...safety and country for others for their beliefs. Malala Yousafzai has stood up for her beliefs in many ways, and has had an amazing impact on the world's view of education. In “I Am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, Malala believes that every child deserves an education, no matter what gender they possess. She stands up for her beliefs by speaking to people in positions of power, sharing her experience with journalists, and in turn the world,...
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...Emma Watson vs. Malala Yousafzai I am going to compare two very important speeches, in my opinion. Emma Watson’s was on the HeForShe Campaign and Malala Yousafzai’s promoting education for girls. Bothe speeches were delivered at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Emma Watson, at the age of 24, launched a campaign called “HeForShe” on September 20, 2014. She is the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and she was cohosting this event when she gave the speech. She is a famous British actress and has been advocating for gender equality. Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for going to school, and on July 12, 2013, at the age of 16, she delivered a speech promoting education for girls. She has become a champion for the rights of children everywhere to be educated. Emma Watson began her speech by addressing “Your Excellences, UN Secretary General, President of the General Assembly, Executive Director of UN Women, and distinguished guests.” (Normaljean2, 2014) As for Malala she began her speech, not only this one but every other one she did, “In the name of God, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful. Honorable UN Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Respected President General Assembly Vuk Jeremic, Honorable UN envoy for Global education Mr. Gordon Brown, Respected elders and my dear brothers and sisters.” (A World at School, 2014) Both were very respectful. I believe that the first challenge a speaker faces is to establish their credibility to speak...
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...Malala Yousafzai is the youngest-ever Nobel peace prize winner and not only has she recovered from dreadful injuries after being shot by the Taliban, but has gone on to become a champion for the rights of women everywhere to be educated. Yousafzai’s use of rhetoric in her speech is amazing for her age as she always stays composed and speaks very clearly and forcefully. Malala is able to get the audience to pay attention to her from the beginning. Malala uses rhetorical strategies to convey her message, not as a victim of violence but as a champion against it. Throughout the novel, Malala uses descriptive language and anecdotes about her life, which contribute to the emotion that her writing elicits within the reader. Malala uses pathos by throwing attention off herself by saying she is just one out of many. "One girl among many" (Yousafzai,189). She speaks not for herself but for all the women who were illiterate because they were not educated. “It is not at all uncommon for women in my country to be illiterate, but to see my mother struggle to read the prices in the bazaar was an unspoken sadness for both of us” (Yousafzai, 23). The quote from the novel I Am Malala is an example of pathos because she uses her uneducated...
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...Prospero Medina 20th Century World History November 19, 2014 Malala In 2004 the Taliban should up in Pakistan, but there was coexistence between them and the citizens. it was not until 2007 the Taliban shoed their true colors. They Taliban began to shoot up schools. Many people where killed during this act of terrorism. During January of 2009 the Taliban had been slaughtering one to two people every night. It was this time Malala Yousafzai, along with many other woman and children saw clearly of the actions that the Taliban made. The time of extreme darkness and cruelty is was shed light into the mind of Malala Yousafzai. In 2012, Malala was out on a walk with her father when suddenly a lady came up to them, exclaiming that if you look up Malala Yousafzai’s name on Google, you can see a treat held by the Taliban against her. She being the modest person that she is was not scared for her life, but more for her father’s life. Keep in mind, she is 14 years old at this time and she already is a treat to the Taliban. Such a small individual can change so much. Malala Yousafzai was a young woman when she stood up for educational freedom. In this stand of oppressing the oppression lead to father horrific events. She sought that education was power and was the primary reason why the Taliban forbid education to woman in Pakistan. This all lead to the optimism of Malala Yousafzai that the situation there in Saud. Her with woman followers began to protest and speech out of their...
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...Mary Damayo Mrs. Blumenthal English 2 Honors 3 January 2014 I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai, along with Christina Lamb, composes an autobiography that illustrates Malala’s tale in a dangerous country, while also displaying her passionate dedication to making the world a better and equal place. This nonfiction piece of writing was published on October 8th, 2013 by Little, Brown and Company. It has since received the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Memoir & Autobiography for the great achievement of recollecting Malala’s brave endeavors. In I Am Malala, she begins with recounting her younger years in which her demand for equal women’s rights had stemmed from, and afterwards, how she grew into an independent, young woman who spoke for millions of females in her country that could not receive education. In the beginning of I Am Malala, Malala describes her home as “the most beautiful place in all the world. My valley, the Swat Valley, is a heavenly kingdom of mountains, gushing waterfalls and crystal-clear lakes” (15). She also spoke about everything that she had loved and was proud about in her home: from her admirable father who, unlike most Pashtuns, rejoiced upon receiving a daughter in a country that honors sons, to her best friend Moniba, with whom she had laughed and confided in, and Malka-e-Noor, her rival for top of the class at Kahshul School. Her name derives from Malalai of Maiwand, “the greatest heroine of Afghanistan”, who “inspired the Afghan army to defeat...
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...Malala Yousafzai is a women's activist, born in Mingora, Pakistan. She grew up during the time that the Taliban took over her home country. This shaped her into the girl she is today, who fights for women's rights in Pakistan. Malala has always loved learning ever since she was a little girl. She explains in the beginning of her book,I Am Malala how since her dad owned schools, she would go into classrooms and act like she is teaching. She loved this feeling she said. She loved learning and strived to be the number one at her school. Throughout her process of telling this story , Malala is able to append with readers in an emotional captivating way because her use of credibility and also her ability to state logistical facts through the book to build her argument that we...
