Bullying Is Not New, And It?

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.

Bullying by definition 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. [Why] Bullying has grown new outlets over the last decade. With social media outlets and text messaging added to the game, bullying is not just about getting tormented face to face anymore. Cyber bullying can include sending out mean or threatening emails and instant messages about a person, spreading rumors about someone and also include photos that a person would consider to be humiliating. [Chamberlin] Bullying can have many outlets. The most common form of bullying is still face to face confrontation. But

Direct bullying, or traditional bullying occurs more often to boys, but it does occur to girls as well. Typically more girls will report bullying than boys and will have more severe health problems as a result (Gruber & Fineran, 2008). Traditional bullying increases the risk of girls developing mental health problems as well as feelings of loneliness, anxiety and suicide (Bannink, Broeren, van de Looij – Jansen, de Waart, & Raat, 2014; Gruber & Fineran, 2008; van der Wal, de Wit, & Hirasing, 2003). Girls may report the incidents more often because young men may believe physical violence is the nature of men and acceptable whereas girls do not hold that same ideology (van der Wal, de Wit, & Hirasing, 2003).

In “Phoebe Prince: Should School Bullying Be a Crime?”, an article written by journalist Jessica Bennet addresses school bullying, the outcomes and the consequences that bullies deserve or not. Above all, this article aims the spotlight on bullying, a 15-year-old who took her own life due to harassment, torment, rumors, physical threats all leading it to being bullied by well-known good students. In any case, the process of being bullied has never been taken into consideration nor importance in the school system or by society in general. “It’s even gotten better over the past decade says Dan Olweus, a leading bullying expert”. However, bullying just does not disappear, it is still an issue that humankind does not have any diligence to the cause

Bullying is the use of superior strength or influence to intimidate someone, typically to force him or her to do whatever the bully wants. Some people believe that bullies should be held legally responsible for their actions, but this is a controversial idea because other people believe that the bullies do not understand the severity of their actions. Bullies should be held legally responsible for their actions.

“In this world, friendship is a weapon, and the sting of a shout pales in comparison to a day of someone’s silence. There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away” (Simmons 3). This quote from Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons shows that girls don’t show aggression in the same way guys do. Girls use the power of their relationships to bully others. Rachel Simmons was once bullied herself. She never spoke out about it or tried to figure out why it was happening. Now having grown up, she sets out to talk and listen to females of all ages to figure out just how many of them have been bullied or have been the one to do the bullying. She interviews girls from different schools asking about their experience with other girl bullies. Two of these girls, Vanessa and Natalie, both said they

Bullying is aggressive behaviour that generally occurs among school children. It is a repeated behaviour, sometimes repeated over time. (StopBullying, n.d.) Bullying is the misuse of power by a group of people or an individual towards another person. Bullying can be physical, verbal or emotional.

Recalling the school years or just back to yesterday, the bully has always been present in a majority of various parts of life. For some, school was a montage of miserable memories and for others, the unpleasantness of the school yard bully still plays like clips of an old film reel flapping around and around. Research shows that bullying or mean girls is an imbalance of power that can cause health, psychological, and educational problems because when girls cannot convey their feelings, acts of vengeance and resentment build internally, and turns into vastly underestimated aggression.

For century’s we have heard the term mean girls, and for most of us we have crossed paths with these types of girls in some form or fashion. Unfortunately the phrase mean girls “Bullies” has dramatically changed from the most popular girls on campus the girls determine whether your liked or an out cast, has transformed into violent relentless take no prisoner’s type of evil. Girls have new advanced methods of getting at their prey 24/7 via text messaging, Facebook, twitters which all can be accomplished on their cell phones, you know those devices we give are children so that if they have an emergency or if we need to get ahold of them we can. Because of these technologies we have made it easy for these girls to claim their doing no wrong, often they use others girls to inflict their pain also their violence does not include physical infliction. Undeniably this fact is not true. And sadly teachers, school official’s including the bully’s parents have the same nonchalant thought process, claiming this is normal behavior “girls will be girls” they will grow out of it and the one who is being tormented needs to toughen up, but surely if the shoe where on the other foot parents would be saying the complete opposite. Because the intimidators have an overwhelmingly high popularity among other students because of great beauty, strong status in athletic ability and often a result of fear of

Many researches on bullying have found a strong connection between bullying behavior and the gender differences (Hathorn & Harris, 2006).Furthermore it has been evaluated to find out the difference between diverse types of violence in bullying between girls and boys in various grades. For example, several researches have debated that physical bullying is more prevalent in

Part 1 Cover Letter - The purpose of this essay was to both call attention to and inform an audience about the issue of school bullying and violence. Research shows that the issue is far more prevalent than expected, and is gender neutral. What is surprising in these findings point to the fact that the statistics regarding bullying are not, as one might expect, focused predominantly on boys. While boys and girls mature and socially interact differently, 30-40% of the bullying reported above occurs with "mean girls," or girls who bully. Because of the manner in which girls socialize, sometimes it is more difficult to recognize girl bullies, at least at a younger age. The tactics, in fact, used by "mean girls" are somewhat distorted versions of socio-psychological development. For instance, when girls bully, they use tactics like alienation, ostracism, deliberate and calculated random exclusions, and deliberate gossip and rumor used to harass (Simmons).

The most common type of bullying among females is verbal bullying (“Verbal Bullying” 1). This type of psychological bullying uses derogatory terms to demean, or lower, the victim in the eyes of others to show that the bully has power over them (“Verbal Bullying” 1). This causes the person to have low self-esteem and develop depression in that victim (“Verbal Bullying” 1). Verbal bullying is the most psychologically damaging and lasts well into adulthood (Aluede et al. 6). “[Words] have a power all their own, and the realities of verbal bullying can have very physical consequences, even if the aggressor never lays a finger on the victim” (“Verbal Bullying” 1) In more severe cases of verbal bullying, or any bullying for that matter, can lead to drugs because the victim wants to escape his or her tortured life, in more extreme cases if the person’s depression worsens it could lead to suicide (“Verbal Bullying” 1).

Bullying is defined as unwanted or aggressive behavior that causes someone to feel afraid or intimidated. This behavior could be something physical, verbal, or something done electronically or through social media. If someone feels threatened by someone’s actions or words, it could be considered bullying, even if that was not the intent.There are many types of bullying, how to recognize bullying, how to report bullying, what to do if you see incidents of bullying, and what resources are available to persons who have been bullied.

Author Louise L. Hay once stated, “no person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we ' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace, harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives”. If we could all uphold these words of wisdom, it sure would make dealing with aggressive people in our world a lot easier. As we are all aware of, teenagers can be very egocentristic and feel the whole world is either against them or watching their every move. Female adolescents can especially have these feelings and are far more hurt by words than actions. In a recent survey done by the Journal of School Health, it indicated that between 10% and 17% of middle and high school adolescents report some form of maltreatment by their peers (Eisenberg et al., 2003), and 23% of female victims report being intimidated by other girls (Fekkes et al., 2005). These statistics are likely to be higher, due to the fact that most victims are reluctant to speak out and against indirect aggression.

It is only in the recent years that attention has turned toward the widespread problem of bullying, especially in schools, and that bullying is identified as a serious problem that merits intervention and research (Coy). Therefore, relatively little effort has been made to overcome or address the problem, which still remains a widespread social vice. This paper purports to illustrate how, despite efforts made to rectify the situation, bullying still remains rampant, and is getting worse.