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…
Since she was a young girl, Malala has always expressed herself and made sure her voice was heard for all young girls to be educated in her country. The Taliban came into her village, took it over and decided that they didn’t want girls going to school and getting their education anymore. So, Malala decided to speak up for girl’s education making it aware of what the Taliban was doing. After she started speaking to local magazines and journals, Malala began to get worldwide attention and so did the Taliban. However, the negative attention the Taliban was getting made Malala number one on their target list. When she was fifteen years old, she was on her school bus with other young school girls when two men affiliated with the Taliban jumped aboard the bus looking for Malala. After they realized the identity of Malala, one man raised a Colt 45 to her head and fired three shots. One of the three shots went through her left eye socket and came out under her left shoulder. She could have easily lost her left eye or could’ve had brain damage, but she didn’t. From this traumatic and traumatizing shooting, Malala had to get a portion of her skull removed to treat her swelling brain. She required multiple surgeries to repair a facial nerve which caused the left side of her face to be paralyzed. In her newly released book, I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for…
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…
The first thing she did was write a blog for the BBC Urdu service about fears that her school would be attacked and the increasing military activity. Her following became huge as Malala continued to write about women’s rights. The Taliban however, was not happy about Malala’s point of view. On October 9, 2012. Malala was coming home from school on the bus with her friends when a man approached the bus. He jumped up into the back seats where Malala and her friends were riding and demanded to know who Malala was. Her friends looked at her revealing her position. The man immediately fired at her head at point blank range, the bullet however, remarkably missed her brain, it traveled through the left side of her head past her brain and exited through her left shoulder. She survived the attack and still continues to protest against women not having equal rights. Since 2013 she and Ziauddin organized a charity supporting women’s rights, the organization is called the Malala Fund and has raised 7 million dollars in the past 3 years. In 2011 she had been awarded the first Youth Nobel Prize and was nominated for Internationals Children’s Peace Prize. She even has a celebratory day honoring her on July 12. Malala’s determination to make a better world has been noticed by billions of people all around the…
While on her journey to receive education rights for all people, she and her dad were threatened every day. She wasn’t afraid, and she knew that her family would do their best to keep her as safe as possible. She was probably scared at first, but she went on to conquer her fears and overcame her fear of the threats thrown at her. “What terrifies religious extremists like the Taliban are not American tanks or bombs or bullets, it’s a girl with a book” (p. 14). This quote shows her insuppressible amount of courage, more than most people have. She continued to be courageous and have hope for the future, knowing that whatever is bound to happen, will happen. Even after being shot, Malala showed great amounts of courage. She wasn’t afraid, and she even said, “They thought that the bullets would silence us” (p. 13). Malala kept her head held high, and showed no fear, for if she did, she may have gotten herself killed. “I wasn’t scared, but I had started making sure the gate was locked at night and asking God what happens when you die” (p. 14). She said it herself, she wasn’t scared; hence, the amount of courage it took to say that was…
On October, 9, 2012 Malala was enraged about the taliban not allowing us to go to school and she decided she didn’t care if she died or not she felt as if she didn’t do no one would so she got on the bus that. When the taliban came on that morning to there check Malala was found and she spoke her mind and she was fatally shot in the head and from there that’s where her story begins to getting nobel peace prizes to writing books.…
Like kelly clarkson once said, “ What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.” Malala quoted from her speech at the United Nations, “ My weakness,my fear, and my hopelessness died on that day. And I became stronger than before.” This showsPeople would think that her weakness, fear and hopelessness would not help her to become stronger, and more powerful, and she would become scared and more weak and scared about the people around her, but Malala didn't let any of those things overpower her strength. The bullet killed all of those things, and saved her strength to fight through the tough times that awaited her.Ellen mentioned she holds no grudge over the people who shot her.She doesn't hold any grudge over the man who shot her, since it made her stronger. Her strength that she gained from fighting and standing up for what she believed in, no matter the cost overpowered her anger toward the taliban for shooting her, and made her believe that everyone makes a mistake once in awhile.She believes that the taliban made a mistake and from the courage she gained from all of us supporters she new if she was in the same situation she'd do it again. Moreover, Malala's strength helped her survive through all this crazy event going on in her life, and without it, she'd still be in the hospital. Strength helped her…
like to go to school and her fear of the Taliban. Malala's best friend Moniba found out that…
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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…
In late 2008, the BBC Urdu website came up with a nice idea to cover the Taliban’s growing impact in Swat. They decided to request a school girl to blog about her life under Talibans, but anonymously. None of the students was willing to do that, since their families were afraid, considered to be too dangerous. Finally, Zauddin Yousafsai suggested Malala, his daughter, just 11 years old girl. At that time, Taliban were taking over the Swat Valley, prohibiting television, music and girls' education. They, also stop women from going…
Some people believe that Malala endangered many people. She ignored the death threats given to her, which lead to a small bombing nearby her house. Also, Malala should've payed attention to the death threats because ignoring them caused the Taliban to go after after Malala on the bus, and that lead to two of Malala’s friends to get shot. Many people have also faced the same situations that Malala has. They have stood up for what they believed in but weren't as fortunate to survive the assassination. Malala also didn't actually help anyone before her fame. She only talked about helping, but never actually physically did anything. However, Malala couldn't really do much because she didn't have the money for helping out. All the fame helped her get money, and then gave her the opportunity to help others. Also, Malala didn't really have any control over the Taliban shooting her friends because she wasn't the gunman. Furthermore, Malala was one of the people that stuck out the most because she had strong beliefs about education ever since she was…
Firstly, Malala Yousafzai is from Northern Pakistan. The Taliban shut down Malala’s school in Northern Pakistan…
“Malala’s Dream” In the article, Malala’s Dream Joe Bubar discusses that a girl named Malala spoke out against the terrorists to have equal rights for education. First, Bubar mentions that a new oppressive group called the Taliban forced women and girls to obey harsh new laws but, Malala got tired and decided to speak up for rights. In addition, he points out that Malala got shot and nearly died but she survived. The gunmen thought that she will stop speaking out for rights but instead her message grew stronger. Finally,…