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Malala Yousafzai… a young girl with a long short life.
People as they get older, experiment things in their lives. It is a process that appears with the passing time. But for one girl was completely different, Malala Yousafsai, a girl from Pakistan, with only 16 years, has lived more than those have lived in decades. This teenager, is one of the most recognized faces around the world.
In this essay, we are going to review her early life, her difficult times, and also how she has been recognized around the world.

Yousafzai was born on 12 July 1997 into a Sunni Muslim family . She was given her first name Malala in honor to a famous poet and warrior woman from southern Afghanistan. Her last name,Yousafzai, comes from a large Pashtun tribal confederation that is predominant in Pakistan's Swat Valley, where she grew up. She lived with her two younger brothers, her parents, and two pet chickens. Yousafzai was educated in large part by her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai.

At the age of 14, Malala lived a terrible episode. Taliban militants from Pakistan, banned girls education and there was not freedom , so she started to write in a BBC urdu blog about girls´ rights to study . this action result in a shot from a Taliban which went through her head, neck, and ended in her shoulder, when she was on a bus after taking an exam in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. She miraculously survived.

The assassination attempt received worldwide media coverage. There were a number of Protests against the shooting in several Pakistani cities. Also, the American singer Madonna dedicated her song "Human Nature" to Yousafzai in a concert. The actress Angelina Jolie donated $200,000 to The Malala Fund for girls education. In other hand, malala received many awards and honors. Among them : the National Youth Peace Prize (2011), the international children´s peace prize ( 2012) , and in

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