You walk into the lunch room after a long morning of classes, to find a younger classmate not only being pushed around by a group of older classmates but being called names. these are not the friendly type of names that you call your friends but these are mean and hateful names. To make matters worse the The lunchroom was full of other students and you overheard some of them saying how they were going to post the video On one of the Popular social media sites. Unfortunately this is something that is way too common. If you haven't figured out yet what I'm referring to I'm talking about bullying.
Bullying what is it? According to the Meridian Webster the legal definition of bullying are acts of written or spoken Words intended to intimidate harass a person or to cause physical harm to a person or his or her property. There are many different types of bullying. Bullying can happen to anybody from kids in school to adults in the workplace. Some of the most common types of bullying are physical verbal social and cyber-bullying. Physical bullying includes hitting kicking pinching tripping and any other type of physical violence towards another person. Verbal bullying includes name-calling insults teasing intimidation or any other thing said from one person to another that is not of a nice nature. Social bullying, sometimes referred to as covert bullying, is often harder to recognize and can be carried out in a way so the one who is bullied don't even know it is happening. Cyber bullying the use of electronic communication like texting or the use of Social media to bully other people or classmate
Bullying can affect everyone. It not only affects the people who are getting bullied but it can affect the ones who Witnessed it as well. It can increase depression and anxiety also can increase feelings like sadness and loneliness and also no interest in activities that they used to enjoy. These issues may last up to adulthood. In the United Kingdom, about 16,000 children permanently stay home from school because they are routinely bullied
For example “Dr. Andre Sourander, a professor of child psychiatry at the University of Turku in Finland, reported that children who are bullied in early childhood have an increased risk of depressive disorders and need psychiatric treatment later in life.
I'm ‘’40 years old now; it's been something like 30 years since that sort of thing last happened. Still, the experience has not left me, it sucked so much. I don't think about it much these days, but I know that having lived through those experiences has shaped me as an adult, and not for the better.
The experience of getting your face smashed in by bullies (or taunted by them, or pushed, or shoved, or excluded, etc. ) has got to be an almost universal sort of thing; something that many others who have endured similar experiences can perhaps recognize and respond to. In this spirit, I offer my self-disclosure (and hijack Bill's) as seed for discussion.” These things happen all over the world on school buses the Cafeterias and Basically anywhere else in the school even The playground.
https://www.mentalhelp.net/articles/the-long-term-effects-of-bullying/
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/bullying-affects-victims-and-bullies-into-adulthood-022013#
Alex Libby was a normal kid who was bullied in school because of how his face looked. The fact that he was bullied in school, was part of the reason he decided to take part in a documentary, the other was the Hopes that his Tormentors would leave him alone. He decided to fight against bullying And become an activist so that another child would not have to go through as depressing of a childhood as he did.
Alex libby is one out of 13 million people who are victims of bullying in the US. Alex agreed to take part in Bully Documentary in the hope that his persecutors would stop tormenting him. He didn't realize that the brave act would bring him national notoriety, a trip to the White House and a chat with a beauty pageant winner. He did this thing because he wanted to not be bullied and if this caped bullying him he probably would've tic his life.
In conclusion you have learned what bullying is, the types of bullying, How it can affect you, and what one boy did to stand up for people who are being bullied Around the world.
bullying is when some one is constantly herring people and their is an enablence of power between them
Physical bullying includes hitting kicking pinching tripping and any other type of physical violence towards another person.
Verbal bullying includes name-calling insults teasing intimidation or any other thing said from one person to another that is not of a nice nature.
Social bullying, sometimes referred to as covert bullying, is often harder to recognize and can be carried out in a way so the one who is bullied don't even know it is happening.
Cyber bullying the use of electronic communication like texting or the use of Social media to bully other people or classmates.