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    “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. Malala is a influential person, not only in her country but in the world. The most rhetorical…

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    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…

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    faithful and respecting God. The cruelty of the concentration camps changed Elie’s faith in God. While in the concentration camps, Elie begins to question God and his faith soon diminishes. After being released from the camps, Elie presents his Nobel Prize Speech in 1986. Throughout the thirty year time span, Elie is able to regain his thought and able to process what happened in The Holocaust. By processing what occurred, Elie is able to regain faith in God. Throughout the memoir Night, Elie…

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    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…

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    Even though Malala got shot in the head she kept on fighting to get girls education. She has become a symbol of hope too. Ever since that incident happened Malala has set up the Malala fund. According to Nobelprize.org she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize one of the best awards you can get. ¨When the whole world is silent, even…

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    education. In 2009, Malala started creating blogs about education rights. She also blogged for the BBC about living under the Taliban’s threats to deny her education. Much of her activism resulted in a nomination for the International Children’s Peace Prize in 2011. In the same year, Malala was awarded…

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    It is a normal day at the psych ward for Dr. Zoe Goldman when a young african american girl is brought in by the police. She doesn’t know her name or where she is coming from creating a troublesome case for Dr. Goldman. Since the young african american girl can not cite her name she is referred to in the system as Jane Doe. She has no idea who she is or how she even got into the ward. This creates the case of a lifetime for Dr. Goldman in the book The Girl Without A Name by Sandra Block. This…

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    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…

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    to Strasburg college. He got a degree in physiology. The next year he went back to college. Schweitzer then got a degree in medicine. Then he went to africa to save people. He gave many sick Africans food, water, and medicine. He earned a Nobel Peace Prize. That is how he brought light into darkness. -Bram Martin Luther King Jr was a great man. He really brought changes to our country by fighting for African American rights. He did this not by violence or yelling at people to make them…

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    Fulfilling the will of Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Peace Prize recognizes and awards those who “have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding of peace congresses” (Nobelprize.org). For over 100 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee chooses awardees based on the criteria specified by Alfred Nobel. The outstanding works of Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel, Mother Teresa, and Malala Yousafzai all have one thing in…

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