ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Who Do Bullies Target
Bindley, K. (2012, August 08). Bullying and suicide: The dangerous mistake we make. Huffington Post. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/bullying-suicide-teens-depression_n_1247875.html
In this newspaper article Bindley used two stories, one of a college student, Tyler Clementi, who killed himself because a roommate of his filmed him kissing another male student. The other story was of a female high school student, Phoebe Prince, who committed suicide after being bullied by classmates. Bullying comes in different forms Bindley says not all are as straight forward as others. By the roommate simply recording him and maybe threatening to show others as suspected it affected Tyler tremendously and would rather die than have word get out of his sexual preference. “Young people may not be able to avoid exposure to bullying or suicide” (Bindley 2012). By that Bindley means bullying is everywhere and done by everyone and Is nearly impossible to not get bullied one time or another. Bindley also states that “Even though suicides often prove to involve multiple factors, most experts are still quick to add that bullying can aggravate depression and increase suicide risk, and its seriousness shouldn't be minimized.” Which is correct. Most people minimize bullying and say its not that big of a deal.
Harris , S. (2003). Bullying : The bullies, the victims, the bystanders. Scarecrow Press. Retrieved from http://0-web.ebscohost.com.lib.utep.edu/ehost/detail?sid=d465097b-abf1-4980-97fcfcf5f3ff41a8@sessionmgr111&vid=1&hid=113&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl
Harris’s book gives overviews of bullying throughout the stages of life (elementary, middle, and high school). In the book it is stated that “children entering kindergarten could be at high risk for being bullied and should be trained to cope before they ever enter school.”(Harris, 2003). When transitioning from elementary to middle school bullying is more common because of the new structure of their schedules and children trying to establish their dominance. Years later an adult describes his peers from middle school as “The meanest people I ever met.” (Jake C. 24, 2003). Instead of dying down, bullying in high school only worsens. Girls are becoming much more violent, their rates in committing violent acts are increasing nearly 36 percent faster than boys. Also teens in America are 10 times more likely to commit murder because of bullies than in Canada. The book gives great knowledge and statistics about bullying in the United States as well as other countries.
Limber, S. (2007). Electronic bullying among middle school students. Retrieved from http://www.jahonline.org/webfiles/images/journals/jah/zaq11207000S22.pdf
Limber is discussing the reasoning behind cyber bullying in her journal article. It is said it is mostly students who are victims of bullying who are the bullies over the internet. The reasoning being is because they sometimes hide their identity with fake usernames and pictures just to get back at students who might have bullied them or to just feel that dominance over another after being bullied to compensate for it. In a pole taken of 3,767 6th, 7th, and 8th, grade students 11 percent of them had been cyber bullied at least once in the last couple of months, 7 percent of them said they were either a bully or victim, and 4 percent admitted to cyber bullying others at least once in the last two months. Limber went on to explain that “because of the rising of technology cyber bullying is only expected to get worse” (Limber 2003). I agree with her. Most students now are carrying around ipads smart phones and laptops, giving more opportunity to get cyber bullied.
Lyness, D. (2010, October). Dealing with bullying. Retrieved from http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/problems/bullies.html
In Dr. Lyness’s website she gives a number of points to help students and parents understand why they are getting bullied. She begins with saying what an epidemic bullying has become. Children and teens wake up every morning terrified to go to school, it affects millions of students nationwide. “two of the main reasons people are bullied are because of appearance and social status” (Lyness 2010) Many students don’t fit in as well as others do they may have a different skin color, religion, or can be gay, lesbian, or transgendered and for those reasons students are being harassed in schools. Some students are being physically hit or just verbally attacked which both are extremely harmful to both boys and girls being bullied. Lyness says that children getting bullied may find their schoolwork and also their health suffering. Getting bullied can take a large toll on a person physically and mentally which she is trying to make more known.
