I Am Malala Research Paper

I AM MALALA: How One Girl Stood Up For Education and Changed the World is the remarkable tale of a young woman fighting for education, and uprooted by global terrorism. Malala Yousafzai was born in 1997 to a Pashtun family in Swat Valley, Pakistan. Malala valued her education from a very young age, and succeeded in school. When the Taliban took control of Swat Valley Malala refused to be silenced. She fought for her right to an education, and as a result of her actions on Tuesday October 9, 2012 Malala was shot at only fifteen years old. She made her recovery in Birmingham, UK where her family settled. And at age sixteen Malala had become a global symbol of peaceful protest, and the youngest person to ever receive the Nobel peace prize. “Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.”Malala Yousafzai is an education advocate, Nobel laureate, and seventeen years old at the time of writing. I believe I AM MALALA: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World is engaging for all ages and it is inspiring to look at the change one person can make.Malala valued education from an extremely young age.

Malala was taken to an army hospital in Peshawar, doctors determined that malala had to be moved if she was to survive. Malala was first transferred to a high security hospital in Rawalpindi. She was then moved abroad to Birmingham, UK, where she was treated more extensively. Her family followed Malala and did not return to Pakistan, settling in Birmingham. Malala’s family was immensely relieved to learn that she would make a full recovery. While in the hospital, Malala learned that she had become globally famous following her shooting. Malala decides to use her fame to crusade for education and women’s