Persuasive Essay On Bullying Research Paper

In today’s world of unfortunate tragedies bullying has been one the biggest, and has affected us here in the U.S. Most school shootings have happened because of bullying and peoples negligence towards others feelings. Reported by authorities, who say most of the shooters had been repeatedly bullied, physically assaulted, made fun of or put down and humiliated by fellow classmates. This type of bullying is unacceptable and it should not be tolerated at schools. But when do you draw the line between actual bullying and your usual normal kid/teenage horse play or innocent name calling?
Well the title says it all, Bullying Broadly Defined, is correct. In today’s society, people have seemingly become more and more sensitive to comments or are easily made to feel threatened, which are only meant to be taken as humorous jokes with bad taste, or what some people would say, bullying. …show more content…
But I do have a friend that before we had met he would was bullied by another one of his classmates who was big a tall. And also in my high school there was something called freshman Fridays. Basically on Fridays the seniors would try to catch the freshmen and throw them into a trashcans. With my friend I would consider it bullying because there was physical harm being inflicted on to him and I feel that no one should ever put their hands on some else to cause harm. But with the freshmen Fridays I feel that it was all in good fun and school spirit to do such things and it was pretty much a tradition that the seniors would do to the freshmen. Most of the time they would just be chased down a hall and never really be put into trashcans. I think it was just to scare them good. I would not consider that bullying although now I think they no longer allow that at the school because of mothers complaining about it, and of course there is always someone who takes it a little too