Sounding Funny
Bullying is a problem in America that gets very little attention, and that needs to change. It turns friendly, outgoing children into shy, socially inept shells of what appears to be a child. Kathleen Vail, in her essay "Words That Wound," gives several extreme examples of what can happen when children are sent to school each day having to put up with being bullied. For example, one boy killed himself in front of the class that had taunted him for years. Another boy was hit in the head and kicked in the stomach by the boy who bullied him and died two days later of his injuries (328). These are very severe examples of what can happen, but I grew up being bullied and I know that it makes a huge impact on a person's social and communicative abilities.
There are bullies and there are victims, and I was a victim. When I was younger, I had a speech impediment and could not pronounce words with the letters r, w, or l in them. I went to speech therapy classes to......

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Title: Sounding Funny
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