O'CONNOR, A. (2012, September 03). School bullies prey on children with autism. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/school-bullies-prey-on-children-with-autism/?ref=bullies
As O’Connor wrote in The New York Times, Children with autism and other disabilities a child may have is what bullies prey on. “Researchers found that the risk of being bullied was greatest for high-functioning children who end up not in special education programs, but in mainstream classes, where their quirks and unusual mannerisms stand out and they are more exposed to bullies.” (O’Connor 2012). Because these students are not separated with the students with the more serious cases of disabilities they are just seen as “weird” which is why other students do not hesitate to bully them. Some Children with autism lack social skills and do not realize when they are getting bullied so many cases are not reported. A lot of the students with disabilities are afraid to tell others about being bullied because they are already shunned from the other groups and don’t want to make matters worse by telling on students, making them dislike them even more.
Shuster, M. (2003). Bullying among young adolescents: The strong, the weak, and the troubled. Retrieved from http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/112/6/1231
In Shuster’s journal article he identified the difference between bullies, victimis, and bully-victim. Knowing the difference can help determine why they are either getting bullied or bullying others themselves. Bullies were usually children who were seeking attention because they probably not getting the attention at home. And bully-victims may be students who are getting bullied by either parents or siblings at home and feel they need to bully others to feel that power. Shuster did a research and took students from 11 different schools (mostly latino, and black 6th graders). From the results gathered it was said that from those 11 schools 22 percent of them were bullies, 7 percent were perpetrators 9 percent were victims and 6 percent were both. “Victims were emotionally distressed and socially marginalized among their class mates.” “Bully-victims were the most troubled group, displaying the highest level of conduct, school, and peer relationship problems.” (Shuster 2003)
Simon, M. (2009). My bullied son's last day on earth. Retrieved from http://articles.cnn.com/2009-04-23/us/bullying.suicide_1_bullies-gay-tired?_s=PM:US
Simons article was about a 12 year old boy who committed suicide after being bullied by classmates calling him “gay, ugly and "the virgin" because he was from the Virgin Islands (Simon 2009). Simon believes that if another child would have spoken up on his behalf he wouldn’t have felt the need to kill himself. Because there would be one person in his school environment that stood up for him against the whole school who convinced him he shouldn’t be there. The young boy would come home in tears trying to understand why people were so cruel to him. His mother would leave the school time and time again with no consequences bestowed on the bullies which made it easy for it to continue to happen, and escalate. “Bermudez said she complained to the school about bullying seven or eight times, but it wasn't enough to save him” (Simons 2009).
Bindley, K. (2012, August 08). Bullying and suicide: The dangerous mistake we make. Huffington Post. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/bullying-suicide-teens-depression_n_1247875.html
In this newspaper article Bindley used two stories, one of a college student, Tyler Clementi, who killed himself because a roommate of his filmed him kissing another male student. The other story was of a female high school student, Phoebe Prince, who committed suicide after being bullied by classmates. Bullying comes in different forms Bindley says not all are as straight forward as others. By the roommate simply recording him and maybe threatening to show others as suspected it affected Tyler tremendously and would rather die than have word get out of his sexual preference. “Young people may not be able to avoid exposure to bullying or suicide” (Bindley 2012). By that Bindley means bullying is everywhere and done by everyone and Is nearly impossible to not get bullied one time or another. Bindley also states that “Even though suicides often prove to involve multiple factors, most experts are still quick to add that bullying can aggravate depression and increase suicide risk, and its seriousness shouldn't be minimized.” Which is correct. Most people minimize bullying and say its not that big of a deal.
Harris , S. (2003). Bullying : The bullies, the victims, the bystanders. Scarecrow Press. Retrieved from http://0-web.ebscohost.com.lib.utep.edu/ehost/detail?sid=d465097b-abf1-4980-97fcfcf5f3ff41a8@sessionmgr111&vid=1&hid=113&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl
Harris’s book gives overviews of bullying throughout the stages of life (elementary, middle, and high school). In the book it is stated that “children entering kindergarten could be at high risk for being bullied and should be trained to cope before they ever enter school.”(Harris, 2003). When transitioning from elementary to middle school bullying is more common because of the new structure of their schedules and children trying to establish their dominance. Years later an adult describes his peers from middle school as “The meanest people I ever met.” (Jake C. 24, 2003). Instead of dying down, bullying in high school only worsens. Girls are becoming much more violent, their rates in committing violent acts are increasing nearly 36 percent faster than boys. Also teens in America are 10 times more likely to commit murder because of bullies than in Canada. The book gives great knowledge and statistics about bullying in the United States as well as other countries.
