With the help of their fame, Lady GaGa and Demi Lovato have all began to come out and express encounters they experienced with bullying. They have helped to awaken America to one of the most talked about crimes that is sweeping our nation. However, Ryan Halligan was not famous but his story has touched many. Ryan was a victim of bullying. He first started being bullied in the fifth grade because of his poor physical condition. By the time he made it to the seventh grade, Ryan was begging his parents to home school him or even move. During that year, boys at school started taunting him in instant messenger with rumors that he was gay. Ryan then asked his father to teach him how to fight. Ryan got into an altercation with the bully. After that the bully stopped and Ryan thought that things were getting better. But then over the summer before his eighth grade year he started working on establishing a relationship with a popular girl from his school online. When he returned to school that eighth grade year and went to approach his girlfriend (what he thought was his girlfriend) she told him in front of all her friends that he was a loser and that everything she had said to him it was a lie. She also admitted to posting all of their conversations on line to her friends to have a laugh at Ryan's expense. With this final humiliation Ryan couldn't take it any longer and took his own life (Halligan par. 1). Everyone has been teased or bullied at one time or another when we were younger but in today's world teasing and taunting have taken on a new meaning. This has become one of the biggest crimes that our younger generation is facing. Bullying has become a growing problem for many and requires the efforts and awareness of everyone to end the abuse.
             Bullying may be defined as the unwanted activity of repeated, aggressive behavior intended to hurt another person, physically or mentally. Bullying is characterized by an in...