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Analysis Of Malala Yousafzai Speech

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Malala Yousafzai’s is a women’s activist for youth education, but primarily for girls. On July 12th, 2013, she delivered an address at the Youth Takeover of the United Nation. This speech is powerful, eye opening and deserves to be heard. She is addressing two audiences, one being the people that follow her same belief for education, some of those people would be at this convention and the other being the people that disagree with her purpose, like the Taliban. Yousafzai was in 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan, which used to be a popular tourist destination. As of now the region has been taken into control of the Taliban. Her father is also an anti- Taliban activist and educator. She, her father and tons of others just want thing to be like they used to. Where they had a safe neighborhood and didn't have to worry about violence. She delivered a speech riddled with excellent use of rhetoric to convey her argument. Malala’s whole purpose for her fight for education of the youth is so that it will stop future violence, She displays this purpose in her speech by using outward focus, compassion and personal experience to her audiences. Throughout Yousafzai’s speech she uses outward focus to display her purpose. Therefore she humbles herself, to make sure others have someone speaking up for them. She makes fighting for education her life's work. Even though she is putting her life endanger but speaking up. Yousafzai’s regards this and cares too much about this cause to just stop. Here is a quote from Yousafzai speech, “Malala Day is not my day. Today is the day of every woman, every boy, and every girl who have raised their voices for their rights” (315). In this quote she is talking about how her fighting for education is not for her, but for everyone else that this has been effected. Another quote that Yousafzai’s says is “So here I stand one girl among many” (315). She is referring to the fact that she can not flight alone that we need to come together to make a difference. Another rhetorical device used in Yousafzai’s speech is Compassion. The audience is more likely to trust her because she is so compassionate. Therefore the audience trust her because she is a creditable source. This source shows Yousafzai’s

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