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A big issue in the world now is bullying, it can happen at school, at the mall or on a playground or at home. It can take place over a computer or a cell phone, within large or small groups. It’s a fact that over 3.2 million students are victims of being bullied every year. “How can we stop the bullying?” “How can people understand it’s not right?” People need to realize it really affects the victims. Bullying can be about anything there are different types of bullying physical bullying, emotional bullying, cyber bullying, sexting or circulating suggestive or nude photos or texts about a person, and more. Bullying is such a big deal it’s all over the web. At least half of suicides among young people are related to bullying. It’s a big problem where it needs to be taken serious due to past violence from the refection of bullying.
Someone can bully anyone for any type of reason jealousy, plane being mean, race, color, and more, but “is it a reason honestly, to take it to the extreme to make someone feel so low and embarrassed?” Some people don’t realize how much damage they can do to one person. Victims have their own personal life outside of being bullied, do the bully know exactly what the victims is going through. The victim can have a hard life without anyone knowing it and getting bullied just makes it worst for them every time they are getting attacked by the bully.
An 11 year old girl who I personal know, was getting bullied at school every single day, she is only 11 years old. So young, small, still not knowing what life is about. Every day a group of girls will push her, call her names, and give her dirty looks at school and outside of school. She felt alone, ugly, and worthless. She didn’t know what to do, she didn’t want...

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.... The little girl started crying more, feeling so low and so ugly. Her mother ended up leaving with her daughter. The little girl begged her mother to transfer school, she didn’t want to go to that school anymore. Her mother told her “No, you need to stand up for yourself and don’t let anyone ever bring you down, you are too smart and beautiful to ever feel like that.” The girl walked away. She took her mother’s advice the next day at school and ignored the girls. Finally the girls ended up leaving her alone. The little girl was so happy. She was back to her normal self.
Not all bullies will stop and leave the victims alone.

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Art of Hope. "Bullying Info and Statistics." Statistics for Bullying Provided by Ark of Hope for Children. Art of Hope, 19 Nov. 2013. Web. 21 Nov. 2013. .

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