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. SUMMARY Bullying is a frequent and recurring aggression in which one or more people deliberately disturb or harm another helpless individual verbally, physically, or psychologically (Olweus, 1996a). However, the child who bullies, pure bullies, or in this case, bully-victims, who are victims themselves and also bullies others are usually highly

Recently, this form of aggression was described as the underlying factor for recent suicides of some adolescents. 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 second form, verbal aggression contains bad words, threats, and name-calling. The final form, indirect aggression contains gossiping, spreading rumors, and inciting others. (Rockville, 2002, p.1). Moreover, the aggressive behaviors in children sometimes

Thirdly, the prejudices towards one another leads to violence which affects themselves and those around them. 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”.

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. While verbal bullying can start off harmless, it can escalate to levels which start affecting the individual target. Keep reading in this section for techniques to deal with verbal

Among the students, especially in the high schools, bullying is some kind of power-seeking and it is a common behavior. 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.