or are still experiencing. One issue that has led to their activism is abuse or mockery (in the form of racism) ;others have been targeted because of their background, ethnicity and/or gender. Activists like Malala Yousafzai, Ruby Bridges and Ayaan Ali Hirsi both suffered either because of racism or privileges lost due to their gender but the outcome of their trouble was motivation leading to their activism. Abuse is the main issue for activists like Malala Yousafzai, Who became an activist…
Discuss the use of language use in Malala’s “Malala day” speech to the UN Youth Assembly. –Emily Jones. Malala Yousafzia delivered her speech to the United Nations Youth Assembly on her 16th birthday. This speech was significant as Malala is the youngest person to date to receive the Nobel Peace prize. The purpose of this speech was to unify and help society move forward with education becoming a right for boys and girls worldwide. During her speech Malala refers to her audience as her…
Content & Disposition The purpose of this speech is to speak for every childs right to education and to those who can not raise their voice. As said in her speech: ”Today is the day of every women, every boy and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights.” Malala´s message becomes clear when she says the quotes that is written above because she summarize what they whole speech is about which is for the people who have raised their voice for their rights but Malala speak for those…
Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban." Now Malala is opening schools for girls all over the world, with all its expenses covered by the Malala Fund which has over 10 million dollars in it, given money by the Pakistani President Asif Ali…
Midnight’s Children The history of India and its neighbouring countries, Pakistan and Bangladesh, is a rich and luminous tale as it encompasses the countless successes and hardships each country experienced during its development as independent entities. In 2012, Deepa Mehta, an Indo-Canadian film director with a screenplay by Salman Rushdie, a British Indian novelist, produced the film “Midnight’s Children.” Together they brought to the screen a magical yet historical tale on the partition of…
From its creation, America has been a beacon of hope and freedom to many countries who have aspired to adopt their democratic values. Yet, these values have not always been sought after by other countries, and instead are sometimes imposed upon the ones who rarely accept them with open arms. The Middle East is a seamless example of countries exhibiting resistance to the American way of life and democracy; with many leaders rebelling against the notion due to religious reason. Particularly, Saudi…
Since the 2011 Bahrain uprising, civilian treatment has declined with the increase of censorship by the government and the widening of the divide between the shia and sunni Muslims. King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has been head of the state since 1999 and his family has been ruling since 1783. King Khalifa rules over a majority of shias, while he himself is part of the minority of sunnis. This partition has widened with the shias claiming they are discriminated on fronts such as healthcare,…
It is routine and expected from the students, they are not rebelling but meeting the expectations set for them. The student’s conformity to these expectations only feeds further categorization of the students as a group outside of mainline French culture. Within the walls the students are monolithically believed to be incapable of reading ‘real’ French texts, like Voltaire. Outside of the walls — outside the systemic dictates— one student is capable of reading and digesting Plato’s Republic.…
The desire for political and civil rights have driven numerous societies to revolt against an oppressive rule in hopes to achieve a more democratic lifestyle. Thus, when Middle Easterners began becoming more fed up with oppressive regimes, the desire for a revolution emerged. The political outcomes of the Arab Spring uprisings were different for each country involved. While civil war arose in some countries, other countries did not have substantial revolts; there were even states that became so…
Abstract: - Mathematics is a fascinating subject filled with concepts and ideas that have been formed and developed throughout time. This paper focuses on the contributions made by Islamic mathematician Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi to the difference subjects of algebra, geometry and trigonometry. Ideas discovered by Al-Khwarizmi are discussed as well as other concepts that serve as proof of his understanding of various complex ideas we use nowadays. These concepts include simplifying equations,…