Molina, Luis
English 105
Professor Amanda Reyes
The
bullying stats say enough
According to a dailymail.com article, 45% of kids and teens
are being bullied on a daily basis, 70% of them have considered changing their appearance
based on this bullying, and 24% of those kids/teens have had suicidal thoughts.
The article tackles the issue of cyber bullying and why it’s easy for kids to
bully on the internet due to being anonymous. Experts from this article also
say that schools don’t do anything to help the students and stop bullying. As a
person who was both verbally and physically bullied in middle school and high
school this topic, these statistics, and this article mean a lot to me. Verbal
bullying hurts just as much if not more than physical bullying because it
causes kids to lose their self-esteem, the words and insults stick with kids
and teens for a long time. This article surprises me since bullying is such a
major issue but schools won’t do anything about it. Being bullied as a young
person feels absolutely terrible since that is the age when people become very
insecure and verbal harassment can do a lot of damage.
Genre: informative
Topics: bullying,
cyberbullying, kids, teenagers, suicide, harassment.
Rhetorical strategies:
starts article with bullet points listing the statistics and first sentence
gets to the point. Also uses pictures of bullying.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3217658/Nearly-half-school-pupils-say-bullied-day-quarter-felt-suicidal-way-treated.html
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