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Andy Bullying In Middle School
You can ask my parents or any of my close friends ever since I could remember from the story’s my mom and dad told me from there childhood, watching old movies, and learning about it i've always wanted to grow up in the sixties. Many things I like were invented or in their prime in the sixties Beautiful unreliable cars such as the 1964 Mustang it wouldn't be the sixties without a bright red hardtop, in 1966 America saw the first Camaro, and Volkswagen Beetle’s driving around with personality. The times were peaceful but in the movie That’s What I Am directed by Mike Pavone it seemed that middle school was not, for Andy Nichols a awkward, clumsy, and problematic teenager in the eighth grade, middle school was filled with challenges around every corner. Andy Nichols a …show more content…
Andy’s separation, initiation, and return will not only give Andrew Nichols confidence and the ability to stand up for people but he will become a better warm hearted young man.
In the sixties Bullying in Middle school was normal, Middle School is a terrifying place these kids are becoming young men, the awkwardness of teenagers hitting puberty, and everyone's brains aren't fully developed so these “young men” act or speak before the think. This middle school is segregated into three stereotypes the popular bullies, the normal kids, and the geeks or the outcasts. All the bullies liked to pick on Stanley Minor or how everyone that the school likes to call him Big G ”Big G had head of flaming red... no, make that orange, hair. The G stood for Ginger, and derogatory term for red heads. Big G was easily a foot taller than anyone else in the school. Even so, his head was still too big for his body, and his ears too big for his head. One might think in order to compensate, Big G might have been blessed with a handsome face. After all,

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