Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai is a young girl with big dreams. She has made a huge impact today, not only in her community but worldwide. She was born and raised in Pakistan. Malala is still at a young age of 18 years old. During her life in Pakistan, she realized that there were people trying to restrict education and stop girls from going to school. When Malala was just a child, she became an advocate for girl’s education. She is supports solving the issue on girl’s education and finding the best resolution for it. She felt that something had to be done to this issue, so it can change for the better. Malala took action and tried to make a difference in education for children. She would stand up to the Taliban, and demand for girls to
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They're determined to make a difference in the world and motivate people. Malala is considered a leader for all of the great, effective changes she has created. Malala speaks out the importance of education to grab everyone’s attention. She talks about this major problem, because she is concerned and wants to spread awareness about this important issue. When Malala speaks out to the people, she is always influencing others and changing their mind about this serious dilemma. Many people want to be like Malala and help children gain the education they need to have. She is still spreading her message about girls education and persuading people to help this problem. Her message has spread across the world and it’s becoming bigger and bigger. Malala feels that without education for children, there is nothing. She wants to empower girls everywhere and transform their world into the education that they …show more content…
One day Malala was leaving school with two of her friends, and they were all attacked by Taliban gunmen. The Taliban gunmen attacked them for going to school in 2012. Malala was shot with a bullet that injured her head, neck, and shoulder. After being shot, she had survived through all of the terrible pain and conditions. Ever Since the attack occurred, it has only made her become a stronger leader in the world. Malala only wants the best for girls education, and she only receives hatred. It’s not like she is committing any kind of crime or putting others in harm. Many people support her idea to make a stand for girl’s education. On Malala’s 18th birthday, she opened “Malala Yousafzai All-Girls School.” Malala opened up this school to provide secondary education for girls. There are many people who agree and disagree with Malala’s actions. People are either influenced by her passion and determination for her belief in education, or they dislike her for trying to help girl’s education. Malala has made a major difference in girl’s education, and she is determined to achieve her goal to get every child the education they
Ambitious: Malala has made a goal to help girls receive their education (In Pakistan, girls are NOT allowed to receive an education) and showing why it is important to be educated. She has promised to stick with that goal no matter what danger lies in front of her. She will not stop until the rights for girls to receive an education have been accomplished.
The return from darkness is represented by Malala being shot by the Taliban and returning to her normal life. Three shots were fired, one hit her and the other two hit two of her friends sitting on either side of her. Malala underwent surgery, but was in critical condition. “...the bullet had entered through the side of my left eye where there was a scar, traveled eighteen inches down to my left shoulder and stopped there. It could have taken out my eye or gone into my brain. It was a miracle I was alive” (Yousafzai 282). Malala returned from being shot without remorse, and she is humbled that she is still alive. Her outlook on life is unchanged by the attack from the Taliban. Malala says, “If they were going to kill me they would’ve done it in 2009” (Yousafzai 237). Even though the Taliban specifically attacked Malala, she still remains to give snark remarks towards them. Her strength through hurdles thrown at her, otherwise known as her return from darkness, and her journey throughout her life makes Malala a hero to men, women, and children everywhere around the
Malala was born July 12th, 1997 in one of the most women discriminated places, Mingora, Pakistan. “She was named Malala, which means ‘grief stricken’ after a famous female Pashtun poet and warrior from Afghanistan,”(“biography”, 3). When Malala was 10, the Taliban rapidly changed
Education is something various people feel extremely passionate about and would not want anything else, but a strong educational system around the world. Countless children around the world do not acquire the right to an education and various of those children are girls. Malala is one of those persons that enjoys education and her dream is to have an education for every girl that is being deprived of her rights. Malala has slowly turned herself into a symbol of peace and her novel is able to reflect that throughout her novel by applying various rhetorical devices. Malala Yousafzai the author of “I am Malala” is able to apply imagery, pathos, and analogy effectively to make an impact on her audience.
Malala started her heroic journey when she started blogging under a pen name “Gul Makai” how life is with the Taliban for the BBC. She knew that by doing this she was taking a risk, but for her, the risk was worth it if she could get girls to have an education. She was able to go back to school when
Soon after, Malala was born and a favorite of her father’s. He taught her the value of education and how he had to struggle and claw his way to get a decent education. He preached that every person should have the right to go to school and be educated. Malala’s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, is a very influential person in the village and a great role model as Malala grew up. He participated in Anti-Taliban organizations and constantly preached for peace, educational rights and for th...
