Malala Yousafzai is the world's youngest person to have received a Nobel peace prize for her accomplishment. Yousafzai received the award due to her fight against the suppression of children's rights for their education. Prior to this achievement, she had been threatened and shot in the head by a Taliban gunman, but she survived to keep her desire of an education and for girls to also get the right to an education. Nothing could stop Malala from advocating and fighting for girls’ education. Furthermore, Malala’s argument came to be by her country not allowing girls to get equal access to an education.…
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistan activist for female education born in Mingora, Pakistan. She defied the Taliban and demanded that females be allowed to receive education. Due to this, she was shot in the head by the Taliban on her way home from school. However, that did not stop her, she has become an international symbol of peaceful protest. Her struggle for educational equality has inspired millions of people worldwide.…
People can contribute to their communities in many ways. Some of which are donating to a local charity or volunteering at a shelter. For example in Extreme Makeover; Home Edition they contributed in their own unique way. They contributed by building people in need of a home homes. For example one family they helped were the Gilliam family.…
Teen activists try to make the world a better place to live in. They take risks and there not afraid to. Teen activism is to believe in what you think needs to be changed. Teen activists never give up. Malala Yousafzai school got shut down by the Taliban so she started to protest.…
Malala Yousafzai, an advocate for women’s rights, learned to fight for what is right when she defied the Taliban and demanded that women receive an education. On October 9, 2012, “a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home from school. She survived, and has continued to speak out on the importance of education.” (Source B). Many women lived their lives in fear as a result of the mental, physical, and emotional damage caused by the Taliban, however Malala was much stronger than that.…
As a young girl Malala Yousafzai was fighting for justice by defying the Taliban’s commands. This took great courage and determination. "As a child, she became an advocate for girls' education, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home from school. She survived, and has continued to speak out on the importance of education" (Source B).…
Malala Yousafzai was a young woman who stood up for what she believed in. She was not happy with the education woman her age were getting. She thought that in Pakistan women deserved more and better education. On her walk home from school one day a Taliban gunman shot her in the head. She survived the gunshot and continued on with her beliefs.…
Malala was a twelve year old girl, when she wrote a blog-post on the BBC website about the oppression of the taliban. In an attempt to silence her, they shot her. However, she survived and went on to the UN to give her speech in 2013. Malala, saddened at the fact “Thousands of people have been killed by the terrorists and millions have been injured.” (Yousafzai) and that this was all caused for personal gain of the Taliban.…
In conclusion, Malala Yousafzai is an independent, intelligent woman who encourages people to take a stand for women’s educational…
“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.…
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.…
I had to do an annotated bibliography about Malala Yousafzai. Malala was born July 12, 1997 at Mingora, Pakistan. She currently is a Human Rights Activist, an Educational Rights Advocate. Malala was just on the school on her way to school when all of a sudden the Taliban stop the school bus in search for Malala. When the afraid students pointed out where she was they started shooting the students and shot Malala on her neck and head.…
This is a stark contrast of what most people think of when they picture children at school. In the United States, most children and teenagers dread attending school and can be seen with a glazed look in their eyes while in class. The imagery that Yousafzai uses is refreshing and shows how passionate children, who do not view school as an everyday occurrence, are about learning. The mental image reveals how large of a problem it is that children, who are eager for knowledge, do not have access to schools and pushes for a solution. At the end of her speech, Yousafzai uses the parallelism of the phrase “let this be the…
‘We cannot succeed when half of us are held back’ How true is this quote by Malala Yousafzai and how does this relate to Human Rights violations? It’s hard to define what human rights are; there is just too much to consider. Generally, human rights are simply referred to as the rights a human has. Of course, there are heaps of rights worldwide aimed towards certain groups of people; however, human rights are the only set of rights that are applied to everyone, universally.…
Her character is truly inspirational. Likewise, Malala Yousafzai is an advocate for girls’ education. Malala is the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at age 17. Even while receiving death threats Malala risked her life for girls’ education. She fought for what she thought was right, as she states, “If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it?”…