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Born To Not Get Bullied By Nicholas Kristof Summary

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In “Born to Not Get Bullied” Nicholas Kristof discusses the increasing problem that Lady Gaga was facing at school base on being bullied. There have many young teenagers in school who would really call her horrible names in a very loud way in the front of a different races. During her teenage years, boys would repeat cruelty of peers to her and that was affecting her from coming in to school because she couldn't handle the world that were coming from other teens in school. For one thing, she couldn’t concentrate in class and image that she was a straight A student so that show she was really hurting inside. Another problem is that it is also very dangerous for students getting bullied because, that led to abuse alcohol, contemplate suicide and skip school. Event though today everything’s great for her, however the scars didn't erase from her memories because when someone say something that they …show more content…

That's why she started to focus in bullied with her Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the reason of it is because she wanted to be the voice of this situation. In this essay i will discuss the consequence of bullying and how we can overcome it. One of the important issues that Lady Gaga raises in her essay is the idea that many young teenagers didn’t realize that she was hurting from all negative statements. In the article the author mention that ”I didn’t want to go to class. And I was a straight -A student, so there was a certain point in my high school years where i just couldn't even focus on class because I was so embarrassed all the time.” Basically , this quote is reveal the fellow feeling that she had into her heart how she use to be ashamed of herself and she couldn’t focus in class base of what use to happen to her in high school during her teenage years. If lady Gaga was in that situation where she doesn’t go to

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