The article “Malala the Powerful” by Kristin Lewis, defined a girl named Malala a Pakistani girl who stood up for her right to let girls go to school during the war. Malala was standing up for her right when she was shot in the head during the Pakistani war. She and her dad were very courageous in their actions.With Malala doing so the word was spread of the Taliban. Notes were passed under her door saying and warning her of death. October 9, 2012 was when the Taliban shot her and 2 of her friends on a bus, luckily Malala and her 2 friends survived. Throughout the time Malala took very courageous acts as well as facing some very hard and scary challenges. Malala is one out of trillions who would stand up to such a powerful force, the Taliban, without her some girls wouldn’t be able to go to school this very year.
Over three million people have signed her petition, and if this is going this well, Malala will have no problem check this goal off her of do's. Did you know that nearly seventy million children around the world today that cannot get the primary education they need and more than half are girls. ("10 Facts You Don't Know About Girls' Education") This is the reason why Malala Yousafzai is fighting for the rights of education. She wants every child, and every being to be education, at least in a primary stand point. Malala is gaining back life to the world by just using her voice and it is changing the world! She has everything she needs to start the rise of education to all people, such as funding, petition, her voice of reason. For example, according to her speech given to the UN Youth Takeover in 2013, it states in her speech that, " Dear brothers and sisters, we want schools and education for every child's bright future. We will continue our journey to our destination of peace and education for everyone. No one can stop us. We will speak for our rights and we will bring change through our voice. We must believe in the power and the strength of our words. Our words can change the world." ("10 Ways that Malala Yousafzai has Changed the World") Millions of people have heard her well known speech plus with an audience of over five-hundred young education activates during her presentation about her support of education. Videos, books, medias, news, etc. Malala has been heard all around the world by her persuasive speech and everyone wants to be part of the life changing event! It has been proven that words can change the world and
According to a article Malala the powerful by kriston lewis Yousafzai is teenaged girl who lives in Swat valley with her dad. It started when the Taliban took over Swat valley. Later they took away the freedom of girls going to school. They did it because they believe that education is power. Even tho that were forced to shut down schools for girls Malala's dad kept his school open for girls. Malala started talking radio stations of what's happening where she is but, Being a teen activist can have consequences. On October nine 2012 as she was on the bus from school she was shoot in the head by a Taliban gunmen. She went to a hospital in England where she recovered and went back to Swat valley to keep fighting it took awhile but, Finally she was able to push the taliban out Swat valley. Malala is now talking on TV shows writing books about her life and even won the nobel peace prize. Malala
Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 to in Mingora, Pakistan. As a child, she attended a school that her father ran and loved learning and education. In her society, most families didn’t find a need to send girls to school. In Pakistan, girls were married off at a young age and were only responsible for cooking and cleaning. Malala was considered luckier than most other girls there, because she got the chance to go to school and her family didn’t view women lesser to men.
She stood up for equal rights and girls education, Malala states in the John Stewart video “I believe in equality and I believe there is no difference between a man and a women. ” She says that because she wants both genders to be treated the same. Malala created a movement and people started chanting, marching and writing about girls education. She also created a Malala fund to raise money for those children who don’t have an education, so she could pay for them because she believed the best way to fight back against Taliban was education.
Despite her devastating experience, Malala does not cease doing what she thinks is right, and still hopes to change the world into a place where everyone has equal chance to education irrespective of gender and age.
The speaker is Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl; she is sixteen years old. She was shot by the Taliban in October 2012. Malala was the first and the youngest person to receive the biggest European human rights prize called "Sakh arov". Malala received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013. She also received many other international awards such as women of the year 2013 by Glamour, Women's rights award "Raw & War" (Malala yousafzai Web, 2013).
She was inspired by her father who shared the dram that everyone would eventually be able to go to school (Yousafzai 41). Even after she was shot in the head and she was able to go to school she continues to fight for others who aren't as fortunate, especially in Pakistan (“Malala Yousafzai”). Malala also realizes that over 66 Million girls are unable to go to school so she is not fighting for a small or easy cause (Yousafzai). Malala said “I raised my voice not for myself but so that those without a voice could be heard” (Yousafzai). She proves this by when she travels to different countries to speak to the people there. For example, she traveled to Nigeria to speak with the girls who were abducted by Boko Haram from their families to help them and their families out. She also helped start the Malala Fund, its goal being to help girls who weren’t fortunate enough to receive education to get their education. This, with the help of Angelina Jolie, would start off by helping to pay for 40 girls to go to school in Pakistan (“Malala
As a child, she became a crusader for girls’ education. Which then resulted in the is Taliban issuing death threats and notes against her, and they ended up shooting her. Malala always had the willpower on girls’ education and never gave up once! “I worked hard and managed to regain my purpose on the school honors board for the first in class.” Malala always had the willpower to do everything and anything she set her mind to. She knew she could achieve anything. “I was a bit nervous, but I knew it was important, as many people all over Pakistan would be listening.” She knew even though everyone was terrified including herself that she had to keep standing up! There’s no turning back once someone has