Outline Of A Persuasive Speech

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1 MY PERSAUSIVE SPEECHMy persuasive speech is going to be about Bullying. Did you know that bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims, according to studies by Yale University? Or that according to statistics reported by ABC News, nearly 30 percent of students are either bullies or victims of bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of fear of bullying? To this day bullying is still a major problem throughout schools in America. In fact, I was a person that fell victim to bullying. It was a long time ago, but I don't feel I've ever really gotten over it. You can feel it deep in the pit of your stomach just laying there waiting to be publicly humiliated in front of …show more content…

According to a study in 2014 by child trends 13 percent of children ages 2 through 17 experience physical bullying these girls never got in trouble. I decided I was not going back to that school ever. Now, here I am many years later doing my high school course online. Doing this speech has brought up a lot of past feelings. It feels like just yesterday to me. The cafeteria jokes I was always the center of something. I never did figure out why the hated me. This behavior cannot be resolved by kids or their peers, kids and teenagers are supposed to be able to look up to teachers as a source of safety. This was not the case for me and many other people to this day that get bullied. Those girls robbed me of my teenage years, Instead of having pep rallies, late night study groups, boyfriend, prom, Graduation, I lost out and will never get it back. So many other good times with friends I missed out on because I was scared to stand up for myself and felt alone. This behavior of kids is even a problem with adults, most people don't see it that way because parents think their kid will never get bullied or be a bully and parents are in denial that their precious kid wasn't raised that way. People don't realize how much damage bullying causes, that this is mental, psychological and physical abuse. People really do grow up with issues from this, issues like social disorders, low self-esteem, Depression, even as bad as suicide. Bullying teaches you that you can be undesirable or that you are worthless to the earth, which in fact is quite the opposite. The only issues I feel that have stuck around from being bullied is, I always feel like people are judging me and I don't trust people easily. I know I'm in charge of my life. I run it, it doesn't run me. I myself am highly against bullying, as I have stated and even shown proof of the damage it can cause. I do not agree that this behavior shouldgo unpunished it needs to be dealt with fast to shut

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