in school there may face with relationship problems. To start with, bullied children may experience social relationship problems because of the things s/he went through. Due to lack of confidence and insecurities, they may refuse to socialize.

The word bullying is heard almost everywhere, but what does the word really mean. Merriam-Webster defines bully is “to tease, hurt, or threaten a smaller or weaker person: to act like a bully toward”. Bulliesout.com defines, “Racist Bullying is treating someone differently, or an offensive action against a person simply because of their skin colour, culture, religion, nationality or ethnic origin.” Bullying is usually towards someone of the same age group who they want to harass, tease, and act in an aggressive behavior to hurt the other person emotionally, physically, or verbally. Bullies gain self-pleasure by inflicting pain towards others of the same class, often making their lives miserable.