Young Heros
Unbreakable, persistent, fearless, are all words to describe teen activists. Without these words, they could not be called activists. These words are the foundation for change, and activists fulfill these words. Each activist has a story to tell, because the unbreakable, the persistent, and the fearless. Malala who fights for girl’s education, was shot in the head. Alex Lin, who recycles electronic waste, gave computers to schools without them. Iqbal Masih was forced into labor at only four, fought for kids who were just like him. They all bring change to the world.
The first activist, Malala Yousafzai, was just 11 when she started blogging in Pakistan. When she blogged, she talked about girls’ right to education, and that
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every kid should get a decent education. The Taliban had taken over her town, and closed her school. The Taliban is a terrorist organization that follows extreme Muslim beliefs. The kids tried to go to school, but they were denied by the Taliban. “All I want is an education,” Malala stated in "News." The Person of the Year Is... | TIME For Kids. That was how she started blogging through social media. Malala was ambitious, and wanted to succeed with her goal of getting every kid an education. On October 12, 2012 a Taliban gunman shot her in the head. The odds of surviving a head shot wound are only 5% but the odds were in her favor, Malala survived. She was determined to survive, which helped her heal faster. “They thought that the bullets would silence us and then, out of that silence came thousands of voices… weakness, fear, and hopelessness died. Strength, power, and courage were born.” Malala did not give up. She kept going. Malala was unbreakable. When Alex Lin was reading about the dangers of electronic waste in Rhode Island, he did not stand by. He decided to make a difference. He started Westerly Innovation Network (WIN) to make a difference. WIN is a community team to stop e-waste. He was co-operating with his friends to decrease the amount of e-waste wasted. He started to refurbish old computers, and decided to give them to schools without access to computers. WIN gave computers to schools that couldn’t afford them. WIN wasn’t done there, they went to the state house, to pass a bill banning e-waste. They did not succeed the first time, but Alex Lin was determined, and tried again. “Bill H7789 passed July 6, 2006. It is now illegal to dump electronics in Rhode Island” stated in "Alex Lin, Teenage Activist." TakePart. Alex Lin did not give up, he was persistent. The final activist, Iqbal Masih was just four when he had been forced into labor to pay off debts his family owed in Pakistan.
He worked for 14 hours a day and rarely got days off. “If we tried to escape, we were threatened with being thrown in boiling oil.” The children were terrified, and were beaten if they were slow. Iqbal was extremely brave to go through it. In 1992 Iqbal was free. Pakistan had outlawed forced labor that year, and a organization that was against forced labor helped him get the papers he needed to be free. When he found out about this organization, he decided to study. He learned in two years when it would normally take four. He started to speak out against forced labor. He traveled to the U.S. and Sweden to speak out against forced labor. Iqbal was in serious danger, because people were mad, that he spoke out. Even though he knew he could die, he had to go back to Pakistan because, in the YouTube "FREEDOM HERO: IQBAL MASIH", “he needed to finish what he started.” In 1994 when he was back in Pakistan, he was shot to death. Nobody knows who killed him exactly. Some say a drunk farmer, others say the factory workers. Iqbal had taken many risks, even though he was most likely to die, but he had to do it. He was
fearless. Now, the unbreakable, the persistent, and the fearless stories have been told to inspire generations of children. They changed the world, in different ways, making it a better place. Malala joined people together, to fight back against the Taliban. Alex Lin has decreased the amount of e-waste wasted. Iqbal Masih has helped abolish child labor, but every activist faces one single challenge, fear, but only true activists can defeat it. Fear is what sparks the rebellious change that activists have. Do you have what it takes to be an activist?
