Malala Yousafzai Research Paper

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If I were to be any person for a day, I would be Malala Yousafzai. If I were to switch places with Malala Yousafzai, I think I would be with a mind that is bigger than I can imagine. I also think I would be in a bigger body with experiences and memories only a soul could hold on to, not only emotionally, but physically and emotionally and I think I would be faced with many responsibilities If we switched places. I would want to be Malala Yousafzai for a day because she has accomplished many extraordinary things at a young age. Malala Yousafzai was born on july 12th, 1997 in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. When Malala Yousafzai was 11-12, she wrote a blog for the BBC about her life living under the Taliban occupation. The summer after she wrote her blog, the journalist named Adam B. Ellick made a New York Times documentary about her life, while the Pakistani military tried to prevent her from getting interviewed. …show more content…
On October 9th of 2012, Malala got on her school bus to go to school in the northwest Pakistani district, when a Taliban gunman asked for Malala, out of her many school friends. Soon after Malala’s location was given away, the gunman shot Malala on the left side of her head, then the remaining bullet went inside her neck. Two other girls were injured in the attack also. Malala was transferred to the United Kingdom after the shooting, taken out of medically induced coma. Malala required many surgeries and surgery to fix the left side of her face which was paralyzed when she was shot. Malala didn’t have any major injury to her

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