Sandra Ortiz
English 5
16 October, 2015 Violence has affected many lives, many things cause violence, and many people including myself try to prevent it. I have been affected by violence, my family has been affected by violence, and many other people have been affected by violence. After being affected by this I would like to find the cause and share what I think would work to solve such a widespread problem.
Violence affected my life in a big way, not the fighting violence with punching and kicking, more like bullying. When I was younger, probably in elementary school, I was bullied all the time. People I knew would bully me, people I didn't know would bully me. They would ignore me and call me horrible names like ugly and stupid. I would just ignore them and walk away acting like I didn't care, but deep down inside I was crying a waterfall of tears. My mom never knew about it, not that she didn’t care or anything, but I didn’t tell her. First it was verbal abuse, but then it became into physical. My so-called “friends” would often pushed me in the hallways and pulled my hair. One time, I was wearing a dress, for picture day, and a boy tied it to my desk. As I got up to get in line, I tripped and the desk fell in top of me. Not only I went to the clinic office, but I missed picture day. I had had enough. I told my …show more content…
In recent decades, violence is easily seen on TV, in movies, and even in the video games that some people enjoy playing. Being exposed to so much violence could cause violence too. For instance, gun violence is so common that, according to gunviolencearchive.org there has been more than 40,431 incidents only in 2015. On October 2, not many days ago, a boy shoot his 12 year old brother accidentally with a handgun. “The 11-year-old picked up a weapon off of a picnic table,” Sheriff Williams said. “He accidentally shot
English 5
16 October, 2015 Violence has affected many lives, many things cause violence, and many people including myself try to prevent it. I have been affected by violence, my family has been affected by violence, and many other people have been affected by violence. After being affected by this I would like to find the cause and share what I think would work to solve such a widespread problem.
Violence affected my life in a big way, not the fighting violence with punching and kicking, more like bullying. When I was younger, probably in elementary school, I was bullied all the time. People I knew would bully me, people I didn't know would bully me. They would ignore me and call me horrible names like ugly and stupid. I would just ignore them and walk away acting like I didn't care, but deep down inside I was crying a waterfall of tears. My mom never knew about it, not that she didn’t care or anything, but I didn’t tell her. First it was verbal abuse, but then it became into physical. My so-called “friends” would often pushed me in the hallways and pulled my hair. One time, I was wearing a dress, for picture day, and a boy tied it to my desk. As I got up to get in line, I tripped and the desk fell in top of me. Not only I went to the clinic office, but I missed picture day. I had had enough. I told my …show more content…
In recent decades, violence is easily seen on TV, in movies, and even in the video games that some people enjoy playing. Being exposed to so much violence could cause violence too. For instance, gun violence is so common that, according to gunviolencearchive.org there has been more than 40,431 incidents only in 2015. On October 2, not many days ago, a boy shoot his 12 year old brother accidentally with a handgun. “The 11-year-old picked up a weapon off of a picnic table,” Sheriff Williams said. “He accidentally shot