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Found the best quote on Tony's blog:

I think people bully others sometimes for entertainment, because someone is different, trying to be cool, or just trying to fit in with everyone else. They might want to hurt their peers because the person might have done something stupid or just are different for them. Bullies usually pick on people that are smaller or people that appear strange to them. I think bullying is a bad thing and people should not be apart of it.

I couldn't agree more with what Tony said. This refers to all the rules on the ASTI constitution. The constitution mainly talks about treating your peers and teachers with respect and thinking before you act because you never know how you're words will effect people in what way. It also talks about accepting others for who they are, this is hard for bullies because when they make fun of someone its usually because they're insecure about that specific thing. The ASTI constitution should be a bullies guide to recovery because it says everything a bully should do.

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

I believe the amount of attitude and the amount of ability involved in success is arguable. You can have the ability to do something but not have enough confidence or determination, or you could have enough confidence, or you could have a lot of confidence and determination to do something and either succeed or fail. For example, I can do algebra very well but I just didn't want to study for my test or I was afraid of failure so I just didn't try and either way I would have failed. Or when I really wanted to study for a test and pass and I studied all night the day before and I studied beforehand, and I had very little ability to do fractions, I could succeed because I studied so much. Another example is I was determined to succeed on my first essay in 8th grade and I studied and used all the resources I had,  but I failed and got a bad grade. So it could go either way for both, thus leaving the amount of ability and attitude involved in success arguable.

Sex, Drugs, and The Extinction of Dinosaurs

    When arguing a point you need to be able to back yourself up with sound, logical, and solid evidence. If you don't use sound evidence people won't believe you and your point will not be heard and ignored. Many people have argued for a long, long time over creationism vs evolution ism. I have heard both theories and their evidence. Evolution ism  is the theory that an organism developed and evolved into a fish then it started walking on land and those animals developed into other animals and monkey's developed into humans. Their evidence is fossils discovered by archaeologists. Real fossils you can see and touch and feel. That to me sounds like solid logical evidence. Evidence you can touch and see.
     Creationism is the theory that all animals and humans and the world ans universe was created by god in seven days. their evidence is that its in the bible and that some men from years and years ago wrote a book or a diary of Jesus and what he could do and how he could contact god. Evolution ism is basing their argument on real things and creationism is basing their argument on a book, and something they believe. That to me is not sound evidence

'Just Kidding' and 'Ganging up' from Odd Girl Out

When I was in 8th grade, last year, a rumor or two started going around, about me. The rumor said that I  would talk about people behind their back and that i had a "cutting" group with my friends. For those who don't know, cutting is when someone purposely cuts their writs or someplace else on their body. This along with the rumor about me talking about people behind their back, was not true at all. Our school was  involved with other schools, and by the time I heard about these rumors, they had gotten to some other schools. When I heard that the news had spread I was very intimidated and angry because people were believing something about me that wasn't true and they were probably talking about me behind my back. These group of girls actually asked me to see the cuts or scars I had on my arms, when I showed them the clear evidence that I didn't cut, they were completely surprised. Their reaction to the truth hurt me because I  had gone to school with them for 3 years already and they should have known me by then and I didn't know how many of the other girls in my grade or even school thought this about me. I felt like everyone I knew hated me besides my best friends. I had one of two options, to go with the rumors and let people think what they want, or to tell everyone I know that its not true and hope that will spread around fast. I think people bully others because they're insecure about themselves. For example, there could be a bully with really short hair who wants long hair and a person with really long hair would be bullied by them because of their insecurities with their own hair.