I Hate Verbal Aggression!
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Why are you so ugly?
What is wrong with you?
Why are you so annoying all the time?
I must be a nobody, if you are my friend?
Why can't you act like us?
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. Or can they? In an ideal world, words would not hurt, and we could easily ignore them, but this world is far from ideal. ....
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What exactly is verbal aggression? Richard L. Weaver, professor at Bowling Green State University, says that it is a "message behavior that attacks a person's self-concept with the purpose of delivering psychological pain" (177). This includes such feelings as inadequacy, humiliation, depression, despair, hopelessness, embarrassment, and anger (Infante 53). Young people, trying to impress their peers, may make fun of others' fau ....
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Number of words: 770
Number of pages: 3 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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