What is bullying to you? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary bullying is defined as to frighten, hurt, or threaten someone smaller than you. Most people disagree with this definition, but to be a bully you do not have to be bigger than someone else anymore and that is due to cyberbullying. In 2014, the Center for Disease Control and Department of Education released the first federal uniform definition of bullying for research and surveillance. The core elements of the definition include: unwanted aggressive behavior; observed or perceived power imbalance; and repetition of behaviors or high likelihood of repetition. What do we know about bullying and how can we prevent it? According to the Center for Disease Control and Department
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This is how it is shown in movies such as Karate Kid, Mean Girls, and The Benchwarmers. It is up for debate whether or not this has negative or positive effects on people. Only time will tell how society views these movies over time. Although bullying is not against the law, but if it is persistent it can be considered harassment. “Although no federal law directly addresses bullying, in some cases, bullying overlaps with discriminatory harassment when it is based on race, national origin, color, sex, age, disability, or …show more content…
Groom’s class. The student would be bullied when he was a child because he had longer hair and looked like a “girl.” He cut his hair because he was being bullied but after he had a “mushroom head haircut” and was still bullied, it seemed that he could not satisfy the bully. Several years later this child became the bully for someone in his class. He would often criticize the person 's clothes or how they would act others. It went as far stepping on someone 's pants so they can fall off. Once the child’s pants did fall off, the bully felt terrible because he saw the horror in the child’s face realizing what he had done. After some time the bully could not forget the child’s face and thus he vowed to no longer be the bully and to keep others from being bullied. Ultimately this could have been stopped in the beginning if the student would have told on his classmates and possibly he would have never become the bully and the cycle could have
This is how it is shown in movies such as Karate Kid, Mean Girls, and The Benchwarmers. It is up for debate whether or not this has negative or positive effects on people. Only time will tell how society views these movies over time. Although bullying is not against the law, but if it is persistent it can be considered harassment. “Although no federal law directly addresses bullying, in some cases, bullying overlaps with discriminatory harassment when it is based on race, national origin, color, sex, age, disability, or …show more content…
Groom’s class. The student would be bullied when he was a child because he had longer hair and looked like a “girl.” He cut his hair because he was being bullied but after he had a “mushroom head haircut” and was still bullied, it seemed that he could not satisfy the bully. Several years later this child became the bully for someone in his class. He would often criticize the person 's clothes or how they would act others. It went as far stepping on someone 's pants so they can fall off. Once the child’s pants did fall off, the bully felt terrible because he saw the horror in the child’s face realizing what he had done. After some time the bully could not forget the child’s face and thus he vowed to no longer be the bully and to keep others from being bullied. Ultimately this could have been stopped in the beginning if the student would have told on his classmates and possibly he would have never become the bully and the cycle could have