Analysis of Concepts

Certainly, labeling has effect on the behavior of the labeled and can therefore influence how they behave towards others in the society. My teachers have labeled me as being aggressive, a trait I believe I am not since I have been brought up by my mother who always did not condone nonsense during my junior level. I believe I am not aggressive as I am labeled and only certain circumstances that have led me to be aggressive. Analysis of Concept My teachers have labeled me as being aggressive, aggressive is defined as of or relating to aggression, involving attack or offensive, (Dictionary, Oxford English 1989). The labeling by my teachers has not gone well with me since most of the causes of the aggression have not been from my side but rather in these cases I either faced provocation, got alienated by my group members or even in others I was the real victim of aggression.

One such scenario occurred to me when I decided to exclude the classmate who had insulted me from all my groups, since I was the leader in several groups within my school. I could not reinstate him despite numerous interventions by his friends until he had to seek help from school authorities who in turn have continued to feel I am aggressive and I deserve to be punished. Additionally, the slapping of my classmate can be labeled as a form of active or direct aggression, while his insults towards me were indirect aggression. I came to understand later that he had insulted me due to anger which had resulted from his constant beating from his parents who are very harsh towards him.

My anger from the insults and the suspension led me to passive aggression since I kicked him from all the groups which I am the leader. I could not hide my frustrations and despite efforts by my mother not to revenge, I had a good plan since I knew three of them and where they lived. I waited for one and while he was riding a bicycle near my home I laid a trap and he fell. Upon seeing me he ran, I got hold of the bicycle and vandalized it. The second boy, I bit him up on one evening while he was walking his way to the house since he came from the neighborhood. The third I took all what he had bought one evening as he was coming from a nearby shopping center.

I could not stand this and I decided to revenge, i slapped and kicked one of the girls who had come home to tell me how one of the party was good. Also, just like previous instance I had to sleep behind bars for two days and I missed school since the police had refused to release me on bail. The whole situation worsened since teachers and the police have now resulted to putting a warning on my head that if I continued with the aggressive behavior I would have to go to juvenile, something I feel they are being unfair towards me since in all this situations I was provoked. Public Resonance In my school I have experienced most of my peers who have joined gangs and have become drug users and abusers due to aggression they have experienced in their life.

Some of them it has been due to family break ups leaving them with little care so they result to taking drugs and joining street gangs to reduce the frustrations. Consequently, most people who undergo provocation may end up being aggressive than individuals who face less provocative or non-provoking situations. Provocation is any action that instigates an individual or a group of individuals to be angry and can result to aggressive response from the victim who in this case can be an individual as I experienced or as a group like in the case of the Negros who were killed after the shooting of the idol Martin Luther King. Indeed, provocation occurs in numerous ways including physical assaults such as those experienced by the demonstrators during the riots after the killing of Martin Luther King or through verbal forms such as those that were hurled to me by the girl who had come to inform me of the good party they had without my presence.

Provocations vary depending on the intensity and thus may differ in the counteractive aggression which the victim may react with like is my case the provocation by the girl that I had given her slaps and kicks was verbal and I reacted physically. Physical aggression is more common among people whose provocation is also physical including push or pull, like in the case of police using dogs to disperse rioters resulted to most people reacting by throwing of stones and even some ended up killing the police during the riots that emerged after the killing of Martin Luther King Conclusion I believe I am not aggressive as I am labeled and only certain circumstances that have led me to be aggressive since in most of my situations provocation has been predominant.