In Davis Guggenheim’s documentary, He Named me Malala, Toor Pekai Yousafzai and her daughter, Malala, discussed their contrasting childhood schooling, which revealed how drastically a child's education can change their viewpoint of the world when they reach adulthood. Malala proudly expresses, “school was my home” (Guggenheim), to elucidate how comfortable she is at school and to show her devotion to her education. Malala’s father was a school teacher and taught his daughter to appreciate the chance to acquire knowledge, something many girls in Pakistan did not get the opportunity to do with the Taliban’s strict guidelines. The positive perception of schooling this teenager had as a child allowed her to question and challenge her society’s…
Throughout her book, Yousafzai argues about women’s education and how it should be equal not unequal for men and women. In the book, Malala states, “Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.” (Yousafzai, pg.162).…
A current day hero on the other hand, has many les standards to follow. In 2013, a young teenage girl named Malala Yousafzai recited a speech that would go down in history. Previously, Malala had been fighting for women's rights, especially their right to education. A group called the Taliban who ruled over the area she lived, refused to give women their rights. Malala spoke up as she wished for education for herself and other girls who suffered in the same way as herself.…
About 70 million kids across the globe can’t get an education. 66 million of them are girls. They never get to live up to their true potential. One of them could find a cure to cancer. One of them could be the greatest gymnast of all time.…
“I Am Malala” is about the nobel prize winning, shooting survivor,women rights activist Malala Yousafzai. Malala has been standing up for women and children’s education since she started school in her home country, Pakistan. Malala uses so much rhetorical devices in her book. She includes ethos, pathos, logos and imagery etc. Her book is a world wind of her experiences, her beliefs and her feelings.…
" A..B...C..." - this could be anyone reciting the alphabet. Go up to any child atleast the age of five nad they will tell you theses letters in their correct order with clear percision. Iin the United Sates of America, education is a value tool, a tool that is given for free to billions of people, but this was not true all all the time. Education is not something that is available to evryone right now, or ever was in the record of history. Over the centuries, many have endure unaccountable sufferage to learn, to learn to read, to write, to speak.…
Third world countries are constantly facing global controversies as time progresses through the 21st century. In one part of the Middle East, a girl named Malala sparked a movement for female education across the globe through her book, I am Malala. As Malala shares her experiences in her hometown Swat Valley, her determination for education in a restricted male dominant society developed a goal in advocating for giving education to everyone. Along with this, the event of Malala being shot sparked even more controversy to help create a movement in order to reveal that the Taliban’s education suppression should be stopped so everyone can receive an education. Throughout her book, Malala was able to effectively use the rhetorical strategy of…
“So everyone can go to school in America?”, the eleven year old maid at my uncle’s house in Karachi, Pakistan, asks me. Mahera explains how she's always been told she was born a maid, will die a maid, and her future generations will also be maids. Millions of children like Mahera don't have access to education. Her eyes widen as she passionately describes her dream of attending school, a notion that I’ve always viewed as a right instead of a privilege. This was a defining moment for me-…
It is hard to rise above difficult tragedies during out life time, but it is admiring to see how some people can use their experience to help others cope with what is left after tragedies. I feel resilience is something, we develop versus something that is given with in us and either we keep fighting and not give up or we lose ourselves in sorrows, and negativity. Resilience is something we mature into due to any negative situation, whether is coping with school and work or dealing with a major loss of any kind. Jessie Sholl author of the “The 5 Best Ways to Build Resiliency” point this out when she states “The more you can leverage challenges as opportunities to grown and evolve, the more resilient you are likely to be” (3). In other…
As you probably would know, Afghanistan and America are very different. Kids from Afghanistan are probably used to waking up and hearing gunshots and bombs. In America, kids are used to waking up and going to school, or playing video games. American kids are very fortunate to not have to worry about the Taliban. When you hear about all the war going on in Afghanistan, it's hard to believe that there are kids and families living there.…
at the same standers of the mens and go to school for fewer amount of years. Malala says in her book that the few girls who do receive an education have few job choices available to them. The Pakistan government spends less then three percent of it expenses on education versus the America which, spends aproximently 154 billion dollars on education. Although some of these problems are caused by the turmoil that is going on in Pakistan and the lack of money in the country. “My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room, the last teacher and the last student was alive.…
16-year old Malala Yousafzai gave the speech given at the United Nations regarding education for girls in Pakistan. Yousafzai is an activist who promotes education for girls in Pakistan. Malala plays an essential role in the insurrection against the Taliban regime in multiple Middle-East countries, but primarily Pakistan, when it comes to educational rights for children. Her actions became internationally known after the Taliban shot her in the head.…
Malala was shot in the head at the age of 15 for daring to speak against the Taliban and suggest that girls had rights to an education. However, this by no means stopped the young activist, and it instead made her voice stronger. She took on the responsibility of trying to make sure all the girls of the world had equal access to an education. This, obviously, is no easy task, and it is the reason she has gained so much popularity and support. She tries to accomplish the impossible and accepts the responsibility of trying to do so.…
The story I am Malala acknowledged several themes that support the information that Malala presented throughout her story. The themes Malala presented in her story includes Women’s Rights, The Power of Education, Islam and its Interpretations, Goodness, Fame, Power, and the Importance of Role Models. Malala Yousafzai uses these themes to allow readers to understand how Yousafzai became who she is today. The actions that the main characters reflected on the theme of women’s rights was present when women are treated differently when being able to go to school.…
Malala’s stance is simple and clear; every girl should have the opportunity to go to school and learn without being hindered. Without knowledge women have no power within society. All females in the Pakistani culture are expected to be submissive and unheard from. Malala states, “I was a…