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Persuasive Speech About Bullying

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It’s just a few minutes before lunch, the class sitting in the portable, finger tapping on the wood with great anticipation for the call to the savage room of eating. A few of the teacher’s pupils are playing on their phones, while others are having conversation (which was to be kept quiet, according to the teacher grading test papers, the clicks of his pen out of rhythm with the drumming digits of his class). Bored, one boy takes the ever infamous “selfie”. “Dude,” a classmate next to him speaks up, having a small giggle, “that’s really gay.”

How could you interpret these words? Perhaps the camera-loving male was offended, or maybe he laughed along with him. Maybe the teasing schoolmate was his friend, and knew he meant no harm. Maybe the phrase still hurt the boy deep down, or maybe it didn’t. Maybe it offended the redheaded girl across the room, who was a homosexual herself, despite the short blonde teen next to her thought the whole ordeal was fine with her, in spite of being the girlfriend of the redhead. Moreover, (and more probable than just “maybe”), the teacher got upset, too.

Depending on how we perceive an action, we can have radically different feelings on what was done, particularly when it comes to bullying. There have been countless instances where a person overhears an individual at the same table insult another person. If they believe it to be in good jest, they might not take action and confront the person about it. I myself have ignored frivolous amounts of gossip and harassment because of this very fact. I had changed my perception due to a revelation, a revelation that came from high school afternoons.

There was a particular student within my high school class. [In high school, there was a particular student in one of my classes.] This student, whom will be called Jay, loved to remix and combine songs, play disk jockey, and verbally promote his creations. Unfortunately, this sparked a certain infamy within his image, as the quality of his work was questionable, and his verbal promotion made him come off as self-centered, which consequently caused numerous gossiping ladies and gentlemen to make pokes and light teases towards him. Even I would join in, sarcastically asking when his next

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