Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan. She is known throughout the world for her impact on girl’s rights and education. Malala attended a school that her father – Ziauddin Yousafzai- had founded. After the Taliban tried to take control and began attacking girls’ schools in Swat, she gave a speech in Peshawar. The title of this speech was called ‘How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?” Since she was 11, she had been blogging about living under the Taliban rule (the complete ban of woman working outside the house or going to school) for the BBC. Later on, she started appearing on television as a spokesperson for education for girls. This resulted in the Taliban issuing a death…
After reading “Malala Yousafzai’s speech about education, you should realize that everyone deserves to have an education. Everyone also deserves to voice their own opinions. While Yousafzai presents a valid argument discussing the need for “education in Pakistan” in which she aims to get peace, equality and education for every child. She also aims to have everyone’s voice to be heard.…
Being a young, teenage girl in Swat Valley, Pakistan, Malala enjoyed going to school, but the safety and availability of schooling was facing a dearth once the Taliban merged in and began terrorizing schools. One day on the way to school and being held hostage by the Taliban, Malala recollects in her interview that she stood and confidently stated, “Then I would tell him [Talib] how important education is and I even want education for his children as well and I will tell him that’s what I wanted to tell you, now do what you want” (Stewart n.p.). Malala’s love and passion from school extended so far as going into confrontation with the Taliban and risking her life just to ensure and declare her rights and the rights of her fellow, female classmates to education and schooling. Malala’s efforts in expressing feminism and ensuring equal rights for girls in Swat Valley and all over the planet expanded to a point of global attention and international charities and foundations. When asked by John Stewart why she did not wait for political or humanitarian support to cease this conflict, Malala boldly rationalizes, “At that time I said why should I wait for someone else? Why should I be looking to the government, to…
At the age of fourteen, she chose to speak up “for the rights of children” (“Laura Bush: Malala Yousafzai’s courage” par. 5) when she was met with an intrusion by the Taliban and when they took away educational rights from women, she chose to stand up for herself along with all the other schoolgirls in her town. Although the Taliban threatened her, she still stood by her beliefs despite the consequences. When Bush writes, “Today, for Malala and the many girls like her, we need not and cannot wait. We must improve their world,” (“Laura Bush: Malala Yousafzai’s courage” par. 8) she shows the cruel reality that even today there are still many catastrophes in the world and that it must be put to a stop. Malala chose to not give up and instead defied the Taliban’s orders and by doing so, she risked her life for education and soon turned into an eminent icon of being valiant for young girls…
Malala Yousafzai, a seventeen-year-old Pakistani girl began blogging about her life under Taliban occupation and her views about girls’ education under a pseudonym for BBC around age twelve. When asked her name and threatened with a gun, Malala Yousafzai didn’t deny her identity, even though she might have been killed. She was shot in the head, and had the guts to stand her ground. Even though there was an attempt on her life because of her views, Malala continues to speak for girls’ rights at places such as Harvard University. Malala is a hero because she stands up for her…
Yousafzai, Malala, and Christina Lamb. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013. Print.…
Malala was named after a girl called Malalai. After she saw her country losing in war she stepped up into battle and encouraged all the soldiers to fight. Because of her, her country won. In Malala’s home country, Girls were treated differently. They believed that girls should stay at home and boys should go to school.Malala and other girls still went to school though. In 2009 Malala became a girls education activist. She went with her dad to speak in events. “Malala began writing a blog for the BBC Urdu service under a pseudonym, about fears that her school would be attacked.” When the Taliban(A terrorist Group) invaded Pakistan they banned girls from going to school and threatened Malala. At 14 years old she was shot in the head. Miraculously She survived. She influences girls all around the world. Without her many more girls would not be able to go to…
After the Taliban attacked her for advocating education for women in the Middle-East, Yousafzai proclaimed “weakness, fear and hopelessness die, strength, power and courage was born” (qtd. in theirworld.org) in her address to the United Nations Youth Assembly. This action is what has made Yousafzai such an icon and activist, for standing up for her truth and following her own path towards activism. She has even had more than three-million people sign the Malala Petition for education reform worldwide. In Malala Yousafzai’s case, what made her break social laws was the desire for change, the desire for an education, which is taboo in many Taliban-controlled areas due to the radical interpretation of Islam within the group. Many other female activists also existed in…
