• Many children and adolescents are victims of school bullying.
• Bullying include verbal bullying as well as physical bullying.
• Some children and adolescents are bullied because of differences among them.
• These differences include physical appearance, sex orientation and personality.
Thesis: Differences among young students’ physical appearance, sex orientation and socioeconomic cause school bullying.
• This paper will explore how each of these differences is a potential factor which causes bullying in school.
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Differences among children and teenagers’ physical appearance cause bullying in school.
• Physical appearance plays an important role when considering if someone is at-risk or not to be a potential victim of school bullying.
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It includes the definition of bullying, the characteristics of bullies, the characteristics of victims and the effects of bullying. This article tells us that bullies there two types of bullies. One of them are students who take the initiative when bullying others, they are called active bullies. The other type are students who follow the person who takes the initiative, also called “passive bullies” or “followers”. Some passive bullies do not desire to bully other but they are pressured to do so because if they do not they will be bullied as well. This article also talks about different type of victims. This journal suggests that people who has a low self-esteem, are obese, quiet and insecure are more susceptible to bullying. This article is useful to my research paper because it provides good causes of school bullying. It tells us why victims are bullied as well as the reasons for the bully to abuse others.
Side, Jeremy, and Kelley Johnson. “Bullying in schools: why it happens, how it makes young people feel and what we can do about it.” Educational Psychology in Practice 30.3 (2014): 217-231. EBSCOhost with Full Text. Web. 25 Oct.