Allison

1
Dylan Allison
Adam Padgett
English 102
April 5, 2016

Why do People Bully Others and What Happens to the Victim?

Bullying is something that ruins the lives of many people all over the world.
There is no discrimination when it comes to bullying. Anyone can be bullied and most
people are at sometime through out their life. It is something that I had to put updeal with
when I was in elementary and middle school. There are many types of bullying all over
the world but they all do just about the same thing, they make someone feel horrible and
can lead to horrible terrible things in theirre life. Bullying can forever change your life
and possibly even end it, if taken too far. People bully others to make thethemselves ir
self feel more secure about themselves and it makes them feeland popular., The victim
usually has physical and mental problems. Good first paragraph. I like how you included
a little bit of your personal experience right off the bat.
Gender is one big factor on who gets bullied. Statistics show that females are at a
higher risk of being bullied than are males. The big population that gets bullied has a little
of both genders in it. The LGBT kids are the most likely to be bullied. If you fall into this
categorycategory, it says you are more likely to be bullied due to the fact that you are not
seen as normal. This is because most of them have different personalities, dress
differently, and are not attracted to the opposite sex. Most of the people that are the ones
doing the bullying here do this because they say that the people they are bullying are

Allison
2
different. They say that they are not like your average person and they stick out so they
are easy to pick on. This can cause many problems in the lives of these people and can
cause problems down the road.
One Study shows that bullying is directly linked to the status goals of whoever the
bully is. If they want to fit in with a certain group of peoplepeople, then they will make
fun of people that that specific group does not like. For example, if you want to hang out
with the rich kids then you would make fun of the poor ones because they dont fit in
with that group. It has also been proven that they use bullying to achieve dominant
positions in their society. This is a direct example of the big bully that nobody messes
with in middle school because everyone is scared of him or her. This showed that
bullying is also directly licked to popularity. This is because everyoneEveryone wants to
be friends with the bully, because if you two are friends then you dont have to worry
about him coming for you. This basically will keep you safe from being bullied, but
makes the bully want to pick on others even more so he can gain even more popularity.
This is a big reason why kids bully and it is sad if you think about it, having to be mean
to someone to gain popularity or make friends.
One source says something that I think is very true; it saysexplained the myths
and realities of bullying. One of the myths of bullying is that the bully thinks that bullies
feel higher than their targets. They also say that they believe they are more attractive,
smarter, and better than the victim. The reality is that the bully feels inferior to their
target. They also feel that they lack things about themselves that they at see in the people
they are bullying. They see strengths in the people that they are bullying that they want to
break them from having so they try too. There is a myth that If I try harder or be nicer, I

Allison
3
can get the bully to change. This is not true at all because they bully himself has a low
self-image. This has nothing to do with the target its just that the bully is not self
confident. If you know this about a bullybully, then sometimes what they say is not so
hurtful. One is that bullies in the workplace need to control others. The reality of it is that
they try to seek power for their own sake. They dont bully in the workplace to control
you they do it because they want to feel powerful. The thing with a bully is that a lot of
the time they do not want to cause physical or mental harm it is just that they feel
insecure about their self. Most if the people that bully in the workplace have been through
some type of bullying through out their lifetime and have always felt insecure about what
they were bullied for. It is honestly kind of sad if you think about it.
This My next source talks about statistics of workplace bullying. The
workplacejob that reports the most on the job bullying is health care a close second is
education. This surprised me a good bit because I did not think that there would be a lot
of bullying within the health care system because they go to school to know hoe to treat
people. I dont see why they would bully someone one the job. A lot of the bullying in
the health care is when someone gets moved up fast in nursing so they get a higher
ranking. With this higher ranking the people they will be working for do not accept
mistakes and since they got moved up so quick it is easy for them to make a simple
mistake. With this simple mistake the higher-ranking person, maybe a surgeon will be
rude and fuss at them because they are not ready for the job they have. This can actually
hurt someone more than it can help him or her. This study also says that the best thing to
do is to confront them because a lot of people that bully dont even know that they are
doing it. They just simply think that that is the way that things are supposed to happen. If

