What is Bullying? Bullying is an act in which a person, commonly known as a bully, uses force to threaten and dominate others especially those who are weaker and less powerful than they are. In our world today, bullying is rampant especially in schools, in working areas, in the internet, and even in one’s own household. It is an act in which many people, mostly those who are seen as weak and unable to defend themselves, suffer a lot by those so called bullies. It ruins the life of the victim of bullying. Some people may even go to the extent of killing himself/herself just to escape such harshness. Although some can stand up for themselves with such belittling and over empowerment of someone else towards them, some just give up and face day-to-day
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People who are bullied, experience poorer health and contemplate more on suicide. But others say that bullying can make a person stronger. “Bullying, although it is never acceptable nor necessary, it is not the be all and end all. In making the best of a bad situation the memory of these occurrences can be enough to make someone say to themself ‘never again’ and continue to strive for a better and more empowered life” (qtd. In McCarty). How can a person even stay strong and strive for a better and more empowered life when he or she is constantly being tormented by bullies. That’s why some just give up and kill themselves just to escape such …show more content…
The desire of the bullied, Noel Estevez, was to defend himself from the constant beating he endured from Timothy Crump, the bully and the one who died, and his group. The bully was stabbed four or five times until he died (cited in “14-Year-Old Boy Killed Bullying Classmate Who Demanded Cell Phone Back”). Another incident of bullying-related killing happened in 1946, when two pre-pubescent boys, Jimmy and Donald, killed another boy, Michael, because they were fed up of him forcing other kids to do his work and even found it entertaining to beat them up whenever he desired. As Donald’s sentence, he was put to the Bureau of Juvenile Research for less than four years. To this day the horror of Donald did never faded in his thoughts (cited in
People who are bullied, experience poorer health and contemplate more on suicide. But others say that bullying can make a person stronger. “Bullying, although it is never acceptable nor necessary, it is not the be all and end all. In making the best of a bad situation the memory of these occurrences can be enough to make someone say to themself ‘never again’ and continue to strive for a better and more empowered life” (qtd. In McCarty). How can a person even stay strong and strive for a better and more empowered life when he or she is constantly being tormented by bullies. That’s why some just give up and kill themselves just to escape such …show more content…
The desire of the bullied, Noel Estevez, was to defend himself from the constant beating he endured from Timothy Crump, the bully and the one who died, and his group. The bully was stabbed four or five times until he died (cited in “14-Year-Old Boy Killed Bullying Classmate Who Demanded Cell Phone Back”). Another incident of bullying-related killing happened in 1946, when two pre-pubescent boys, Jimmy and Donald, killed another boy, Michael, because they were fed up of him forcing other kids to do his work and even found it entertaining to beat them up whenever he desired. As Donald’s sentence, he was put to the Bureau of Juvenile Research for less than four years. To this day the horror of Donald did never faded in his thoughts (cited in