...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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...false idols and doom and human destruction would come to them. He told the people that all human beings deserve to be treated equal to everyone else and with respect. This message was a warning to the northern Kingdom. Amos caused so many problems that King Jeroboam kicked him out of the temple. Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 in north-west Pakistan. She loved going to school and learning just like her father. In 2009, Malala started writing a blog for BBC Urdu about how she was scared her school was going to be attacked because of the growing military. Within that year, Malala also decided to become an Education Activist. In 2011, she was awarded Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize. Taliban Leaders didn’t like a girl winning all this and they wanted Malala killed. On October 9, 2012 Malala was riding a bus home from school with friends when a masked gunman entered the...
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...Malala is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who was born on July 12, 1997, in the Pakistani province of Swat Valley. In 2012, she was shot in the face on a school bus by Muslim extremists for the crime of wanting an education. Although the victim of a brutal crime committed by Muslims, she remains a devout follower of Islam. While born in Swat, which is in Pakistan, she considers herself to be more a Pashtun than a Pakistani. Though she's a Sunni Muslim she embodies many of the values at the heart of Christianity. In Matthew chapter 5 Jesus tells his disciples to not take revenge on anyone who wrongs (Mt 5:38-39) but rather to turn the other cheek. Malala, a devout Muslim and proud Pashtun can, nevertheless, see conflicts in the philosophy of life that they teach. "That's why I have problems with the Pashtunwali code. We are supposed to take revenge for wrongs done to us, but where does it end? ... There is no time limit." (P59) She believes"that if someone kills your brother, you shouldn't kill them or their brother, you should teach them instead."(p60). Her "only regret" about her attack is "that I hadn't had a chance to speak to them before they shot me.......I didn't even think a single bad thought about the man who shot me- I had no thoughts of revenge" (p. 238). A few years before her...
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...Malala The Powerful Do you know who won the nobel peace prize and a grammy at the age of 19? I did not think you would know who. Here is the story of a little girl named Malala Yousafzai.Malala was a little girl that went to school where her father worked in swat valley.The taliban one day came and shot malala close to her left eye. Malala’s dad had almost shut down the school because of the taliban directing them to close all girl schools.Malala and some of her friends still went but the students percentages went down a lot.Then malala had tried to stand up to the taliban and tell them what they were doing was wrong.Malala was not going to let anyone stand up and try and beat her but it would never work she wanted girls to be able to go...
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...Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12th, 1997 in Pakistan a place called Mingora. This is located in the Swat District of the country. She was born into the Sunni Muslim family that is of the Pashtun ethnicity. Malala has always been a good student at school and has never failed in her exams. Her first name Malala means grief-stricken, named after Malalai of Maiwand who was a famous poetess in Pashtun and a warrior from Southern Afghanistan. Her last name, Yousafzai is of the large Pashtun tribal confederation that is mainly found in Pakistan Swat Valley a place she grew up. She lived with her parents, her two younger brothers, and two pet chickens. Malala is fluent in English, Pashto, and Urdu and was received a lot of her education from her father Ziauddin Yousafzai, who owned a school and was also a poet. Once in an interview, Malala stated that she wanted to be a doctor but was later encouraged by her father to...
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...Malala is a Muslim girl who lived in Swat Valley of Pakistan and was born on July 12, 1997; the first child to her parents. With her father and her fathers friend starting a private school in their town, Malala visited school before she could even talk. Her father was very passionate about education. Later in her life the Taliban had started killing people for many different reasons, but then they started targeting education. In 2009 she started a diary for the BBC. Perhaps one of the most life changing moments in her life has one she was shot in 2012 while returning home from school. Malala's life before the Taliban was much different from after. Malala loved going to school and made good marks as well. She also loved watching television and going on school trips. But even before the Taliban came people tried to stop her dad's school. A man named Ghulamullah, an...
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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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...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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...Can you imagine getting shot in the head because of something you strongly believed in? Well, that is just what happened to this lady. Her name is Malala Yousafzai and she was able to survive a bullet to the head. Malala was born on July 12th, 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan. She attended the school her father founded called Khushal Public School. She and her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai both of them shared a love for education. At this time in Malala’s town, the Taliban were trying to take control of her area. The Taliban began to try to restrict education and prevent girls from attending school. In 2009, BBC was looking for someone to tell what life was like living under the Taliban’s threats. Malala’s father actually recommended her and she began to write what her life was like. To hide her identity she went by the name Gul Makai but she was revealed later that year by...
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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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...of Mingora in Pakistan was a tourist attraction before a group of terrorists terrorized the city and took over. Malala Yousafzai was one of the many women it had affected over the time of the take over. Malala liked to learn to read and write in school to help her with her daily life, and also liked to learn different subjects in school such as, Math and Science. When she found out she couldn’t attend school, it devastated her. So she took a stand for her village, country, and almost all women without an education with her voice and fund (Malala Fund). The purpose of this paper is to learn more about education rights and women’s rights in Pakistan, and how one girl took a stand for her village that didn’t have a voice to stand up for themselves against the Taliban. Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora, Swat Valley,...
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...A moral person is someone who has a code of what is “right” and follows it. “Right” can have many meanings: honesty, fairness, dignity, and a desire for equality. A large aspect of moral behaviour, to me, means actually following through with what one believes. Malala Yousafzai is a 19-year-old Pakistani female who has fought for the right to education, especially for females. She wrote publicly about her life in a Taliban controlled area. The Taliban shot her after refusing to stop going to school and speaking out against their oppression. Even after being in critical care, she said that she would not let them rule and dictate her life and refused to stop going to classes. Malala risked her life to fight for the rights of other and herself. She protested against a group of extremists in an incredibly dangerous area of the world, to stand up for what she believes in....
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...Malala Yousafzai Fights for Rights It’s fair that everybody has the choice of education. I chose Malala Yousafzai, she is at age eighteen and has already earned a Nobel Peace prize. Malala publicly stands up for everybody’s rights for education, yet some people did not agree with her. The Taliban shot her in the forehead to try and stop her from speaking up for her beliefs, or for her to at least lose hope although this action only led to everyone standing up for her. This essay will demonstrate how Malala Yousafzai impacted the world today. Malala has changed many things around the world before and after her experience. First off, Malala a social experience, “How dare the Taliban take away my right of education,” Malala stated at the capital of Peshawar for the city’s press club (Staff). Furthermore, on January 3, 2009 Malala’s blog attracted lots of attention, another girl had been asked, but she backed down, and Malala being the brave soul she is, wrote an entire diary on the site (Staff). Additionally, Malala’s father confirmed that she was the BBC blogger, and the Taliban sent threats to Malala along with her family (Staff). Later, the Taliban shot her except she lived to tell about it (Staff). Malala is probably a teenager that has been...
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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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...The role of women, which is centrally discussed 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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