Limber, S. (2007). Electronic bullying among middle school students. Retrieved from http://www.jahonline.org/webfiles/images/journals/jah/zaq11207000S22.pdf
Limber is discussing the reasoning behind cyber bullying in her journal article. It is said it is mostly students who are victims of bullying who are the bullies over the internet. The reasoning being is because they sometimes hide their identity with fake usernames and pictures just to get back at students who might have bullied them or to just feel that dominance over another after being bullied to compensate for it. In a pole taken of 3,767 6th, 7th, and 8th, grade students 11 percent of them had been cyber bullied at least once in the last couple of months, 7 percent of them said they were either a bully or victim, and 4 percent admitted to cyber bullying others at least once in the last two months. Limber went on to explain that “because of the rising of technology cyber bullying is only expected to get worse” (Limber 2003). I agree with her. Most students now are carrying around ipads smart phones and laptops, giving more opportunity to get cyber bullied.
Lyness, D. (2010, October). Dealing with bullying. Retrieved from http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/problems/bullies.html
In Dr. Lyness’s website she gives a number of points to help students and parents understand why they are getting bullied. She begins with saying what an epidemic bullying has become. Children and teens wake up every morning terrified to go to school, it affects millions of students nationwide. “two of the main reasons people are bullied are because of appearance and social status” (Lyness 2010) Many students don’t fit in as well as others do they may have a different skin color, religion, or can be gay, lesbian, or transgendered and for those reasons students are being harassed in schools. Some students are being physically hit or just verbally attacked which both are extremely harmful to both boys and girls being bullied. Lyness says that children getting bullied may find their schoolwork and also their health suffering. Getting bullied can take a large toll on a person physically and mentally which she is trying to make more known.
O'CONNOR, A. (2012, September 03). School bullies prey on children with autism. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/school-bullies-prey-on-children-with-autism/?ref=bullies
As O’Connor wrote in The New York Times, Children with autism and other disabilities a child may have is what bullies prey on. “Researchers found that the risk of being bullied was greatest for high-functioning children who end up not in special education programs, but in mainstream classes, where their quirks and unusual mannerisms stand out and they are more exposed to bullies.” (O’Connor 2012). Because these students are not separated with the students with the more serious cases of disabilities they are just seen as “weird” which is why other students do not hesitate to bully them. Some Children with autism lack social skills and do not realize when they are getting bullied so many cases are not reported. A lot of the students with disabilities are afraid to tell others about being bullied because they are already shunned from the other groups and don’t want to make matters worse by telling on students, making them dislike them even more.
Shuster, M. (2003). Bullying among young adolescents: The strong, the weak, and the troubled. Retrieved from http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/112/6/1231
In Shuster’s journal article he identified the difference between bullies, victimis, and bully-victim. Knowing the difference can help determine why they are either getting bullied or bullying others themselves. Bullies were usually children who were seeking attention because they probably not getting the attention at home. And bully-victims may be students who are getting bullied by either parents or siblings at home and feel they need to bully others to feel that power. Shuster did a research and took students from 11 different schools (mostly latino, and black 6th graders). From the results gathered it was said that from those 11 schools 22 percent of them were bullies, 7 percent were perpetrators 9 percent were victims and 6 percent were both. “Victims were emotionally distressed and socially marginalized among their class mates.” “Bully-victims were the most troubled group, displaying the highest level of conduct, school, and peer relationship problems.” (Shuster 2003)
Simon, M. (2009). My bullied son's last day on earth. Retrieved from http://articles.cnn.com/2009-04-23/us/bullying.suicide_1_bullies-gay-tired?_s=PM:US
Simons article was about a 12 year old boy who committed suicide after being bullied by classmates calling him “gay, ugly and "the virgin" because he was from the Virgin Islands (Simon 2009). Simon believes that if another child would have spoken up on his behalf he wouldn’t have felt the need to kill himself. Because there would be one person in his school environment that stood up for him against the whole school who convinced him he shouldn’t be there. The young boy would come home in tears trying to understand why people were so cruel to him. His mother would leave the school time and time again with no consequences bestowed on the bullies which made it easy for it to continue to happen, and escalate. “Bermudez said she complained to the school about bullying seven or eight times, but it wasn't enough to save him” (Simons 2009).