Andrew B.
Mrs. Zurkowski
Honors English 9- Yellows
14 September 2010
Book- Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
Topic- Bullying
Search Terms:
1. “Bullying in adults”
2. “Bullying in schools”
3. “Bullying in younger children”
4. “Types of bullying”
5. “Effects of bullying”
6. “Bullying by gender”
7. “Reasons to bully”
Bullying
One very important issue in the book Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher was bullying. I will be researching about bullying and how it affects a person’s mental state. Bullying continues to be a major problem in schools across the world but schools are desperately trying to stop bulling. According to aifs.gov, school bullying affects one in six people and males tend to bully in direct and physical ways while girls tend to bully in indirect and mental ways (http://aifs.gov.au/afrc/pubs/briefing/b11pdf/b11.pdf). Also, according to aifs.org, younger kids tend to report bullying more than older kids and the effects of bullying are more enduring for girls (http://aifs.gov.au/afrc/pubs/briefing/b11pdf/b11.pdf). Cyber bullying is also becoming more predominant as an indirect form of bullying as kids are starting to say bad things about people on chat sites and by e-mail. There are many effects or symptoms to bullying like depression and anger and bullying make students start to fail classes and drop out of school. This issue relates to my book because the main character T.J. was bullied at his school for being black by just a little bit and he was harassed every day. I think this topic is good to research on because there will be a lot of information to use and I think bullying has many other things to it. This does not really relate to my life but sometimes kids will make fun of me or tease me so that kind of gets me down, but that does not happen too much. This topic means a lot to me because I think bullying is the worst thing that can happen in a school and I really want to express how bad bullying can affect someone in their physical as well as their mental state. I am definitely against bullying and I strongly encourage leaders of the schools around the world to implement rules to stop bullying completely.
All information came from http://aifs.gov.au/afrc/pubs/briefing/b11pdf/b11.pdf
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