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According to the American Psychological Association, “Bullying is a form of aggressive behavior in which someone intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort. Bullying can take the form of physical contact, words or more subtle actions” (Bullying, 2013). People bully each other for several reasons and there are different outcomes that are a result of those reasons. People can be bullied physically, emotionally, or verbally. Bullying can take place at school or online. Bullying should be a considered a crime, but kids get away with it all the time; furthermore prevention can be used in order to keep kids safe from bullying.

Bullying is defined as “verbal, physical, or psychological abuse or teasing accompanied by real or perceived imbalance of power” and is usually targets what children perceive as different (Olweus, 1993). Bullying is prevalent across the nation. It has devastating effects on students each day. Bullying is a problem for all students, regardless of race, gender or class. The National Education Association reports that 160,000 children are absent intentionally from school each day because they fear being bullied whether it is an attack or just intimidation by other students. This accounts for 15% of all school absenteeism (Hunter, 2012). Dan Olweus (1993) from the National School Safety Center tells us that bullying includes three parts: (1)

“Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on

Bullying behavior, broadly described as intimidating or harassing another person through physical or verbal assaults and insults, can begin at any age, but it seems to be a particular problem among children and adolescents. Although bullying is usually a one-on-one behavior, it also has a broader social impact. Victim may feel

Bullying is something that goes on in everyday life. It happens at school, at home, out in public, everywhere. Bullying includes behaviors that makes others feel inadequate, like harassment, gossip, name calling, and demeaning speech.

In order to enhance understanding it is important to know what bullying is. Bullying is something that can hurt people inside and out. Bullying can damage self-esteem. Some examples of bullying is when someone is gossiping or spreading rumors about you or someone, when people put-down others more than once, hurtful or violent threats, violent attacks, harassing someone over and over again, taunting someone, and name-calling . Bullying is usually when someone does something to someone over and over again that doesn’t make that person feel good. Bullying is not something someone can do on accident, bullying is intentionally. Bullying can leave scars or marks on someone's skin and heart. That is what bullying is mostly about.

favor of another. It is also known as the feeling of envy towards the success or

We live in a digital age. With our devices, we can communicate with anyone, anywhere in the world, instantly. According to a survey done by the Kaiser Family Foundation in 2009, 66% of eight to eighteen year olds owned a cell phone and 29% owned a laptop. They also found that 84% of eight to eighteen year olds had Internet access at home and 33% had access in their bedrooms. Over 50% of their time spent using the Internet was for communication. ("Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds", 2010)

Many young adults misunderstand the meaning of bullying. Many of them think that if they do not like an individual they deserve the beating. However, bullying is unwanted aggression behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power balance. Bullying can have a negative effect on a lot of people life. Many teenagers who has experienced bullying or who have been the bully have to undergo counseling to help function back into a normal society There are many types of bullying, some are cyber bullying verbal bullying and physical bullying.

First, this social issue affects adolescences on a micro level, as it involves the individual and their mental, emotional, social, and behavioral implications. As a result of bullying, it may negatively impact the person’s sense of happiness and quality of life (https://www.onlinemswprograms.com/faqs/micro-vs-mezzo-vs-macro-social-work.html). Bullying can occur at any point within a school setting or affiliated event. An adolescent’s classmates, peers and teachers can partake in bullying behavior. There could be multiple notions as to why an adolescent may be bullied. During this developmental stage of a person’s life, the individual is changing either physically, developmentally or socially while transitioning from childhood into adulthood.

Those who fall victim to bullying are more likely to experience depression, sadness, interrupted sleeping and eating, health

According to American Psychological Association, bullying is the aggressive behavior of individuals or a group of people that intentionally also repeatedly causes injury or discomfort to another person. The aspect of bullying is in the form of psychological harassment like words and emotion also physical violence. The bullied individual usually unable to defend him or herself and somehow clueless about why it happened to them as there is no 'cause' of bullying. Other than that, when bullying happened during the early childhood time, it may decrease the development of children itself as it is hard for them to socialize when they become adolescent because of the past traumatic experience (Ziegler, 2002).

Bullying is a serious issue in today’s society. It can affect the well-being of the offender, bystander, and target. It can happen almost anywhere and anytime in privacy, in schools, at places of employment, and even in neighborhoods. Bullying can be classified as being physical, emotional, verbal or social which known as cyber bullying.

Bullying is defined as, a person or group of people who attack a person or groups of people because of a sense of superiority. Bullying has been a vastly spread epidemic, which has taken on many new forms such as bullying over social media otherwise known as cyberbullying. Cyberbullying has added new elements of bullies being able to follow their victims even after school hours. Most schools have programs such as anti-bullying to stop all forms of bullying, however, some people may not see the impact it has until it has hit you or someone that you care about. Bullying is not being effectively addressed in schools to stop the epidemic because the bullying that happens online can follow both the victims and perpetrators to school, bullying can affect the victims grades and drive in school, and schools have means to deal with more than just one side of the bullying they also have less bias than the parents.

Bullying is the abuse of the difference in power between the bully and the victim. Bullying should not be written off as kids just being kids. It should not be excused as a part of growing up. Bullying also is not something that victims should be left to work out for themselves, because it can change the victim in long-term and devastating ways. It has become more problematic, and the methods of domination and exploration are much more varied and even more invisible to the watchful eye of protective authority figures. Bullies are finding inventive ways to bring misery to their victims. Bullies pick on people with physical handicaps, but they would prefer victims with social handicaps. Their victims are usually shy, quiet or soft spoken, socially awkward with low self-esteem, and those with few friends. Bullying is done by both females and males alike, although in different ways and for different reasons. People are not born bullies. Bullying is usually a learned manner. These tormentors sometimes experience bullying at home by their own parents or other siblings. Bullies have no sense of remorse for hurting someone, and refuse to accept responsibility for their immoral behavior. They often do not accept that bullying other individuals is malicious. Bullying can occur as physical, verbal, emotional, and cyber bullying.