It’s nice to feel protected…especially when protection comes in form of a professional wrestler. WWE wrestler, Daniel Puder is speaking out against, not only gay bullying, but ALL bullying. This article caught my eye because of all the recent news with bullying and suicides because of persistent bullying. 
This trend that professional athletes and other public figures are speaking out against bullying can prove to be very effective. Not only because of the fact that most of these people speaking out are role models themselves, but because it adds someone to the list of people a kid getting bullied can go to. This can prove to be a positive force considering a good amount of kids who are bullied, specifically gay kids, feel that they have no one to turn to.
Daniel Puder (pictured right) has even gone as far as putting his email address out in the open for everyone to see, encouraging kids who are being bullied to shoot him an email and he will personally fly down and talk to the bully. Not exactly an ole fashioned WWE beatdown, but effective none the less. In the musical side of the celeb world, Taylor Swift recently released an Anti-Bully Song. Other celebs are joining in and making videos to help the people who feel weak, feel strong and rise above any torment.
While much focus is on celebs, there are plenty of other people who are doing things to help the cause in their own way as well. Because at the end of the day, it’s the teacher who took the initiative, or the student who intervened, or the coach who didn’t turn the other cheek, that end up being the deciding factor in this anti-bully rally.
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If I were to break down your technique here, it would be zoomed-in (opening with Pruder), zoom-out (move to bullying in general), zoom-back-in (back to Pruder), zoom back out (closing paragraph). I like your attention to the topic, particularly in the last paragraph about the actions of individuals that will make a difference. In the future, you may want to streamline the writing a bit by staring zoomed in, and then moving out, or the reverse.
I like your last point. “Because at the end of the day, it’s the teacher who took the initiative, or the student who intervened, or the coach who didn’t turn the other cheek, that end up being the deciding factor in this anti-bully rally.” I took a child-development class a couple of semesters ago and they actually defined the witnesses that didn’t do anything as bullies also.