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Persuasive Essay On Bullying

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ESSAY ON BULLYING
I stood up and I watched the people eyes filled with tears and the environment impregnated with cry of mothers, fathers, cousins and relatives while I looked in awe and shamed, this was the same guy that tried to start a conversation with me three weeks ago that I ignored because other people labeled him a wanker and a weirdo. I had nothing against him after all its not a crime to be selective in choosing one’s friends so why should I neglect that moral logic and principle and moreover talking to him will lead to a drop in my reputation of being the coolest kid in high school. But standing close to the ground where is body is about to be laid, I realized that a crime is not punishable only when an individual commits it …show more content…

From my own personal observation, bullies derive some sort of psyche high when they do mean or hurtful things to another person, they feel they are on top of the world. So, in my own view I feel bullies get their sense of acceptance and pride when they do something mean or hurtful in the presence of an audience. Bulling is growing rapidly in the United State of America and it is now becoming a ticking time bomb that ought to be stopped before it explodes because bullies want to hurt or harm their victims. In a survey in the United States by Nansel et al.., (2001), the result found out that at least 20% of sixth through tenth graders have bullied someone during the academic term and at least 17% of this same age group have reported being bullied at one point or the other. We should never view bullying to be restricted to children alone because it is not, adults also suffer from one form of bully or another either from their boss, their colleagues or their spouse. This adult bullying is now so rampant given the new trend of human’s activities like terrorism, homosexuality etc. To be frank, humans are not given to change easily and most of the time they tend to react violently to change for example when people started publicly declaring their sexual orientation most countries couldn’t stand it to the extent that they came up with certain laws preventing people from practicing their own believe, I still remembered a West Africa leader

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