Research Paper On Malala Yousafzai

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Malala Yousafzai is a hero to me. She was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan in the Swat Valley. In Pakistan, when a girl is born, it is usually not a time to celebrate. Girls had little rights and no future other than to become a wife. Despite this, her parents celebrated her birth. As she grew up, she received many traditionally masculine opportunities, including an education.
In 2007, the Taliban, a terrorist group, took over her town. They banned tvs, radios, and other similar media. The punishment for having one was gruesome. Then, in December 2008, they banned girls from going to school. Malala, under the pen name Gul Makai, blogged for BBC about life under the Taliban’s rule. He blog received global attention as her school closes its doors for good. In May of 2009, the Pakistani army begins to fight the Taliban, all citizens are forced from their homes. Malala is featured in a New York Times about her fight to protect girls education. In 2011, they are able to move back home and her school reopens. Though she is afraid of retaliation of her fight for girls education, she continues her campaign. She later receives the Pakistan National Youth Peace Prize.
The events that followed in 2012, however, are what make her a hero. The Taliban began to put a price her head. They felt women should not receive an education, that it was against the Islamic faith, though it …show more content…

On her 19th birthday she met with refugee girls in Kenya and Rwanda. On September 7th 2016, she launches the #YesAllGirls campaign encouraging people to support women's education.
In April through September of 2017, she travels around the world on her Girl Power Trip. She talks to girls about barriers keeping them from their education. She then confronted the country’s leader about it.
In October 2017 she enrolled at Oxford University where she studies philosophy, politics, and

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