Allison
4
you confront them and they are not trying to be a bully then they will change there ways
and they way they act towards people. One example in this study is that a woman that
trains nurses was confronted about her attitude toward the new nurses she was studying.
When confronted by her boss she was not even aware that she was being so rude. This
bullying in hospitals causes the extremely high leaving rates within the jobs inside a
hospital. They say 25 to 45 will leave within the first 18 months. This is due to some of
the people that have been working there for a long time and they think that they know
exactly how things are supposed to be run and they wont accept anything else. The high
bullying in jobs is a direct result of just someone being ranked higher than you and they
feel like they are in charge. This paragraph did well in describing an example for the
readers to understand bullying in the workplace
Today bullying in schools is a huge problem and needs to be dealt with. An
estimated sixteen 16 children in the UK commit suicide annually as a direct result of
bullying. This is not a big number but when you think about it, that is sixteen 16 kids that
should have still been alive and enjoying life as an adolescent. They could be changing
the face of the earthsociety with their personalities and new ideas, things they would do
but instead they were pushed to their breaking points and killed themselves. They took a
small body of teenagers and asked them what type of bullying that they have been
encountered in their lives (; not being the bully but being bullied). All of them said they
have had someone bully them verbally; two said they have been cyber bullied;, and 6 said
they have had physical bullying. This is just a pool of 8 teens and the percentages are
high on verbal and physical bullying. Bullying in schools needs to be stopped because all
the things that are done to a teen will effect them for the rest of their lives. As read earlier

Allison
5
it might even lead them to taking their own life. School is where bullying all starts and it
leads them to possibly bullying when they get older on the job. This is a devastating fact
that most of the kids being bullied in school will grow up to be a bully in their workplace.
Most of them wont know it because they just think it is normal behavior but it will affect
the people on the job with them. This can lead people on the job to become depressed or
have many more issues. In school it is possible for the kid to slip off into a deep
depression and shut everyone out. That is something that would be horrible to ruin a kids
life when he is so young and so fragile. To push someone to a point to when they are 20
years and under to not thinking that the rest of their life is worth living because of what
someone has done to them. I think these last couple sentences are a little repetitive from
earlier sentences in this paragraph, but overall this was a very informative paragraph
I know that this topic is really personal to you, so I think it would be really
effective if you maybe included a paragraph here about your personal experience with
bullying in school!
Cyber bullying is on the rise and it is an aggressive attack on someone who cant
really defend him or herself. Even with it on the rise it is still not as high as traditional
bullying. A study found that 27% of year 4 to 9 students had been traditionally bullied
every other week while only 10% had been cyber bullied. In the UK it was reported what
anywhere from 7 to 10% of students have been bullied using the Internet in some way. In
Canada it was found that the rate of cyber bullying there was 35% and that number is
staggering. This form of bullying is definitely on the rise through out the entire world.
They do it over the Internet because they dont have to do it in front of the person and it
makes them feel better about themselves. Cyber bullying is far more aggressive than

Allison
6
traditional bullying. This is because anyone in the world can see what you do to someone
on the Internet but only a handful can see what you do in person. The humiliation that
comes with being bullied online is tremendous. It can lead someone to not want to live
anymore because they feel that no matter where they go it will always follow them.
This study also shows that most of the bullies through out the world are males.
With this being said, the amount of female bullies are on the rise. There was
howeverHowever, there was no difference in how the victim felt when being bullied by a
girl or a boy. This study shows that bullies do this because they want to fit in and they
think that is how they do it and it makes them friends. It does not make them true friends
because they are more scared of them than anything.
Bullying is a big problem here in America and all over the world. This is a
problem that should concern almost every person out there and should make you want to
change the way that you act towards people because you never know what that person is
going through. Through all of the research done, the main reason bullies bully is to feel
like they fit in. Some more reasons are that they dont even know that they are doing it
and they are insecure about themselves. This is honestly sad because they feel bad about
themselves so they make someone else feel horrible because the way they are feeling.
Bullying is something that is extremely hard on someone and needs to be stopped.
Through out the world, the rates are steadily rising higher and higher. Bullying works in
mysterious ways. One way is that a good many of the bullies in grade school will become
bullies on the job where they work. To answer my question, I dont think there is one
specific answer to why people bully one another. There are many reasons why they do it
and that is based on what they are personally feeling and what is going through their

