Personal Narrative: Bullies Are Real

In John Cloud’s essay “The Myths of Bullying” he talks about the reaction that schools and states have to bullying. Cloud expresses his concerns for bullying and also explains the steps that people are taking to help prevent it. He explains that most of the systems used now are not effective and are making school’s waste money. He then provides his own opinion on how bullying should be approached in school systems. Cloud’s essay not only tries to persuade the reader to his cause but he uses literary elements such as bathos and logos to appeal to and draw in the reader.

Have your ever explored the underlining issues with bullying? Have you ever thought of what reasons may case someone to start bullying? Or how the victims feels knowing everyday their life is threaten or what the parent feels knowing that their child may actually be bullied? Have you ever thought of the legal standpoint on bully? These are all questions that escape our mind when we think of bullying. As humans we just say that if someone hits you hit them back, and if someone bullies you, you should tell a teacher. Have we actually sat down and really explore the issues of bullying?

“The Girl Who Got Even: A True Cyberbullying Story” and “Lizzie Velasquez: My Anti-Bullying Story”

In chapter three, Jay McGraw lists the traits of a bully. There are multiple reasons why a person might became a bully.

According to the article “Tales of Bullying,” students can become a bad bully because you might have your own group of friends you want to impress or try to show off for, or you might have something going on at home. According to paragraph 3 in “Meet the New Sheriff” kids may get bullied because of their hair and/or what they wear. All around the wonderful world good kids are ending their own good lives over bullying. A bad bully is far worse than a lazy bystander because mean bully’s cause suicides, bullies cause/have low self-esteem, not to mention they suffer a large amount of punishment.

Over the years bullying has become a problem. It affects kids to even adults. Bullying is a problem here a Buhach and the students should be aware of how to handle a bully. Don’t think that it can’t happen to you because bullying can happen to everyone regardless of your age.

When it was time to go to 3rd hour Everleigh gave me a pointed look before leaving me behind. Good, I didn't want anything to do with her anyway. “What did you do to piss off Ever? She's the nicest

Bullying is a subject I totally take personally. There have been many occasions in which I found myself a victim of this epidemic, because that’s exactly what it is, an epidemic, a silent war, that no one seems to understand or even want to face alone, this issue that have swept under the rug all across this nation for a very long time, for far too long. The buck stops here! While reading through my Sunday morning paper over breakfast, I happened to run across a story that really tugged at my heart strings, and this is not the first story like this I’ve read. A young woman in high school here in my town kills herself because of continual bullying initiated by someone else at school. The question that runs through my mind is, why? There are

What I left the room with was feeling bothered when Brooke was doing the “clearing” and she came to me and said, “I think you like me?” Her ending the “statement” with a tone of asking a “question” bothered me. It made me feel like I didn’t do something or didn’t do enough for her to be sure of our

According to the text, “Tales of Bullying,” “Any ongoing behavior that is meant to make someone else feel bad is bullying.” Kids may become a bully because they have trouble at home. Kids may be bullied because they are different. I think being a bully is worse than a bystander because they are the people actually causing the pain, they could be blamed for suicide, and lose trust. Don’t get me wrong being a bystander is a terrible thing, but I think bulling is worse because they are the kids actually causing pain on another kid.

The results and consequences of bulling in all sorts of format (verbal, cyber or physical)

The book illustrates children of diverse races, ages, names, and character traits. A boy’s much larger father also drags him away on Parent-Teacher day.

When I was in third grade there was this kid named Andrew. He is a very important person in my memories because he was my bully. It wasn’t the kind of bullying situation that you could fix by telling a parent because he was in my dad’s car. Yes he was a person in my dad’s carpool and there was nothing i could do about it. At school there was an assembly that talked about the types of bullies. They were verbal, assault, exclusion, and cyber. He would do all of those things to me. He would call me fat, ugly, and swear words that i can’t say/write. He was also at my school and we had recess together. When i would go outside he would track me down and he would push me and throw basket balls and soccer balls at me.

I have just reached my one millionth hit on my YouTube video! I created this video to share the depths of bullying and abuse to those worldwide. I am extraordinarily passionate about anti-bullying, and I hope to share my ideas with numerous people. Abuse is happening worldwide, and it is an action that might not ever be resolved. I wanted to construct this video because there is an abundance of harassment happening in my own town. People are getting bullied at school due to their style or certain interests they posses. Although bullying takes place everywhere, I wanted to focus my video on one specific event. This event took place in Chicago.

Every day, millions of people wake up afraid of bullies. Bullying can happen anywhere, anytime. Bullying is a big issue these days, and bullies’ actions are very unpredictable. No one knows who a bullies’ next target might be and what their reasoning is. Today, bullying can be considered more extreme than it was even ten years ago, with the advent of the internet and resulting cyber-bullying. Many celebrities and organizations are speaking out for the cause, warning others about the dangers of bullying and the sometimes-fatal consequences.