Writing Prompt: Day Without Hate
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April 26, 2010
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Prompt #1
In school, we see and hear about violence every day – from Columbine to the Virginia Tech tragedy; from fighting outside the temps to the recent bullying of Phoebe Prince which resulted in her suicide by hanging. School violence can take shape in many ways: posting nasty Facebook comments, evil glances at another person, shoving in the hallways, gang bangn’, and discrimination. Whether we like to believe it or not, violence impacts our lives. But, what difference can one person make, big or small?
In a persuasive response (150 words min.), provide ways in which we can help to end violence in the schools, communities and even households. Include in your response a persuasive strategy (ethos, logos or pathos), examples, analysis and explaination of your thoughts and ideas.
Prompt #2
When violence strikes us personally, it leaves it’s lasting mark. For some, violent actions result in violent retaliation. Yet for others, we rise above and move beyond the violence. Have you or someone you know and love ever been a victim of violence?
Write an explainatory essay about the impact of violence on you personally. Make sure you are using clear, accurate details either from the news, personal experiences, other sources or a combination of any of these.
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Violence? People react to it differently all the time. We might let it get to us and we might let it slide. I say you decide. There are many different ways we cold stop bullying and violence. Have you ever thought about saying, “Excuse me,” before you go off and push someone in your school hall way? Maybe that would help, don’t you think? When people see you doing it, they will think it is okay and they will do it also. That is how bullying starts. You have to take action and show that you care and that you’re motivated to stop bullying. Many students, children, seniors, everyone gets bullied but don’t want to do anything about it. I say we make it stop by living above the influence, being a bigger person, and showing others it is not right and that it needs to stop. Well, there are many ways to stop bullying. I think the best way to stop violence is to not let it get to you. Some parts of our lives may never change. Think better, think of it as you being the bigger person. My opinions about people who bully are that they are immature and need to grow up. Campaigns should be done to stop bullying, to be against it. We should implement more speeches and assembles which will make more people aware of their actions and how they treat other people. Think about yourself and how you felt when you got bullied. Do you want someone you love and care about to feel it? Well, try to help stop it and take part, help all the down faces that bullying causes.
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When you look around, what do you see? Volence. It’s everywhere around you. In my opinion,I don’t think that violence can ever be ended. It can only be controlled by the violent individuals. Violence is a natural instinct that is in everyone, and they are the only ones who have the power to control it. The majority of any violent attack is caused from anger. A couple ways you can control violence are to threaten harsher punishments, and to find the cause of an individual’s violence and fix the cause. According to Josephson Institute 42% of high school boys believe that it’s alright to hit or threaten a person who makes them angry and 20% of girls agree with them (http://charactercounts.org/resources/youthviolence/rskstats.html). They go on to also say that 60% percent of boys classified as bullies, in grades 6 through 9, were convicted of at least one crime by the age of 24. So in conclusion, bullying and violence is a growing problem in our lives in and outside of school. Most things you know of now will probably change by time you are 21, but one thing will not. Violence will always be around.
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I think that violence will never end because people will find ways to keep bullying each other. People get bullied by the way they dress, their hairstyle, the way they act, and many other reasons. We can stop bullying by joining team activities and doing things in a team. In schools, they try to keep away violence by getting uniforms. Getting uniforms doesn’t solve anything because now they bully people by saying that they are overweight or their color of skin. When someone is being bullied, they try to stand-up for themselves but that only starts fights. The guy that is bullying, the kid standing up for himself, thinks he is tough so he pushes him and then that causes them to start fighting. This is why I think that bullying will not stop around the world.
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There are a lot of ways you can end violence at home, schools, and communities. People need to talk to each other and be able to communicate, to be able to understand each other and to stop the violence. One way people can stop the violence is to hold a meeting with bullies and the victims to express their feelings and to share their stories. Another way to stop the violence is to be stricter in schools. For example, the school can have rules that say when a person gets bullied, the bully can be suspended for a long time. Finally, an easy and simple way to stop violence is to stand up for yourself. I don’t believe that this will stop violence but it will help reduce it. Violence is just a part of life that can’t be taken away.
