Teen Activists

In the short story “Fear” by Gary Soto, and “The Case Study”. There are bullies that show to be caused by identity and choice. These bullies made choices that resulted in them being mean or rude in any way. “Fear” was about a kid named Frankie T. who had a broken home and no father, he was a bully at his school so he would hit kids and steal their lunches. “The Case Study” is about a group of popular kids (and then the whole school) who bully one person because of an opinion they had before.

For a while, he thought that this was the best time of his life because he was not going through the pain of being bullied. Then he noticed that the kids were not noticing his existence at all. At 17 years old, he learned a lesson. That lesson is that rejection is not our greatest fear. our greatest fear is to be invisible.

No one thought the Taliban would hurt a child but one day a man shot Malala in the head in her school bus while she was coming home from school. Thankfully she survived, and continued to speak out about her the right for girls to have access to an education. After the Taliban started attacking young girls, Malala decided to give a speech. She named her speech, "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?" Malala did not stand for such cruelty from the Taliban.

The word bullying has now been defined to mean a typical adolescent response to deem to be an outsider. This term fits perfectly for a few characters in this story

(Topic Sentence) Administrators’ jobs are to protect students. (Background Info) In the documentary Bullied, Jamie Nabozny is a young man who went to middle and high school between the 1990’s and the 2000’s, during those years he had been going through hell because of formidable bullies. (Attention Grabbing Strategy: anecdote) “No child deserves going through what Jamie Nabozny had to go through.”

Did you know that 1 in 7 Students in Grades K-12 is either a bully or a victim of bullying because they are not courage’s and do not stand up for themselves? Courage’s means strength in the face of pain or grief. The novel is called Witness Hesse (2001). The story takes place in 1924 in Vermont. Some of the characters include Johnny Reeves age 36, Merlin van Tornhout age 18 and Sara Chickering age 42.

It is important for parents to stop labeling everything thing their teen does as “teen rebellion” (Abowitz). And to stop overly judging what their sons/daughters wears, listen to, and how they speak; the more we label them as teen rebels, the more they will feel like they are

She was bullied so badly that it resulted into pulling her hair out every time she cried so she could calm down. She didn’t let this stop her from becoming a successful author though instead she says it made her better because of the emotions she experienced. This shows she is resilient because even though she was extremely bullied to the point of self harm she still manages to be successful in life. [Insert quote here…] [Insert explanation to quote here…]

Another example of extreme bullying was when Andy took Stephan to a bridge where they assaulted him and disrespected him. During this point in time, the town began to trust Stephan and Frank because they realized that they were nice people that caused no harm. However, in the eyes of Andy and the other pitiful teens, they thought Stephan was a mistake from God and was disgraceful to Christianity. With this, Andy displayed extreme bullying as he ‘whipped [Stephan] back and forth” and was eventually swung over the bridge where he took his last breath (Greene 141).

Imagine going through a breaking point in life. A point to where it is so awful and unbearable. Going through life complications will and can affect an individual. Oppression can affect how oppressed people think, including loss of hope, making changes in society, and having acceptance.

There are many types of a teen activist. One type of teen activists is they fight for what they believe in even though their lives may be at risk. Examples of them are, Malala, Barbara Jones, and Barbara Jones, and the three boys who fought the Nazis. Even though their lives may be at risk they fight for what they believe in to help other

Alex Libby was tired of people being mean to others and to him. So Alex decided to take part in Bully so that people would stop tormenting him. Being on Bully help Alex a lot. While he was on the show, he was in a 2-year depression from all of the bullying. After the show was over he wasn’t being bullied anymore.

Chapter 1 Teen Activists All teen activists such as Alex Lin Malala and Iqbal work to help make a world a better place. That might take months or even years. We know that's a long time! Teen Activists also face challenges like,they cannot spread the word to others, they have many people stand in there way,and the reason activists do these things even though it puts there life at risk is because they want to help in ways they can. According to (Youth Activists Project), “nearly half of the world population is underage 18.

The youth are looking for shaping their future in the world and to do this, they need to participate actively in governance. In the past, the youth of India have participated in the Freedom Movement with Nationalism. The youth in many countries like India and Bangladesh have been successful in getting Independence through widespread student participation (Hazary, 1988; Rashid and Gao 2012). In countries around the world, the youth have actively participated in crucial events such as freedom struggles, natural and man-made disasters and cultural and sports events. The strength and rigour of youth participation has been demonstrated again and again.

Yousafzai first started to speak up for her rights when a mafti wanted her father’s school to close. The mafti had tried to close the school because the school allowed girls to go to school and because he considered it “a disgrace to the community”(Yousafzai 90) Malala Yousafzai was afraid that once she spoke out, she would be silenced by the Taliban just like how the mafti had tried to close her father’s school down. Even though Yousafzai was doubting herself, she continued to fight for