What if your right to have DVD’s, to dance, or even to be educated was suddenly taken away? This is the reality in a Pakistani’s everyday life. Pakistan has been controlled by the Taliban, a group that is fighting to get rid of Pakistan’s government. The Taliban has forced many rules upon the Pakistanians, but taking away educational rights crossed the line for Malala Yousafzai. A young Pakistani woman, with an enormous amount of passion for education. Malala Yousafzai risked her life for education; there is nothing she wouldn’t do for the right to be educated ( “What Will Malala's Nobel Peace Prize Mean For Girls' Education?"). Even though Malala Yousafzai is young, she still has a desire to be educated; her desire, accomplishments, and bravery will continue to influence and help generation after generation of children in need and …show more content…
She will continue to support anyone being educated or anyone who wants to be educated. She does this because Yousafzai cares and loves education so much; she believes anyone who wants to should be able to be educated. Yousafzais’ family has helped her continue her love for education. Throughout her whole entire life education has always been important. Malala Yousafzai will continue to love education and make the most of her opportunities to change things in the good for education. Malala Yousafzai has helped make quite the change and impact on our world. Yousafzai now has many people that are powerful in the world, to help back her up. Many of these powerful people have helped with a fund that will offer grants to organizations and individuals working in education, this fund is called The Malala Fund (Baker). Malala Yousafzai has given hope to people, that soon they will be educated. Yousafzai has impacted the education world, she has made a difference that will forever be
Malala Yousafzai is a girl from the Swat Valley who started the fight for education for Pakistani girls. She was born in a place where girls are hidden away and boys are celebrated, but she wanted to change all that. Out of all of the stages of the hero journey, Malala’s journey along with her return from darkness help depict her as a hero to men, women, and children around the world.
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.
Writer, political activist, and feminist Malala Yousafzai once said, “One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen, can change the world.” Education is not a luxury, but rather a basis for survival; sadly, thirty-one million females ages five through eleven are not in a primary school and seventeen million of these females are expected to never enroll in school (Education). Malala Yousafzai fought, and is currently still fighting for education rights for women and children (Van). Malala Yousafzai defied a law which she determined unjust and was prepared to pay the ultimate price: her life. Due to Yousafzai’s personal beliefs, she choose to participate in civil disobedience by protesting the ban on education. Malala Yousafzai was successful in her actions through the use of peaceful protest. Yousafzai committed an act of civil disobedience in the eyes of the Taliban. Civil disobedience is defined as peace protest that violates a law intentionally (Suber).In addition to
Bibliography Yousafzai, Malala, and Christina Lamb. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. N. p. : n.p., n.d. print.
Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. It is the very same “legacy of change” that Nelson Mandela used that inspires what Malala Yousafzai does today. At the age of 15, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating for girls’ education. Since this appalling incident, Malala has gone on to be the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, start the “Malala Fund”, that funds education in developing countries, and is currently the figure of women’s rights. Malala has been constantly speaking, advocating and helping women and children acquire the rights they deserve. In her powerful speech to the U.N, she opened the world’s eyes to the truth about education
Imagine a world with no education. It is hard not to imagine a society where no knowledge, no future, or no life. If the world had no education; how will we build our sources? How will life know what is right and what is wrong? How would society know about the stages of life from past, present, and future? Just think how empty the world would be without education. Malala Yousafzai, an activist of woman and children's right of education known for her courageous acts to improve education globally. Malala Yousafzai has positively benefitted modern society by speaking up for her rights of education and by inspiring others to join her to create equality for all.
“I dream of a country where education would prevail” (Malala Yousafzai). Education around the world has begun to be overlooked more and more each year; women’s education especially. Fighting to learn is one of the many problems women face each day, additionally it does not help when the opportunity to be educated is not given to over 6 million teenage girls alone. The women that are confident enough to stand up and fight for schooling are usually respected. Being one of the very few people in Pakistan who fought for better teachings, Malala is now well respected in many countries. Malala Yousafzai (Yoo-saff-zay) was shot by the Taliban in 2012; after a long recovery, she miraculously advocates for education around the world.
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.
Furthermore, Malala started her activism career by giving her first speech when the Taliban first took her right to go to school(EB). Then, Malala made a blog about her life while she couldn’t go to school for the British Broadcasting Channel(EB). Later on, Malala made her first television appearance followed by two films. Motivation is a key part to being an activist and Malala’s motivation was due to an unfairness directing her own life. Malala found it unfair that girls couldn’t go to school, so she became an activist.
July 12nd 2013. Malala celebrated her 16th birthday. It was the day her first major speech held at the U.N after Taliban’s attempt to assassinate her for promoting education for females.
As one of history’s youngest advocates, Malala Yousafzai has made a large impact on the world with her advocacy for young girls’ rights to education. Malala managed to persevere through the violence unfolding in her home country of Pakistan, for the betterment of girls across the globe. Overcoming personal threats and attacks by one of the most violent extremist groups, Malala has come a long way on her journey of advocacy, and continues to leave her mark on the world in present day.
Yousafzai is a young education activist who has been striving for equal education rights for women and girls in Pakistan (Malala Yousafzai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 2014). Yousafzai came to the world attention as a blogger for BBC and by surviving an assassination attempt by a Taliban member in October 2012(Malala Yousafzai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 2014). Yousafzai struggles for equality are the type of struggles that come to minds of many when they think of the modern struggle for educational equality. She is a subject of an oppressive foreign government risking her life for what she believes in. Therefore, many feel that the struggle for educational equality is taking place in the far flung corners of the earth. When others think of the deistic struggle for equal education, they may think back to the 1950’s, 1960’s, or 1970’s. These decades are well known as the height of the American Civil Rights Movement and the Women’s Liberation movement. While great strides were made in these decades, many would agree that the struggle for educational equality continue to this day. This statement is partially true when applied to the struggles of students with disabilities.
Every human being on this planet has looked up to their own superhero as a child or throughout their life. This may be because of these heroes saving the damsel in distress or rescuing a fictional city from the villain. In an interview with ABC News, Durga Prasad, said that Malala Yousafzai is his hero in life. “The reason Malala is a hero, is not the shooting, she is a hero way before that incident, when she stood-up for the right to women’s education in Swat Valley, Pakistan”. Malala has been trying to get educational rights for all women and children in Pakistan since the age of 14.
“One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world.” Malala Yousafzai, known for winning the Nobel prize at the youngest age to be recorded has shared her wisdom with the world along with continuing to work toward her cause of supporting girls around the world and getting them into schools. She has risen to become a strong influence for education in third world and poverty stricken countries and a role model to both students and teachers alike throughout the world. Not only has she come to accomplish breaking a peace prize record, she has overcome the physical disabilities from a shot to the head after a Taliban bus shooting aimed at her. Malala had recently opened a school in Lebanon as well, despite the threats that
Malala Yousafzai, a women's right activist and one of the bravest women in the world. Malala is a hero that stood up for what she believed, that all women should have equal education. She sacrificed her life when she was shot in the head by a Taliban just to get her point across. ¨I am only talking about education, women's rights and peace. I want poverty to end in tomorrow´s Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school,¨ said Malala Yousafzai. She's an amazement because she wanted to modify the world by making women have equal education and rights. Malala also wanted to end penury in Pakistan for a better life with good economy. On October 9th, 2012, Malala was shot in her school bus for speaking out that women should be equal in education as men. Even though she almost risked her life,