Allison
7
head. They might not even know that they are being a bully. Bullying causes a lot of
problems through out the world and we need to do something about it.
Overall, I can tell that you are passionate about this issue. Because of this, as a reader I
want to hear more of your personal experiences, I made notes in some places I thought
they would be appropriate. One big thing that I noticed is you referenced your sources a
lot, but I had no clue what source you were talking about because you did not include any
direct quotes with the in text citation. I would consider adding some of these to make
your thoughts flow together better with the ideas presented in each source! Good job!
Sorry I was not in class to share my feedback with you!

Sources good job having 7 sources!

Cade, Valerie. "Work Bullies: Debunking Some Myths about Why People Bully."
Http://web.b.ebscohost.com.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/ehost/detail/detail?sid=628c36e0
5af1-4558-bf8d
6f91a4b186a5%40sessionmgr115&vid=0&hid=106&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc
3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d&preview=false#AN=108221343&db=rzh. N.p., n.d. Web.
04
Apr. 2016.
Christian, Berger, and Caravita Simona. "Why Do Early Adolescents Bully?
Exploring the Influence of Prestige Norms on Social and Psychological Motives
to Bully." Http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/eds/detail/detail?
sid=8195a11f-d3e9-4b44-8d68-726cc038872f
%40sessionmgr114&vid=0&hid=103&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU
%3d&preview=false#AN=S0140197115002535&db=edselp. N.p., n.d. Web. 04
Apr. 2016.
Development, and the Educational Rights of Students." N.p., n.d. Web.

Lee, Jason. "Too Cruel for School: LGBT Bullying, Noncognitive Skill

Allison
8
Side, Jeremy, and Kelley Johnson. "Bullying in Schools: Why It Happens, How It
Makes Young People Feel and What We Can Do about It."
Http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/eds/detail/detail?sid=0c152e50
-9412-4ccf-9d03
-a46ccd872c85%40sessionmgr4005&vid=0&hid=4208&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWR
zLWxpdmU%3d&preview=false#AN=97508460&db=pbh. N.p., n.d. Web. 04
Apr.
2016.
Wilkie, Dana. "Where the Bullies Are."
Http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/eds/detail/detail?sid=1e06f16a
d309-4f77-91ff
d0cd0505c321%40sessionmgr198&vid=0&hid=103&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRz
WxpdmU%3d&preview=false#AN=113488979&db=f5h. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Apr.
2016
Wilton, Courtney, and Marilyn Campbell. "An Exploration of the Reasons Why
Adolescents Engage in Traditional and Cyber Bullying."
Http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/eds/detail/detail?sid=f857abd8-c37c
-4aa3-8dcb
-ae8c31b2005c%40sessionmgr4003&vid=0&hid=4208&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzL
WxpdmU%3d&preview=false#AN=113853014&db=a9h. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Apr.
2016.
Christian, Berger, and Caravita Simona. "Why Do Early Adolescents Bully?
Exploring the Influence of Prestige Norms on Social and Psychological Motives to
Bully." Http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/eds/detail/detail?
sid=8195a11f-d3e9-4b44-8d68-726cc038872f
%40sessionmgr114&vid=0&hid=103&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU
%3d&preview=false#AN=S0140197115002535&db=edselp. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Apr.
2016.
Wilkie, Dana. "Where the Bullies Are."
Http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/eds/detail/detail?sid=1e06f16a-d3094f77-91ffd0cd0505c321%40sessionmgr198&vid=0&hid=103&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxp
dmU%3d&preview=false#AN=113488979&db=f5h. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Apr. 2016.