Compare and Contrast
The article “Bullying Behaviors Among US Youth” and Shane Koyczan’s poem “To This Day” give different perspectives on bullying. While “To This Day” deals with bullying from remembered personal experience, “Bullying Behaviors” is more objective. The article “Bullying Behaviors Among US Youth” and Shane Koyczan’s poem “To This Day” both deal with bullying, and their different intended audience, connections, and backgrounds show bullying from different perspectives. “To This Day” more effectively sends a message to its audience about the horrors of bullying by putting the audience member in the place of the bullied.
First, both sources have a different audience. Shane Koyczan talks about his personal experience with bullying. He said, “My experience with violence in schools still echoes throughout my life but standing face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways.” In other words, the events that happened in the past still haunt Shane Koyczan to this day. He catharses the pain he felt to help himself and survivors by writing poetry that addresses the situations he and many others have experienced throughout their school life, forming a connection with these people and the general populace
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The authors who wrote the article “Bullying Behaviors Among US Youth” are scholars and they have PhD’s. For example, Tonja R. Nansel “received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Fort Hays State University in 1988, and her doctoral degree in Community/Clinical Psychology from Wichita State University in 1998 (NIH).” Ramani S. Pilla went to Case Western Reserve University for statistics, Neuroscience, and Biology (Microsoft Academic Search). However, Shane Koyczan “makes spoken-word poetry and music. He published three books, Visiting Hours, Stick Boy, Our Death Beds Will Be Thirsty (TED).” He does not have an extensive educational background whereas the authors who wrote the article
The death camp was a terrible place where people where killed. Hitler is who created the death camp for Jews. The death camp was used for extermination on Jews. This occurred on 1939 – 1945. The death camps were in the country of Europe. Hitler did all this because he didn’t like Jews and the religions. The book Night is a autobiography written by Elie Wiesel. The poem called First they came for the communist written by Martin Neimoller is a autobiography.
Why did the author write this?: Well I think the author wrote this because it gave a lesson on bullying, and how much anger you can get out of it. She wanted to give a lesson on how bullying could make people commit suicide that easy. It even taught me a lesson. I never knew how strongly people felt, and had the guts to risk their own lives!
In September of this year there was a school shooting in Washington and the suspect, who was a sophomore, wanted to teach the school a lesson about bullying. The authors state “Bullied children are shamed on a regular basis, and psychologists have long known there is a strong causal link between shame and violence (Gilligan,1997)... and There’s only so much torment and humiliation bullied children can take before many resort to lashing out in return” (Twenge et al., 2003). There have been many cases where bullied victims shoot up schools because they have been humiliated too many times and want to retaliate to release their anger and feelings. Victims of bullying resort to violence against their school because they had enough of being teased at, friends leaving them, and not being felt cared about so this leads to extreme violence costing lives of many innocent
Bullying has become a major problem facing the United States today. The American Psychological Association reports that roughly 40% to 80% of children are involved in bullying on some level during their time in school. (APA, 2014) The magnitude of the problem can be observed in the statistics. In the United States, a total of 4,080,879 children between the ages of five and 18 have been the victims of bullying compared to 3,892,199 who have reported that they have engaged in bullying someone else. Additionally, 851,755 said that they have been both the victim and the bully. That's a whopping 8,824,833 people in the United States that have been involved in bullying behavior on one level or another. (High, B., 2000 Census)
This poem Coffee Coloured fall under the category of being a sensory poem, as it is all about how people are seen for their skin and not actually how people are. this poem is from the point of view of an Aboriginal person who is complaining about how they are only seen for their sin and nothing other than it. This poem only had only stanza, has rhyming but is not constant throughout the poem and doesn’t have a clear pattern making this poem free verse. This poem uses rhyming and rhymes the last words on most of the sentences.
In this paper, I will discuss two different magazine articles on how to deal with bullies and two scholarly research articles. One of the research articles discusses mental health and suicide issues that may be caused from being bullied. The other article discusses how schools use different strategies that can be effective or not effective in stopping bullying.
Bockern, S. V. & Brokenleg, M. (2003). The science of raising courageous kids. Reclaiming Children and Youth, 12 (1), 22-26.
