Workplace bullying

“A pretty face doesn't mean a pretty heart”, a quote, saying that everything is not what it seems. In our world today, you can easily hide behind another personality and be completely different from who you actually are, thus causing everyone to see you different. Both stories, “When No One Is Watching” by Joseph Hayes and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell demonstrates this representation of looks being deceiving and how poorly you can make someone else's life by hurting them mentally…

Only rape victims can understand the horrors of being sexually assaulted. Melinda Sordino, the protagonist of the novel, Speak, narrates the story in which she is sexually assaulted at the beginning of ninth grade by a boy named Andy Evans. Melinda is lost, confused, and depressed trying to overcome her trauma, while her classmates bully her for calling the cops on a party. Additionally, her parents and teachers consider Melinda a disappointment because of her actions in school and inability to…

Pain was all I felt after being beaten physically and mentally by the same people everyday. I’m the boy that is called ‘weak’ ‘disgraceful’ ‘unworthy’ and basically, just to sum it up, I’m known as the kid that is just a waste of space. Even my name which is Negative Dale, who is now 16 with dark hazel eyes and short compared to everyone else. Today was supposed to an enjoyable day as I turn another year old, having that word as my name only brings more fun for the ones to bully me, along with…

The Master Tailor and The Teachers Skirt revolves around the procrastination of characters. The tailor and the characters in the story procrastinate multiple things and it can affect people. Everyone tends to procrastinate at some point in time though some people tend to do more than others. The story shows how procrastination negatively effects people and the tailors business as well as the customers as the tone of the story follows the mood. A teacher comes into the tailor shop to get a skirt…

Media Violence and its Exposure on Youth. Teenage years are some of the toughest times for personality development as all the information teenagers gain during that time have a strong influence on their future behavior. Today teenagers spend almost all of their time surfing the web, watching movies, listening to music, and playing video games. However the media content has changed extensively, and the amount of violent elements is rising year by year. Psychologists all over the world explore the…

The word feral is defined as something wild. When we think about the word wild, we tend to think of something that is untamed, or not cultivated. A feral child, on the other hand, is a label for those human children who grew up in isolation, and had no human contact from a very young age. These children are seen being raised up by animals because they were left abandoned and as a result, they have little or no experience of human care, behavior, or of human language. Many assume that writers…

Globally around 24 million people are refugees or displaced persons fleeing war, conflict and discrimination. Around one third of these are children and adolescents, and 10% are less than 5 years of age. Infants and children are amongst the most vulnerable in situations of war and conflict. Children are both direct and indirect victims of war and conflict and are particularly vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. In order to discuss the issues of recovery from losses and trauma caused by…

Manipulation. Whether you know it or not, it happens all around us. It can be created by means of guilt tripping, threatening, and even through attacking and/or appraising one’s self esteem. Who’s to tell you aren’t being manipulated in this very instance? The amount of power one has while exploiting a situation can easily be construed into doing what a person wants. A notable con artist named, Frank Abagnale, did exactly that in his earlier life. Through the use of his quick thinking & problem…

Workplace harassment also known as ‘‘mobbing ' ' is defined as prejudiced or offensive behavior by which a person is oppressed in the professional aspect periodically, which inflicts emotional and labor complications. People who are going through this situation are affected in their self-esteem, increases their personal insecurity, and sometimes in aggravated cases it may cause depression or alteration. Statistics reveal alarming numbers, although both genders can be affected women have been…

The thought of domestic violence (DV) is extremely frightening, and at times it just seems unbelievable that someone could hurt someone that they say they love. However, it happens; and it happens more than you would possibly think. According to the most recent data from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV), 1 in 5 women and 1 in 7 men have been severely physically abused by their intimate partner during their lifetime (when accounting for sexual and psychological abuse as…