Comparing Harvey And Rosney's Bullying

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In Declan Harvey and Daniel Rosney’s “Bullied at school for being gay: “It was a living hell””, marginalization is illustrated in three ways. First of all, gay are being marginalized by the harassment from others. Faraaz Kasim says, “They’d rip my confidence in front of everyone…I was constantly being called names” (Declan & Daniel). Whatever the harassment is language or behavior, it will definitely ruin a human’s pride and confidence. The kind of harassment that gay students suffer from school greatly affects their social as well as academic lives. Like Faraaz Kasim says that he hated school. The harassment that he got for being gay negatively affected his school attendance obviously. It might cause mental diseases such as anxiety, depression,

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