A teen activist is a teen that see’s something in the world that they think is not right and then does something to fix it. Teen activist are people who are smart, brave and not afraid to get knocked down. Two examples of teen activist are Malala Yousafzai and, Alex Lin. Malala stood up to the Taliban for taking away the freedom for girls to go to school. Alex help stop e-waste dumping in his state. 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 …show more content…
Later he started a service team called WIN Westerly Innovations Network. Then later he collected 5,000 pounds of e-waste and, According to www.takepart.com “He's overseen the recycling of 300,000 pounds of e-waste.” He also fixed up the old broken computers and then sent them to less developed countries to media centers. He has made seven media centers for kids in less developed countries. In his town in Rhode Island he passed a law to make it illegal to dump or burn
First, Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani civil rights activist fighting for equal education in her country. Both Malala and her father, who ran a school close to their house, were threatened by the Taliban to stop allowing girls to go to the school and stop speaking outright about equal rights. However, Malala was already an advocate for girls education, writing on a BBC blog under a pseudonym, and neither her nor her father would back down. As a result, the Taliban attacked Malala’s bus one day as she was going to school, singling her out, the terrorists shot her three times and injured some of her friends. Although she
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
Teen activists are inspiring and helpful. They are the ones who are determined to make a difference in the world. They are the ones who never give up on their dreams and hopes. Through their thoughts, sacrifice, determination, and their inspiring heart, they make the world happy, so everyone can live equally. Three teen activists, Malala Yousafzai, Alex Lin, and Iqbal Masih, use their personalities and inspiration so that they can stop unfair education, pollution, and child labor. They are willing to sacrifice to help the world and change history.
Malala had a huge impact on her community which was located in Swat Valley. She was the only women who was brave enough to stand up to the Taliban. Whenever a women would stand up to the Taliban they would kill them because they didn’t want the women to have a education. Since the women didn’t want to get targeted by the Taliban nobody stood up until Malala took action. According to the article “she began blogging for the British Broadcasting Company’s (BBC) Urdu site about what her life was like under the Taliban.” Since she wrote about how she had a dream of becoming a doctor one day, her fears of the terrorists, and her fierce determination to get the education, this warned everyone one and in May 2009 the Pakistani army launched a attack
A teen activist is when a teen helps make changes in the world or make a difference in the world. The first reason why teen activism overcomes challenges and obstacles is physical and mental violence. For instance like Malala Yousafzai was hurt by the Taliban because she was on her way home from school one day because her her school was shut down and the shot her in the head and was hurt but not killed. But they also threatened to kill her and now she has to go live in a different country because if she comes but they will kill her but this did not stop her because she is still fighting for girls to go to school I found all this information from the “video Jon Stewart interviewing Malala and Time For The Day” video. Kids.”
Malala is a brave soul to go through the threats of death to be a teen activist and to continue to be one. Malala attended a local. The Taliban tried to take over swat and wanted banned
Malala Yousafzai is a teenager that made international headlines. Malala was shot point-blank range and didn’t die from it. Young people can change the world. Malala was one of those young people who changed the world. She got shot in two thousand twelve. (Tell me more) She was born July twelfth, nineteen ninety-seven, in Mingora Pakistan. (Jan Mior) Malala has positively and negatively affected the world by standing up for women’s rights.
Malala Yousafzai is a teenager who stood up for girls’ education. Her country, Pakistan, was taken over by a group of terrorists called the Taliban. The Taliban had bombed over 100 schools, and closed down even more. The government didn’t do anything, but Malala started to stand up to the Taliban at a young age. I chose Malala as my topic because she spoke out for what she thought was right, even though she suffered for it.
Malala Yousafzai is a fifteen-year-old girl from Swat Valley in Pakistan. She was named after a Pashtun heroine, Malalai of Maiwand, who was fired down in battle after using her words and bravery to inspire her people to fight against the British in the Second Anglo-Afghan War. She and her family lived in Mingora, the largest and only city in Swat. When Malala was born, her family was poor, living off the small amount of money made from the school her father had started. Malala always liked learning, which wasn’t something everyone agreed on. The Taliban forbade girls from education, but Malala advocated for girls’ education rights. On October 9, 2012, she was on the way to school when two men stood in the middle of the road, stopping her school bus. One asked for Malala yet no one answered, only looking to her gave the man an answer. The man lifted the pistol and shot three times, one going through the left side of her head, and the other two going through two other girls. She survived major injuries and a coma, but her experience paved the way to realizing her duty
Would you believe that a single teenager has fought fearlessly against 300 or more powerful men only for the right to go to school? Would you believe that this is a true story of a 16-year-old teenager named Malala Yousafzai? Malala is a Pakistani school pupil and educational activist form the town in Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan northwestern province. She is known for her activism for rights to education and for women, especially in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. This may not be as affective when you only know what she has done in one sentence. Once you fully learn about this teenager and what she has been through, her story will forever be in your mind, and she will always be in front of your eyes.
Mercifully, Malala is now recovered and is back in school. She is currently attending a school in Birmingham in Britain. The Taliban’s attack only made her stronger and more determined to fight against women’s rights in the Arab region. Nothing could stop her from fighting for women’s rights,
Malala is just one teenage girl with the extraordinary power of speech vr. A group of millions of men called the taliban with a very different power called violence. Malala was born in pakistan, a place were being born as a woman is like a curse. Women are not allowed to be adjudicated and in some places they are not allowed to go outside. But Malala was a rebel. She went to a school even though it was a big risk. But one afternoon the taliban shot malala in the side of her head on the on the way back home. A miracle happened. Malala refused the journey to heaven end after months she healed. Know she lives safely in england where she uses the power of speech.
The book I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai is an autobiography about a young girl who believes in equal rights for women in her country. In Pakistan women are treated like second class citizens and are not allowed certain freedoms that all men have. It is normal in Pakistan for the women in Pakistan to be submissive to the men. However, everyone is submissive to the Taliban. When Malala attended school she never felt safe because the Taliban was also known for blowing up all girl schools. After she entered high school she started to speak out against the Taliban exposing them for who they really are. Several threats were made on the young girl’s life but she ignored them and continued to persevere. On October 9, 2012 she was shot by a Taliban
The intended audience for the book I Am Malala was mainly meant for people who want to know more about the life and politics in Swat, Pakistan. From a young age Malala Yousafzai was told she would be a great politician,“Even as a toddler you talked like a politician” her father would tease her (142). Yousafzai talks a lot about how her life changed in Swat when the Taliban took over, and she explains “When I was in the street it felt as though every man I passed might be a Talib” ( Yousafzai 135). She says that the Taliban would blow up girls schools, because they felt that it was “haram and un-islamic” (Yousafzai 94). For a long period of the time the Taliban ruled over Swat and places all over Pakistan,
Malala was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan. Her parents, Ziauddin and Toor Pekai, named her after a Pashtun heroine, Malalai (Yousafzai 15). Growing up, she shared her father’s love of learning and education. The Taliban, a political group, took control of her home, Swat Valley, in 2007. The Taliban said that they were going to ensure peace and security by using their version of the Islamic Law, which they wanted everyone to abide by (BBC.com). They began forbidding things, such as television and music, and also said that no girls over ten years old should go to school. By the end of 2008, over four hundred schools were