Prayer is a technique that “reduces the extent to which individuals are willing to express that violence against others is justified” (Wright, 2016, p. Author Joel Spring (2018) gives a historical example of dual religious and academic education in the 19th century as resulting in successful moral instruction. Students can reflect and seek an enlightening experience during this personal moment with their God. Prayer could help steer pupils to calm, peaceful conduct by positively guiding them. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged haley, paradigm, rcl, rcl1314, ted talk on Novemby enk5056.The act of prayer allows believing people of faith to connect to God through the teachings of a religion or spiritual practice. Cliché picture of a bully and the bullied – Are we really helping the “bullied” when labeling what is done to them as bullying? Do we become the bullies when hoping on the bully crusade train? Wide range of offenses being downgraded from a crime to bullying It brings more awareness to a wide range of crime/ immoral happening People are more willing to back up the bullying crusade Bullying is everywhere and it is everything. They’re immature parents picking on their child’s friends, and big white football players causing the mental breakdowns of fellow black players. Bullies aren’t just the school yard meanies anymore. It’s when a gay teen is criticized and harmed for his sexual orientation, but it can also be when a person is made fun of for being black or Hispanic or other races. That is what bullying was, an imbalance of power in the world of children and teenagers. When we hear the word bully or bullying we still may picture bullying’s original offense which is the big mean kid picking on the scared little kid on the school’s courtyard. What are the pros and cons of wrapping up a large array of offenses and issues in today’s society and naming them all bullying? But I want to talk a different look into bullying. My Ted Talk will be about the concept of bullying or being a bully. What bullying has created today (media headlines and such) That would include media attention (school shootings, instances of bullying, suicides, crime mashing). I’m pretty sure I am just going to try to cover most of the idea of bullying which includes the actual shift of the idea of bullying, and the pros and cons that the crusade of bullying has created. This is the beginning of my draft but I want to wait until the TED Talk to see where I want to take this paradigm shift. Now all kinds of people are behind fighting bullying. This has created a crusade against bullying in which people are now more willing to take bullying seriously and are more motivated to stop it. A definition to this new social problem was created to help people recognize when bullying is happening so that they can help stop it from happening further. Bullying is such a well-known issue that it now gets its own definition and criteria. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems (). The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying is one of the biggest social shifts that society has ever experienced, and continues to experience.īullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. As life molds and changes the idea of bullying and what is considered to be a part of that idea, new consequences pop up every day. The war rages on today in every aspect of life, to the point where other crimes and issues are swept under the label of bullying. There are stories of bullying in every part of the media, and new programs to stop bullying in almost every popular institution of education and work. Everyone has jumped onto the bullying crusade. After society realized that many school shootings and teen suicides were facilitated by children being picked on, the war on bullying began. No longer are mean words tolerated or hateful people accepted. Adults and young people alike have joined a mass crusade of wiping out bullying. One child cannot insult another child without being smacked with the label bully. In today’s society the words bully and bullying are on everyone’s lips. The mentality frequently was that children were immature and cruel, but they grew out of it in time and nothing could be done to change that. Society just accepted these bad behaviors from children and deemed them unworthy of real attention. When a group of girls made fun of a weaker girl and called her a slut it was just girls being mean girls. When the big school yard bad guy picked on the smaller, innocent boy, it was just joking around. Bullying used to be an unheard of concept.

An example of a rough draft on bulling