Peace Essays - Abuse, Social Psychology, Persecution, Aggression

Peace Jay Kline Analysis Paper Bullying is a common issue within todays schooling system. The author makes it a point to talk about the behavioral aspect behind bullying, stating that bullying is a Distinct form of proactive aggression that is intentional, repeated, and involves imbalance between the perpetrator and victim. In the article,Direct Bullying: Criminal Act or Mimicking What Has Been Learned,exposing the underlying issue behind the aggressors mindset during an act of bullying. In their minds (the bully), they are choosing to act out of a repeated or learned habit that was potentially formed as a coping mechanism due to hardships faced in their own daily may be obvious and easy to notice due to the nave nature of the individual. For instance, a fifth grader may be more likely to bully a younger third grader versus a fellow peer because the third grader is more than likely smaller, younger in age, and less of a threat to their level of intelligence. Bullies are not always verbal in their acts of aggres sion; frankly it is more of the subtle acts that place more of a fear into their victims minds. After reading the first article I read two more articles about the topic of bullying and another easy way, from the article, A Latent Class Approach to Examining Forms of Pure Victimization,to break down the target is by starting rumors, sexual comments, or gestures(Card behaviors such as these have a longer lasting affect mentally on the individual. A rumor may last days to months whereas physical acts such as pushing, shove, or kicking are but momentary lessons of fear. The bullys objective is to not only harass but to cause one to unconsciously be willing to submit and surrender them without putting up much of a fight. In the Journal of Child Although we see it is possible to bully a person in more than one way, which does not alleviate its original form of expression, physical bullying. As Joseph Simplicio refers to our two most focus generations where bullying has seemed to reach it s peak; Generation Z / Generation I Internet Children (those born from 1994- 2004) rumor spreading, physical harming, and cyber harassment. When reading these three articles, it questions if the first article presented, Direct Bullying: Criminal Act or Mimicking What Has Been Learned,does not only hold true facts and statements from the author but that its also a reliable source. Although, there were some similarities between them, they also had a lot of different things to say about what exactly leads to bullying and why children and teens do it. Yet, I do think they were all saying the same thing, just in different ways to overall have a broad maybe even better understanding. I think the second and third articles were written more on a higher level of reading which also is pointed towards different audiences. A person younger then I would clearly understand the first article because its kind of common sense verses the other two reaching out to college students like myself and adu lts. Overall, I think all the articles