Essay on Relentless Bullying

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 unwanted, aggressive behavior among people of all ages, but mostly school-age children. Society has been aware of bullying since around 1693, but it was not viewed as a real problem until the 1970s. “While overall incidents of school violence, such as assault and theft, have declined in the last decade, bullying is on the rise.” (qtd in Tyre) The percentage of middle and high school students that have been victimized by bullying went up from 14 percent in 2001 to 32 percent in 2009. (Tyre)

The truth is, life isn’t fair; so stop saying it is. “You get what you get, and don’t throw a fit.” In my opinion, that phrase is absolute crap. Most of the time, you get what you get because people are inconsideret, self centered pricks. They only think about themselves and not the feelings of others. One of the biggest lies I have ever heard “I’m sorry.” Are you? Are you really sorry? Or are you just saying that so I won’t hate you and you get a bad name? Yeah, exactly. Another lie I have been told, “This school does not tolerate bullying.” Or “We are a bully free zone.” Well, when someone get’s bullied and it’s turned in what do you do? Oh, you talk to the kid and hope it never happens again? Yeah, because that’s going to teach

Bullying is an aggressive behavior where someone is repeatedly and purposely causing someone else injury making them feel uncomfortable. It can be physical, hurtful words, or just certain actions. According the article “Bullying and Suicide,” it states that nearly 30 percent of students are bullies or victims of bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of bullying (Word Press, Par. 1). In this essay I will

“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 is bound to happen anywhere at any time but occurs mostly within school limits. Kathleen Winkler defines bulling in her book, Bullying, as “...any kind of ongoing physical or verbal mistreatment, done with the intent to harm, where there is an imbalance of power between bully and victim” (Winkler 14). Bullying has an extremely important impact on one’s everyday life and can affect their life negatively getting to the point where they can no longer take the blow. To try and prevent bullying from taking place in schools, one needs to know how bullying effects a person, what the role of each person involved in the situation is, and have knowledge of specific methods on how to prevent it. Bullying in schools is a serious problem and a handful of school do their part to prevent it; others, not as much, which means there is room for improvements.

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?

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.

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.

In todays society, many people are judged and criticized for pursuing ones personal desires, and this can have a gigantic impact on how you live your life. In addition, when people are judged, it is strongly correlated with bullying. In fact, over 3.2 million people are bullied in various ways, and it has a huge impact on many youngsters and adults. In the case of Holly, a sweet innocent girl who has caused no harm to anyone finds her a victim of bullying/ cyber bullying. Therefore, we see this broken little girl who is suffering from so much pain, letting go of her personal desires such as, watching football, walking anywhere (“especially alone”) and school. Also, we are able to witness Holly drift away from her friends because she is afraid of what they will think of her, and I believe that she does not want to be the centerpiece of

According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Education (ED), and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) bullying is “any unwanted aggressive behavior(s) … that involves an observed or perceived power imbalance and is repeated multiple times or is highly likely to be repeated.” Many kids use these aggressive behaviors throughout school to create terror onto other kids and make their lives purposefully miserable. There are many reasons that kids are bullied: gender, sexual preferences, weight, the way someone might look, a person’s disability, and the list continues.

When I was growing up, it was hard for me to make friends and keep them in my life. I either would unintentionally push them away or they would be turned off by everything that I did online whether it would be on Twitter or Facebook. I wanted to be like everybody else while not being able to find myself in this world. It made my school years difficulty as I would often be an easy target for bullying and abuse by my fellow students at L. Douglas Wilder Middle School.

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.

Nowadays, physical bullying is becoming a very serious and detrimental problem. Not only does physical bullying scar the person emotionally, but it can also scar them physically. There are different mediums of physical bullying such as; physical threats, pushing, shoving, and assaults that can cause serious injury. There is some controversy

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