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    In Malala’s acceptance speech she is focusing her beliefs onto her speech. In her speech she constantly trying to address one major issue that has been going on for years. Education. She has been fighting for quality education for girls for about eight years. She expresses her belief by using Pathos, Repetition, and Logos to prove/show that everyone especially girls should have quality education. Firstly when the Malala starts to talk about her and her friends being shot is pathos.…

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    When Malala Yousafzai was young, she faced a great deal of challenges that make the problems I face seem minor. Malala grew up in an environment I cannot imagine myself braving. In Mingora, some nights were without electricity and every day would be tense. Despite the hardships, Malala prevailed and fought for what she believed in. Malala was motivated and brave, and even continued to speak her thoughts publically when she was presented with a crowd when she could’ve been attacked—and she really…

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    The world is a very complex place, but everyday people are faced with injustice. Everybody has a placed, and a calling in this world. The only thing that is holding them back now is unequal rights, in the world based on gender. This is the story of people fighting for their rights, and the obstacles they overcome. Malala is a 15 year old girl. She is strong, she does not give up in the face of danger. “Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that…

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    Malala Yousafzia a young woman who was born in Pakistan who is known for helping children to get their proper education. When she was a child she had a dream like many young children, but hers was different than most. Many children dream of becoming famous or an astronaut or a firefighter when they grow up, but not Yousafzia. Ever since she was a young girl she dreamed of education for all and proper schooling for everyone. In Yousafzia’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech she uses rhetorical…

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    Malala Research Paper

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    1 / 4 Madalyn Rauner Mrs. Schall Honors English 10 19 April 2018 Bravery in Times of Crisis In today's world, majority of women in foreign countries do not have the privilege to be educated or do as they please. Much like Saint Clare, Malala Yousafzai had to have an immense amount courage and bravery to do what she did for herself and other women in her country. As a child, Malala Yousafzai became an advocate for women in Pakistan and opposed the Taliban. The Taliban issued an edict…

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    Spring Break 2014… Helmand Province Afghanistan. A heat comparable to the feeling of opening a hot oven, blisters two Marines as they talk to pass time during their patrol. “Yo Webb, what are you doing when you get out of this shithole country and ‘EAS’ (end of active service)?” asked one, “Well, gonna use my GI Bill, live that college life and make something better of myself…” replied the other Marine as an explosion goes off interrupting them. What is free is not free, someone out there,…

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    In addition, author also uses many propaganda techniques to convey people to support and to end sexual abusement. He uses Name Calling in the quote “By instructing American soldiers and Marines not to interfere, even if the incidents occurred on American bases, the Pentagon has chosen — reprehensibly — to sacrifice vulnerable children in order to maintain good relations with the Afghan police and militias it needs to fight the Taliban.” by stating this commander of U.S. is more worried about…

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    Forward Operation Bases

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    Taliban forces remain active. There is little explanation of the mission save for the brief description of the Forward Operating Base and its’ function in the film's introduction. The insight into Afghan culture and the complexity of the situation in Helmand comes from these interactions between soldiers and locals as the ISAF attempt maintain trust, security and influence over the people. Though many of the Afghani children in the film are won over by small tokens and gestures from the…

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    opportunity arose for me to work as an Executive Assistant for a two-star Major General exposing me to a side of the Military that even most retirees never even get the privilege to experience. My most memorable moment being in the skies above Helmand Province, Afghanistan and the General teaching the young Lance Corporal me how to fly a KC-130J over the combat zone. The level of trust that was placed in me that day by our commander was indescribable! After my tour working in the Office of…

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    Tobias Lindholm's A War

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    affects the life of a soldier in two different fronts: the military and the civilian. Commander Claus Pedersen (compellingly played by Lindholm’s regular, Pilou Asbæk) leaves his wife and three little children in Denmark and sets foot in the Afghan Helmand province, where he orients a small squad whose purpose is to guarantee the safety of the population, often threatened by the vile Taliban. Their mission in the Middle East also includes locating potential suspects and exterminating them, in…

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