Teen Activist Obstacles

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Have you heard about kids or teens changing the world? Changing the world is a hard process, but teen activists make it look easy, speak for what they think is right. Becoming a teen activist takes a lot of motivation, so to get to where some teen activists are right now takes bravery and courage. All teen activist fight for different things and along the way they have some tough obstacles that they have to overcome. Teen activist push themselves, that’s what makes them so inspiring. All teen activists fight for different things. For example, a 16 year old girl named Malala Yousafzai is fighting for girls education. Malala lives in Swat Valley which is located in the country Pakistan. According to the interview with Jon Stewart she fights for this because at her home the Taliban have made a rule that no girls were allowed to go to school. The Taliban is a Islamic terrorist group that thought educating girls is “un-islamic.” In addition, Iqbal Masih, a boy that fights for child labor because he went through it for years. At the age of 4 Iqbal was sold by his parents for 12$. …show more content…

As stated before Iqbal was sold at the age of 4 for 12$ from his parents. This wasn’t easy of Iqbal, but he soon escaped and started speaking. Malala is another great example of this. As mentioned before she was shot by the Taliban on her way home because she was speaking, but she didn't give up or let the Taliban make her stop,in fact it made her want to work harder. Malala had bad experiences with the Taliban, even her dad at one point wanted her to stop, but Malala refused because she had no fear. Alex Libby had some bad obstacles as well, he got called names and hit. At one point he had said “I craved friends. I didn’t have any friends. That was all I wanted, some friendship.” Alex Libby’s obstacles and all the other teen activist were bad, but they all overcame them in some way, even when it’s not

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