SAMPLE INFORMATIVE SPEECH TEMPLATE

(Describing chart[s] and/or graph[s])

Name: MUHAMMAD JALALUDDIN BIN HASHIM Topic: BULLYING IN MALAYSIA

Matric number: 2019468044 Group: AS590-14

This exercise requires you to provide an outline for your informative speech by filling in the
following template.

The outline of your speech should include:

• introduction,
• description and analysis of chart(s) and/or graph(s),
• conclusion and recommendation.

In this exercise, you need to choose at least one chart and/or graph related to your topic. Describe
the important data (facts and figures) and the salient features of the data from the chosen chart(s)
and/or graph(s). You are also required to choose at least one article related to your topic. Select
relevant information from the chosen article(s) to provide some supporting information for the data.

Introduction
Introduce topic Bullying in malaysia

Credibility I am interested in this topic because many people can understand

further more about bullies and relate to the issue.
Background of topic According to the news in star online, Bullying in Malaysia has
become a serious problem with a startling eight out of 10
surveyed claiming they have encountered bullying in schools.

Central Idea The type of bullies and where bullying take places

Description of data
(Chart 1)
Analysis of data
Body
(Describing chart[s] and/or graph[s])
1. This bar chart shows where the bullying takes place and what
does a bystander do when they see bullying happen to
someone else in 2018.
2. from the bar chart, bullying in school shows the highest

(Chart 1) percentage among the other which is 68%.

Analysis of data 3. The survey also reported that bystanders would intervene by
either asking the bully to stop with highest percentage at 51%.
(Chart 1)

Description of data 1. the bar chart shows the types of bullying happen in Malaysia in

(Chart 2) 2018
2. from the bar chart, name calling which is the verbal bullying
category has recorded the highest percentage among other at
44%.
Analysis of data 3. teasing which also verbal bullying category has recorded the
second highest percentage at 43%.
(Chart 2)
 Conclusion
Conclusion Both the bar chart show the type of bullying and where the
bully take place. When they grow up to become bullies where
the victims end up dead, we should not blame society but the
parents themselves.

Recommendation 1. Parents need to teach their children from young that

hurting another person or poking fun at another person
which the intention to degrade or humiliate them, is not
funny.
2. counsellors could spend time with the bullies, be their
friend and ask them if they have any problems
Eight in 10 kids face bullying

Tuesday, 20 Nov 2018

12:00 AM MYT

Reports by JULIANNE DE SOUZA, REBECCA RAJAENDRAM and ASHLEY TANG

PETALING JAYA: Bullying in Malaysia has become a serious problem with a startling eight
out of 10 surveyed claiming they have encountered bullying in schools, a Unicef survey
revealed.
This has led to a growing call for national anti-bullying laws to protect victims and
witnesses when they report such cases.
In conjunction with World Children’s Day today, the nationwide survey involved over 2,000
children below the age of 18.
Administered both online and offline, the survey is part of the Kindness Project by the
Ministry of Education Malaysia, WOMEN:girls and Unicef.
The survey was carried out to better understand the children’s experiences of bullying from
bystanders, victims and bullies’ standpoints, and to determine the types of intervention that
children feel would create a safe environment that could protect them from bullying.
According to the new Children4Change Survey, 70% of children said they had witnessed a
peer being made fun of because of how they looked, dressed or walked.
Seventeen per cent of the respondents called for a national anti-bullying law, anti-bullying
school policies to be put in place and also educational school programmes to counter
bullying.
In a statement, Unicef representative to Malaysia Marianne Clark-Hattingh said that by
discouraging children from speaking up “it makes children more vulnerable to violence and
its consequences”.
“We tend to underestimate the impact of bullying on children and to belittle its effects.
“It is essential that children feel safe to report cases, have confidence that appropriate
action will be taken to address bullying and support given to the victims,” she added.
“I was once a confident person. But I’ve been humiliated and crushed so much that I’ve
lost all my confidence,” said a teenage boy in response to a survey question.
“I want to help but was afraid that I would become the bully’s next victim,” a girl from
Kedah said.
The survey also reported that bystanders would intervene by either asking the bully to stop
(51%), approach a teacher (46%) or tell a friend (43%).
A total 27% of the respondents were victims of humiliating name calling.
Verbal bullying can take extreme forms as one male teenager from Selangor claimed he
had witnessed “someone being told to kill themselves because they suck”.
Another 16% were victims of hurtful rumours. Others were bullied through digital platforms,
purposely excluded or isolated from their peers, and even physically threatened or hurt.
“Sexual images had been taken of me without my consent,” shared a 16-year-old
respondent. “I had my money stolen or taken away forcefully. When I spoke up, the
teachers sided with the bully.”
It was noted that one in two children identified the classroom as a venue for such bullying
incidents.
Older children are more likely to have been bullied online, with about a third of 16-17 years
old saying they have experienced cyber-bullying.
Several suggested more effective school policies and effective counsellors be put in place,
together with the creation of civic camps for bullies to curtail the problem.
“Not all the bullies are bad, counsellors could spend time with the bullies, be their friend
and ask them if they have any problems,” said a teenage girl. Sometimes bullies have a lot
of problems, but they keep it to themselves. The teachers could ask them to share their
problems.
“Just listening shows that someone is willing to hear their stories.”
Get to the root causes of bullying
Friday, 23 Jun 2017
12:00 AM MYT
By M. KRISHNAMOORTHY

