Girl Rising

For all of the progress that the movement to increase the education of girls around the world has made in the last few decades, there was an important piece missing that could have increased the international awareness of the movement: A face

Females are discriminated against, mistreated, and are valued less since women and girls are not allowed to attend school and higher education. There are approximately 35 million girls not enrolled in elementary school. This explains why two-thirds of illiterate people over the age of 15 are females. Malala Yousefszai is an advocate for girls’ education all over the world. We learned that she was shot by the Taliban for standing up for education when we had to watch the video where she was on The Daily Show. Malala said that men don't want women to get an education, because then women would become more powerful. Having an education brings power. Her father was a great encouragement for her because he spoke out

Girls make up more than 54% of the uneducated population and it’s because if women were educated they would understand how unjust their way of living is and would stand up for themselves. Malala Yousafzai from Pakistani stood up for herself and her education and as a result got shot on a bus ride to school one day in October of 2012. But after speaking out and traveling to various seminars to project her knowledge of the conditions of living she was born into to everyone she was awarded the ‘2014 Nobel Peace Prize’ just last year. It makes you wonder how many people are being starved of education and suppressed of a well-deserved

“I don’t mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is an education,” said Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for female education. In today's society, many people don’t realize how grateful they should be for the education they receive. Even the slightest education is much more than people were receiving just three centuries ago, and even more than people in countries besides the United States of America. In specifics, women and African Americans were once unable to pursue any form of education in the United States, along with many other ethnicities.

Beginning in the late 1800’s, the feminist movement grasped third world females by the arm and dragged them along the never ending fight for equality. The fight for the equality of the sexes has accomplished many victories from granting women the right to vote in 1920 to banning female genital mutilation in Nigeria just this year. Feminism brought numerous inequalities to light in the past years, but one of the most underrated struggles fought by females of all ages everyday often gets overlooked. Young girls still face large amounts of inequality in the classroom.

In America, girls and boys across the country have the privilege to be enrolled in an educational system. For thirhteen years, students are taught by college educated teachers and learn material to help us move forward in our carrier. Americans take this opportunity without even thinking about it, but do not realize how much students take this for granted. In the school I have been placed in, my teacher took it upon herself to show us education in different cultures, and the outcome of the lesson was shocking for me. In the book A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, readers realize how much women are looked down upon in Afghanistan, yet it was eye opening for me to see what these girls are missing out on. From birth, they are categorized are lesser than men. Never getting the same chances, their life is centered around pleasing their husband. Education is not even an option for most women. I believe all women should have the same opportunity in this world, despite what country they reside in.

The incident in the life of a Slave girl writing by Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent). This story is a nonfiction book is actually a true life event that Harriet Jacobs experience during her life as a slave girl. Her story begins from her life as a childhood when she was six years old to the time she became the slave after her mother’s death and narrates her struggle to have a happy life even though she was a slave. After the death of her Mistress she became the slave of the Flint family, she expresses the suffering and the abuse of Dr. Flint. Tell the reader how she could not ask for help from the mistress because of her jealousy. Linda Continues her story when she escapes and becomes a fugitive in the north and finally becoming a free woman, after

I thought it was quite outrageous, and I could not imagine having to go through that as a young girl. These girls did not have independence or the freedom to decide their future like I do, and this bothered me. I was ignorant of their culture, customs, and traditions. I, too, had an ethnocentric perspective because of it. My perspective changed after watching the documentary. I gained insight into the practice and its influences, and although it is difficult for me to view it in a cultural relativistic perspective, I do understand that the families are doing what they perceive is best for their young

In addition to empowering individuals, effective education systems strengthen communities by building bridges between people, thus preventing conflict and ignorance. Most importantly, our education systems cannot simply cater to the powerful and privileged. In making donations and investments, we must look to those who are most vulnerable in the world – women, those from developing countries, and many others who are often relegated to the shadows when governments think about the public they serve. In doing so, we can build a more well-educated, prosperous, and socially just

Over 62 million girls around the world are denied an education. Some start elementary school, but most don’t even make it to junior high. The girls in Swat Valley, Pakistan are specifically told that they cannot go to school by the Taliban. According to the

If you ask social experts how to end worldwide poverty, they will tell you to educate teens especially girls. Per capita, if the social income goes up, mortality goes down, if economic growth increases, the rate of disease falls. For a nation to become more successful and more powerful, females have to be one of their greater sources; getting them educated and trained. There is a lesson out there in the world that a young lady by the name of Malala Yousafzai, a Pashtun girl from Pakistan shares with the world. Malala grew up with an uneducated and illiterate mother. Malala grew up in her father’s school and one day in October, a Taliban fighter jumped onto the school bus and demanded who was Malala and found her and shot her in the head point blank for speaking out her right to attend school. “I Am Malala: “The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban” by Malala Yousafzai. This book would be recommended for anyone wanting or interested in women’s rights and movements. Not only is this a drama that keeps you on the edge of your seat but it has an amazing message about how strong a female can be.

Gender bias is a huge barrier that prevent girls from gaining knowledge at schools. That is the reason why illiteracy rate of female is increasing. In some countries, especially, in Asia, prior generations usually consider that girls don’t have to access with high education because their main responsibility is being wives. The generations argues that female’s task is housework, so they don’t need to get educational certificates in order to apply for a job. Because of the gender bias, girls have no chance to get knowledge from school and become illiterate

“A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given.” Vera Nazarian We all know of the injustice that occurs in our society, Racism, Sexism and others. We all know that it isn’t good and that it needs to stop, but how many of us actively seek to get rid of it? And when someone does stand up to it, how many people go up and join the person and seek to get rid of it? There is a story of a woman, named Malala, who even though against all the social norms, cultural traditions, threats from people and even accepted religious teachings, is fighting for a fundamental right of all people around the world, Education.

The film What a Girl Wants is a drama, comedy, and romance, that was directed by Dennie Gorgon and was written by Jenny Bicks and Elizabeth Chandler. The studio for the film was Warner Bros. Pictures. The film came to the theaters on April 3rd, 2003, and was on DVD August 4th, 2003. The film is rated PG and has a run time of one hundred minutes. The average rating from rotten tomatoes was four point eight out of one hundred and five reviews. What a Girl Wants is about a seventeen-year-old girl, Daphne, who lives with her mother and wants to meet her father, Henry, whom she has never met before. To do this, she flies to London to finally met her father. When she arrives, she finds that her father is a politician. He was excited to met her,

Nicole Marie Pummel . . . sister, mother, and definitely a great friend. Nicole is my big sister, and best friend. Even though she is much older than me, age 30, we have never been mad at each other. She has a husband named Spencer, and a son named Maverick, which I’m sure almost everyone has heard about Maverick. Spencer is 30 and Maverick is 1 year old.