However, passion, faith and bravery strengthened one girl to challenge the same discrimination in Pakistan. Malala Yousafzai took the chance that very few 11 year olds would have taken under such a regime. She expressed the voices of thousands of silenced girls and women in Pakistan as a blogger for the BBC. This expression, however, had disastrous consequences, resulting in her attempted murder. The bullets that punctured her brain, however, resulted in international support for Malala as she became a role model to millions of girls around the globe. She became the ultimate inspiration for the young girls of Pakistan. In our democratic, westernised society, we regularly take our education for granted, and it takes a true hero, like Malala, to remind us that an education is so much more than just a qualification. For some people having an education is a matter of life and death and it takes a five – hour operation to remove a bullet, just to be noticed. Malala is a living example of justice and equality but she should not have had to endure such pain in the first place. She should have been given the opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge that has been locked away for so many years. She was only able to do this by taking her GCSE’s and getting straight A’s and A*’s. It has only been through her immense courage that millions of girls are finally being…