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
Yousafzai, Malala, and Christina Lamb. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education and
When he was four years old when he was called in from play to be sold from his parents for extra cash for his older brother’s wedding. His family had to sell him to a rug maker to work off a loan of about twelve dollars in U.S. cash. Iqbal had to work a year entirely without pay, then after, he was “paid” twenty cents per day, that means if he made a mistake, he was fined so he didn’t really make any money. Then, by the time he was ten, his loan grew to about two-hundred sixty bucks. During work which is six days a week, fourteen hours a day, They had poor conditions like poor light, no ventilations, heat, unfiltered air, and many more. Even Iqbal himself explains his work explained in the article, Pats Eduent, “Even sick children were not allowed to rest. They also hung children upside down until they got sicker. Children were beaten. If children fell asleep or were slow in their work, they would be punished by being beaten or starved.” Then in 1992 the Bonded Labor LIberation Front let him free at age ten. When he was out, he was sick and frail, half the height of a ten year old, and stopped growing. Iqbal also had arthritis with kidney and breathing problems, plus his spine was permanently curved, with scars and cuts from the tools. He then became an activist against child labor and risked pretending to be a factory worker so he could get information about the children working there, or to even help escape. Iqbal also helped free about three thousand child laborers from all sorts of factories, and became a good speaker and explained his experiences in BLLF meetings and journalists. He also visited the U.S. from Sweden to Massachusetts. But when he arrived back in Pakistan, his life, was cut short. Some people say the carpet factory worker murdered him, but nobody really. Iqbal was an inspiration to many people, plus some people planned to build a school in his home area to
“Her primary cause – securing Pakistani girls’ access to education” Education was hard especially for females and Malala helped change that even if she would have to face consequences to which she did. “Malala has become perhaps the worlds most admired children’s-rights advocate, all the more powerful for being a child herself.” At only 14 years old, mala stood up for the females and even got shot, and then survived which helped make it the big cause that it was. Malala Yousafzai’s actions in Pakistan went worldwide to get the support and followers to be the leader she is still to this
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Their stories move away from narratives of victimization, instead they were both able to take on violent, external forces with resiliency and bravery. These characteristics are typically associated with masculinity, however Maya Angelou and Malala have redefined masculinity and who can perform it. Despite the Taliban’s hold over Swat Valley, Malala remained strong and valiant in her pursuit for the right of girls to go to school. This was an atypical performance of femininity, which is normally seen as submissive and unassertive. Malala is a role model to those around her and has continued the fight for children to be given the right to education worldwide. She has the ability to act on and influence the world in which she lives, which is considered social agency (Mann,2012,282). Malala transgresses the boundaries of gendered expectations and refuses to conform to gender roles in
“I am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai is a beautiful and hard breaking book at the same time. This book is an autobiography that describes the author childhood and her support on the right for girls to have an education. Through this autobiography, Malala describes the restrictions that are imposed on females in her country. There are many that believe that woman of Pakistan should not be educated in the other hands there are a few that oppose this idea. Malala’s support on education for girls almost cost her life, since she was shot by the Taliban. From a multicultural perspective Malala’s story touches on topics such; culture shock, discrimination within your own culture, oppression, religion, family and woman’s right. Despite the opposition
Malala is globally acclaimed for her courageous efforts in promoting children and women’s education under such extreme conditions. Recently, she was nominated for the European Union’s Sakharov human rights prize at a ceremony held on World Children’s Day this year. She was the first Pakistani woman to b...
Heroes of today's world come from all different places. Heroes are firefighters, police officers, and doctors. They can also be as simple as a teacher, a neighbor, or even another student who cares. You never know where a hero may emerge. In Ancient Greek mythology simple heroes strive to become epic heroes.
As of today, upwards of 65 million girls around the world are out of school. In places such as Pakistan, girls are purposely kept out of school by groups like the Taliban and denied basic rights. This oppression is in no way justified and should attended to by doing what is right, even if it means going against the regime like the character Antigone in Sophocles’ The Oedipus Cycles or in today’s world someone like Malala Yousafzai who despite being a young teen, fights for girls’ rights to education. Laws that revoke basic human rights are meant to be broken with civil disobedience because everyone is morally entitled to basic rights, and the oppressive forces that stand as barriers must be overcome.
Using the Stages of the Research Process flowchart below, describe the steps involved in the Rescue Heroes research program. Make sure to discuss the different types of research methods employed in the program (e.g., focus groups, etc.) and the outcome/information obtained by Fisher-Price from the studies carried with each of these methods
He was fighting against child labor and when he went back to his country he was shot dead. This is when other people stepped in and became an activist for Iqbal. When a couple of students got an interview from Iqbal, they realized how serious this was and that they needed to step in and make a change. When they learned that Iqbal died, that just gave them even more motivation to finish what Iqbal initiated. They built a school in the name of Iqbal in Punjab, Pakistan that now 280 kids go to.
This also showed that Iqbal had no support from anyone because nobody gave him a good life and sent him back to work. Although he worked alone at the start, he got support later on which is another way of working for you cause. After Iqbal left the USA, he was shot in front of his grandma’s house because he spoke out against child labor. Although Iqbal knew that it was dangerous to go to Pakistan he wanted to end where he started. After the group of kids in school that Iqbal gave his speech to heard that Iqbal had been assassinated they wanted to do
“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world,” said Malala Yousafzai. One girl can change the world, too. Going home from school on a bus, 15 year old Malala Yousafzai was having a typical day on October 9, 2012. Suddenly, her bus was stopped by two members of the Taliban. They asked about her by name.
but i guess know one knows. Craig KielBurger read the article on him and has been fighting for his activism that iqbal had started! Teen activists inspire