In this article titled Suspects in Video Beating Could Get Life in Prison by Rich Phillips from CNN is about eight teens beating and attacking another teen girl violently for “spreading rumors” on the internet and trying them as adults in court. The eight will be tried for verbally and physically attacking another teen victim. The 16 year old abused victim was sent to the hospital and suffers from blurred vision, hearing loss, and a swollen face from the attack. The attack was meant to embarrass her and get back at her for talking bad about some of the other girls. The eight attackers were planning on posting it on youtube while you could hear them cheering each other on as the girl cries and huddles in the corner. Six of the eight were girls…
She witnessed him behaving in a manner that was unacceptable by her standards and addressed it immediately to stop the behavior. The mother at first was demonized by the media for beating her child and physically abusing him. When the public started responding with heralds such as “mother of the year” and “bring out the mothers”, it reinforced the mindset of the appropriate level of discipline for the situation. In reality this mother saved her child from probable arrest and even possible injury or death. When ABC News interviewed the sixteen year old he admitted he knew what he was doing was wrong, and his mother punished him because she loves him and did not want to see him harmed, arrested, or even killed.…
Bullying is a prevalent behavioral issue among adolescents. It can be defined in terms of any and all forms of aggression where one is targeted and is repeatedly, physically, or verbally harassed. This type of behavior, whether it is the bully or the one being bullied, can lead to long and short-term effects on the mental wellness of a still developing adolescent.…
Every child can be hurt, put at risk of being harmed or abused, regardless of their age, gender, religion or ethnicity.…
Meraviglia, M., Becker, H., Rosenbluth, B., Sanchez, E., & Robertson, T. (2003). The respect project. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 18, 1347-1360.…
In the article, “Bullying in Schools,” written by Ron Banks, the article expresses the key components of bullying . Bullying is made of direct behaviors. Boys typically engage in direct bullying, compared to girls who bully, use more indirect strategies. Teasing, taunting, threatening, hitting, and stealing are strategies used by boys. Spreading rumors and enforcing social isolation are strategies used by girls. Also, various reports and studies have shown that approximately fifteen percent of students are bullied regularly or are initiators of bullying behavior. The author stated in the article that direct bullying increases through elementary years, peak in middle school years, and decline during high school years. Also, boys are…
When I reflect on my adolescent years, I remember racing home from school each day, eager to meet up with my best friend so we could just “hang out.” In a sense, not much has changed for adolescents today; they are still just as eager to socialize with their friend's. However, now they don’t meet up at each other’s houses and hang out in their neighborhood, the way my best friend and I use to. Instead, they hang out together online and their neighborhood resides in their smartphone. This is the message that is conveyed in chapter two of the book, Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard by Sameer Hinduja and Justin W. Patchin. In this chapter, the authors move away from discussing what cyberbullying entails in pursuance of looking at some of the places…
In the article When Bullying Turns Deadly: Can it Be Stopped, by Time Magazine, author John Cloud writes how bullying has gone from kids calling each other names on the play ground or on the way home from school, to using cell phones and computers to harass, intimidate and humiliate each other to the point of suicide.Today this is known as cyberbullying and it is very big problem for not only teens ,but adults also. The trouble is,the technology of bullying has progressed much faster than anyone could have thought of. People…
‘‘After nearly 15,000 students were suspended, for bullying in the 2008-2009 school year’’ according to source 2 in the story ‘’Tales of Bullying’’ written by Modigliani Laura. There are a lot of people bullied they need to be stopped, every day there are lots of kids bullied. A bully is worse than a bystander because bullies hurt people’s feelings, they could cause someone to commit suicide, and usually are suffering from something from their personal life. ‘’The rise in teen suicide kids were once able to put bullying behind then after leaving school at the end of the day’’. ‘’ The reason kids bully is because according to Source 1, bullies might have a problem at home, angry, or hurt about something. One such example is a child…
Researchers have assessed children’s attitudes to bullying using self-report methodologies. Most children report that they do not support the practice of bullying. In a recent Australian study of 6 to 16-year olds students, 80 to 85% of the students do not approve of bullying; although boys indicated slightly more approval for bullying than girls. In a Canadian study, 86% of the children reported that they found it somewhat or very unpleasant to watch bullying. When asked about intervening in bullying, 43% of children reported that they would typically “try to help” a child who is victimized while 33% of the children said that ‘they felt that they should help’ but didn’t. The remaining 24% responded ‘bullying was none of their business’. In…
1. I read the article, “Jury Orders School District to Pay $800,000 to Bullied Student.” This article was about a boy named Dane Patterson, who had been bullied all through middle school and his early high school career. He claims that the school failed to protect him from years of bullying, and it finally came to be enough when he was sexually harassed in the locker room. As a result to this, the Patterson family filed a lawsuit under Title IX of the Equal Opportunity in Education Act, using the sexual harassment story as the basis. This week, the jury ordered the school district to pay Dane $800,000 to make up for the damages and trauma caused by the ongoing situation. Anti-bullying experts argue that this verdict will send a clear message to schools that they are in fact responsible for sexual harassment and bullying, and that they must keep a constant eye out for such behavior.…
Suicide. Depression. What leads someone to commit those things? Every 90 minutes, somewhere in the world, a teenager takes his own life. According to a website of bullying prevention, it is estimated that around 30% of students are involved in bullying, as victims, perpetrators or both. Studies have found that 15 to 25% of children and youth in the U.S. are bullied and 15 to 20% bully others. They fear of attack and intimidation by other kids. most kids in the world get bullied by the most minimum causes such as their appearance, race, gender, religion, etc. People who are bullied are more likely to have emotional effects, be depressed or become suicidal.…
“You will never reach higher ground if you are always pushing others down,” stated Jeffrey Benjamin. Bullying can be a crucial issue if not stopped or dealt with. Many people are bullied everyday, and don’t tell people about the tragic event. Some actions that can affect others include; losing your true self and even committing suicide.…
One doesn't need a Ph.D. in theology to look around the world and realize something is desperately wrong. The existence of evil is one of the most vexing challenges a Christian--or any person, for that matter-- must grapple with. It's occupied the minds of great Christian thinkers since the beginning, including St. Augustine (354-430). For much of his life he worked hard at a solution.…
Bullying is a pattern of aggressive behavior meant to hurt or cause discomfort to another person. The behavior can be habitual and involve an imbalance of social or physical power.…