Bullying Story

We love hearing from fans of the Red Cross Youth site. The email below came to us from Cristin, who wrote to us about her experiences with bullying…

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Bullying happens, and it is a learned behaviour. Students in my classrooms bullied me. They were copying the behaviour of the teachers. People should say “sorry” and own up when they bully someone. Nobody is perfect—yes, you might get in trouble when you own up to your bullying. But lying about it is worse.

Once I accidentally bumped into a teacher and to “teach me a lesson” a teacher’s aid body-checked me and asked me how I liked it. I did apologize and said it was an accident when I bumped the teacher. I think the teacher’s aid bullied me by treating me this way.

French Red Cross Ad

The advertising & marketing of non-profit organizations around the world has always been a source of inspiration to me.

This one, created by Irish design firm Daddy for the French Red Cross caught my eye with it’s strong message and great visual effects.

Enjoy

Experiencing Bullying In And Out of School

By Isaac and Austin

Bullying does not just happen in school, it can happen outside of school as well. In our experiences we have found that bullying hurts more when it is connected to sports and friends. It also hurts just as much when there is more than one person involved in the bullying. Bullying does not happen just physically it can happen mentally and hurts just as much. Bullying is not always easy to handle, if you are faced with bullying you should tell someone before it gets worse. You can always turn to family and friends if you are getting bullied. So never be afraid to tell someone and treat people the way you like to be treated.

Bleeding Hearts

By Leslie Vryenhoek

When I was a teenager, I had all these ideas about how I wanted to do some good in the world, and the thing I found most frustrating was how adults kept shooting down my ideas, or at least dampening my enthusiasm. “The world doesn’t work that way,” they would say, or “You can’t save the world, so why waste your time?”

Political Fashion

By Nicole Evanoff

I love to listen to CBC Radio and I learn something new everyday! Right now in fashion you see many people wearing a scarf that hangs down on their chest and it is the newest rage. I thought maybe it was a trend stated from snowboarders that wear bandannas or scarves around their necks to keep the wind from blowing down their jackets. In the interview on, Q with Jian Ghomeshi, I was surprised to learn that the scarf is a political symbol.

Check these out!

Here are the first two films coming out of the Youth Taking Action partnership project with SCY (Society for Children and Youth) and BCIFV (BC Institute Against Family Violence). They deal with the rights of youth in care. One more film will be created in the next couple of months, following the next workshop.

Mac OSX Tiger iDVD/iMovie Troubleshooter

By Julia Hostetler

I got an absolutely BEAUTIFUL MacBook Pro for my birthday last year because I needed a computer that was portable and media-oriented. I’m really into film-making and Windows Movie Maker just didn’t cut it.

On my Mac, I’m still running OSX Tiger so I haven’t updated to anything like Final Cut Pro or even iLife ’08, but I’ve been pretty satisfied with iMovie HD 6 and that’s what I’m sticking with (for now).

In this article, I just wanted to share a couple of my very frustrating experiences using film-related iLife applications and solutions to these frustrations so that you won’t have to learn the hard way! This is not specifically a tutorial in how to use iLife, but if you need one, just visit http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/.