Victimisation

In today’s society, you can go almost anywhere and still find that someone is still getting bullied for the way they look, how they act, or what they wear. However no one knows deep down what that person has felt or suffered through. No one knows the pain, struggles, and obstacles that person may have overcome to become half the person they are today. Nobody has the right to judge another human being for the way they are because in the end it won’t matter. In Mark Willis’ song “Don’t laugh at me…

Many schools and communities have taken actions to prevent bullying from occurring. They have teamed up with the local media outlets to run stories on the effects of being bullied and what the consequences of a being a bully are. Some schools have created programs for students who are at risk for being a bully due to feeling out of place and not having the social skills to form friendships. They have trained student leaders that go into the student body and befriend the students that are…

Out of the 26 episodes of Criminal, I chose to listen to Episode seven: J.R.R. Ziemba, which was produced on June, 30, 2014. This episode was about a young man, Reese, living in a small town who was out walking downtown at night, which was something that he did quite frequently. He had just passed a gay bar, though he said that he never really had been worried about his safety before until he saw a man propositioning/haggling some young men. Reese’s impression of the man was that he was an older…

Even if you are not being affected by the crime of human trade, there is still a lot of possible options or steps against it you can take to help the people who have been victimized. In the article “20 Ways You Can Help Fight Human Trafficking” done by the U.S. Department of State, they list several different ways you can help make a difference in today’s society by fighting human trafficking. Numerous of the steps they state involve donating to a charity that helps fight human trade in your…

“Even though most bystanders don’t like to watch bullying, less than 20% try to stop it” (Bullying Statistics 1). Bullying occurs in almost every school in the United States of America. A lot of the time, the victims or people who witness the incident refrain from reporting it because they fear what the bully might do in return. Most of the time, when people think about bullying, they just picture the bully and the victim, but the situation involves another person: the bystander. Almost…

I understand that "rape ' ' is uncomfortable word to say, however we need to continue saying it . So STOP being uncomfortable with talking about and understanding rape. When you sit there and just act like it doesn’t exist just to make yourself feel better, your just as bad as the perpetrator. Knowledge is the key to everything in my opinion and if we can learn about the problem maybe we can solve it. Sexual assault has become a major issue on college campuses and many people will never know,…

As the amount of technology in the world increases, so does the number of students who are cyber bullied. Cyber bullying is often anonymous and occurs over the internet. Because there is usually no way to prove a person as being the abuser, cyber bullying has become extremely hard to fight. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the psychological effects cyber bullying has on high school aged teenagers. Annotated Bibliography Goebert, D., Else, I., Matsu, C., Chung-Do, J., & Chang, J. (2011)…

During the 1930s many awful events shaped how people lived and how kids were raised. Many people say that the teenage years are the years that shape someone’s life. Children who lived in the era of To Kill a Mockingbird learned many hidden aspect of their society. In the coming-of-age novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, Jem is a boy who is adolescent during the book. The book portrays many different problems like injustice, crime and violence, and racial segregation which are subjects…

To be courageous and to be a coward are two completely opposite traits but the words work together to deliver a message. Children at a young age are taught through movies that the heroes are portrayed as brave while those who are suffering and weak are seen as cowards, not very often are cowards seen as courageous. In the Book Thief written by Markus Zusak, the idea of being courageous and a coward are combined together into one. Without cowardice man can’t see the courage of, without courage…

Passive-aggressive Bullying Can you bully someone by not doing something? Definitely. Avoidance is the magic trick of passive-aggressive bullies. Here is a perfect example from work. You have an important deadline within a group project and depend on the cooperation of everyone in the group. But there is one colleague who continuously forgets to send that email, and therefore, you miss the deadline and harm the project. Now, we assume that your colleague does this on purpose. You go to your…