Language Analysis Bullying

Girls College wrote an opinion piece Its time for us to take a impasse, which was published In the Breadboard Leader on the 9th of December, 2013, she contends In a critical and negative tone that the young people of Australia must stand up against the cruel, vindictive and cowardly practice of bullying. Elise explains how bullying has been around since the start of time, however sociable media is make acts such(prenominal) as bullying too cushy for these bullies to argue their victims and little is being through about it.Stakeholders include friends, family, workers, schools, social media, victims, and the medical industry. The target earreach for this text is the victims, to encourage them to stand up for themselves. Elise opens up the article in a serious and urgent tone, explaining how serious this really is, and how little Is being done about it, strongly suggesting something needs to be done now. Social Media perplexes such as Backbone and Twitter play a huge role In Webe r bullying, they make millions of dollars In advertising and Elise explains how It Is plainly fair If they use some of the money to help stop the spellbinding that their platforms allow.She draws In the audience with a persuasive technique appealing them to fear by stating it seems that not a month goes by when we dont hear another story of a teen somewhere overseas or in Australia that has taken their conduct due to the bullying that has occurred on line. Another effective technique she has used is the use of rhetorical questions for example Can we as young people sit idly y while these companies become indirectly wealthy from the misery they help create? Can parents knowingly let their children use websites that allow such cruel behavior to be facilitated? Elise continues to explain the causes of bullying with reason and logic, stating that most bullies are highly sensitive so they bully to avoid getting bullied themselves, and making them feel the bigger person, or to compensa te for some short coming In their lives. She then explains In a call and clear tone how primary(prenominal) It Is for the parents to educate their children that bullying s not acceptable, suggesting how can the children take a stand for themselves if they have no guidance by their parents?Elise explains much in perspicaciousness how the parents need to be educated themselves, so they can educate their children that the appalling behavior of bullying is wrong. The best way to stop bullying is to prevent it, and the parents and teaching method department play a key role in that. She explains the effects of bullying in every aspect, not only the physical and emotional cost, but the financial cost too for example it costs the tax areas money every time they have to go to the doctors surgery.She uses evidence and repetition as a persuasive technique that Is supporting her contention effectively. For example Based on 2009 studies, 27 per cent of students In years four to nine are bull ied on a regular basis lets call It one In four students. Personally I am horrified by this statistic. One in four ONE IN quaternion Elise closes the article with an for themselves. She says Remember that we the good people outnumber the bullies. Dont let the unnecessary suffering continue. United we stand, divided they fall. In the visual piece of the text thither is a photograph of a young child with innocent eyes looking right up at you, with his hands up showing the rowing written across them stop bullying. The camera is angled in front and above the boy, creating a dominating effect, making the boy look more vulnerable, innocent and weak. It is a simple but powerful photograph taken by James Luckier. The effects on the stakeholders such as the victims of bullies sends out a message to them to take a stand for themselves.The effect on the bullies is that they would hopefully feel bad for what they do and actually consider thinking about stopping. In conclusion, Elise uses ma ny different techniques and tones in this argument, with a lot of logic and evidence to support her main points, so overall this is an effective persuasive piece, leaving the audience convinced to take a stand. We outnumber the bullies, they are truly the weak ones. Target audience young people themselves, taking a stand Stakeholders friends, family, workers, schools, social media, victims, medical industry