Causes+of+Bullying

Causes of Bullying

Vanessa

[|Bullies pry on the Weak, but Both Suffer] "Bullies Prey on the Weak, but Both Suffer." WebMD Health News, 8 Dec. 2003. Web. 16 Mar. 2011.

Haley Pogonowski

Child Bullying, School Bullying, Bullycide. The intended audience for this piece is students. The author of this piece mainly focuses on why a bully bullies. He/She uses examples of situations as evidence to try to convince the reader of reasons bullies bully. One solution the author gives is to create an anti-bullying policy in schools.

Neglect at home, physical punishment, role models.

"Bullying in Schools." Child Bullying School Bullying Bullycide. Bully Online. Web. 7 Feb. 2011.

Kierstynn Morehouse

School Bullying: Finding the Root cause The author’s reason for writing this article is for letting people know the root of causes of bullying in school around the United states. The attended audience is the public. The author’s main idea for writing this article was to show people the cause and effects of bullying in school. The authors focus in this piece is bullying inherited or taught. The author concentrated on how bullies seemed to attack people who seemed weaker than them. The author questioned high school students, professors from colleges and books dealing with bullying. An example of the author’s source used is Professor Stephan Wisecarver said, “there are different factors in students bullying other students.” The validity of this article came through by student Shareka Bannerman who is a sophomore at Sootland High School who states that bullying is a common occurrence at her high school daily. Some major consequences of Bullying in high school is kids feeling isolated, alone, depression and even suicidal. To prevent the above mentioned the author recommend to keep an open line of communication between student, teacher and parents. Bullying doesn’t only affect one person but branches out and touches every one. That is why the author recommends that when you see someone being bullied to get involved and help. Bullying comes down to a person not having a strong self esteem and seeking out a person they deem weaker and making them feel worse all the while making the bully feel better.

mental,physical and effects

Plummer, Janelle L. "School Bullying: Finding the Root Cause." American Observer. 8 Nov. 2007. Web. 8 Feb. 2011.

Alex Labruzzo and Emma Underwood

What Causes Bullies? This article by Jane St. Clair is about the different causes of bullying and how parents maybe can prevent it from happening. The main idea of this article is what the causes are of kids becoming bullies and what behaviors lead to it happening. She intended for this to be read by mainly parents but also could be a useful source to any who is interested in this topic. She is mainly focused on the causes that lead to kids becoming bullies, like different conditions of their home life or how some genetic traits could be a cause. She concentrates on bullies and how they might be victims themselves, also that the parents are not always innocent in these situations. She provides studies done by psychiatric doctors. She also concentrates her attention on why the bullies might bully and how parents can help prevent it or stop it. She states that bullies can come from all backgrounds and types of homes.

Behaviors, Bullies as victims, Home life

St. Clair, Jane. "What Causes Bullies?" Www.byparents-forparents.com. CRC Health Group. Web. 8 Feb. 2011.

Aleesha McGrath Bullying and Smoking This article written by Erin B. Morris, Bo Zhang and Susan J. Bondy demonstrates the effects smoking can have on bullying. It is intended to teach students and young adults about how smoking can increase involvement in bullying. Their concentration is on the studies done on this topic and the results from these studies. The authors provide results from their research and studies they have done in schools. These results include percents and numbers to convince the reader that smoking really does affect bullying. One of the many consequences from this topic is an increase in bullying when someone is involved in smoking, although the effect is only common with females who smoke. Ways to prevent this increase is to stay away from smoking and those who smoke. A conclusion drawn from the study results is that bullying is a major problem and smoking can increase the chances of bullying.

Things increasing bullying, Smoking and bullying ties, Drugs

Morris, Erin B., Bo Zhang, and Susan J. Bondy. "Bullying and Smoking: Examining the Relationships in Ontario Adolescents.(Health Behavior in School-Aged Children)." Journal of School Health (2006): 465+. Student Resource Center Junior. Web. 4 Feb. 2011.

Mason Gentner

Mary Curtner-Smith is a journalist who writes about how parents’ treatment of their children and home life affects whether a child turns out to be a bully or not. She tries to tell parents that being cold and hostile toward their children leads them to become bullies. On the other hand, she also states that parents who are kind and nurturing to their children will result in them being more social and more likely not to be bullies. The author provides a scientific experiment for evidence that her hypothesis is correct. She explains that the consequences of a bad home life leads to bullying and that can lead to suicide and depression of the victim. The author explains that if parents are able to monitor and promote social interactions with other children and be supportive, then the bullying rate in schools could drastically decrease. This nurturing in the home can help prevent future bullying and help prevent bullycide and other effects of bullying.
 * MECHANISMS BY WHICH FAMILY PROCESSES CONTRIBUTE TO SCHOOL-AGE BOYS' BULLYING. **

Reasons to Bully, Boys Bullying, Family Influences

Curtner-Smith, Mary Elizabeth. "MECHANISMS BY WHICH FAMILY PROCESSES CONTRIBUTE TO SCHOOL-AGE BOYS' BULLYING." Child Study Journal (2000): 169. Student Resource Center Junior. Web. 4 Feb. 2011

Mitch Hayden

How a Bully Targets When you ask yourself “Have I been bullied?” or “Have I bullied anyone?” you may want to check out this list of who a bully targets. This gives a quick insight to how bullies feel and what they look for when finding their victims. Remember you don’t have to be unpopular to be a victim of bullying.

