UNIVERSIDAD

DE SAN PEDRO
SULA
STUDENTS:
STEPHANIE ALEJANDRA CLAROS TEJADA
GENESIS SARAHI PINEDA CASTELLON
MARLON RUBEN ARITA FRANCO
SUBJECT: ENGLISH IV

TOPIC: BULLYING:
SUB-TOPICS:
BULLYING IN SCHOOL
DAY TO DAY EXAMPLES OF BULLYING
IN SCHOOL
WAYS TO PREVENT BULLYING IN
SCHOOL
VALUE: __ %

DATE: 15/01/14

TEACHER: NELSON L. VARGAS

INTRODUCTION
Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or
aggressively dominate others. The behavior is often repeated and
habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by
others, of an imbalance of social or physical power. Behaviors used to
assert such domination can include verbal harassment or threat,
physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be directed repeatedly
towards particular targets. Rationalizations for such behavior sometimes
include differences of social class, race, religion, gender, sexual
orientation, appearance, behavior, body language, personality,
reputation, lineage, strength, size or ability. If bullying is done by a
group, it is called mobbing. "Targets" of bullying are also sometimes
referred to as "victims" of bullying.
Bullying can be defined in many different ways. The UK has no legal
definition of bullying, while some U.S. states have laws against it.
Bullying is divided into four basic types of abuse emotional (sometimes
called relational), verbal, physical, and cyber. It typically involves subtle
methods of coercion, such as intimidation.
Bullying ranges from simple one-on-one bullying to more complex
bullying in which the bully may have one or more "lieutenants" who may
seem to be willing to assist the primary bully in his or her bullying
activities. Bullying in school and the workplace is also referred to as peer
abuse. Robert W. Fuller has analyzed bullying in the context of rankism.
A bullying culture can develop in any context in which animals interact
with each other. This includes school, family, the workplace, home, and
neighborhoods. In a 2012 study of male adolescent American football
players, "the strongest predictor was the perception of whether the most
influential male in a player's life would approve of the bullying behavior".

If you saw bullying, what would you do to stop it? Would you
stand by and let it happen, take part in it or try to stop it? Not
many students think about this, and thats part of the
problem.
Treat others the way you want to be treated. Thats the
Golden Rule and it should be followed in every aspect of your
life. If someone was in a position to stop you from being
bullied and did nothing, how would you feel? If you find that
unacceptable, you must do everything you can to stop others
from hurting people.
Are you even remotely aware of how much pain these victims
feel every day? They go to school knowing theyre going to be
hurt and they see no way out. This is because people like you
and many others stand by and let it happen without
contemplating how much pain this is causing people. Ask
yourself this: How would you feel if you were in the victims
position and could see no end to your pain?
When the victims see no way out, they may choose to
tragically end their life, leaving more hurt behind for those
who were unable to stop it. Canada has the third-highest teen
suicide rate of all the industrialized nations, with 15 deaths
per 100,000 people. Suicide is the second leading cause of
death for people ages 10-24, behind motor vehicle accidents.
The death of a young person is always a waste of life, so how
many more lives must be wasted before something is done?
If you condone bullying in any way, shape or form, you are
taking part in it. Bullying is everyones responsibility and the
option of doing nothing is unacceptable in civilized society.
Some people may consider mocking someone funny, even
though it is anything but funny to the victim. Small jabs taken
every day can add up to a lot of pain and suffering. While it
may seem innocent to the person taking the shots, the
cumulative effect of these daily jabs could be devastating. In
addition to that, as the pain increases, each jab cuts a little
deeper.
Bullying can happen in school, so it is the responsibility of
students to protect their classmates and to show everyone the
dignity and respect they would like to be treated with. The

first line of defense in bullying is in students own behavior.

But when that fails, it must be brought to the attention of
someone in authority, like a teacher. The concept of someone
in authority failing to address the problem is simply not
acceptable. This is why you must speak to a teacher you trust
and know will do something to stop the bullying.

One of the effects of bullying is that it can change the victims

personality. It can cause people who are normally confident
and happy to become self-conscious, shy, and unsure.
Additionally, victims of bullying may also become sad or
depressed. Their confidence might completely disappear,
keeping them from trying new things or trusting people. Once
a person has been bullied, they may hesitate to participate in
situations where he or she might be ridiculed, such as in
public speaking or in sports. A bullying victim might even
begin to possess previously absent anxious behavior.
Despite all the negative effects of bullying, there are even far
more serious consequences. People who have been bullied
sometimes become so upset, scared, or depressed that they
see no worth in themselves and no way out of their torment.
There have been countless reports over the past few years of
students committing suicide because they were bullied.
Meanwhile, there are times when victims see no recourse but
to seek revenge by serious acts of violence against the bully
and instigators. As a result of bullying, people can lose their
ability to love and trust, denying them the chance to
experience a quality relationship later in their life. They might
find themselves as a submissive partner or they may want to
be completely alone. Compounding all of these problems,
victims often develop eating disorders, begin to self-injure, or
require extensive counseling. Social bullying can also leave
people without a supportive group of friends that they can
lean on and spend time with.
Another unfortunate consequence of this is that bullying is
often cyclical. People who have been bullied can, in an
attempt to gain their power and self-esteem back, become
bullies themselves. In relation to this, bullies who are not
confronted or stopped may find themselves in future positions
where they can bully as adults. This is where manipulative
bosses and child abusers come from.
Aside from its long-term effects, some consequences of
bullying can be seen and felt immediately. When one child
calls another child names, the victim might cry and a bruise
might appear after a punch to the arm. However, some effects
of bullying are not always obvious to the naked eye. The

