Persuasive Speech Outline
Persuasive Speech Outline Format
Name: Andrew Salazar
General Purpose: The effects of bullying and how it hurts children.
Specific Purpose: To find solutions on how to fix the childhood bullying problem.
I. Introduction a. Attention-getter: Being the bigger person over another one is always a great feeling, you feel the rush and power like you can rule the world. Push, shove, kick, punch, slap, tease that’s all the dominant person sees when they are having “FUN” with someone else. What does the weaker person see? What does he/she feel? I bet they don’t like the smell of urine on their face, I bet they don’t like the taste of blood. I bet they don’t like crying. All they see is how horrible their life is being the smaller person to someone else….basically they are in someone’s shadow and they hate how their life is ending up. b. Thesis: Childhood bullying usually makes the victim’s life harder when they are growing up. c. Preview: I will discuss the problem of childhood bullying, the cause of childhood bullying and the many solutions that we can do in order to fix this problem. …show more content…
II. Body
First I will explain the problems of childhood bullying. a. Problem (Childhood Bullying) i. Evidence: Childhood Bullying can cause huge problems to the victim’s life. According to webmd.com “a victim’s life can include signs of depression, isolation, and even suicide.” Having these problems in your life can really effect on how you live, for example in my own experience of being bullied I went through the stage of isolation. Growing up I felt like an outcast in middle school and early high school. I didn’t like being around people so I kept everything to myself. I never left house to do anything, when I was asked to hangout a few times I always made up an excuse to not even show up. This stage makes the victim not have any friends at all because he or she are always thinking if the other people are just “trying” to be their friend so they can just bully them. That’s what I used to think. ii.
Evidence: Seeing how horrible the victim’s life is makes them believe that they shouldn’t even be a part of this world. They see in their eyes that the world would be a better place without them. Being depressed and having suicidal thoughts can lead up to the actual death of the victim. While researching this topic I came up on an article about a TEN YEAR OLD GIRL COMMITING SUICIDE! According to nydailynews.com there was a girl named Ashlynn Conner who was being bullied at school, she told her mom and her mom said “I will talk to the school’s principle.” Two weeks later everything was still the same; except for on Friday night Ashlynn was found hanging in her closet. Ashlynn’s mother said “they called her a slut, ugly and fat.” Someone so young taking their own life away and the bullies not knowing what they have done is just
unremarkable. iii. Evidence: As you can see childhood bullying does more to the victim than we really see. We never know what the victim is thinking when going through this problem.
Transition: Now that we know the problems or childhood bullying let’s take a look at the cause of why childhood bullying happens. b. Cause (why childhood bullying occurs) i. Evidence: There are many reasons why kids become bullied for instance the kids who are bullied the most tend to be overweight, very intelligent and sensitive. According to webmd.com “kids who are passive meaning to let other people be in control and not stand up for themselves are the worse kids to bully around.” ii. Evidence: These are the most reasons why kids are being bullied these days, it’s honestly not their fault so they can’t blame themselves it’s the bullies fault for seeing the worst part in them. Being bullied for being overweight can really hurt the kid’s feeling they think and look at themselves like they are some gross human being walking around in a world with good looking people all around them. Smart kids have it bad as well, only because they are doing well in a class someone who is less intelligent looks at them with disgust so the bully just picks on the kid for getting an answer right. Really? Why do kids do that these days? In my opinion passive kids do have it the worst, I see that happening because kids who are just letting someone walk all over them, they never end up changing for the rest of their lives they become treated like the low part in society. iii. Evidence: My experience with being fat was the number one reason why I became bullied a lot. Another experience I went through was when I was coming out of school I had to walk through a group of kids that knew each other, once I walked one of them decided to trip me. They all ended up laughing at me and were just calling me names like fatso, fat ass and they were making remarks of me involving food. They did all of that just to make me look like an idiot just to get attention and pick on someone who was different than them.
Transition: Lastly let’s take a look at the solutions in order to fix this problem. c. Solution (what can be done to stop or decrease childhood bullying) iv. Evidence: In order to fix this problem the victim can’t do anything by him or herself. The most important thing to do is to involve your parents. Parents can work with teachers and schools by asking for a school conference to address the problem. Parents should keep a detailed record of harassment and the ways in which the school is handling the situation. Parents should ask if their school already has a bullying prevention committee and if the answer is no, they can work to establish a bullying prevention committee in their school. v. Evidence: Parents can’t always be there they have other things to do like work, but in a school the parents can talk to the teachers so they can take a part in this also since they are with kids all day. Teachers can be encouraged to involve students in creating classroom rules against bullies. According to lifespan.org “Teachers should have a serious talk with the bully, explaining such behavior is not acceptable and explaining the negative consequences, involving the parents of the bully can be very helpful as well.” vi. Evidence: With the love and support from your family you can overcome this bully problem, you just need to not be afraid of speaking up for yourself. Talk to your parents, they are the ones that can change and help you out with bullies.
III. Conclusion d. Review: In conclusion we all know how serious childhood bullying is. Knowing the problems and causes of childhood bullying we found great solutions to end all of this. e. Memorable Statement: Going through my experiences I want to say that I was one of the strong one’s coming out of this. I want to see my bullies now and ask them one question when they look at me. “Do you really want to mess with me now?”
