According to the textbook, "Bullying is the purposeful infliction of psychological or physical pain on one individual by another or by a group." (p. 327) With that said, Tasha would definitely be considered a bully. The central problem in Tasha's situation is her home life. The illness of her mother and her father not working thus causing them to be living below the poverty line. It is not very unusual for children who experience hardship in one aspect of their life to take it out on others in another area of their life. As a matter of fact it is not only children who operates in this manner, but sometime even us as adults have a tendency to struggle with balancing and separating problems that we have in our personal life so that it doesn’t