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In my opinion, I do not think that violence will ever stop. There is too much violence and bullying to control. It is something that has been around for generations and it will be around long after we are gone. Bullying and violence is not just in schools, but at homes and in our communities. I have been on both sides of bullying and I have seen how people react to it. When someone is being bullied, many just sit and watch it happen and there is few who do anything to stop it. On the other hand, when someone is bullying, others tend to join. bullying is cruel and unfair and no one should put up with it.
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People react to violence in different ways, or sometimes some people don’t do anything, and most of the time those are the people that get bullied. Bulling is wrong and should not be used, especially to defenseless people. There have been cases where the victim of being bullied takes their own life for being teased and harassed. How can people live with that, knowing some innocent person took their own life for being verbally or physically abused? Why do people, especially students bully? Does it make them feel bigger and better about themselves? Do they ever think about how the victims feel about them? Why cant bullies put themselves in the other person’s shoes? In my prospective they should mess with someone that can fight back and won’t let them do that. Bulling and violence is not necessary in our community, but some people don’t care for their actions, they chose to use it.
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A person can make a big difference to STOP BULLYING, but everything depends on what you choose to do. If you are getting bullied don’t lower yourself to their level. Why don’t YOU become the better person and walk away? Instead of making the situation worse by being there and arguing back and forth, just smile or ignore them pretend you didn’t hear or see what they. The way a person can make a difference is changing their attitude, maybe by being happy all the time. Don’t carry your problems with you because then that may want to give you an excuse to start being rude to people just because you’re having a bad day. Violence is a HUGE issue but there are things people can do, they just don’t seem to want to. I’m going to keep this simple, just IGNORE a bad situation, smile, be friendly with everyone, and love your enemies. There’s no need to be mean. No one has the right to be rude, we all have feelings and sometimes by what people say those feelings may be hurt.
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The difference one person can make, big or small, is to tell their parents or adults about their problem or fight back because it will give the bully a reminder about who their picking on and why. The other reason to fight back is because not everyone is going to stand up for you. You have to for for yourself, because when you reach that age where you have to leave your parent’s house, you have to fight for what you want. You have to keep your body (self) safe from everything. It only takes one time to hurt or push someone over the edge where they are going to crack like an egg and where they start to do bad things. Not only their bodies are hurting, but their minds also. There was a girl who killed he-self because of the bullying. I believe if you do like someone or your family, then don’t let people get hurt just because you are not having a good day.
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Personally, I’m not exactly sure we can stop violence. Part of it is because this is life and also because not everyone is willing to do something about it. They either think it’s too hard or they are afraid of what people are going to say. Then again, nothing is impossible.
People should take a part in this and at least try to be nicer. If everyone committed to this, it might actually be possible. By encouraging each other to be better people, because I mean, we have to live with each other, we might as well get along. Joining groups or even just getting to know the person before you judge them could be something you consider doing. Start small and work your way up. Start by compliments, and then do something helpful. Smile, it can make someone’s day. Like I said, we might not be able to stop violence completely but we sure can avoid it. Little by little, it can really make a difference. It will make you feel better as a person. It will influence people to follow in your steps to control violence.
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I know people, friends, and family members that have been victims of violence. One family member got shoot in the arm because he knew a guy that was had problems in the street – he was the one that took the shot. My friends and I lost one friend in California. He was shot 3 times, one in the arm and 2 in the head. There’s a lot of violence out in the street and I don’t think it will ever end. Random people get shot because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time and they get shot – innocent people get shot.
VIVA MEXICO
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Jose Lopez Reply:
April 30th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
The purpose of this essay is to point out the issue that many people around the word have had with bulling and cyber bulling. No one has ever paid attention to cyber bulling including myself because I never really thought that words could have such an impact on another human being. I didn’t think that a few cruel words could get to someone and drive them to their suicide. Its something that needs to stop. Great kids and teens are taking their life simply because of the fact of being rejected by their peers. Families are left in shock and in tears as teens and kids all over take their life all for a simple reason called “rejection” and “hate”. I recently lost a friend who hung himself to what we believe was cyber bulling. He had a lot of friends, a loving family, and a 2 month old daughter. But at the young age of 18, he took his life after his grandma’s birthday party at 2 a.m. He had a MySpace and his mother said he spent a lot of time on it and often drifted away and seemed very worried. We strongly believe that someone was giving him a hard time about his baby and him dropping-out of school. All that got to him and he decided to end it. We often see on the news many other people suffer the same faith and we need to step up and change this behavior. We as people need to change and not be afraid to make a new friend or step up and defend someone who is being bullied. If we don’t then when will this stop? If not now when? If we don’t stop the hate then who will?
