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ENGL 1301
10 November 2011
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Bullying: Not Ok. (There are errors in the highlighted citations)
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Bullying hurts the many lives that the bully attacks. Is it really the bully’s fault or
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is it where he/she grew up? Is it the fact he/she has low self-esteem? Or is it the fact
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they have immature social skills? There are many stories out there of many children to
back up these theories. These are the things we should ask ourselves when we hear about
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bullies or when we’re raising our children. Bullies should not be allowed to attack
another person, but there are some people out there that do say bullying matures the
victims. Bullies are insecure about themselves and also the environment there in affects
them, so to make them feel superior they bully others.
“Bullies from back in the day where never this bad, people would just say walk
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away or hit them back but now bullying has hit another level” states Pauline Wallin,
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Ph.D. Bullying has come from something as simple as teasing; now it’s getting worse.
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We’ve gone from bullies saying it to the children’s face now to hitting their victims on
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the internet. Bullies affect everyone involved: parents, teachers and the lives of the
victims. We all were bullied and then we turn to the bullying to really see how it feels.
Most bullies never grow out of that and do bigger things like turn to violence and to
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drugs to feel something, to feel like they belong in society if it’s good or bad.
Some say it starts out at home, where the child is shown no love and affection.
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“Kids who live in homes where physical punishment is frequent and unpredictable,
Violence on TV and in movies, song lyrics encourage the idea that hurting others is
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acceptable” (www.pennlive.com). Let us imagine: John grows up in a house where he
and his mother are being abused by his father on every occasion. His mother couldn’t
show him love because she was ashamed of herself of what was going on at home. John
had no other way to take out his pain at home, so when he went to school, he would bully
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another student. This was how John felt better; also, this was all he has known coming
from a “broken home.” There is also the violence on TV and in movies. When a child is
not being monitored of what their watching, the violent shows might be on and that’s
what they think is right. Songs have turned a whole new corner, with their lyrics stating
how someone might treat another. “He hit me with a surprise left, My jaw left hurting,
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Dropped wide open” (www.lyrics007.com). These lyrics from Pearl Jam show that some
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artist say things and they don’t know what might happen when someone actually listens
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to them.
If it’s not the environment, some say they just might have low self-esteem. Bullies
who have low self-esteem might bully the ones who have low self-esteem, as well, to
make themselves feel superior. “Social scientists believed low self-esteem was often at
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the root of the violent behavior” (opposing viewpoints resource center). Another scenario
to consider: Sally looks in the mirror and doesn’t like what she sees, but she puts a fake
smile on and heads to school and lets no one know she has low self-esteem. She hangs
with girls who also feel low about themselves. When they make comments about their
bodies or anything about their image she agrees and laughs, hurting their feelings. She
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makes it to where when these girls put their own self down, Sally feels good about
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herself. Bullies with low self-esteem hang with others so they feel superior; they’re good
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at hiding how they really feel. “People failed to recognize the psychic trauma a child
could experience from peer rejection. We do not train children how to deal with it”
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(opposing viewpoints resource center). If adults could sit there and actually talk to their
children and tell them that we are all equal in every way maybe that will help the child’s
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self-esteem; also, it would lower some of the bullying.
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If it’s not one, it’s the other: immature social skills are also key to bullying. They
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don’t know how to solve problems with others also they can’t communicate well with
other students. “Youngsters and teens who lack social problem-solving skills are more
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likely to become bullies, victims or both, also do poorly at school” (health.usnews.com).
These children were never taught how to interact with another child. For instance,
Sammy doesn’t have a good childhood at home and really doesn’t know how to interact
with his classmates, so he picks on other classmates that don’t have someone to
communicate with. He then feels like he fits in when all the other students laugh. These
are the signs that something is wrong and someone should try and talk with these young
children.
With all the reasons why bullies bully, there are some people out there that say
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it’s ok, that it will help the bullied children later on with their self-esteem and that they
mature faster. There was a study done in California about children who stood up to the
bullies and their results were that, “Children who returned hostility with hostility
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appeared to be the most mature, the researchers found” (www.dailymail.co.uk). Now,
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we’re saying that bullying is ok? These are children that feel that they are strong enough
to stand up to them, but what happens to the children who aren’t and they still get picked
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on? They say these things will work out but then we have to look at the bigger picture
because what if no one can do anything to stand up for themselves and then they feel like
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they are at the bottom of the food chain? Perhaps it will lead to worse things, such as
drug abuse, low self-esteem, and maybe even suicide.
No matter how much we argue about bullying and state the facts, it will still
happen, and some people might not pay attention to it. These children are hurting inside
and there should at least be one person out there they can talk to. So I’m saying let’s stop
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this. Let’s put an end to bullying and save some lives.
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Works Citied (There are major errors in this WC page)
Derbyshire, David. “Why it’s not always bad to be bullied: Learning to fight back helps
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children mature, says study.” Daily Mail. 2010
Health day. “Kids Who Do Poorly in School More Likely to Become Bullies.” Us. News
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Health Hospitals. Mental Health America has more about bullying. Copyright ©
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2011 HealthDay. All rights reserved.
Pearl Jam. “Jeremy Lyrics” www.lyrics007.com.
Soskis, Benjamin. "The Extent of Bullying Is Exaggerated." Opposing Viewpoints:
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America's Youth. Ed. Roman Espejo. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2003.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Houston Community College. 4
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Wallin, Pauline. “Bullying: what’s the big deal?” Pennlive.com Published: Tuesday,
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February 17, 2009, 8:00 AM Updated: Monday, February 01, 2010, 11:51 AM.