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    The article, Malala The Powerful written by Kristen Lewis is about the amazing girl, Malala, who stood up for girls rights against the Taliban. Malala wanted to have an education and she enjoyed school. The Taliban came and took away the lives of many and decreased girls’ rights. They told all girls schools to close but Malala’s stayed open. She made going to school top secret by hiding all her items under her clothes. So Malala stood up and continued to stand up to the point where she got…

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    Essay On I Am Malala

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    In the novel I Am Malala:The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, the gripping story of a young girl growing up under Taliban rule is shown. In her autobiography, Malala documents how her life changes as her homeland the Swat Valley is taken over and how she refuses to let the Taliban take her right to education away. As Malala recites the events leading up to the fateful day the Taliban attempted to kill her, she also describes the…

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    the attack. She has also started "The Malala Fund" which funds a high quality, 12 year education for children. To reward her efforts, Malala received many awards including The Noble Peace Prize. She was awarded this prestigious award on her 16th birthday. She became the youngest person ever to receive this prize. Which in my opinion, was very well deserved. Malala got her inspiration from her very supportive family. Her father, in particular, always encouraged Malala to always defend her…

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    He Named Me Malala

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    I think it has the perfect balance between light and dark subjects, the positive and the negative. It is thought-provoking, attention grabbing and full of suspense leaving the viewers aching to know more about this young Nobel Prise winning prodigy called Malala Yousafzai. It portraits her in an intimate way we've never seen before, and is packed with details and information that are delivered very gracefully and don't make you feel overloaded with new knowledge. One thing…

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    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…

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    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…

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    Sexism In Society

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    Although society has progressed throughout time, sexism is still relevant. Surprisingly enough, sexism is many times considered a “societal norm” and not uncommon in the work place. Due to female oppression in history, today’s fight against sexism is a fight for equality. Sexism is absolutely ridiculous, and a horrifying reality. However, due to the incorrect idea of females being the weaker sex, many men have a concept of reliant and submissive women as the ideal societal female. With the…

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    Malala is a teen activist for girls and women's right for education. The equal rights for her in her country. She believed that everyone needed education. She survived a gun wound to the head. The taliban had taken away the privileges from every girl and women for an example: they banned dancing, watching television, and listening to music. Eventually they wouldn’t just shut down the school, they would either burn it down or destroy it completely. All the women were not allowed to have jobs…

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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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    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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