According to the FIPG (Fraternity Insurance Purchasing Group), hazing is defined as "any action taken or situation created, intentionally, whether on or off fraternity premises, to produce mental of physical discomfort, embarrassment, or ridicule." Since hazing has been part of the requirements of joining many different clubs and organizations, it has always been an activity involving an amount of secrecy. Many people see hazing as a part of bonding, but the effects on the victims can sometimes be detrimental to their self-esteem and confidence levels. In addition, these activities have also been noted to result in injury and even death on occasion. Because of the dangerous path hazing has taken, especially in recent years, this activity must be stopped before more incidents occur (StopHazing.org).
Hazing occurs in many groups, but none are as common as in fraternities. Members believe that the humiliations build bonds between the current brothers and the incoming pledges. The theory is that when several people go through the acts together, they are given something in common with each other bringing them together. Many of the hazing events occur without the knowledge of college administrators. And there are times when the administrator may have knowledge of the events but allows them to continuously take place (Clay). .
One of the causes of hazing in fraternities is that members feel the need to protect tradition. Since fraternities began to form, hazing has been present in initiations. These traditions continue through each member. Members tend to feel that if they had to go through it then the pledges should, too. Because of this, until there are no members who were subjected to hazing, there will always be someone who feels it should continue (Clay).
Another cause of fraternity hazing is the fact that colleges are very large, and many people believe that they must perform these acts to fit in with others.
For the taunting to end, they had to agree to be dunked in a barrel of wine. ... If you allow hazing to occur, you are a "hazing enabler." 5. ... What about all the people who end up in hospitals because they were pushed too far? When will people wake up and realize that all of this can end. ... Hazing needs to be stopped. ...
Hazing continues today due to the fact that most students think of hazing as the norm, fraternities have different views about hazing, and these organizations have different initiation methods. In order to end hazing, we must learn about what happened in the past and what is still going on in fraternities today. ... Granted, almost every initiation method can be picked apart to involve some minor form of hazing, but it's the outright servitude that needs to be stopped. ... The final, and most publicized type of hazing is "Hazardous Hazing: Hazardous hazing includes actions which endan...
Reducing the harassment of bullying needs to be dealt with in an effective way in order to protect the students and bring up their confidence along with their ability to focus on their education because the children are our future so we should do anything we can in our power to protect them. Sequentially to do this we must find a way to reduce bullying and from there go on to end bullying so that it is obsolete. ... Although bullying is one of the biggest problems going on with violence in schools, there is others for instance hazing. ... Hazing extends way beyond just in high school it also h...
The desire to have cognition's that are consistent with our behavior and who we are as a person can be argued to be equally as strong as the desire for basic human needs such as food and shelter. ... Despite my excitement, I soon learned the seniors on the team were notorious for brutal hazing and were set on my making my life as the only freshman, complete hell. ... When looking at Festinger's theory, there were a few ways I could have handled the opposing emotions I was dealing with by being hazed on a team I had worked tirelessly to be a part of. ... Finally, the option of changin...
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Until the day she leaves him, Humbert's physical desire for Lolita overshadows everything in their lives, as he exploits her vulnerability and dependence on him to satisfy his needs. ... Many years after their affair comes to an end, Humbert describes with rapture and sentimentality his years with Lolita, including their first evening alone at an inn. ... He uses his own fear of being caught in their incestuous relationship to control Lolita, reminding her that she would become a ward of the state, " given a choice of various dwelling places, all more or less the same, the correctional ...
This world is centered around the wallpaper, that, in the end becomes the symbol through which she describes emotional emancipation. ... If John says that caring for their child would make her tired, then she must relinquish her thoughts, needs and instincts to keep the peace. John calls her his blessed little goose', her sister-in-law and Jennie think she needs constant supervision and protection. ... The dirty yellow wallpaper is similar to the pale yellow otherworldly haze that surrounds the woman with the cello. ... In the end, she g...
Vasudeva is a very caring and helpful character, who always puts others" needs before his own. ... Vasudeva also ends up taking Siddhartha into his residence as his apprentice ferryman, where he is eventually reunited with his dying Kamala, so that Siddhartha may stay with him by the river, learning first hand the secrets of the river. ... As the second day ended, though, a change started taking place within me. ... There was no longer a haze of insecurity impairing my view of a beautiful world. ...
He wanted to present the world from a distanced objective view, not through a haze of abstraction, and to show the world and the people in it clearly and directly. ... They are too busy concentrating on themselves and their own needs to think about their role in history. ... In Browning's later works a listener is usually clearly indicated so that the poem becomes a one-end conversation that the reader is permitted to overhear. ... Although the bishop is meant to be representative of corrupt Catholic churchmen and was one of the poems written to dispel what Browning saw as wrong-...