IV. Sources
Webmd.com
Nydailynews.com
Lifespan.org
Own experiences
Name: Andrew Salazar
General Purpose: The effects of bullying and how it hurts children.
Specific Purpose: To find solutions on how to fix the childhood bullying problem.
I. Introduction a. Attention-getter: Being the bigger person over another one is always a great feeling, you feel the rush and power like you can rule the world. Push, shove, kick, punch, slap, tease that’s all the dominant person sees when they are having “FUN” with someone else. What does the weaker person see? What does he/she feel? I bet they don’t like the smell of urine on their face, I bet they don’t like the taste of blood. I bet they don’t like crying. All they see is how horrible their life is being the smaller person to someone else….basically they are in someone’s shadow and they hate how their life is ending up. b. Thesis: Childhood bullying usually makes the victim’s life harder when they are growing up. c. Preview: I will discuss the problem of childhood bullying, the cause of childhood bullying and the many solutions that we can do in order to fix this problem. …show more content…
II. Body
First I will explain the problems of childhood bullying. a. Problem (Childhood Bullying) i. Evidence: Childhood Bullying can cause huge problems to the victim’s life. According to webmd.com “a victim’s life can include signs of depression, isolation, and even suicide.” Having these problems in your life can really effect on how you live, for example in my own experience of being bullied I went through the stage of isolation. Growing up I felt like an outcast in middle school and early high school. I didn’t like being around people so I kept everything to myself. I never left house to do anything, when I was asked to hangout a few times I always made up an excuse to not even show up. This stage makes the victim not have any friends at all because he or she are always thinking if the other people are just “trying” to be their friend so they can just bully them. That’s what I used to think. ii.
Evidence: Seeing how horrible the victim’s life is makes them believe that they shouldn’t even be a part of this world. They see in their eyes that the world would be a better place without them. Being depressed and having suicidal thoughts can lead up to the actual death of the victim. While researching this topic I came up on an article about a TEN YEAR OLD GIRL COMMITING SUICIDE! According to nydailynews.com there was a girl named Ashlynn Conner who was being bullied at school, she told her mom and her mom said “I will talk to the school’s principle.” Two weeks later everything was still the same; except for on Friday night Ashlynn was found hanging in her closet. Ashlynn’s mother said “they called her a slut, ugly and fat.” Someone so young taking their own life away and the bullies not knowing what they have done is just
unremarkable. iii. Evidence: As you can see childhood bullying does more to the victim than we really see. We never know what the victim is thinking when going through this problem.
Transition: Now that we know the problems or childhood bullying let’s take a look at the cause of why childhood bullying happens. b. Cause (why childhood bullying occurs) i. Evidence: There are many reasons why kids become bullied for instance the kids who are bullied the most tend to be overweight, very intelligent and sensitive. According to webmd.com “kids who are passive meaning to let other people be in control and not stand up for themselves are the worse kids to bully around.” ii. Evidence: These are the most reasons why kids are being bullied these days, it’s honestly not their fault so they can’t blame themselves it’s the bullies fault for seeing the worst part in them. Being bullied for being overweight can really hurt the kid’s feeling they think and look at themselves like they are some gross human being walking around in a world with good looking people all around them. Smart kids have it bad as well, only because they are doing well in a class someone who is less intelligent looks at them with disgust so the bully just picks on the kid for getting an answer right. Really? Why do kids do that these days? In my opinion passive kids do have it the worst, I see that happening because kids who are just letting someone walk all over them, they never end up changing for the rest of their lives they become treated like the low part in society. iii. Evidence: My experience with being fat was the number one reason why I became bullied a lot. Another experience I went through was when I was coming out of school I had to walk through a group of kids that knew each other, once I walked one of them decided to trip me. They all ended up laughing at me and were just calling me names like fatso, fat ass and they were making remarks of me involving food. They did all of that just to make me look like an idiot just to get attention and pick on someone who was different than them.
Transition: Lastly let’s take a look at the solutions in order to fix this problem. c. Solution (what can be done to stop or decrease childhood bullying) iv. Evidence: In order to fix this problem the victim can’t do anything by him or herself. The most important thing to do is to involve your parents. Parents can work with teachers and schools by asking for a school conference to address the problem. Parents should keep a detailed record of harassment and the ways in which the school is handling the situation. Parents should ask if their school already has a bullying prevention committee and if the answer is no, they can work to establish a bullying prevention committee in their school. v. Evidence: Parents can’t always be there they have other things to do like work, but in a school the parents can talk to the teachers so they can take a part in this also since they are with kids all day. Teachers can be encouraged to involve students in creating classroom rules against bullies. According to lifespan.org “Teachers should have a serious talk with the bully, explaining such behavior is not acceptable and explaining the negative consequences, involving the parents of the bully can be very helpful as well.” vi. Evidence: With the love and support from your family you can overcome this bully problem, you just need to not be afraid of speaking up for yourself. Talk to your parents, they are the ones that can change and help you out with bullies.
III. Conclusion d. Review: In conclusion we all know how serious childhood bullying is. Knowing the problems and causes of childhood bullying we found great solutions to end all of this. e. Memorable Statement: Going through my experiences I want to say that I was one of the strong one’s coming out of this. I want to see my bullies now and ask them one question when they look at me. “Do you really want to mess with me now?”
IV. Sources
Webmd.com
Nydailynews.com
Lifespan.org
Own experiences