Thesis: Bullying and peer pressure are comparable in terms of its consequences, benefits, drawbacks and prevention strategies.
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Consequences
Bullying and peer pressure are different in terms of its consequences
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Benefits
Benefits vary in bullying and peer pressure
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Drawbacks
Bullying and peer pressure also differ in terms of its drawbacks.
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Prevention strategies
Prevention strategies are similar with bullying and peer pressure.
The overwhelming bullying and peer pressure in today’s society has put a heavy toll on our children’s mental and physical well being. It not only affects children bur people of different ages, and it is of importance to them because the choices made when dealing with both issues influences their success or failure of the future. Bullying can be defined as a direct threat of physical or emotional harm for not doing something and it is repeated over time by the same person. On the other hand peer pressure is when one feels the need to change how they act to be accepted by another individual or group. (Tarshis Paul Thomas pg 9) Bullying and peer pressure are comparable in terms of consequences, benefits, drawbacks and prevention strategies. Bullying and peer pressure are different in terms of its consequences. Some people think bullying and peer pressure are just part of growing up and a way for young people to learn to stick up for themselves. But both issues tend to make people distress and can make them feel unsafe and think there must be something wrong with them. People also lose confidence and self esteem. Bullying can have long term physical and psychological consequences which include withdrawal from family and school activities, wanting to be left alone and more serious concerns such as suicide and a decrease in mental health. However with peer pressure, it has both good and bad consequences, with bad being
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