results of bullying might grow and appear over time,

damaging a person in profound ways for the long term. There
are so many effects of bullying that they are impossible to
count or predict. This is why it is so important to stop bullying .

BULLYING IN SCHOOL
Bullying is a very popular disease among the school students
today. Bullies may be specified as endangered species who
make ridicule of others for their own fun. Although life is a
journey and a tough fight, but, not everyones a fighter.
Students with money power try to harm other students and
cease their dignity and innocence for the entire school life. To
discuss this current topic, I have divided my sample paper into
3 sections specifying the practice of bullying and how we can
prevent it and save the children from facing this annoyance.
Bullying means to intimidate other students (in school or
college context) to do what one wants. Typically, Bullying is
similar to ragging whereby group of people with high profile or
superiority or seniority do pillory or scoff at the benign
students. One should never do a wrong thing to make friends.
Just for the sake of impressing other classmates, one should
not attempt anything wrong that may harm a credulous
student in anyway.

DAY TO DAY EXAMPLES OF BULLYING IN

SCHOOL
We often come across news, showcasing the effect of bullying
in schools and the side effects on the harmed students. There
are various types of bullying experienced in schools among
the students like: teasing, taunting, threatening, hitting,
spitting, and embarrassing others in public place. All these
actions may assault ones dignity. The effect of bullying on the
children is so negative, that it may damage their academic
performance. It may force students to even commit suicide. It
harms the students not only mentally but physically,
emotionally, and socially. The cause of bullying varies from
case to case. The assault may be due to some personal
reasons or out of jealousy or it may depend upon the family
background of bullies. Such families are considered to be
dysfunctional as they are not interested in knowing about
their child activities in school. With ignorance comes fear and
the fear leads to dogmatism. Education is the key to
acceptance. Such cases can be avoided by the combined
efforts of school, parents and off course with the help of
school students. It is said that with time, everything settles

down, but in such cases we cant wait for time otherwise

something bad may happen and then no one will be able to
handle its consequences.

WAYS TO PREVENT BULLYING IN SCHOOL

Some people feel that bullying is a normal part of growing
days but, its not normal, rather something very aggressive. It
has the potential to ruin a students school life and must be
avoided as much as the school authority can, and the parents
can. Although teasing is a type of bullying but not identical to
bullying. Teasing is done to provoke other student with
continual distractions. Bullying means an imbalance of power.
Bullied students are unable to defend themselves and this
causes imbalance of power. The school faculty must change
their attitude to prevent bullying. They must be nonjudgmental, non-partial to students and must justify all the
matters sincerely not by taking the side of any student but by
being reasonable and practical over a particular matter.
Although a school authority performs the duties genuinely still
the news of bullying is often heard. Its because the students
remain quiet and dont bully in the schools because of the fear
of authorities but their thinking remains the same. Maybe they
dont harm their classmates but what about their life, their
attitude outside the school? In order to change them
completely i.e., not only practically or awfully but emotionally
also, the help of a childs parents is indispensable. They must
guide their children about their attitude. They must explain
the children about what is right and what is wrong.
This would surround the students with positive energy and will
definitely help them to overcome their bullying attitude. Rich
or poor, high class or low class every child is same and equal
and their innocence must not be harmed by substandard and
unsatisfactory attitude. Lastly , I want to say that each of us is
a book to be written, either good or bad , worst or best and, if
written, defines a persons personality i.e., a persons persona
is by the people, the nature, the positive or the negative
energy surrounding him. Good the surroundings are, best a
person is.

CONCLUSIONS
Bullying is a serious problem with many serious effects that
can be long lasting and even cause suicide. There are many
ways that we as a public can help and it is up to everyone to
do their part and help put an end to bullying in school.
Bullying is the act of aggressive and unwanted behavior that
involves intimidating and/or physically harming another
person. Among school age children, bullying involves a power
imbalance of the stronger attacking the weaker. Children who
are victims of bullying often feel alone and powerless to
change their situation. When a child is bullied he can feel
isolated, and clinical depression and low self-confidence may
develop.
Bullying is happening everywhere, even at your own school.
You may not see it, you may not know it is there, but it is
happening and it causes unimaginable pain to the victims.
The only way to end bullying is to talk about it openly rather
than making it a taboo issue. If someone is hurting another
person, they will not stop unless someone (either a fellow
classmate or someone in authority) stands up for the victim
and tells their tormentor to stop. Bullying is everyones
problem; therefore everyone has to be part of the solution.