Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

            John Cloud argues that from examples of bullying and the victims reactions, kids have been committing suicide and planning school shootings. He narrates that around 7:30 a.m. on the day of February 27, a 17 year old named T.J Lane allegedly walked into a high school cafeteria   outside of Cleveland with a .22 Rugger handgun shooting 10 rounds hitting five students with three dead. Cloud develops his claim by first placing a scene in the reader’s mind about a student’s reaction to bullying. Cloud also uses words like “gut-wrenching” to give the reader the feel of the situation when he was telling a story about a kid who left a post on Facebook before he committed suicide because of being made fun of by his sexuality. Lastly, the author gives examples of situations where victims of bullying have been in and how the problem can be solved via school bullying programs and by bystanders speaking up.

            Nicole Crawford narrates that Susan Limber believes “Bullying is a very common experience for kids in school.” She claims that the in findings of school shootings, “the attacker is rarely impulsive; they plan their actions, in more than 80% in some cases, at least one person knew the attacker was planning something and in 60% of the cases two or more people knew”. Crawford develops this claim by first using an example of the school shooting at Columbine high school. Cloud then explores bullying such as the difference between male and female. She lists the research that Tonja R. Nansel, PhD, and colleagues have found which were how bulling occurs frequently from 6^th grade to 8^th grade with little variation between the school areas, how males and females are bullied differently; males bullies physically, and females bullied verbally. Lastly, the author explains how programs can work at preventing or stooping bullying and making school better and safer for students. Crawford’s purpose was to talk about how bullying has become a serious issue, and how it can be stopped in order to inform the reader how serious this matter is.

            John B. Pearce and Anne E. Thompson argue that bullying can have a long term adverse effect on children in health and in behavior. They claim that some ways that bullying can be stopped or reduced is by  recognizing bullying, changing attitudes about the situation, supporting the victims of bullying, teaching children how to behave in a well manner; setting examples of good relationships, having good aggression control, teach the child that violence will not be tolerated, etc. Pearce and Thompson develop this claim by stating that the first step is to recognize bullying and the typical bully in order to overcome bullying. Pearce states that “Achieving a reduction in the rate of bullying in schools would be a highly effective public health measure for the 21^st century.” Lastly, the author explores ways that will also help with ending the epidemic of bullying such as discouraging bullying in schools, challenging aggressive behavior seen in bullies, supervising aggressive children, etc. Basically, John B. Pearce, and Anne E. Thompson’s purpose in this article is to display strategies that they believe would reduce bullying and help make the problem of bullying less likely to occur.