Bullying Epidemic In America

It is important to define the term bullying accurately because that term alone can be adversarial. With that being said it can mean intimidation, aggression, hostile behaviors, and pestering the weak. Bullying takes place in schools, work, and in your own home. It can pretty much happen anywhere. Bullying in my terms is anything that can make a person feel weak minded, and has to submit.

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 progressively seen as a enormous problem in the United States and around the world and unfortunately for many, numerous research has started to prove that its consequences are real and can have long lasting impact for both victim and those who love them. Throughout or society Homosexuality is deemed unfavorable in religious and cultural circles of people in the United States. Thus providing those to be outcast and making them even more of targets for the hostility of others. Bullying it its own right has consequences that are far reaching especially for those in the LGBT community.

Over the years bullying has been used as an attack mechanism to bring fear upon an individual. Bullying has been described in so many ways such as attacking someone mentally, physically, or emotionally (The Bullies page 17). It has been used to abuse power, psychological, behavior, or physical (The Bullies page 18). Every seven minutes a child or teen is bullied.  Bullying is like a disease it comes in many shapes and sizes, and it can spread really easy. Bullying also comes in many different ways such as physical, verbally, and socially. Bullying is the use of superior strength or influence to intimidate someone, typically to force him or she to do what one wants. Across the U.S over 3.2 million students are victims due to bullying and 4,400

High school bullying has been a trend in America since Mark Twain was learning how to tie his shoes. It has been depicted in many movies and books how the antagonist (the bully) downgrades and picks on to the protagonist (the victim) throughout the protagonist's high school life in order for him or her to stand up to their bully and defeat them in a triumphant conclusion. Students in high school have been made aware of this tasteless trend in various ways during their school years and are very knowledgeable on the fact that bullying is wrong. Thus, informing this argument's readers on why bullying is fallacious is as ineffective as a person informing another person that the sky is blue. This public argument is going to attempt to persuade its'

Students who are victims of bullying force themselves out of bed every morning with an overwhelming sense of despair because they know one foot stepped inside the institution interprets into a new day and a new game for the oppressor. Even though there has been a nationwide policy adopted by many Institutions in the efforts of putting a stop to bullying, many victims stay unnoticed due to failure of acknowledgment, failure of anti-bullying programs, and failure of catching early discerning behavior. Nonetheless, Bullying has gotten to be such an overused word that those who are in dire need of assistance aren’t receiving the attention needed to eliminate the issue from the start, however, there are solutions that could solve the epidemic

What is Bullying? Bullying is a problem that many children encounter while growing up. It can be a painful experience, both physically and emotionally. Too many news stories about bullying have had heartbreaking endings.

Bullying has become an epidemic in our society. Children with special needs are often the victims of bullying. Seah Mahrer is a high school student with Down's Syndrome. His mother was worried about him starting high school. She thought that he would be picked on because of his disability. Sean's family members and friends reached out on Facebook and asked people for their support.

Bullying is a big problem in the United States it is in many schools and states. Many young teenagers are under emotional stress, self conscious about themselves, and even commit suicide. Bullying keeps on growing and getting worse in schools. Many schools are talking and teaching kids about bullying and how to avoid the situation, who to talk to ,and how to deal with bullies. If more bullying organizations go to schools it would help the communities be better. (Working in Community)

Bullying is a pandemic that has spread across the world affecting thousands of countless lives, socially physically, and emotionally. Such conditions can lead to depression, suicide, and in severe cases shootings. Unfortunately people fail to recognize that these effects are 100% preventable if only they spoke to an adult about the situation or stood up for oneself and taking preemptive measures to eradicate bullying.

Americans might not see commercials or posters of bullying and harassment but that does not mean it is not an issue in the United States. Bullying and harassment is a major issue in American schools even if Americans do not realize it. Schools might be able regulate what students can say and do to others, but schools cannot regulate what happens outside especially on social media. According to an online article, National Bullying prevention Center, the author explains, “90% of teens who report being cyberbullied have also been bullied offline.” This shows that cyberbullying has become one of the most prevalent ways of hurting another person. The majority of students have experienced bullying and or harassment sometime throughout their school

Ann Marie Popp states, “Bullying is a form of repetitive and aggressive behavior that is intended to create a feeling of fear and intimidation in the victim and to harm the physical and/or mental well-being of the victim. Typically, there is a power difference between the bully and the victim, which allows the bully to engage in the behavior with little fear of retribution from the victim. Bullying behaviors include physical assaults, physical intimidation, psychological intimidation, name calling, teasing, social isolation, and exclusion. More specifically, these behaviors can be classified into two types of bullying: direct and indirect bullying.”

According to Stopbullying (2014), “bullying is unwanted, repeated aggressive behavior, among school-aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance.” (p.1). Bullying includes actions such as making threats, harassment, spreading rumors, teasing, name-calling, attacking someone physically or verbally and excluding someone from a group on purpose (Bullying definition.2014). Bullying consists of three basic types of abuse - emotional, verbal and physical (Bullying definition.2014). Physical abuse includes fighting, whereas, emotional abuse includes name-calling and verbal abuse includes purposeful humiliation of others (Bullying definition.2014).

The general definition of bullying is, “… [This] states that a person is being bullied when he or she is exposed repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other persons” (Aluede et al. 3). There are two different variations in bullying type such as direct and

When learning about bullying, it is important to know exactly what it is and what kind of effects it has on victims. There have been a lot of definitions of bullying that have existed. One of the earliest definitions of the word "bully" was actually "sweetheart." It's funny hearing that definition of the word when it is compared to the current definition of the word that was created by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Department of Education. They saw bullying as unwanted aggressive behavior; an