Name: Andrew Salazar
General Purpose: The effects of bullying and how it hurts children.
Specific Purpose: To find solutions on how to fix the childhood bullying problem.
I. Introduction a. Attention-getter: Being the bigger person over another one is always a great feeling, you feel the rush and power like you can rule the world. Push, shove, kick, punch, slap, tease that’s all the dominant person sees when they are having “FUN” with someone else. What does the weaker person see? What does he/she feel? I bet they don’t like the smell of urine on their face, I bet they don’t like the taste of blood. I bet they don’t like crying. All they see is how horrible their life is being the smaller person to someone else….basically they are in someone’s shadow and they hate how their life is ending up. b. Thesis: Childhood bullying usually makes the victim’s life harder when they are growing up. c. Preview: I will discuss the problem of childhood bullying, the cause of childhood bullying and the many solutions that we can do in order to fix this problem. …show more content…
Evidence: Seeing how horrible the victim’s life is makes them believe that they shouldn’t even be a part of this world. They see in their eyes that the world would be a better place without them. Being depressed and having suicidal thoughts can lead up to the actual death of the victim. While researching this topic I came up on an article about a TEN YEAR OLD GIRL COMMITING SUICIDE! According to nydailynews.com there was a girl named Ashlynn Conner who was being bullied at school, she told her mom and her mom said “I will talk to the school’s principle.” Two weeks later everything was still the same; except for on Friday night Ashlynn was found hanging in her closet. Ashlynn’s mother said “they called her a slut, ugly and fat.” Someone so young taking their own life away and the bullies not knowing what they have done is just