Descriptive Essay : A Short Story Of Bullying At School

More than obesity and health care is wrong with America. Not only does the health care system warp people's mind, but it creates an issue with the way children are taught and how they learn. A large stance has already changed many people’s lives—bullying. Children bully for many reasons including sexual orientation, weight, religious/philosophical beliefs, and some reasons unknown to all. Children bullied for their weight often times feel insecure and worthless about their bodies—scaring them in the process of always wanting to be in the same physical state and leading more obese children to lead obese adult lives.

Managing to climb quicker than both of my rivals, I weathered the fast-paced trek up the rock climbing wall on the school playground. Competing against me were two boys, both of whom mocked me for daring to challenge their athletic capabilities: they believed the girls were unable to beat them in anything. Little did they know, my parents raised me to believe that I was capable of doing anything I put my mind to. My hands shook vigorously as I took hold of the pegs and my feet ached inside of my pink light-up sneakers, but I was determined to make it to the top.

At the school Byron gets in trouble all the time. He beats up Larry Dunn for bullying Kenny, He kills a bird by throwing a cookie at it. He is really upset and is crying about that. There parents are frustrated with him. But then one day he comes home with a chemically

Harlem was a young girl who never got to do anything. She always wanted to go to the park and outside but her mom always told her no. She never really knew the reason why. Until 10 years later Harlem was 23. She wanted to apply for welfare but she needed her social security number. Every time she asked her mom for it her mom would say she would look for it. One day Harlem decided to go through her mom’s room and she found a birth certificate with her name on it. So she decided to bring it to the welfare office. When Harlem got there she told the man she wanted to apply for welfare, he asked for some type of identity. He reached for it, typed the information in and told her that this is fake and she said it couldn’t be true. He threatened to call the police so she left confused.

In chapter three, Jay McGraw lists the traits of a bully. There are multiple reasons why a person might became a bully.

According to the article “Tales of Bullying,” students can become a bad bully because you might have your own group of friends you want to impress or try to show off for, or you might have something going on at home. According to paragraph 3 in “Meet the New Sheriff” kids may get bullied because of their hair and/or what they wear. All around the wonderful world good kids are ending their own good lives over bullying. A bad bully is far worse than a lazy bystander because mean bully’s cause suicides, bullies cause/have low self-esteem, not to mention they suffer a large amount of punishment.

Bullying is harmful and may cause physical or psychological damage for life. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines bullying as any unwanted aggressive behavior(s) by another person or group of people, who are not siblings or current dating partners. Uncontrollable bullying throughout the world among people has caused health related issues and, for some people, even death. The National Youth Violence Prevention Resources Center stated that bullying is one type of violence that threatens young people's well-being and can result in physical injuries, social and emotional difficulties, as well as academic problems (Cite). Others including friends and families frequently feel the harmful effects of bullying. It is noted that bullying can hurt the overall health and safety of schools, neighborhoods, and one’s socioeconomic environment.

For decades bullying has been nothing more than what the average child experience it was almost just a part of growing up. Starting from the elementary school playground next the middle school locker room and finally high school hall ways. Society has only pushed it to the side as a minor problem, prompting kids to face their bully forcing the bully to say sorry and forcing victims to accept the apology with the given of options A. be friends or B. stay away. Unfortunately this 21st century “bullying” has undoubtedly transformed its self into its own monster. Due to more ways of communication and self-freedom kids have these days it seem society has walked itself into something bigger then “minor” bullying.

With my newfound sense of worth - the desire to exact some kind of revenge for being so subjugated was inexplicably tempting. Though some say that by forgiving we become virtuous, was it not Shakespeare himself who said, “If you wrong us, shall we not

Many kids all around the world are abused by their parents, peers or even by complete strangers. One of these types of abuse is bullying. At a first glance, we might think that it is an older kid beating/teasing a younger classmate however; bullying consists of much more than this. The basic definition of bullying is when your behavior hurts or harms another person physically or emotionally. There are many different types of bullying, which may lead to a victim becoming violent later on. There is teasing and name calling, there is also picking and shoving the kid. However, the most extreme one would be beating up the child, hurting them physically and mainly, emotionally.

Robert’s friends call him so he picks up the phone they said “do you want to go with us” Robert is not sure if he wants to go so they ask him to go over and over until he went. Roberts friends picked him up in a RV to go to a place that is a day or two away. When they get there he is shocked to see that they were going on a plane ride they knew how to ride planes but Robert was afraid of high places and plane crashes. Robert tried to leave but his friends told him you need to get over your fears and ride the plane he was so scared that he was about to call the cops but his friends talked him out of it so instead he was going to face his fear and ride on the plane.

The Effects of Bullying on a Child Every day in our schools, children are threatened, teased, taunted, and tormented by bullies. At any given time, about 25 percent of U.S. students are the victims of bullies and about 20 percent are engaged in bullying behavior (Education World, 2000). The National Association of School Psychologists estimates that 160,000 children stay home from school every day because they are afraid of being bullied (Education World, 2000). Bullying is characterized by three criteria(NCPTB, 2003): It is aggressive behavior or the intent to harm,

Many people do not realize how serious bullying has become. If you look at statistics suicides due to bullying have increased over just a few short years. This has become a very big problem for not only the victim but the bully as well as it affect both of them. School bullying is mentally destructive to not only the victims, but bullies because of the harmful words, harassment, and physical violence involved as well as the consequences for the bully.

Bullying, in its many forms, is becoming an extremely hazardous problem that many individuals endure. Bullies torment others because they themselves have insecurities, have been bullied themselves, or have a mental illness that brings out the worst in them. Nevertheless, bullying can physically and emotionally destroy the victim, whether it is by physical abuse, cyber bullying, or verbal abuse.

 “Bullying is one form of violence that seems to have increased in recent years,