Something about bullying

 I decided to write about it, because I think that bullying is one of the most serious problems that can touch each and everyone of us, in any place. But, what exactly is it?

What is bullying?

Bullying is a form of repeatable aggressive behaviour. It' s usually against single person who is different than the others and unacceptable by some offender.

People who do it usually have more influence or power over someone else, or want to make someone less feel less powerful or helpless.
These people bully out of anger or frustration, they may have low self-esteem or they could been also victims of bullying.
We ought to know that bullying has many different types too:

• Physical bullying.-It includes hitting, punching, kicking, pinching and it's very dangerous sort of it.

• Verbal bullying.- It includes behaviours like name-calling, teasing, intimidation or verbal abuse.
• Covert/ hidden bullying. - It's hard to recognize this type of bullying, because even victim couldn't know about it. The purpose of it is to harm someone's social reputation. It includes: joking, making negative facial or physicals gestures, spreading rumours, lying.
• Cyberbullying. - This form of bullying can be covert or overt behaviour using the newest technologies like social media or instant messages, It can happen any time and any place. It includes: hurtful text messages/videos, excluding others online, nasty rumours and gossiping, imitating others online or using their log-in.

Facts and statistics

 "It is estimated that 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimidation by other students. Source: National Education Association."

"56% of students have personally witnessed some type of bullying at school."

"282,000 students are physically attacked in secondary schools each month"

"1 in 4 teachers see nothing wrong with bullying and will only intervene 4% of the time"

"By age 14 less than 30% of boys and 40% of girls will talk to their peers about bullying".

How bullying affects?

Bullying can affects on others in very different ways, but scientists are sure that it has very bad influence on other person's psychic. Victims of bullying could feel hopeless, guilty for living and alone. They could also get depression and start to think about suicide, because in their minds it's the one and only way to release from bullying. 

It's very sad, because they start to think that they aren't normal people and they are worthless.

Unfortunately this happens much more often now than in last few years. Nowadays many of young people try to commit suicide, cause they hate themselves and their life. 

We can hear about deaths of depressed teenagers from television, internet on even from the radio. 

Usually people who are bulling other people doesn't have even faintest idea that because of their behaviour, someone can end his life. They are shocked.

Our reaction is important

Most of the time bullying takes place with bystanders present. Bystanders are those who witness or know bullying is occurring. The way bystanders act has a major impact on bullying.Bystanders who are passive (take no action) or behave in ways that give silent approval (watching, nodding, walking away) encourage the behaviour to continue. 

They do it because: of fear of being bullied, they think that it's fun to watch it, they think that some one else will help. It's the worst way that we can react if we are witness of bullying. I was making researches and I have found interesting video where some man is making social experiment how people react on bulling. 
Video is below. 

How we can stop it?

Bullying is a very serious problem, so I think that we should know how to react on the behaviour like this. What we should do when we see bullying?
In most of cases we probably do completely nothing, because we worry about ourselves like I wrote in the last paragraph. The best way to help bullied person is to help him and punish the offender. Tell "buller" that his behaviour is terrible and that he has no reason to bully innocent person.
I think that in this way we can rescue somebody from depression or even suicide, show other people that bullying has to stop now! 

The other case is when we are bullied person. Many of experts think that the best way is to not respond on "buller's" attacks. However I think that sometimes it's impossible and we mustn't let others to hurt ourselves. Being neutral is sometimes too dangerous.
In that case we can tell person who is bullying us face to face that device that he behaves badly and hurt us. This is only for brave ones I think.
We shouldn't forget that we always can ask for help people who we trust to. They can support us and advice how to solve a problem.