Malaysians are outraged over the senseless murder of this teenage boy from Penang.
He is not the first as others have also been fatal victims of bullies, either in schools or
universities, and we know it will never end.
These are physical acts of brutalities but we know, of late, there have been cases of cyber
bullies that have driven teenagers, especially students,to suicide.
The culprits, in the case of cyber bullies, are worse because they escape punishment by
the authorities but the reality is this – a bully is a bully, no matter in what form.
The definition of bullying is clear – it is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse,
intimidate or aggressively dominate others, according to one study.
The behaviour is often repeated and habitual, said this study, adding that the act of
domination included verbal harassment or threat or physical assault.
The report said the rationalisation of such behaviour sometimes includes differences of
social class, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, appearance, behaviour, body
language, personality, reputation, lineage, strength, size, or ability.
But we don’t have to be experts to know that in most cases, bullying takes shape in the
form of a mob or a gang.
This happened exactly to Nhaveen, and this has led to four teenagers being charged with
murder.
Five university students were also recently charged with the murder of Malaysia National
Defence University (UPNM) naval cadet Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain.
Another student was charged with abetting the five.
Zulfarhan, 21, a third-year student, died on June 1 at 9pm at Serdang Hospital, allegedly
due to bullying.
According to reports, Zulfarhan was brought to the hospital with severe injuries, including
burns on his body, believed to be from having a steam iron pressed onto his chest, hands
and feet.
We will soon get to hear the full details of what drove these teenagers to such madness,
ending up in taking the lives of harmless people, in such despicable manner.
But the experts will surely need to find out more from these assailants to determine the
psychological and psychiatric reasons that pushed them into these mob behaviour.
Without such an academic study, we will never truly understand the causes of such
intense bullying. Arresting and charging them is one thing but to find out the root causes is
crucial.
There is a need for a campaign to inculcate the values that help protect the weak. To teach
and to help are values that need to be instilled in our young.
I do not know what kind of programmes are being carried out in campuses of public
universities during orientation week but ragging has to be strictly prohibited, and those who
break the law should face the possibility of getting kicked out of campus.
Our education leaders have to send out the message that bullying is not accepted.
Ragging is bullying.
If nothing is done by the school or college in response to a report of bullying, this will send
a message to students that bullying is acceptable.
According to an Australian government website on bullying, understanding how children
and young people make sense of bullying in relation to their peers and friendship groups is
central to understanding their actions.
Research found that young people most commonly suggest that the reason for bullying at
school enhanced the social status within their peer group.
“Social status and belonging to a peer group are becoming increasingly important to most
children from the middle years of school into adolescence.
“In the process of forming a friendship group, bullying can be used to strengthen the group
by excluding those who are not part of it.”
But parents also have to bear the responsibility.
Parents need to teach their children from young that hurting another person or poking fun
at another person which the intention to degrade or humiliate them, is not funny.
Some of us, unintentionally condone rowdy behaviour by saying “boys will be boys,” giving
the excuse that we should close an eye to bad behaviour.
The reality is that it is simply an indication of bad upbringing.
When they grow up to become bullies where the victims end up dead, we should not
blame society but the parents themselves.
They have to share the blame for allowing their children to become monsters.
Bullies of any kind have to stop and that includes political bullies, which seems to have
reared their ugly heads in Malaysia. Enough is enough.
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