The article “When Bullying Goes High-Tech,” by Elizabeth Landau is about a boy named Brandon Turley who gets cyberbullied. The website/link I got the article from is http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/27/health/cyberbullying-online-bully-victims/ . The intended audience for this article is anybody who wants to know real life examples/experiences of cyberbullying from someone else's perspective. The purpose of this article is to inform and explain why you shouldn’t bully someone online especially when you don’t know them. And also how what you say online can be seen by many people and could really hurt the person you targeted.…
John Amaechi is no newcomer to bullying in sports. He has been both the victim and the witness. Experience allows him to use ethos, pathos, and logos in a compelling essay to educate athletes and coaches in “Sports’ Bully Culture”. Amaechi uses the three appeals to help his audience understand why bullying in sports is intolerable. Ethos is all about appealing to character.…
To Be a Jock or Not to Be a jock, That Is the Question Are you a jock or a puke? In 2011, a man by the name Robert Lipsyte, had his article called “Jock Culture” first featured in a special sports issue of the New York Times. Lipstye was born in 1938, and grew up in the Bronx and lived a daunted childhood with constant bullying by his peers. Lipsyte would’ve described himself as a “puke” in his adolescent days.…
In the essay “Children Need to Play, not Compete”, Jessica Statsky writes about the importance of children being able to have fun playing a sport without the pressure of winning or losing (152-157). Playing sports can be a huge part of a child’s life, but parents and coaches need to remember that sports are here to keep a child busy and active. Children use sports to make friends not compete with each other to see who is better. When sport oriented parents and over controlling coaches try to have kids play at a professional level this causes children to lose interest (152, par. 1). With this being said the parents and coaches need to realize how they are taking the game to an unsafe and unsportsmanlike level.…
Summary In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” Jessica Statsky tells about the harm that sports cause and how much the children are expected to show up. They are asked to perform much higher than their physical capacity. This causes severe mental issues. It always remains there, the expectations their parents have from them and also the stress or pressure they get from the fellow teammates.…
Bullying should not be tolerated at schools NRocha psy 201-A5 Bullying at school Bullying at schools has been affecting many of the students. Students have been torturing in different ways; verbally abused, pinch, kick, pushed and mental abuse. Also, Female students are being bullied in a higher level than male students at schools. (Allie Bidwell, 2015).…
Sarah Orbutch states that to some players telling them that they are underperforming can be motivational or abusive, she explains that coaches do not now where the line between constructive criticism and emotional abuse is. Every athlete is expected to try their hardest and hustle but not so much that they consider suicide. This kind of abuse has ruined sports for many athletes causing low enrollment in many sports. Orbutch also states that “A coach has the power to make or break your athletic experience. Student athletes do sports for the fun and motivation not to not get playing time and get abused.…
Jessica Statsky, the writer of the essay, “Children Need To Play, Not Compete,” describes how children’s sports have been changing in recent times. She speaks of how the parents and coaches near fanatical criteria being imposed are negatively affecting many of the children involved with the sports. The concerns she feels derive from the potential dangers that children in the age ranges of six to twelve are exposed to in all organized sports activities. The dangers she covers are the physical well-being, mental health and anxiety, drop-out rate, and the stresses created by the adults involved in the sport. Statsky’s first observation is the physical risks that young, growing children are being exposed too in sports programs.…
In the article “Why we still allow bullying to flourish in kids sports,” Lisa Lewis argues that bullying from coaches shouldn’t be accepted or condemned in today's society. Lewis used a video of a coach being physically abusive towards one of his players to make point of how extreme the situations can become. Arguing that point seemed to come easily towards her as she not only blamed the parents for supporting the coaches actions, but also thought lack of education on positive methods was the cause. In order to have qualification for coaching Lewis explains that extensive classes are not required. Lewis believes that coaches are going back to old methods of coaching which includes harsh behavior from the coaches towards the kids.…
Sports are a great way for kids to have fun, stay fit, improve skills, and make friends. But it's not always fun and games out on the field. Concussions, grades, and financial problems are the major problems in sports. This can lead peer pressure and other problems. First and foremost injuries can be a big problem when football, hockey, and any other sports are played.…
Coaches have the power to change lives. I can humbly say this as all my coaches, both good and bad, have taught me in some way what it takes to be a good athlete and most importantly how to be a good human being. They have taught me life lessons that I can only hope to preserve by instilling them into my athletes in my time as a coach. The articles I have chosen to highlight in this essay show how coaches have helped to develop character in athletes, how they pushed them to be the best on and off the field of play, and illustrate how they stepped into the lives of athletes and became so much more than just a coach.…
One psychological problem for children who are playing in these sports is the possibility of being emotionally scarred by hurtful comments in the heat of the competition. For example, when a spectator passes an unkind comment about a player’s performance, it can cause discouragement and can affect that player’s performance. The same can happen if a couch or teammate spits an unencouraging comment relating to the child’s in-game performance. At these ages, children lack the maturity and stability to handle these types of comments and can experience…
Parenting today is different than parenting in the past, therefore kids of today are different from kids of the past. With parents and kids being different, it changes the coaching style of coaches today. Women’s basketball coaches across the country have had recent discussion about the difference in coaching styles from the days of Pat Summitt, Jody Conradt, C. Vivian Stringer (in her early years), and Andy Landers to today’s coaching styles. It’s believed that some of these coaches, if not all of the coaches listed above, would be fired in today’s society for the way they coached. These differences have brought about the question “what is ethical coaching?”…
Sports helps to keep children out of trouble and inspire them to do great. They learn valuable skills, such as discipline, commitment following rules through sports. The experience will benefit them and make them a better in person in life. Parents and coaches can ruin the experience by overworking them to fulfill their needs. This causes the athletes to get more injured and bitter about the sport.…
2.3 FORMS OF BULLYING There are different types of bullying and different behaviours that are considered as bullying. Olweus (1993) split bullying into two types, direct and indirect. Direct bullying involves verbal and physical attacks. Purposeful and unnecessary physical attacks are generally recognized as bullying.…