Whatever form of bullying takes place, we should react on it. It's bad to do nothing because this new social problem spreads very quickly. People who were bullied in past often want to do it, cause they want to make high their low self-esteem (reason of being victim).
I think that teens should get to know about bullying and its negative consequences.
It could help to cure dangerous "bullying virus"

                                                                                                                   -Natalia

  

Great Britain vs. America

GB vs. U.S.A

Everybody knows that America and Great Britain are two totally different countries. The difference isn't only in the distance between these countries or in the size of them. At bottom, there are so many distinctions among these entirely different worlds. I think that it’s good to know it, and in my opinion this is interesting topic to write about, so, let’s start :)

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Language

The first major difference is language. There are many types of English languages, one of them are British English (is the form of English used in the U.K. It includes all English dialects used in the United Kingdom.) and American English(is the form of English used in the U.S.A. It includes all English dialects used in the United States.). We can find it when we listen to common speech of Britain and American people. British people emphasizes some words and letters stronger than Americans (it's explained on the video below) . 

There are also many dissimilarities of the transcription of the common words. (There are a few examples in a box below.) In the European union, we use to learn British English, because England is in Europe. 

However, I think that it’s a good decision cause I really like British language and  it’s good to learn how to talk properly.

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Culture and daily life

It could be too boring to read all the culture differences, so I decided to write, what I found interesting :)

-Newspapers are more common in UK: the tabloids are more widely read & don't really have US counterpart.

-American children's sports are far more serious & "professional" than in Britain.

-Americans are much prouder of their country.

-America is more legalistic & litigious. Lawyers are more feature of everyday life.

-There is no Thanksgiving nor equivalent. Christmas would be the only big day for seeing family.

-Americans are bigger. Taller & heavier.And a lot more very obese people. (24% of English, 36% of Americans)

-Pedestrians are more usual in UK.

-Britain is more egalitarian in culture.

-Universities. Americans are far more loyal to their university.

-Lunch time drinking happens more in UK.

-Drinking and getting drunk is more common and more acceptable in UK.

-Most all US restaurants offer the choice of tap water which is always free or bottled water for which you always pay extra.

-For Americans, toilet is a piece of porcelain. For the British, it is also a room that contains that particular piece of porcelain.

-Before an adjective, American quite means ‘very’, while British quite means ‘somewhat’

-Americans don’t use the word trousers much, and when they do, it only applies to menswear.

The differences are even in the arrangement of the computer keyboard.

U.K

U.S.A

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High days and holidays

In Britain :)

In America:)

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Rundown

So as we can see, there are hundreds of even the most crazy differences between Great Britain and America.

We can perceive it in each part of daily life these two countries. On the first sight it could seem that there aren't so many distinctions, but  we have to remember that each country is one and only and ultimate. :)

I hope you liked this post :)

                                                                                                                        - Natalia

LONDON : my school trip

My school trip to England in February was a big if to the last days before our tour. Fortunately, everything was right and we went to United Kingdom ! We traveled by bus over 20 hours, next we had to travel by ferry and once again by bus. And finally we saw London. I took a lot of photos and brought back amazing memories and I want to share with you these all :)



London (and Southern England) fascinated me. It is very diverse city where we can meet people from around the world, the city which fascinated me by old buildings, castles, museums and its modern. 
I saw and met nice people there. Vendors in shops and markets were smilling and helpful when I couldn't  differentiate their British coins ;) They also often were saying something like : 'have a nice day' or 'remember about your smile'. It's sooo nice !



The biggest attractions I san in London were Big Ben, The Palace of Westminster, London Eye and places near the Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. I also saw phone boxes, famous red buses, Buckingham Palace and M&M's World where you can feel the smell of sweets just when you come in the shop.
Now, let's see the rest of my pictures !

 - Nika 

Aniamals cruelty

I red an aricle about animals. But not about sweety cats and something like this, but about animals cruelty and how animals are torturing. There were also movies but I couldn’t watch them all, because there was for example men which was stending on a dog like I don’t know or a rock ! Or someone was frowing cats to the rubbischbin. And I was realy schocked when I saw how people are cruel and this is why I want you to tell about it.

