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    I Am Malala Quotes

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    Stories have been told about Malala Yousafzai, and her quest to improve the world. This inspired me to read, I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai. Malala is a 17 year old girl from Pakistan. She was shot in the head by the Taliban while riding the bus home from school. She survived, and then made it her mission to shine a light on the importance of education for girls around the world. She was the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The book is an inspiring tale of persistence and…

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    my age her hair was matted and her skin was covered in sores ….i was scared”(Yousafzai,26). Thus Malala describes a sorrowful scene of a impecunious girl in full detail to further help visualize the way how the rest of underprivileged kids in Pakistan may live their life. Further conveying the audience that all children should have the right to an education. Instead of these children looking for metal to support the family they should be at home playing games with the neighbor children and…

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    Malala’s story reminds children all over the world to not take education for granted. Following the shooting, Malala and her father helped launch the Malala Fund, which aims to help further education across the globe. The Malala Petition led to Pakistan passing the Right to Education Bill, which guaranteed that all children aged between five and 16 must have access to education. Malala’s efforts in the world of girls’ education rights, including her risking her life to make a change, proved to…

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    took a bullet to the head, she stood up to terrorists, and she is the voice for many young women she is such an amazing young woman. This is what we will talk about in the paper. Taliban At a very young age Malala's hometown, Mingora in Northwest Pakistan, Was taken over by the Taliban terrorists. The taliban follow an extreme version of religion, these people are called extremists, That believe women should not go to school. At age 11 she made a blog about her rights to go to school. Her fake…

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    education is and she makes sure to do everything in her will to get education to everybody, especially to girls. She is very inspiring to many young people. She show that you are never too young to fight for things that you believe. She was born in Pakistan and she has been an advocate for girls’ education ever since she was a child. She attended a school that her school had found. On her way home from school in 2012, she was shot in head by a Taliban for fighting for girls education. In 2008,…

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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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    What Causes Teen Activism

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    people that stood out the most for me and are who I think are good activists. Malala is a girl who likes to help people and want girls to have a good education. According to the interview with Jon Stewart, Malala is 19 years old and is from Mingora, Pakistan. She has lived the past 2 or 3 years without education because the Taliban shut all the schools down. She also got extremely injured when the Taliban shot her in the head. She is a very lucky girl to have survived the bullet in her head,…

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    standing up and speaking out for what she believes in. Malala inspires girls all over the world to never give up no matter the consequences. She inspires me everyday to be brave and voice my opinions. Malala was born on July 12th 1997, in Mingora Pakistan. She lived with her parents, two younger brothers, Khushal and Atal and two pet chickens. Malala grew up a normal girl who enjoyed playing, and arguing, with her brothers. She also had a passion for education and a desire to learn everything…

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    He Named Me Malala

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    activist Malala Yousafzai from Swat Valley. Pakistan. The documentary tells the story of Malala's life, both before she was attacked by the terrorist group Taliban by being shot in the head, and after, for a cause as simple as lighting for girls right to education. It addresses themes such as terror, feminism and human rights in a manner that is simple enough for most people to understand. The movie alternates between showing Yousafzai's old hometown in Pakistan and her new home in England. In…

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    At this point in my reading about “I am Malala”, I am intrigued on how many obstacles Malala and her family and others of this country had to endure each and every day in order to live. They had to deal with floods, earthquakes, destruction to their homes and schools and the worst part of living there was dealing with the bombings and the Taliban. Malala’s father believed in education so much so that he started a school to educate girls and boys. He was starting to become a known figure in…

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