Our society functions under the assumption that certain individuals are more powerful than the others, thus, we have the play of powers in every human social interaction. The social strata of our country is an example that some individuals are more powerful than the rest. However power can either be a boon or bane to society depending upon how a person exercises his power. Thus […]

I, How many of you have been hearing about bullying? As you may hear on TVs or news or people are talking about the rates of bullying is going up from years to years. II, According to a research survey, bullying occurs once every 7 minutes in schools. Due to the National Youth Violence Prevention Center, almost 30% of adolescences in the USA (or over […]

Actions that use information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm another or others. •use of communication technologies for the intention of harming another person •use of internet service and mobile technologies such as web pages and discussion groups as well as instant messaging or SMStext messaging with the intention of harming […]

In these days, internet has become a vital part of our life – both in working or killing time. We may even regard this invisible site as an epitome of our society in reality. Therefore, every phenomenon that takes place in the internet somehow is a projection from out real life. While, bullying, is transformed to a phenomenon in the internet that called cyber-bullying. Why […]

Primary and secondary schools children have been or are being bullied in one way or the order, by the time they reach their teens, fewer than half will tell a parent and at the very most, only a third will tell a teacher. Some children may get over an episode of bullying quickly but for others, the damage can go on for years. Children who […]

A topic of great concern among American society, and parents in particular, is that of youth violence. The media often makes the situation appear as though youth violence is on the increase in the United States. However, scientific research shows that youth violence is not truly increasing, but that certain environmental factors make the statistics read as though the violence is increasing. Statistics can be […]

All over the United States, school-aged children get bullied every day, and some cases lead to suicide. In a YouTube video by ABC News, over a young girl who ended her life due to cyber-bullying, the school she attended knew what was going on but did nothing to stop it. In most cases, the school systems knew about the students being bullied, but they inquired […]

Cyberbullying or cyberbullying is a modern form of aggression that has become widespread with the advent of mobile phones, the Internet. All its forms are intended to provoke, cause harm or humiliate a person remotely, without physical violence (as opposed to intimidation). Social networks, forums, chats, mobile phones and more are the boiler’s “weapons”. One of the first well-known illustrations of cyberbullying began as fun […]

As time passes, technology advances. With every advancement that comes it seems that the children of the generation are given a new way to harass each other; the hottest thing this generation being bullying through the use of e-technologies. For those of you who don’t know what e-technologies are, here are some examples: cell phones, text messages, multimedia messages, e-mail, and any web page accessed […]

Bullying is recognized as a form of aggressive behavior that repeatedly implicates severe consequences to the victims. Even though bullying commonly happens in childhood, the impact can last well into adulthood. In order to provide them with such education and successfully decrease the bullying issues from schools, we need to determine the causes and effects that school bullying poses on children. Children who bully usually […]