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...Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and also the youngest person to have ever won the Nobel Peace Prize at just seventeen years old. She was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora Pakistan. A few years later, the once peaceful country started to change as the Taliban strengthened their control. The Taliban originated in the early 1990’s in northern Pakistan after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The Taliban’s goal to the Pashtun people was to restore peace and security and enforce their own strict Islamic law once in power. In both Pakistan and Afghanistan, they performed acts of Islamic punishments consisting of public executions, convicted murderes and amputations of those found guilty of theft. By 1998,...
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...Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for girls' education and the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in Swat Valley (her hometown), where the Talibans had tried to ban girls from attending school. Yousafzai's voice has since grown into an international movement. Malala attended a school her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, founded. On September 2008, Malala gave out a speech, after the Talibans attacked the girls' school in Swat. The title of her talk is "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education". In early 2009, Yousafzai wrote blogs for BBC about her living under the Taliban's threats to deny her an education. On October 9, 2012, on her way home from school, a man boarded the bus Malala was riding in and demanded to know which girl was Malala. When her friends looked toward Malala, her identity was given away. The gunman fired at her, hitting Malala in the left side of her head and the bullet then traveled down her neck. Two other girls were also injured in the...
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...but, as I watched the brothers running across the roof, flying their kites...I wondered how free a daughter could ever be”(Yousafzai 26). Her father and mother had a respectful and loving relationship, as well as her father owning a school that of which she grew up in. Seeing how most females in her country did not share this luxury, Malala was inspired. Malala’s story shares a connection with the second memoir I read, The Color of Water, by James McBride. The Color of Water is a story that follows McBride’s childhood and the mystery behind his white mother. McBride, growing up in the early ‘60s, faced much racial discrimination. McBride’s mother, Ruth, who grew up in the south, also witnessed this aspect of cruelty, saying she “ always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets”(McBride 95). McBride, despite facing discrimination, is proud of his skin, saying that his “siblings had already instilled the notion of black pride in [him]”(McBride 90) and that “ as a kid, [he] preferred the black side”(McBride 91). This connects with I am Malala as even though it would feel as if the world around them was against them, the two narrators still manage to find pride and achieve excellence in who they...
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...Malala Yousafzai’s Journey Malala Yousafzai shows a tremendous amount of strength throughout her life. She isn’t afraid to do the unthinkable. Though people hated her, she was able to brush it off like dirt. But behind that, there is a heart touching story. Malala’s journey isn’t always an easy one, but with perseverance she was able to pull through. Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan, located in the countries Swat District. She lived in her house in Mingora with her parents and two brothers. Her father is Ziauddin Yousafzai and her mother is Tor Pekai. Her brothers are Khushal and Atal Yousafzai. Malala was mostly educated by her father, who is a school owner and an educational activist. He runs a group of private...
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...throughout the novel I Am Malala, is possibly the most important issue, next to education, debated during the course of the book. When the story begins the author Malala Yousafzai recounts the experience of her being shot in the head for standing up for girls’ education. People were trying to silence progressive women however they could. Another instance is the narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who was never given proper medical attention and therefore suffered a nervous breakdown. Novels imbued with messages expressing the unfair treatment of women are based on facts and they do not have overly joyous endings. Malala faces the struggles of being overpowered a male-dominant society while she tries to prove her worth. When her home was overrun by the Taliban and girls were removed from schools,...
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...of Pakistan. Her name is Malala Yousafzai, and she was 17 when she accepted the prestigious award. She is a human rights advocate centered on children’s education and women’s rights. Though she has been an advocate since she was a young child, she has become the face of an international movement. Malala’s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, ran the school in her valley. When the local Taliban began banning girls from attending school, he spoke out against them. When she was twelve years old, inspired by her father’s advocacy, Malala began writing a blog about living under Taliban control and her ideas about children’s, specifically girl’s, rights to education. The blog was published by the BBC (British Broadcast Company) under a pseudonym. Her name was released when a New York Times journalist, Adam Ellick, made a documentary about her life and the military of Pakistan intervening in her region...
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...Malala Yousafzai (Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ; Urdu: ملالہ یوسف زئی Malālah Yūsafzay, born 12 July 1997)[1] is a Pakistani school pupil and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. She is known for her education andwomen's rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. In early 2009, at the age of 11–12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban rule, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls. The following summer, a New York Times documentary was filmed about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region, culminating in the Second Battle of Swat. Yousafzai rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by South African activist Desmond Tutu. On 9 October 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen while returning home on a school bus. In the days immediately following the attack, she remained unconscious and in critical condition, but later her condition improved enough for her to be sent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, United Kingdom for intensive rehabilitation. On 12 October, a group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwā against those who tried to kill her, but the Taliban reiterated...
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...teenage girl from the Swat Valley in Pakistan, and her name is Malala. In her book, I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai details her life starting from the beginning in a small Middle Eastern village and ending in present day Birmingham, England. She highlights the important things: her struggles, her triumphs, and her family, and how they have all shaped her and motivated her to keep pushing the societal norms and continue to fight for the education of people (more specifically, women) all over the world. Even today, for her courageous and to some, outrageous, deeds, she and her family face threats from the Taliban for what she has done and will continue to do. To many, Malala Yousafzai is a symbol of fighting for what you believe in no matter how bad the situation may get and a...
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...Social Movement (Malala Yousafzai) Malala’s journey of her social movement is not only significant to me, but also to millions of other people and more specifically, to females all over the world. The way she composes herself and her impactful speeches are ingenious. She has taught me many significant values of principals such as the right of education and speech. Anyways, I think I got the most inspired by her when she won the Nobel Peace Prize and when she survived an attempted assassination. Anyone who wins the Nobel Peace Prize must have done something that everybody, no matter the race, gender, and ethnicity, can stand and/or cheer for. The fact that Malala won the prize when she was only seventeen, makes it all more inspiring, as I am seventeen myself, yet one can easily compare our lives and...
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