Nobel Peace Prize

as all the killings and the misuse of the Islamic name. This is a reliable source because the author, Malala Yousafzai, is a primary source, seeing as she experienced mistreatment and injustice, as she states in her speech after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Just like Nasima, in document 1, Malala spoke up for herself and decided to let the world know the injustices she was going through as a girl living in the Middle East. Despite the support that women had in the fight for their rights, there…

All teen activists have something in common. Mallala, Alex lynn, and Alex libby all try to speak out for their causes. All teen activists try to help the world. For example, Mallala tries to let the girls to have education. Alex lynn tries to save the community by recycling electronics. Alex Libby tried to stop bullying. All teen activists speak out about their causes. Malala shows this by giving a speech and writing a book about her life for people who cannot listen to her speech. She tries…

transformed her into a global symbol. The United Nations even declared November 10th, Malala day to focus on the 32 million girls like Malala not in school. Malala was nominated for a Noble Peace Prize in 2013. In 2014 she was nominated again, and won becoming the youngest person to win the Noble Peace Prize. In conclusion, Malala is a teenage activist who faught for females education. In my opinion she is an inspiration. All she wanted to do was fight for girls education, but her fight for…

Do you know what it would be like to be courageous. Teen activists have to be courageous every day. Even though some teen activists are physically or mentally abused, they still speak out, for example, Alex Lin, Iqbal, and Malala. Teen activism is people fighting for a cause that could help people and the world. Iqbal is an example of a teen activist, he was a young boy who was sold to a carpet company. Iqbal Masih, a 12-year old former child slave in Pakistan. His family sold him to the…

President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the United States was in the odd predicament of fighting two wars. Obama noted the apparent strangeness of this, but didn’t outright say war was bad or unnecessary. Instead, Obama claimed that war was in fact necessary in order to attain lasting peace, (3). He stated that while non-violent intervention is ultimately the desired solution instead of armed conflict, it is sometimes impossible to secure peace from non-violent actions, (3). He…

When Malala Yousafzai decided to write a journal for the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), she never thought that it would to lead to her near-death experience. The reason for her attack was simple; she fought for girls’ rights to go to school. No one had ever dared to try and do something so dangerous. The source of their fear came from the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist political movement which enforced harsh rules in Afghanistan. Malala had loved school, and decided that she needed…

The term civil disobedience means “refusal to obey civil laws in an effort to induce change in governmental policy or legislation, characterized by nonviolent means.”( The Free Dictionary) Theories on this term have been around for a long time. For instance, people like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. took up and preached their own theories on civil disobedience. While Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi's theories are still relevant, they are fifty plus years old and seem to lose the…

een activists, are teens that want something to change for the better. They devote their time to make that change happen. It can be very hard work, and all teen activists don't necessarily work alone. Teen activists can work with the support of their family. Many aslo work within a group, but they are still the voice of what they believe. My first example of a teen activist that works with family is Malala. Malala Yousafzai is a 16 year old girl, that spoke out against the Taliban about girls…

Nobel Causes Although many children believe they have no power to create change in today’s society, Malala Yousafzai decided to stand up for her rights and oppose the obstacles in her life. Yousafzai chose to continue attending school, despite threats made against her and other young girls by the Taliban. The terrorist group then attempted to murder her in retaliation for her defiance. However, she survived and soon became the face of a campaign to give every child the right to education and…

of the most famous speech all around the world; then at 35 he won a nobel prize for peace "for the furtherance of brotherhood among men and to the abolishment or reduction of standing armies and for the extension of these purposes." stated the Nobel Institute. And instead of keeping the 54,000 dollars he received with the award, he put it right back into the civil rights movement(“Martin Luther King WIns the Nobel Prize for Peace”). Sadly, at age 39 he is assassinated in Tennessee by James Earl…