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Bullying in America Essays

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According to www.how-to-stop-bullying.com, seventy-seven percent of students are bullied. The definition of bullying has recently changed (how-to-stop-bullying.com). The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the verb “bully” as “to treat abusively” (Merriam-Webster). There is more than one way to abuse someone. So a complete definition, that comes from www.bullyingstatistics.org, is any type of verbal, social, physical, and cyberbullying abuse that occurs (Naas). Bullying is seen everywhere. It is talked about in movies, media, songs, and inside school programs. What makes the bullies, or aggressors, do what they want? How does the bullying effect everyone? Let us start with why the bullies bully. Ian Rivers, of Brunel University in the …show more content…

Www.bullyingstatistics.org reports that, in 2010, roughly 160,000 students in the United States of America do not show up to school everyday, because of bullying (Naas). To put that number into prospective look at the Quick and Loans Arena. The website basketball.ballparks.com reports this structure, once called The Gund Arena, has roughly 20,500 seats, for a normal event (Munsey, Paul). It would take almost eight full Quick and Loans Arenas to house all of the victimized kids who are too afraid to go to school. Many parents believe this is not a problem, because their kids are not effected. However, the very first statistic reported in this paper states that seventy-seven percent of kids report being bullied. With seventy-seven percent of a school population being bullied, the other thirty-three percent must witness or become the bully. Making this issue an inclusive problem. No one is left out of the equation and everyone is effects. The girls of the entire eighth grade of West Geauga Middle school only confirm this. They were asked to raise their hand if they had seen anyone, including themselves, bullied within the last month. Every girl in the room raised her hand. Not just one, but every girl (West Geauga Middle School 8th grade girls). And that is within the past month. This means that every one is effected. But, how is everyone effected? The victim and the bully are effected in different ways

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