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I have actually experienced violence personally. I was once the loner in elementary school, the one who would be mocked. I didn’t have very many friends and about my only one started getting homeschooled and then he moved to Las Vegas. I was bullied for 7 straight years just because I didn’t act normal, like everyone else. But I never really gave-in to all of what they said, even though I hated it, felt lonely because of it, and was hurt by it. I could never give-in to something I hate, never follow the desires of that hate. And now, I see myself as someone emotionally stronger than most people, and someone who could actually care less of what people think of me instead of acting like everyone else in fear of rejection like most people do. I am me, no one else, I will not give-in to hate and I will also rise above it.
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I don’t think anybody can resolve violence unless people get over themselves and stop thinking they’re tough. It’s always been a race or competition on who is stronger or who can beat somebody else. Nobody has ever just been okay with how things are, there always has to be somebody better than the other. All it ever takes is for one person to look at somebody else the wrong way or to say the wrong thing for somebody to get beat. No matter how hard people try, there will always be war, there will always be fighting, and there will always be death. You can’t stop anger and hatred, its life. No matter what, people will not be able to hold back their feelings or anger for somebody else. If we were to ever achieve non-violence and non-hatred, all it takes is one person to retaliate/kill somebody to set the spark of violence off for things to go back to how there are now.
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To me, violence is something I feel can’t be stopped. If I had the power to stop it I would. One way I would do so would be having all young children take violent prevention classes. I think getting kids aware of this at a young age would help them gain knowledge on what’s wrong and what’s right. Another thing I think would help would be to have parents take classes as well to insure that they don’t indulge in any violence around their child. Most children could possibly be born with a mean streak that only intensifies as he/she gets older. Sharing stories to teens and to youngsters would help them grasp the concept that violence is not the solution. School wise, I feel ending violence is something that will never happen due to the fact that violence is the way majority of kids handle things. Some feel the need to have to indulge in violence due to peer pressure. Others at times just don’t have any other solutions when dealing with violence. Violence is a world wide issues, weather it’s at home, school, or work. It’s not going to end unless someone stands up and speak out.
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THINK ABOUT IT.
Violence and bullying in high school is nothing new, but to this day no one has stepped up to the plate to say anything about it or try to address the situation. There are many forms of bullying from face-to-face, or over e-mails or text messages, and it is effecting millions of children at all ages around the world. I think bullying will come to a slow stop if those who are doing it would asks themselves one simple question: when you have kids will you want your children going through what you put others through every day when they get to that age? Bullies only want one thing. They don’t really want the lunch money or your lunch or anything like that, all they want is POWER. Bullies often come from a broken home, or somewhere where they’re not appreciated or respected, so they take all their anger out on others to feel respected and powerful because where they live they have neither. I personally know this is true because that person used to be me. I decided Karma will come around one day, but who is to say it will come back to you and not someone close you care about and love? Violence and bullying will never stop unless the people doing it take a look at themselves and change the way they treat others.
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The way to end violence in school is to have everybody get along. But we all know that’s not going to happen. There’s always going to be violence in every school, home, the streets, anywhere and everywhere. There’s no way to stop violence. Its just part of human nature. School violence is big right now because of the gangs and all the stuff going on. If there were no gangs or bulling going on, there would be no school violence. But since we have a lot of gangs and bullies, and so many kids in gangs, there’s no stopping violence. Therefore, violence is never going to be ended.
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Violence has been around since the beginning of time. Everyone does it whether they do it subconsciously or on purpose. It is just a very large part of our society. It is a large part of almost every society. I personally don’t think this will every change but one can’t help but to wish. It would be great to be able to go down town and not have to worry about getting jumped and robbed. It would be great to be able to wear whatever color you want and not have to worry about whom that color offends or represents. But maybe one day we will all learn to get along and not hate anymore. But until then, we all just have to try and do our best to get along.
