Teen Activism Essay

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Teen activism affects the worlds in many ways.Teen activist are believers and are people who want to change the world, and all it takes is to have a passion and fight for it. But some of the most important ones are, Malala Yousafzai affects the world by enforcing women's rights. Second, is Alex Libby fights to stop bullying.

Malala is the most inspirational teen activist ever. First of all, according to wikipedia she is from SWAT village a tropical place in Pakistan. First major event in her life was when the Taliban was blasting schools. So she decided she didn’t know she loved school until it was taken away so she started doing speeches to get school back. She loves school and wants all kids to go to school. According to abc news her biggest …show more content…

Alex is from Sioux City, Iowa most likely still in school right now. He was bullied a lot and was called “fish face”. One day, on a bus to school in eighth grade that’s where it all started. He didn’t tell anyone about the bullying until he decided he should. According to the daily mail he told his mom about it and they went to school and told the vice principal and all she said was “ i’ve been on that bus and the kids are as good as gold, but we’ll do something about it.” After that, Alex’s mom said “you know she said that at the start of the year.” As they were walking away in the parking lot. Then according to PBS a movie director heard about this and went straight to Alex and said “hey I heard you were bullied and I was bullied too, but do you wanna be in my movie the bully effect.” Alex obviously said yes and he started like that to stop bullying. Later on, the movie was very successful and so Alex used his money to make an organization called “I Stand For The Silent.” Right now he is 16 years old in 2017. He is probably in school right now having a great day in his new school. A thoughtful quote From Alex Libby according to stopbullying 75 “I don’t believe in luck I believe in

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