Or their madly sending nasty text messages or leaving anonymous commentaries on social websites like MySpace or Facebook. Rumors fly, caddy remarks sneak out while they pass each other in the hall, they make smear blogs to hurt others and put them down, they get in fist fights over looks and stealing boys. The competition to be the prettiest, smartest, and most popular makes girls turn vicious animals. Girls even resort to make fake web pages to get you “add” them as a friend and slowly start talking to all your friends trying to turn them against. Girls get so scared and embarrassed that they stop going to school are put in therapy and sometimes lead to drugs and alcohol to make the pain go away.
This incident is an example of physical violence and contains both themes of the negative influence of peers, and more importantly, powerlessness. In this scene, Tiffany portrays the physical powerlessness among woman, when confronted by violent youths. The language of the characters and the stage directions contribute to the conveyance of violence in this scene. The quote, “She runs away. Ricko attacks Jared.
Hate crimes affect the victim as well as the community. People commit hate crimes for various reasons; they are unwelcoming of those who aren’t of the same characteristics per se. They feel the need to bully those who they feel are beneath them to compensate for their own short comings. Hate crimes affect individuals from all walks of life. Including but not limited to those of religious, race, and sexual orientation.
Also, both movies have a “leader of the pack”mentality . In The Crucible, the group leader is Abigail Williams, who scares the rest of the girls into lying and accuse the older people in the village. In one scene Abigail says infuriated “Let either of you breathe a word about the other things, and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” In Mean Girls, the leader of the group is Cady, who is in charge of the “plastics” and directs the flow of insults at other kids at the high school. During one scene in the movie, Both Abigail and Cady carry on without any regard to their moral thoughts and, when caught up in the moment, do things that they probably wouldn’t have
When it is used irresponsibly, it fluctuates into a dangerous tool to use. It creates an unlimited amount of potential threats to people everywhere. This is where cyber bullying comes in at. Why should cyber bullying be stopped? When children start to abuse the convenience of the internet by harassing other people, the internet becomes very dangerous.
Children and young people are at risk of bullying when using the internet, mobile phone and other technologies as it provides an anonymous method of bullying by way of text messages and emails which can be emotionally damaging to a child or young person. Racist, anti-social and cult groups use modern technologies to preach and spread what they are and what they stand for, leaving children and young people very venerable to becoming part of their activity which is unhealthy, unsafe and often illegal. Children and young people are very venerable to predators of all natures using the internet and other technologies, by the encouragement of giving out personal information about them and others close to them, which will put not
There are various types of bullying but all of them implicate an imbalance of power between the bully and the victim, which is normally intentional and harmful with a tendency of being repetitive (Olweus, 1993). According to Dodge and Coie (1987) a bully is someone that performs a repetitive proactive aggression action towards someone without being provoked. The ratio of frequent bullying reported internationally ranges from a low of 1.9% among 1 Irish sample to a high of 19% in a Malta study. (Nansel, et al., 2001) Bullying behaviour comes in various forms, it can be direct and evident like hitting and name-calling or more indirect or subtle like spreading rumours and social exclusion. The following is a list of types of bullying which a child can be subject to: 1.
Running head: MATRIX COMPARISON: WORKPLACE BULLYING 1 Matrix Comparison: Workplace Bullying Fabian Solano Carrillo Grand Canyon University MATRIX COMPARISON: WORKPLACE BULLYING 2 Matrix Comparison: Workplace Bullying Bullying is defined as the evolving process in which an individual finds themselves in an inferior position and becomes the target of systematic negative social acts by one or more perpetrators (Hauge, Skogstad, & Einarsen, 2009). Bullying can take many forms, from gossiping and social exclusion, to more extreme forms such as physical violence. In time, this phenomenon leads to psychological damage in which an individual begins to feel a sense of worthlessness, leading to retaliation that is deemed justified by
(Shores 40). Bully occurs in many ways when it comes to boys, they are more likely to attack one another in fighting while girls bullying occurs through rumors about each other. When this happen, students are sometimes rejected(shore41). I feel the cause of
People often believe that bullies are individual sadists in society, who seek pleasure from other’s despair. Due to this common misconception, people fail to understand that an average citizen can become a bully based on the circumstantial factors in an atmosphere (Zimbardo, Lucifer). Various psychological experiments have proven that bullying occurs due to the presence of specific social factors in an environment. Anonymity is a primary social factor which promotes bullying, since it creates a lack of empathy in an atmosphere. The ignorance of authority figures is another social factor which causes bullying since it creates an acceptable environment for victimization.