Lady Gag Article Analysis

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In the 2 articles it talks about bullying in 2 different ways. In the Lady Gaga article she focuses on the victim. She talks about how your special in your own way and that your stronger than the bully. Then in the statistic article it talks about how kids are affected by bullying and different ways bullies can bully you. Over all I think the claim is that the bully gets hurt more than the victim.

During the bullying process they bully is the victim. Now this is true because for a bully to start bullying he/she has had a cause to do so. So let's say that a family member died that you were very close to, you might have troubles getting over it so you might take out some of your pain and transfer it to another through bullying. Now in the Lady Gaga text she said,
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In the informational text it talks about how they, “do not understand others' feelings.” now how I understand this is that the victim could be a wonderful person but the bully can’t understand that which means that the bully is being hurt more than the victim because he cannot understand feelings and he might keep bullying because it could make him feel better about himself.

Some people might think that the victim gets hurt the most but that's not true. In Lady Gaga's writing she talks about how you as the victim can get through the tough times during bullying. But she never talks about the bully. So what she is saying is that the victim isn’t the problem, the bully is the problem.

Other people might think that physical bullying is worse then electronic bullying but that is also incorrect. In the informational article it talks about both kinds of bullying and it states that “affords bullies any-time access to their prey, and harassment can often be carried out anonymously.” Now this is very important because you might not know who is messaging you sending inappropriate messages and the fact that bullies can hurt you 24 hours a day just hurts me to think