In November of 2012, a 14 year old girl committed suicide in Canada after receiving numerous threats from 2 of her classmates because of a “falling out” in the girls' relationship. This past year, a freshman at Rutgers University took his own life after a video revealing his true sexuality was discovered and put onto a commonly known website for all the university to see. The well known “Columbine Shootings” shocked the world because the shooters were said to have been picked on and bullied in school. The effects of bullying, even in one’s childhood, can haunt them forever: “Sometimes, a whisper in an elementary school classroom can echo for decades. A threat called out in a middle school hallway can cling to the subconscious into adulthood. And an insecurity exploited in a high school cafeteria can redefine a future” (Johnson 1). It’s clearly obvious that bullying can take lives and torture the people whom loved the victims of such cruelty. People, not just kids and teenagers, but people are bullied everyday across the world.
Did I Miss Anything? is a poem written by a Canadian poet and academic Tom Wayman. Being a teacher, he creates a piece of literature, where he considers the answers given by a teacher on one and the same question asked by a student, who frequently misses a class. So, there are two speakers present in it – a teacher and a student. The first one is fully presented in the poem and the second one exists only in the title of it. The speakers immediately place the reader in the appropriate setting, where the actions of a poem take place – a regular classroom. Moreover, the speakers unfolds the main theme of the poem – a hardship of being a teacher, the importance of education and laziness, indifference and careless attitudes of a student towards studying.
In the slam poem, “To this day” by Shane Koyczan he writes a slam poem about kids who get bullied and how words actually can hurt people. Towards the end of the video, he starts portraying motivation and not kids being bullied, at this part, it shows a coffin chained up and pulled into the ground, but a fist triumphantly shoots out of the ground holding a broken chain and a banner spiraling around it saying, “THEY WERE WRONG”. Shane states, “because how can you hold your ground if everyone around you wants to bury you beneath it you have to believe that they were wrong” (Koyczan). This quote is giving you motivation, and inspiration to rise up above all the hate and all the bullies and tell them they were wrong. Because if you don’t
Bullying has been around for decades and yet it is still a reoccurring problem, and it is only getting worse. The National Center for Educational Statistics, in 2009, said nearly 1 in 3 students between the ages of 12 and 18 reported being bullied in school. Eight years earlier, only 14 percent of that population said they had experienced bullying(Ollove,2014). There are two types of bullying the direct form and indirect form, in the direct form the victim receives physical harm example kicking pushing shoving. In the indirect form the victim receives emotional or mental harm by name-calling, rejection, gossip, threats, or insults(Green,2007). It doesn’t matter which way the victim was bullied it still causes
Bullying has been a part of schooling for as long as children have been congregating. To some it seems like a natural, though uncomfortable, part of life and school experience, while to others it can mean terrifying experiences which spoiled and characterized otherwise happy years in school. Dan Olweus, a pioneer in bully behavior research documented that 2.7 million children are affected as victims, and that 2.1 children act as bullies (Fried, 1997, as cited in Aluedse, 2006). With bullying cited as the reason for violent, gun-related crime in the past few years, school districts as well as national governments have put anti-bullying policies in place. Bullying is a complicated phenomenon, involving more than one child demanding lunch money from a smaller child. It is a worldwide epidemic hitting schools everywhere. Virtually everyone has seen or experienced bullying. With technological advances, bullying is even hitting the internet. Parents, teachers, students and governments agencies alike are attempting to put a stop to bullying practices.
Swimming through the river, like a red bolt of lightning, the salmon tries to find the place it was born at so it can spawn. It has learned this through the species’ trial and error, which is acquiring knowledge, one of the most important parts of a journey. As we’ve seen through many journeys, such as the poem by CP Cavafy “Ithaka”, and the migrations of animals like salmon, beluga whales, and horseshoe crabs, the journey is the most important thing out of an adventure. Although the destination still matters, the journey is where you gain all of your knowledge and your important items from.
Bullying is an issue that has been around for decades and is something that can affect everyone, no matter what his or her age is. Even though bullying has changed over the years from being physical abuse and harassment that happens on the playgrounds of schoolyards to tormenting over the Internet. The same groups are still affected namely adolescents. Statistically about 30 percent of all teenagers in the United States are bullied in one-way or another (“Teenage Bullying”).
The article, “Bullies and Their Victims”, by Berk (2010) gives an analysis of how bullies and their victims develop, what makes them persistent and how they and their victims can be assisted. Bullying is an activity that thrives mostly in a school setting because of peers and the various cultures and diversities among them. Interactions are inevitable among children, but bullying is destructive because it aims at peer victimisation. Both boys and girls have the ability to become bullies but the majority of them are boys who use physical and verbal attacks on their victims. In the more recent generations, the means of bullying is amplified in the adolescent stage by using electronic means like cyber bullying. Students will rarely like bullies but if they do, it is because of their leadership abilities or influential personalities. Their peers may join or stand by to watch as the victims are bullied.