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I know somebody that was a victim of domestic violence. She is my cousin and 29 years old. She got married when she was 16 year old. She has three kids. When we used to have family reunions, most of the time she would wear glasses, big and dark glasses. I was young by that time and I didn’t really know why she was wearing glasses in the house. After a while I realized that her husband would hit her every time he would get drunk. Nearly 2 in 3 female victims of violence were related to or knew their attacker (http://www.aardvarc.org/dv/statistics.shtml). However, after spending more than eight years with that man she decided to move on and divorce. Unfortunately, he didn’t take that really well. One day after my cousin got out from work, a stranger kidnapped her with a gun, and put her into a van. She actually recognized the car. It was her ex husband’s van. He was in the van waiting for her with another gun; the stranger left her with him. My cousin freaked out, and then he told her that he was going to kill her but in Juarez, Chihuahua because over there they don’t even know who kills who. This only shows how hurt and obsessed he was. Anyway, on the way to Juarez luckily a cop pulled them over. Obviously he told her to not say anything, but she did. They took him to jail and after that I don’t know what happened. The only thing I know is that she moved to another house. Did you know what one in every four women will experience domestic violence? (http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx?dbName=DocumentViewer&DocumentID=32347). Because of this experience I leaned that no woman should let anybody abuse her. Domestic violence is bad and If I would ever find a man like that I would immediately leave before things get any worse. My wish would be that all people will take the same advice.
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I personally think that violence or bullying in the world will NEVER end. Bullying is just a fact life which people got to live with it. Many people get bullied because of the way they are, look, dress, where they are from, or how they behave, but others get bullied because of their fault. For example, if that person starts spreading rumors about others, that person is going to get back at them and they are going to get bullied. In my opinion people should be nicer and sweeter to others. They should put themselves in their shoes to prove that getting bullied is nothing pretty. In my life experience, I did bully people and sometimes I still do. But it is not because I want to. In conclusion, I still think people should not bully others and maybe I should learn how not to do it either.
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Look you can’t prevent violence but you can help prevent it.
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Violence is something hard to stop. My opinion is that you can’t stop violence at all. Violence is all around the world, people killing each other or some other thing. I think that trying to stop violence makes more.
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-Joel,
I think A day without hate is perfect opportunity for our school to come together as a whole and not “clown” on someone for once. I really like how each passing period today, students are hugging their friends, laughing, talking about whats going on this weekend.. I just think its a great idea and our school is doing a good job at supporting the cause.
-Cassandra,
A day without hate was a good idea because then everyone can see what it would really be like if everyone got along with eachother with not being rude or anything mean like that. If only even for one day.
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To me, I feel violence can not be stopped. Even though I feel it can’t be stopped, I feel if our school came together as a whole we could prevent it. I honestly think that violence is not the answer in any case. Knowing that our school is trying to prevent it makes all of us feel a lot better.
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Today was a good day. People were in the halls all happy, laughing, and hugging with friends, So far, no fights which is a good sign. Why is this? Its because it is A Day Without Hate. Most people are wearing white and everyone is happy. Students around this county, and maybe others, are doing the same. I know some people from Oregon that are doing the same today at their school to support this day. It would be great if every day was like this, but it just can’t be which is sad because there are people out there that are mean and being mean makes them happy. Do you think there is a way to stand out and change this? If you do, contact Mrs. Walter in room S-9!!! I think that there’s no way to stand out… It doesn’t matter people can’t end violence. It would take more than one person to end violence, but most of the people in the world won’t do anything to end violence to have peace! Why? Because not everyone is the same. There is no way that violence could ever end… But, if you have the guts to stand up and make a difference do it, many things could change. If one person stands up and starts making a difference… don’t wait untill its too late to make a change.
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I think the way we can reduce violence in schools, communities and households is more discipline. For example, if there is a fight at school, the students get suspended and sent home. So this shows that students get a vacation for their bad behavior. How does that solve anything? I think people with authority need to stop giving people “chances” and put their foot down and do what needs to be done about solving the situation the correct way to make sure it won’t happen again. This would look something like doing community service together, counseling, anger-management etc. To put this all together, I think instead of suspending students, we as a school, community, and household should work on communicating skills and solving problems without violence.
