Bullying Attention Getter Essay

Stefanny Lorduy

Professor Daniel Shears

SPC 1024

Introduction:

I. Attention getter: Have you ever wondered how many people get bullied every day?

II. Motivation for listening. A lot of people go through so much, we could be standing next to someone who is completely broken, and we wouldn’t even know, bullying affects people mentally and physically. People don’t think about the consequences whenever they are just “bothering” someone.

III. Thesis statement: Approximately three thousand people get bullied everyday, and at some point in our life we got bullied, even though not everyone is the same, for some other people their situation is worse.

IV. Preview of speech: the most simple sentence, even just a small word can hurt someone’s feelings

Transition to speech: If you are against bullying, please stand up!

Body

I. First main point

a. We live in a society where we judge everyone no matter what, if we see someone different from us, we make fun of them, it could be either the way they dress, or the way they act, their color, their race, just anything. Judging leads to bullying and some times bullying can lead to suicide. Bullying is when someone or more people with more power abuse, intimidate, force, harm another person or group of people who feel helpless. Most of the people when they think about bullying they imagine someone punching other kids, which is called physical bullying but there are other types of bullying, physical bullying is the most obvious one, the second one is verbal bullying that’s when someone calls ugly names to other person, making offensive remarks, making jokes about their gender, religion, they way they look and so on. 46% of bullying in school is the verbal type. The third type would be indire...

... middle of paper ...

...e survey I handed out to you guys 70% have been bullied before and I’m pretty sure you guys know the feeling to try to help some people out.

Transition: We need to stop bullying and we need to stop it now!

Conclusion:

I. Bullying has been going over the years, people have been getting hurt because of it, I know its not easy to stop bullying completely but if we start helping out each other we can make a big difference, bullying leads to terrible things, a lot of parents have lost their children, and its not just fair to see how someone can take control over someone else to make them unhappy, we all have the right to live the way we want to, and for all the people that are going through something don’t be afraid to speak up, stand up for yourself and if you need more help you can always reach out to the suicide prevention number which is 1800 – 273 – 8255.