Two days after Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by militants from the Pakistani Taliban, Her shooting went not only against the teachings of Islam, but also against Pashtun traditions, in which you would never think of hurting a woman — let alone a 14-year-old girl on her way home from school. As a father, naturally I pictured one of my own children lying in that hospital. What happened to her was against all human emotion.…
This is where the problem started. When the local Taliban banned girls from attending school Malala got really angry and started writing a blog for BBC where she talked about her life under Taliban rule and promoting girls education in the region, she was only 11-12 years old. She has risked her life many times to go to school in Swat valley. The system which was the Taliban were very harsh and didn't listen to anyone. There was no democracy and if you demonstrated against them you were either killed or tortured. On the 9th of October 2012 Malala was on a school bus that would change her life forever.During the ride a couple Taliban members boarded the bus and asked the student which one was Malala. One of the students pointed at Malala and the man shot her in the face(eyebrow). When the men went off the bus three students were shot. Luckily all of them survived but they were all critically injured. This assassination attempt sparked an international support for Malala and her family.Suddenly she was in many interviews and documentaries. On 10 October 2014 she was announced as the co-recipient of the nobel peace prize for her work on letting children have the right to go to school. She was 17 at…
Firstly, Malala has been successful for being good role model to look up to in not giving up on what significant in her life and that will impact her future which is education. She got shot in 2012 in her hometown for the reason of getting educated. After surviving from the attack, Malala became stronger; she defends education by giving speech for the United Nations to illustrate the importance of education for every child. Indeed, she has impacted her society and the world in many ways such as raising awareness to people about the importance of education and creating the Malala fund to support poor people. “Three million people have signed the Malala Petition” (dais, 2013). She caused the UN to recommit to Millennium Development Goal 2 that states that all children by 2015 must complete their education and go to school. Consequently, the UN has supported her country and provided many facilities to develop the knowledge in schools, universities and colleges. Furthermore, Despite her young age, she had many awards because of her role in education and women's rights as the Nobel Peace Prize 2013. Unlike Queen Rania provided a better education in her country, including the high technology devices in the schools and universities that made her citizens learn easier and faster. Similarly, she created her own organizations for the rights of women and children national Early Childhood Development…
“I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban”…
Malala Yousafzai, a fourteen year old Pakistani girl was attacked by a Taliban gunmen on 9th October 2012 on her way back from school in Swat. Malala is known for her human rights advocacy for education of women in her native Swat valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. She used to write a blog for BBC telling about her life under the Taliban occupancy, the problems girls over there faced in getting education under the regime of Radical Muslims. Furious over her actions Taliban carried out an attempt for her assassination but fortunately she lived. The assassination attempt received worldwide media coverage and produced an outpouring of sympathy and anger.…
Malala yousafzai is a pakistani woman who is trying to help girls go to school. When she was young she had an anonymous blog where she spoke out about this issue. When he Taliban found out about it they got very angry and found her. “Malala Yousafzai defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education” (biography.com). They got on her bus after school and asked for her by name. They shot her and it went through her head and she survived. Getting shot did not stop her from doing what she was, but instead made her will stronger and fight harder for education rights.…
Malala Yousafazai was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan, which is located in Swat Valley (biography.com). Malala was raised in a place that females were banned from getting an education. The beginning of her fighting for female education began when she attended a school that was founded by her father. The girls from the school were attacked by the Taliban which led to Malala making a speech called “How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education” (biography.com. Due to her fighting for female education, a gunman shot Malala while coming home from school on October 9, 2012. Even though the…