Paragraph Writing by Carla Hamieh 9B

A Predator Chasing Victims

        

        Bullying influences one’s social life by changing one’s behavior to an aggressive one and leading to delinquency. To begin with, bullying affects a person by making him aggressive and violent. He or she will no longer care about ethics and morals and considering himself or herself as a victim of bullying, savagery, and barbarity might be printed in one’s personality and have a role in changing the way they deal with people and how they act around them into total lack of responsibility and cruelty. For example, according to a study by researchers from the Washington University and Indiana University in 2006, 97 percent of children involved in bullying and who are bullies, were also victims of bullying in the previous years. Bullying also leads a person to go astray. For one to be accepted in his or her community, he or she would be provoked to commit delinquencies such as burglary and dealing with drugs just to be accepted by gangsters and uneducated people and have their blessing. For instance, Michael Turner, an associate professor in the department of criminal justice and criminology at the University of North Carolina, found in his analysis that 16 percent of individuals who experienced childhood bullying, up to age 12, were convicted of crimes, aside from the 13 percent of those bullied during adolescence. To sum up, bullying alters youngsters’ social life to become a ferocious one and leads to iniquity.