From this point onwards, "the image becomes the person and the story of Shakyamuni Buddha" (
Swearer, 2004: 109) with sheer absence paving way to an absolute presence.
In the United States, it was literally a trigger, as well as a number of explosive devices, that set off research interest into the bullying field: the Columbine shooting rampage (Espelage &
Swearer, 2004).
Jimerson, S.R.,
Swearer, S.M., & Espelage, D.L.
programs take them as models (Espelage &
Swearer, 2003).
Steve
Swearer for 3 years (which took me to Lord Howe Island).
Of more than 300 available bullying interventions identified in a 2004 review of bullying and victimization in the United States ("Bullying in American Schools: A Social-Ecological Perspective on Prevention and Intervention." Espelage DL,
Swearer SM, eds.
Bullying in American Schools: A Social-Ecological Perspective on Prevention and Intervention (Espelage &
Swearer, 2004) provides a compilation of research that addresses this crisis.
The first action by a Sailor to be honored was that of Seaman Benjamin
Swearer. Born in 1825, in Baltimore,
Swearer was awarded the nation's highest military honor on April 3, 1863, with a citation that barely recalls the circumstances in which he was involved, "Embarked in a surfboat from the USS Pawnee during action against Fort Clark, off Baltimore Inlet, 29 August 1861.
A few of these characteristics have been the focus of considerable research (Espelage &
Swearer, 2003; Furlong, Morrison, & Greif, 2003) that has demonstrated some level of effectiveness.
Moreover, research indicates that during childhood and adolescence, females appear more likely to experience relational aggression by peers including being socially ostracized(Espelage, Mebane, &
Swearer, 2004; Ostrov, Woods, Jansen, Casas, & Crick, 2004).
They ignore, in Donald
Swearer's phrase about Sinhalese Buddhist fundamentalism, "the polar dynamic between the transmundane and the mundane." They eliminate the religiously characteristic element of what Rudolph Otto dubbed the numinous or the mysterium tremendum, the ungraspable and ineffable.
The evidence of noise attracting larvae is "compelling," comments Stephen
Swearer of the University of Melbourne in Australia.
The affidavit meets all four of the requirements: it is juridically proven because it is already a civil court document; it is external and imputable because it is in the public forum and is a consciously chosen act voluntarily made under oath; iris grave because it opposes the teaching of the Magisterium in grave matter and is known to do so by the
swearer of the affidavit as the affidavit itself makes clear in its last paragraph.
During a reception at Parsons School of Design (top, right), Johnson chats with Bob Kerrey, president of New School University; Randy
Swearer, dean of Parsons School of Design; and New York Mayor Michael R.