How bullies target, how a bully thinks, about bullies

"How a Bully Targets." LAAB. Web. 09 Feb. 2011.

Alex Labruzzo

[|Mean teens: why do students bully, and how can the persecution be stopped.] This is a magazine article that is very insightful to anyone who is looking for information on bullying and what are its causes. The author Kirsten Weir focuses on the kinds of aggression the bullies have what kinds of kids they are most likely to target. She also gives useful tips on how to help make it stop. She provides a wide verity of evidence to support her and her studies. One big point that the author makes is the most effective way to make it stop is just by ignoring the bully and his or her insults.

Bullies aggression, Why they Bully, Who they target

Weir, Kirsten. "Mean Teens: Why Do Students Bully, and How Can the Persecution Be Stopped?" //Weekly Reader// 26 Nov. 2010: 6+. //Student Resource Center Junior//. Web. 14 Feb. 2011.

Aleesha McGrath

What Causes Bullying: Where do they come from? The purpose for this article being written is to inform people on the many reasons a bully is a bully. The intended audience is anyone who is interested in the causes of bullying. The focus of this article is causes of bullying in the classroom. The consequence of this topic is the actual act of bullying which would lead to depression, suicidal thoughts and attempts and many other effects of bullying. The author states that the teacher in the classroom needs to recognize when there is a bully because the faster the bully gets help, the faster the problem can be resolved. Bullying is a big problem but if certain signs are recognized, it can be stopped.

Bullying causes, Signs of bullying, Causes of bullies in the classroom

Chinappi, Jaqueline. "What Causes Bullying: Where Do They Come From?" Bright Hub. Ed. Maryam Di Mauro. 30 Dec. 2009. Web. 14 Feb. 2011.

Mitch Hayden

[|How a Bully Targets] When you ask yourself “Have I been bullied?” or “Have I bullied anyone?” you may want to check out this list of who a bully targets. This gives a quick insight to how bullies feel and what they look for when finding their victims. Remember you don’t have to be unpopular to be a victim of bullying.

How a bully target, How a bully thinks, About bullies

Alex Labruzzo

[|Causes of School Bullying] The reason for this article is to futher inform people about bullying mainly in school. The auther Karen Hollowell focuses on many key points of why bullies might be doing what they are doing. She explains how it might be a desire for control or attention and other things. This article was written to be read by people of all ages to get who want to be informed about why kid might be bullies and why they do it. This article also has many insightful links that relate to bullying that can be useful for research. Although the author does not provide a solution or a way of prevention you can infer from the information given to come up with your own solutions.

Desire, School, Media

Hollowell, Karen. "Causes of School Bullying." EHow.com. Demand Media. Web. 15 Feb. 2011.

Aleesha McGrath

Bullying!-Causes and Possible Solutions This article is written to alert people of the possible causes of bullying in schools. They provide recent cases of bullying in Japan to demonstrate how severe bullying can be. The consequence of this act is that it can lead to depression, suicide, violence, etc. in the victims of bullying. The author of this article suggests that parents and teachers need to recognize bullies and change their way of thinking and addressing the issue. This concludes that children under a lot of stress are more likely to take it out on others.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Too much studying, stress, Video games

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Osaka Jogakuin College. "Bullying!-Causes and Possible Solutions." Child Research Net. Web. 15 Feb. 2011.


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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">[|Why do People Bully?] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In writing this article, author Jessica Marshall intends to more thoroughly elaborate for the general public why kids and teens bully. In this article Jessica gives two huge reasons why bullies bully. She provides evidence such as the tragic story of Phoebe Prince and other data taken from interviews with those who are experts in the field of bullying. Jessica does not so much offer a solution but does hint that parents need to mold their children into caring people and that kids as a group need to disapprove of bullying because, according to Marshall a common reason of bullying is peer pressure.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tags: peer pressure bullying, suicide, home life

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Marshall, Jessica. "Why Do People Bully?" Discovery News. Discovery Communications, 1 Apr. 2010. Web. 15 Feb. 2011. <http://news.discovery.com/human/bullying-phoebe-prince-teens.html>.

Aleesha McGrath

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