The Bystander • A working definition; • The bystander as sibling, peer or adult and the impact being a bystander has on escalating the violence; • The impact on the cycle of violence when
a bystander becomes a peacemaker — empowered to act with courage and integrity.
Not exact matches
As your business begins to tell you where it needs to go, you'll find yourself
becoming something of a
bystander — more of a guide than a leader.
The messaging for child and adult alike is clear: if you refuse to be a
bystander, if you speak up about bullying, you will
become more of a target.
Bystanders may even
become bullies just to avoid being bullied themselves.
Sometimes, in an attempt to cope with anxiety and to avoid
becoming targets,
bystanders may join cliques or succumb to peer pressure.
While his book won't make your child immune from bullying, it will help you understand the root causes of bullying, detect the early signs of bullying, identify different types of bullying (e.g. physical, verbal, relational / social), understand why kids
become bullies, targets or
bystanders, and empower you to support your children.
I'm biased and not a
bystander in this project (as ConservativeHome has noted) but a new parliamentary group has been established to help the Conservative Party
becomes at least as fluent and thoughtful about a one nation agenda as it is about immigration, defence, tax or other «traditional» Tory issues.
Among their concerns: e-cigs might lure former smokers back to conventional cigarettes, expose users and
bystanders alike to unidentified dangers, or
become a gateway for teens who might subsequently experiment with tobacco products and other drugs.
He
becomes a
bystander to the story and is irrelevant, apart from one showdown with J.Paul Getty in the film's final act.
The movie's humor
becomes more desperate as it proceeds, from a song about moustaches (and a reprise of it by sheep, brought on by a drug - induced hallucination during an ultimately pointless stay with a Native American tribe) to a character loosening the contents of his bowels into a hat (His attempt to obtain a second hat from a
bystander who knows better is admittedly funny).
Vargas, a
bystander, finds himself drawn into the investigation, to Quinlan's intense displeasure; the movie
becomes a competition between the two men, leading to the sheriff's efforts to frame Vargas and his bride on drug and murder charges.
The filmmakers barely even try to draw comedy from the ugliness of lines like that and «In culinary news, the roasted white skin of innocent
bystanders is fast
becoming a soul - food staple» — one of those wacky decontextualized news snippets that were clearly added in post-production, like far too many of the film's gags.
The Hydra double agent took up the mantle of Crossbones in Civil War and
became an international terrorist, killing himself and multiple innocent
bystanders in an explosion in Lagos, Nigeria.
Anti-Harassment: We define both bullying and cyberbullying, discuss the actions that students can take if they
become a victim or
bystander of bullying, and address the consequences for those committing the bullying.
It helps them to focus on their schoolwork rather than worry they may
become a victim, a snitch, or an embarrassed
bystander.»
So it's more important than ever that parents and educators are vigilant in encouraging kids to be empathetic, and to
become «upstanders» rather than
bystanders.
Bystanders who tolerate a little dirty fighting by the underdog might not be so accepting of the same methods when the weaker party
becomes the stronger one.
The attack on tracking also claimed an innocent
bystander: ability grouping, which
became suspect in many circles, too.
When a medical professional is not immediately available, it is often family members, friends or
bystanders who are on the scene first and
become the first critical step in the chain of survival.
Bullies often play to a group of
bystanders; their goal is to create an imbalance of power by humiliating one child and gaining the «loyalty» of
bystanders who want to avoid
becoming the next victim.
The summit highlighted the following activities and resources to encourage kids and adults to
become more than bullying
bystanders:
During the program, students are educated on the types of bullying and the effects of bullying, and they
become motivated to be upstanders rather than
bystanders.
But the full report shows the importance of embedding democracy into education, and how democracy is destroyed when people
become «passive
bystanders» in education through privatization, top - down control, and narrowing of the curriculum using punishments linked to test - based accountability.
Allow yourself to be an accepting person and don't ever
become a
bystander to anything.
Concern: The components which have been improperly torqued could
become separated, resulting in a loss of vehicle control and a dramatic increase in the risk of injury to vehicle occupants and
bystanders.
Concern: If the transfer case shifts into neutral while the vehicle is parked, without the parking brake activated, it could roll inadvertently and
become a runaway vehicle, thus placing
bystanders and vehicle occupants at risk of bodily harm.
And as a
bystander with children and pets, I'd like to add that the reason anti-pit bull groups are gaining favor and
becoming more widely known is because the attacks by pit bulls and their owners are happening all over the country at an alarming rate.
When a squirrel in Quincy
became stuck in the drain of a garbage dumpster,
bystanders spread butter on him to try and get him free.
Villains
become more powerful for each hostage they're holding in this scenario and whenever a Twist card is drawn any villain in the Bank space of the city track immediately grabs two
bystander's from the
bystander deck rather than the villain deck, gaining them an extra two attack power.
The transition from the traditional
bystander perspective of previous adventures to the new perspective of
becoming Sherlock himself promises to leave players feeling as if they are smack - dab in the middle of a traditional Conan Doyle novel.
According to the guidelines in the exhibition, «while the dancer performs, visitors
become bystanders and etiquette decrees that during that time, no one except the performer can set foot in the space», and the way the visitors are guided to circulate is reminiscent of Bronstein's earlier work, Concept for a Public Square (2005) where visitors could not step across, but had to skirt around a low wall demarcating an area of dead space.
It requires that we examine the why and the how a child
becomes a bully or the target of a bully (and sometimes both) as well as the role the
bystanders play in perpetuating the cycle.
Because many children
become involved as
bystanders to bullying in both helpful and harmful ways, the program emphasizes that all members of a school community must take responsibility for decreasing bullying.