So I think animals are our friends but is natural that we need food and this is why we are killing them. But people mostly befor killing are torting them and it isn’t nessesery because they can do this in human way. There were pictures of cowes which were beaten and they were just waiting for the deth, so I think people should give them good live befor it. For example they should allowed them to run on the grass where the sun is shining, because it all what they need and want and later their give as food and many things.

Many products are testing on animals and it won’t be bad but first they make them ill. So for example there is a dog which is healthy and nothing wrong to him and scientis are making him ill to test tablets. This kind of tests aren’t haveing results mostly, and in this kind of reserach every year dies about 12 milions animals ! And it is very big number. Sometimes animals react diffrent than people so it isn’t very good. For example we used for one reserch 200 dogs but people reacts diffrent so it was for nothing!
There are webside where you can write name of company which is making cosmetics and you will see are they testing theirs products on animals or not. Symbol rabbit in triangle which you can see on products or cosmetics means that it wasn’t teasting on animals. World Society for the Protection of Animals is organisation which want to make animals life better. There is also Klub OK where are companys which are free from animals cruelty and they don’t test theirs products on animals. In internet you can see list of this companys.

I think we should stop torturing animals beacuse they have feeling too and sometimes they are more friendly than people. I think if butcher will make of glass we all will be vegetarians.

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Valentine's Day

This holiday came to Poland from USA. People are sending love letters, buying flowers and presents, hugging and kissing. Everywhere we can see couples, hearts... In this time love is just in the air. Research made in Great Britain showed that in Valentine's Day most number of couples started dating! I think that Amor's power working like that. :)

I realy like the action in buses. Next to places when can sit four persons are stickers with inscription : Place for people, not in love. Fell in love in the bus.

Of course there are people which are staying at home in front of TV watching romantic comedy about perfect love and eating ice creams, chocolate and more and more sweets. Remember ! Time will come for everyone. Everything what you need to do is just wait. So go out with your friend and enjoy the Valentine's Day. :)

                                                                                                                                            -Paula

Computers, phones, internet...

Are we addicted? Can we live without internet and constant connetion to all of the world? Times changed and technology still moves on. Today even children have theirs own mobile phones. 

Some time ago when I was in the bus going to school, inside enterned group of childen. I think it was just kindergarten which was going on the trip. When I heard what were they talking about, I was just surprised! "My dad bought me a new IPad." "My parents bought me it too and they said that I will have the second one." When I was younger I was arguing with my friend who have more dolls, no IPads! 

Very big number of people just when they entern the bus or tram, they put theirs headphones on and strart to listen to music. For my is a little bit strange when I am sitting next to someone but we don't pay attetntion eachother. Now something about internet... It's ok I know that everybody wants to be up to date but one hour per day it's enought. We don't even know when we starting to looking for some stupid and unnecessary things. I know people who prefere chatting with people on facebook than meet them in real life! I think when they won't meet they won't have any topics to chat about. 

I like playings games like most people my age, I love SIMS and games like that and I need to confess that I am spending some hours on it, but I know when say stop. So this is tip for you :) Switch off the internet, computer and phone. Just go outside with your friend! Have fun and great memories!

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Discovery Centre - Cenntenial Hall

In our class we have just started (once again) our school project the Szkoła w Mieście.

Today we were in Centennial Hall in the Discovery Centre. What is it ? It's a place where we can learn more about history which intertwines with innovations of the future. There we can know more about genesis and historical transformations of this hall. There are touch screens, maps and a lot of photographs. On walls are screens with games like a piano or puzzles and inspirational quotes.



We were in two rooms. The first one was in an old style. There were old telephones, shelfs and drawers with hidden screens with presentations, hidden informations in black and white newspapers.
The second room was more modern. There were a lot of touch and interactive screens. Both rooms were nice. But what was the point of our visit ?
We were working in groups and we had to find some informations about something or somebody. my group had to know something about Max Berg. We did it and on our next lessons we will make computer presentations about him.

And what do you think about the Discovery Centre ? Would you like to visit this place ? :)

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