Soc100 Week 2 Bullying Research Paper

Have your ever explored the underlining issues with bullying? Have you ever thought of what reasons may case someone to start bullying? Or how the victims feels knowing everyday their life is threaten or what the parent feels knowing that their child may actually be bullied? Have you ever thought of the legal standpoint on bully? These are all questions that escape our mind when we think of bullying. As humans we just say that if someone hits you hit them back, and if someone bullies you, you should tell a teacher. Have we actually sat down and really explore the issues of bullying?

Bullying is a very touchy subject for people to talk about. It deals with a lot of mental, physical, and emotional damage. Bullying is violent and unwelcoming behavior among various different aged children in school that involves a lack of power for one kid and a lot of power for another. The behavior of a bully is repeated numerous times over time and becomes more aggressive as the path goes on. The bully has an imbalance of power over the one being bullied. They bully uses their power for giving out embarrassing information, control, physical strength, popularity, and harming others. Kids who are being bullied and bullying others have serious lasting problems throughout their lifetime. Bullying is becoming a major issue in today 's society and somebody needs to make a stop to it.

Bullying has become a worldwide issue that has evolved over the years. Some people may argue that bullying has decreased as more people are aware and educated about the effects of bullying. Although people are more educated about bullying, it has only increased over the years. Today, every seven seconds someone is being bullied. Every seven seconds a life is ruined. It is horrendous. Bullying rates have gone through the roof over the years and only makes life for teenagers harder now. 1 in 10 people drop out of school because repeated bullying. 1 in 10 lives ruined. 1 in 10 further education opportunities destroyed. Our current society is doing appalling when it comes to bullying.

Bullying has been a social problem for decades. Bullying started out with name calling, but today bulling comes in different forms. You find bullying in schools, texts, and social media to name a few. The following information provided in this research paper discusses the history of bullying and how the history has shaped bullying today. The paper will provide informative background information about bullying and the definition of bullying. This paper will discuss the roles and skills of the human service professional that works with the population that is affected by the social problem.

Andreou, E., Didaskalou, E., & Vlachou, A. (2008). Outcomes of a curriculum-based anti-bullying intervention program on students' attitudes and behavior. Emotional & Behavioral Difficulties, 13(4), 23.5.

“We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say” said the comedian Tracy Morgan. And he was correct. In this modern world today, numerous students abuse the First Amendment. Over the media, students are posting comments, videos, stories, etc. about other students and teachers. These students are cyberbullies. The schools should be allowed to limit students’ online speech because cyber bullying privacy and dignity are important, it hurts feelings, and affects the school.

The main argument of this article was is there a link between types of transportation and bullying. The main purpose of this article was to identify the relationship between active transportation such as walking to school and bullying. The key question the author was looking to answer was is there a link between active transportation and bullying in Canadian schools. The researcher collected data using a cross sectional design. The researcher surveyed 3,997 urban students

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.

All families have problems but divorcing is one that most of the families have. In fact Freaks and geeks; Schweiber and Weir is a good example of families of America. The Weirs don’t have problems like Schweiber do. Neil Schweiber is the only child and Sam Weir is not, he has an older sister. But what I am trying to get at is that Sam has someone to talk to but Neil, on the other hand, does not. He is lucky he has friends that told him about his dad.

Have you ever heard of the Columbine Massacre that took place in 1999? It involved two teens Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who went on a brutal rampage at a high school in Colorado. Killing thirteen and injuring more than twenty, right before they turned the gun and shot themselves. Many guesses but no proven facts for this tragic event provide details for the bullying that occurred at school. Violent video games and music supposedly influenced Eric and Dylan in their killing rampage (History).The violent acts perpetrated by individuals involved in the recent school shootings can also be linked to bullying and a sense of not belonging such as the Columbine Massacre. A typical student will experience many obstacles throughout his/her life

The results and consequences of bulling in all sorts of format (verbal, cyber or physical)

Bullying is the silent killer of the youth in society today. A bully is person who makes another peer feel lesser than himself, and feel like they aren't equal to one another. Bullying can be done in many forms. Bullying can be done by, name-calling, kicking/hitting, tripping. etc. and or spreading rumors about one person over and over again. Most of the time bullying can be brought into the school or workplace because they think it is okay to do because they see their family doing it, but that is by far the case . West High School itself has been a target for bullying. Suicide has taken an innocent girl's life away due to excessive bullying. Bullying is a very pressing problem in schools and needs more attention. The problems and history

In an article called, “Bullying Children with Disabilities a Global Epic” Ervin Dana states that studies show that children with disabilities are being bullied fairly more than children without disabilities. In an article about juvenile bullying called, “Children, Families, and Communities, Juvenile Justice Bulletin” Jeff Slowikowski explains and demonstrates the importance of the environment the bullied victim is in and the impact a student teacher relationship can have on a student. Two other articles that also say this is, “International Journal of Whole Schooling Vol. 8(1), 2012” by Stepahanie T. Mihalas, Ryan G. Witherspoon Meg E. Harper, and Brittan A Sovran and, ”Enhancing the Effects of Teacher Attunement to Student Peer Group Affiliations

This interests me because, even though I have never been bullied, I have been around people who have been bullied and not know how to deal with it. At that time those people were involved in self-harm and even attempted suicide. I didn't know how to deal with them either, but they found out that they were really comfortable talking to the school counselor so that really helped them out a lot. Having to see them go through that makes me realize how important getting GPs involved in dealing with bullies. I would like to see GPs involved more in the school district that I

(Topic Sentence)Anyone can be bullied, but it takes a special person to stop it. (Background Info) Jamie was being bullied in the bathrooms and in out of the way places that he had chose to hide in. Not many people knew he was being bullied until they decided to show it openly, in fact, once he was hospitalized for several days. He was repeatedly kicked, knocking the breath out of him and leaving him huddled on the floor, Tasting his own blood and smelling urine. Even the principal did not try to intervene even the when the problem was directly taken to her. (attention Grabbing) Did you know that schools really let people get bullied so seriously that they have to go to the Hospital (Thesis Statement) Kids like jamie get bullied for being Gay, a different race, different gender, sometimes the randomest things and it’s unfair and wrong.