Chapter One: Challenges Girls Face What if every child got an education? Went to college? Graduated and got a job? Well, this is not a perfect world, and I highly doubt it will ever be one. That’s because girls all around the world are denied education. A girl works long hours, victim to child labor, all to support her brother’s education. She doesn’t go to school. So this girl grows up, never learning to read or write. But then, a strong, smart woman stands up and fights for women’s rights. With followers, she gets heard. People agree, and eventually women can start going to school. That strong, smart woman can be you. Activists face challenges, like any other person would. If you go to school, you don’t earn money to support your
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In the book I Am Malala, Malala had said “some people fear monsters, or spiders, or ghosts. But in Pakistan, we fear the human beings living among us.” She was talking about the Taliban. A terrorist group in Pakistan, the Taliban discriminate against women of all kinds. They invaded the Pakistani government and brutally murdered hundreds of innocent people. The Taliban highly encouraged girls not to go to school, and in a Washington Times post it said, “’More than 30 percent [of the] girls dropped out of educational institutions in 2006 and 2007 due to speeches of [militant leader] Mullah Fazlullah on his FM radio against girls’ education,’ said an official in the Swat education department, who asked not to be named to avoid becoming a target for militants.” Mullah Fazlullah was a pure evil man who had no remorse and no respect for anyone who did not obey his rules. I would say this is arguably a …show more content…
Imagine not being able to speak for yourself, and just accept the fact what someone says about you is true, whether it’s bad or good. Everyone should have a say, whether it’s about themselves or something that concerns them, not to get pushed around and basically be a vegetable in human form.
But that’s not all. According to the novel I Am Malala, “In Pakistan, if a boy is born then he gets fruit and other presents put in his cradle. People in the mohalla congratulate the family. But if a girl is born then no presents get put in the cradle, and the family does not get congratulated.” That’s plain sad. No one can help if they are a boy or a girl, and if you are a girl, no one cares about you as much as a boy.
In conclusion, a girl faces many challenges in the developing world. From child labor to crises to equality, girls can have it hard. As a girl, the expectation is to wife of a man who owns a house with a white picket fence. Or women are sensitive, and it is wrong to be mean to a girl. That’s not right. It’s wrong to be mean to anyone, whether they are a boy or a girl. Education should be available to everyone. I don’t care if you are a girl or a boy, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Catholic, African, Asian, Australian, South American, North American, European or anything else. You deserve as much attention and
In the book I Am Malala, Malala had said “some people fear monsters, or spiders, or ghosts. But in Pakistan, we fear the human beings living among us.” She was talking about the Taliban. A terrorist group in Pakistan, the Taliban discriminate against women of all kinds. They invaded the Pakistani government and brutally murdered hundreds of innocent people. The Taliban highly encouraged girls not to go to school, and in a Washington Times post it said, “’More than 30 percent [of the] girls dropped out of educational institutions in 2006 and 2007 due to speeches of [militant leader] Mullah Fazlullah on his FM radio against girls’ education,’ said an official in the Swat education department, who asked not to be named to avoid becoming a target for militants.” Mullah Fazlullah was a pure evil man who had no remorse and no respect for anyone who did not obey his rules. I would say this is arguably a …show more content…
Imagine not being able to speak for yourself, and just accept the fact what someone says about you is true, whether it’s bad or good. Everyone should have a say, whether it’s about themselves or something that concerns them, not to get pushed around and basically be a vegetable in human form.
But that’s not all. According to the novel I Am Malala, “In Pakistan, if a boy is born then he gets fruit and other presents put in his cradle. People in the mohalla congratulate the family. But if a girl is born then no presents get put in the cradle, and the family does not get congratulated.” That’s plain sad. No one can help if they are a boy or a girl, and if you are a girl, no one cares about you as much as a boy.
In conclusion, a girl faces many challenges in the developing world. From child labor to crises to equality, girls can have it hard. As a girl, the expectation is to wife of a man who owns a house with a white picket fence. Or women are sensitive, and it is wrong to be mean to a girl. That’s not right. It’s wrong to be mean to anyone, whether they are a boy or a girl. Education should be available to everyone. I don’t care if you are a girl or a boy, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Catholic, African, Asian, Australian, South American, North American, European or anything else. You deserve as much attention and