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Gossip, jealousy, and immaturity: these are the “little” things that cause violent behavior. I think the root cause of violent behavior starts when we are little kids. Being picked on, having low self-esteem, it all builds up over the years and finally all you can do is explode. To prevent violence or prevent getting to the point of exploding I think you should talk about your feelings.
“Studies have shown that parents, who do not communicate well with their children, raise children who are more likely to engage in multiple high-risk activities such as criminal behavior, alcohol and drug abuse, and early sexual activity (http://www.westmichiganlive.com/clients/youthviolence/cause_theories.html).” This evidence demonstrates that we need more one-on-one time with counselors, adults that connect with what we’ve been through, or simply just anyone we feel comfortable talking to about life struggles or adversity’s that causes the violent behavior.
To tie this together, I don’t think that it is possible to stop violence but it is possible to reduce it!
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In todays society, you hear and see violence every where around you. Even if it’s from a T.V. show or rough housing with your siblings, at school is the worst place for violence. I mean students and teachers spend more time at school than anywhere else! Now all we have to do is figure out a way to end this maddness. How is it that when we have examples from some of our most important leaders? The war in Iraq is one, another would be children playing video games that include killing. I could go on and on about that, but it wouldn’t help. Students need to realize what is reality and what is fantasy. Teachers need to understand the difference between violence and “playing around”. We all can start by changing the communities and work our way up to states and maybe even countries. I believe we can do it, do you believe?
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How to avoid violence? First of all, can the violence at school can be controlled? It starts with the school and the adults that work there. Everyone that works at the school can control the violence by either stopping or at least taking control of the violence, so that the violence won’t be so hard for anyone that wants to kill themselves or no one wants to kill the person their bullying. Everyone would want violence to stop, but that’s why there are police to go to if you want it to stop or need help. That is why there are all kinds of people ready to help society, but you just have to ask for help because if you don’t that’s what makes things worse. It can always escalate, or just cause more trouble to both people in the situation. Bullying can be stopped. You get down to the main problem and then the whole thing could be solved, or maybe just figure out why you did wrong. You can just say, “Sorry,” or maybe change what you did if possible. Violence comes out when something wrong is happen or something seems wrong. You can not control that, but maybe you just can.
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Violence? There is violence everywhere. People get bullied for the way they dress, the way they walk, or even the way they look. people dont understand we need to be the role models and walk away. People don’t stop and think that violence is not the answer. Violence hurts people and then that starts a fight. YOU need to start being the bigger person and walk away. We react too fast without knowing the consenquences in the end. I honestly don’t think violence will end unless WE stop it by becoming leaders. In the world, viloence is they key to everything. By us taking the role and be the bigger person, we can stop the violence.
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Violence is a topic that everyone in the world talks about at one time in their lives. Most violence today, unfortunately, comes from schools. Also, despite the increase in violence, nothing really is being done to stop the fighting in and around schools. If a small group of people decide that they will try to stop violence in every aspect of the word and try to teach others the way to like others and not hate them, then the world could be a more peaceful place. There are many little things that people could do to be more accepting of others. Like, talking to a person that seems lonely or smiling to someone that passes by. Schools could also take action by teaching children at a young age to be more open to the people around them and to accept, that even though someone is different, it doesn’t mean that they are always going to be bad people. Students, parents, teachers, and other everyday people can and should take part in making this world hate free. Even if it’s only a small gesture of kindness, it can go a long way; kind of like a domino effect. Hate and violence can be stopped and prevented, just as long as you take the time to be a good person.
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I believe a day without hate is a good idea. A day without hate shows no matter how bad things get that there is some hope of good. We might not be able to stop all violence, but we can try to slow it down by showing no violence one day. In school to stop someone being bullied that they should start expressing themselves and not hold in all their angry feelings, but let them all out by talking about them instead of waiting for them to explode out. Kids should just worry about having fun and enjoying school while they can, instead of stupid remarks someone tells them or starting fights over something they will eventually forget in a couple of days. So if everyone atleast tried to go one day with out hate in there lives I think that will help reduce violence in our communities.
