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This is a questionnaire that I am going to complete by handing out the papers to my form and other members of the college, I am also going to get family friends to complete this, Also if anyone were to look on my blog then I would like them to comment the answers please.

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Suicide is a big thing to overcome. And being a teenage outcast is to. In the world these days, it’s a lot harder for a lot of people. Most teens pick on the girl with black skinny jeans and a black band T-shirt. They torture the souls of the metal and rock loving teens. They hate the teens with black hair and the side fringes with cuts down their arms. But have you ever thought to give them a chance? Because no one is perfect, and isn’t it what’s on the inside that counts? Stereotypes like emotional, goth, punk are a main cause of teenage outcast. While teenage outcast is a cause of depression. With stereotypes, a music genre took on a whole new life. Formally a music and fashion statement, now it is a mental state of mind. Emotive hardcore being the music genre took suicide on as a result to stereotypes.


"Isn’t it funny you can go to the shops with your friends and look down on the girl with black jeans and studs, but smile at the girl wearing a mini skirt and a T-shirt that barely covers anything? Isn’t it funny you don’t mind your friends drinking but the minute someone mentions emo music you can give them a lecture of melodramatic teenage outcast? Isn’t it funny you and your friends can make a girl's life hell and not know anything about the silent battle she might be fighting?
How can you all a girl a ‘poser’. How can you say, “your no emo!” or “attention seeker” without spending a second trying to figure out why there are cuts on her wrists and why she spends her lunchtimes crying instead of laughing with her friends. Isn’t it funny you can say and do all this without any idea of what is going on in this person’s life? Without knowing her situation with her friends, her family or even her life? Brave isn’t going up on stage and stripping. Brave isn’t saying a speech or dumping your boyfriend. Brave is going to school on mufti day and not for a second care about what everyone says about your clothes around you.
It’s listening to your own music and being proud of it. It’s going through everyday with the things people say to your face and behind your back and still keep quite. It's knowing what your ‘friends’ are saying about you. And still calling them your friends. Brave is knowing that tomorrow isn’t going to be a bright and happy future. It’s just another day of dodgy rumours. So keep on laughing.."

Articles and explanations of why I have chosen them.

‘In the United Kingdom "Jack Straw MP, leader of the House of Commons and a former Home and Foreign Secretary, commented that he felt uncomfortable talking to women at his constituency surgery who wore the Muslim veil sparked a storm of intense". Mainly, this debate has been raised by the most European Countries in educational institutions. Especially in France, there was a debate because of the prohibition on schoolchildren wearing the Islamic headscarves and on the 15th March a law for this prohibition has been adopted. More specifically, the Islamic dress code issue was dealt by the ECtHR and the ECmHR many times since the controversy began.’ http://www.lawteacher.net/human-rights/essays/freedom-of-religion-in-general.php

This is part of an article which highlights the difficulties that people can face when they are brought up to a specific religion/choose a specific religion. In particular women who chose to wear the Muslim veil (Hijab) receive a lot of stereotyping and abuse from others. This involves people calling them abusing and hurtful names such as ‘Letterboxes’ and has even lead to such events where Young people have thrown letters at them (newspaper reports) and had the names shouted at them (personal experience). Image from: http://0.tqn.com/d/worldnews/1/0/U/J/-/-/102999014.jpg

Religious abuse refers to any abuse that is administered under the guise of religion and can include psychological trauma, harassment or humiliation. Abuse can also include misuse of religion for selfish, secular, or ideological ends such as abuse of a clerical position to perpetrate abuse.                 One specific meaning of the term "religious abuse" refers to psychological harm or manipulation inflicted on a person by using teachings or doctrines of that person’s religion. This is perpetrated by members of the same or similar faith, and includes the use of a position of authority within the religion over another person to inflict such harm. It is most prevalently directed at children and emotionally vulnerable adults, and motivations behind such abuse vary, but can be either well-intentioned or malicious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_abuse

This quote from Wikipedia highlights the importance of realisation that people who are religious get bullied / abused specifically because of their religion. It also highlights that the people who abuse those who are in a religion think that because the person has chosen to be in that religion that they deserve the abuse and bullying and that they will automatically be okay with it and it will not affect them in any way, let alone psychologically.