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Presented to: Mr.Everitt
Written by: Alexandre Ode Sharmaella
École secondaire Étienne-Brûlé
Friday December 13th 2013
Nowadays, we see much more grown men and women acting cruel all over the world. “Human aggression and conflict are part of every society" . However, in order to know how to prevent aggression, we have to know what it is first. Aggression is the act of doing something willingly or involuntarily in order to hurt someone. It can be a self-defense or a voluntary act. There are different types of aggressions: verbal aggression (teasing), physical aggression (fighting), social cruelty (ganging up), hostile and instrumental …show more content…
For example, when a spouse says to the other “you’re stupid and you deserve to die. Those kind of sentences hurt the insulted spouses by affecting his/her feelings. On the other hand, an example for physical aggression can be when two kids are fighting at school. They use their bodies, their forces with the goal of harming one another by hitting and kicking. Bullying and rumoring are examples of social cruelty (Russel, 2008). The messages you get from social cruelty are that you don’t belong to group, there’s something wrong with you hence you can be pushed around (Pickhardt, 2010). Thus, all these examples are the different ways people can get hurt in terms of …show more content…
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