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I believe that bullying is a thing that takes place in schools too much. People can be bullied for any reason whatsoever; clothing, ethnicity, religious views, people are being treated unfairly. I don’t know what can be done to stop this type of thing, bullies can hurt kids in many different ways. They can be psychological bullies, the kind that know how to make you angry or depressed. Then there are physical bullies, the kind that will hurt you for being different than them. It’s hard to stop bullying, because there are many types of bullies. But it is possible. It’s as easy as just saying sorry when you accidentally bump into someone. That just sends a message that you’re not doing it to be mean, it was just an accident. You could stand up for someone if you see them being picked on, it lets them know that someone cares. If people would stop trying to assert themselves as the dominant person, the whole world would just be better.
-Xavier Padilla
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Look we have all been victims of bullying whether we like to face it or not. The sad part about it is that some of us choose violence as a way to try and end it. Honestly, violence will never stop. No matter how hard we try, there will always be someone with hate filling their heart each day. Look closely around you and tell me you don’t see hate in each other’s eyes. What could prevoke someone to start bullying? Is it jealousy, low-self esteem, anger? Unfortunately, suicide is one of the results of violence and bullying. Fact of the matter is that we wake up each morning to go to a school full of students who hate each other and choose violence as an answer. Go ahead and try to deny it, but it’s the truth. Would you like to know what goes on in the mind of a victim being bullied? I will tell you from my experiences what it’s like. At the age of 13, I started cutting, guess why? Yeah, because of kids who think it feels good to be made fun of. But wait that’s not it, I constantly started having suicide thoughts. Eventually, I had to start seeing a therapist and start taking medication. Yes, to this day I wake up every morning and take anti-depressants. All because kids don’t realize how serious bullying and violence is. Day and night I try to figure out why is it that this world is made out of hatred and violence. Yet the question is, “Will it ever end?”
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Violence is everywhere. Deep down everyone knows it is wrong and everyone was once in that postion or will be. It is not a great place to be at. Though violence can never completly stop because not everyone is not going to agree to it, if everyone does a lilttle to stop it, then this problem can decrease a lot. People get bullied for every reason that you can think of, from dressing ugly to the shape of their bodies. I personally believe that people bully others because it makes them feel some power; makes them feel a little better about themselves. Also, that if you make fun of him or hit him, you will be “cool”. To me that shows weakness. It’s easy to call someone a name or hit someone. It’s harder to let things go, walk away or say something nice to someone instead of that negative thing they say. I think that everyone should stick with that rule that has been there so long ” if you have nothing nice to say don’t say it at all.” That is the easiest way to end verbal bullying. Instead of saying that mean thing, it’s just as easy to not say it, especially when you know that you are doing it to put them down. Also, peer preasure leads to bullying. If someone is bullying someone other people do it too so they can fit in with that group. You know what we need, we need people who can be brave enough to say, ” Hey, stop that” or “leave him alone.” If one person does it then next time someone else will have the courage to do that toO. Soon enough, being a bully will not be so cool. I think these are two main things that can be done to make bullying decrease a lot. Remember, being a bully shows a sign of weakness, not bullying shows much more. (:
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To Me in today’s society, I feel that violence in schools, communities, and even households could not be stopped. There is too much violence in the world that could not be stopped. I think by tring to stop violence in the world is actually creating more. People would just keep finding their own way to create more violence.
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Hey what the “biniz” do. Lets take a second to think about what a day without hate really is. It’s a day a lot of people dream about. A lot of people strive to have world peace but it doesn’t always happen. We should have this day to learn to care about one another and be kind. A way people should express themselves but not be made fun of is to express themselves in some sort of elective. A person can easily take an art class and learn to express themselves through art and it could be like that one little class is the whole world to them. Most schools have a dress code, so it might be hard for some people to express themselves but in a way dresscodes are a good thing. The reason I say they are a good thing is they can stop some kids from making fun of another student for not having the “cool” set of clothing or the newest thing that has came out. I’m writing to persuade anyone in power to keep good electives such as music or art because it would help a day without hate. Kids need a way to speak their mind. Another way to have a day without hate or promote more peace is that some teachers need to step up, some just lay back and watch kids get bullied. Once someone sees a kid getting teased or bullyed they need to step in, they can’t just sit back and do nothing. It doesnt matter if someone is going to say “oh, you’re going to stick up for him, that makes you a loser.” That doesn’t matter, just don’t promote violence. People should learn to love and maybe a day without hate could grow and maybe be a week without hate or a month with hate or even da hardest goal –a LIFETIME without hate. It all will start by just one person making a difference. Like Micheal Jackson once said, “If you want to make the world a better place take a look in the mirror and then make a change.”
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Bulling? There is bulling everywhere people in school bulling students because the way they dress or because they are better than them an they can’t stand that. What can bulling do to others? It can kill others or be in a hard strong depression. Students push others and tell them bad words, strong bad words. How to stop violence or bulling? If you don’t like someone, don’t talk to the or just ignored them, but don’t insult them. You just make it worse. Try to be friends with others and make life easier for others and for your self.
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Hatred is all over the world. This is a fact. Violence cannot be stopped but peace can over come it! A major way we can stop violence is by stopping name calling. Name calling may not seem to be hurting a person but it really ruins their self confidence. People pretend that nothing is bothering them and they can ignore the name calling, but after awhile you can’t block out the harsh words anymore. Name calling is like a chain reaction. You are the victim, being hurt and called names. You are full of anger and the only way you can express these feelings is to pick on someone else. Then you become the enemy, hunting for your next victim. This continues in a giant circle. Why waste all of your time hating someone when you can be loving them? Next time you’re about to call someone a name, stop and think. How would you like to be in that position?
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Today in the world, violence is getting bigger and bigger. Although many aren’t apart of the violence that goes on in everyday life, it affects everybody. Violence is a very strong word and has lots of meanings and ways to show it. Even if violence doesn’t involve everybody, it starts with the people to make a change. There can be many things to help prevent violence, but there needs to be cooperation.
The communities can reach out and provide more programs to get involved in. With that it makes constructive activities that are available to the youth. When it comes to violence in the schools, that is in the power of the staff of the school. Honestly, much of the time the staff lack attention to know what is really going on within the halls that students walk every day. This can be resolved by reaching out to the students and their families even more to make an effort.
Last, violence in the household is the responsibility of the guardians and the families. In my opinion, whatever happens in the home is nobody’s business. However, when somebody reaches out for help then it should become a concern. Although not everyone wants the help.
In conclusion, whether we like it or not, violence can never really be entirely eliminated. With that belief, it seems like a fantasy world to me. However, it can be prevented with the cooperation of the people in the communities and the world. If we keep our hearts and minds open to reality, we can destroy hate.
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Violence is everywhere! In our community, at school, online and even at home. It all comes up from insulting, discrimination, peer pressure, and even physical abuse. But what we don´t keep in mind is that all of this violence does not just take you to being emotionally hurt, but it can even lead to death. All over the news we have heard about teens who commit suicide, for the troubles that they are going through in life. What do we notice? We notice that all of this starts off from violence. Violence is found in all kinds of people and ages. It may also start from such young ages through the rest of life. Even the smallest negative comments are considered violent. Internet has been found to be used as transmitting violence. Websites such as Myspace can be used to threaten and bully others. I think that violence can´t end unless we all work hard to make it end. If we don´t stop it at least we can reduce it. We can start off by being positive. Pass on positive energy, making positive comments and being polite. Believe it or not, one by one we can make a difference. Lets not ruin our world drowning it in violence, lets start making it a better place, but we need to start NOW!
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There are many ways people can be violent. From fighting to talking behind someones back. During my elementry years, I was around all kinds of violence, at school and outside of school. My friends and I would always get in fights with other kids over stupid stuff that I can’t even remember now. Although many of my friends went down the wrong path, I went in a different direction. About half way through my fifth grade year I stumbled onto my favorite sport and became addicted. It pulled me away from everything bad, this sport is wrestling. It taught me how to control any anger that ever came to me. Now that I’m a freshmen attending Jefferson High School, there is still all types of violence just like every school I’ve been in. Every kid that I’m friends with, I try to get on the right road and even join Wrestling or find something of their own. So one by one, Jefferson is getting better and less violence is occurring each day. This is just one thing that I can do to help to stop violence. Imagine if everyone helped out we could make violence happen less often and maybe even cut it off all the way.
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My family has been emotionally and physically moved by one type of violence –gang violence. One way was my grandma. She was always a nice, loving, caring lady and one day she was beaten to death by a gang. To this day we still don’t know why that happened. Violence has hit and ruined my family. It’s not a good way to settle things in life at all. Another way it impacted my family is my brother’s family had to keep moving because gangs kept shooting up his house; that’s because he sticks up for people. Violence is not the answer to anything. Violence ruined my life and other peoples lives. What’s the point of ruining someone’s life with violence at all? A day without hate should become a week without hate and progress into a week and years.
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Personally, the impact of violence/bullying isn’t just bad to do, it is worse than that. It can cause so much pain and hurt to someone who has been a victim. Violence strikes us personally; it leaves its lasting mark. Violence, its not a good thing to do. This can cause someone danger in their life. If someone is being bullied, they should report it immediately to an adult, and also tell their parents. There is a chance to make it STOP if the teachers will listen clearly. However, violence won’t ever stop, not now, but maybe later with time. Violence goes on and on, just like the war in Iraq. I’ve been a victim of bullying, but I never let it get far. I wasn’t bullied in a hurtful way, but my friends were. In fact, bullying/violence can cause suicide, and danger. If you’ve been bullied, you should report in NOW!!!! And if they don’t want to listen to you, go to a teacher that your confident with, or go to the police.
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I personally have never really been a victim of violence, but I’ve known many that have. One instance that I’ll never forget was when I was probably about six or seven. My siblings and I weren’t allowed to see my dad, but my mom let us go anyway. Well, one day my dad came to my school and picked my brother and me up. We thought it was okay because he said my mom knew about it. Well, that wasn’t the case. My dad basically kidnapped us! After a few days he finally allowed my mom to come pick us up, but it wasn’t pleasant when she arrived. My dad started fighting with my mom, so my oldest brother stood up for her. All of the sudden, my dad hit my brother and knocked him out cold! I had never seen that side of my dad before. That was the scariest thing I had ever seen at that age and I was helpless. Seeing something like that changed my life forever. It made me rethink about fighting and it really made me look at the kind of person my dad is. For anyone who has ever witnessed violence in his or her own home, don’t let it rule your life. Move on and rise above it!
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Violence sadly enough has become a part of everyday life. Violence is found in school halls, on the streets, public places, and in some cases at home. The difference between it all is making the stand on what is right and not following what is wrong. It always seems like you’re the bigger person when you do the opposite of what society or elite people suggest.
From personal experience I have realized that there is nothing worse than getting yourself caught up in what is wrong and shouldn’t be done. There’s nothing worth having a bad reputation for what seems to be cool and popular, but deep down inside everyone knows is wrong. There will always be some sort of guilt that for some reason is too hard to live with everyday. I simply can’t see how people can live with themselves when all they do is hurt and take advantage of people. Violence gets played out emotionally, physically and mentally. Sometimes doing the right thing isn’t worthy enough to be looked like it’s popular.
No one in this world should be able to take away someone else’s life. The life itself of a human being has so much worth.
Writing this blog – prompt response – to most of the people that will eventually read it is just a bunch of words displayed on a computer screen. It’s always some geeky dumb person who writes about the good thing isn’t it? I mean what I’m trying to get out of this is that it all seems stupid to the majority of people. Many will go through and read all the responses and eventually read mine. There’s no way to change someone’s mentality or way of life just by writing about it. It needs to simply just happen. There needs to be people who are willing to do the right thing and not back down on it. There needs to be more people with backbone and enough integrity to do good. A Day Without Hate should be the beginning of many days of non-violence. Our generation can make the goals to master a community, city, and country of pure peace and no hate. No more pain, no more drama, no more foolishness.
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Have you or someone you know and love ever been a victim of violence? To all Jefferson students and other audiences, I have never had an experience with bullying, but if some day it happens to me I would not react to the point of killing myself. I think that’s what the bullies are looking for. But, I also think it depends what kind of person is trying to bully you. If your friends bully, just playing around, you know these people. I think you should let it go. But, there are people that you know hate you and they bully you, I think you should let someone know about it. Like, if you get bullied at school you should let a teacher, the principal or your counselo now. If it is out of school, you should let your parents know or even the police.
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I realy don’t understand why bullies have to take ther anger out on others and especially kids that are smaller or younger…
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