I Am Malala Research Paper

In the book, I Am Malala written by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, there are several pivotal quotes that help one understand the struggles Malala faced during her lifetime. The struggles Malala faced were to go against the Taliban and fight for the education of all people. A first claim shows how Malala felt about education. “Is education not the right of these children?” (Yousafzai and Lamb 84). At this time, the Taliban felt that girls should not attend school and that they should not receive an education. As a way to retaliate, Malala and her father printed that quote onto thousands of leaflets to be distributed to the people of Swat. Malala and her father wanted the people to stop and think about how everyone deserves the right to

Throughout the past couple of months my fellow peers and I have been studying the topic ‘challenge’ and how it affects our lives and people around us. In our everyday lives we are confronting challenges, some are as small as walking up a few steps, and some are larger and more challenging that could be life or death circumstances.

The Taliban hovers around them everywhere, deciding what they say, wear, and where they go. Malala never wanted to live a life like this; she didn’t want to live a life without purpose. She had dreams and aspirations. She wasn’t alive just to breathe; she didn’t know it yet but she was destined to inspire countless girls. She teaches us that if we were given this life, we should make something out of it. Our actions should be in the betterment of a society. She didn’t take a bullet for just for herself. She took it on behalf of the countless girls in the world who want to study but can’t.

In the article, Malala the Powerful by Kristen Lewis, she described how Malala and other people ruled by the Taliban around 2007, had to follow many harsh rules ordered from the Taliban. Many people perished because of not following the religious rules. Malala stood up to the Taliban while they ruled. She did not listen to the Taliban when they said that school was banned. She courageously stood up to the Taliban but yet still got shot. She crazily survived the shooting and is still alive and going to college today. Though the Taliban created huge challenges for Malala, she survived because she stood up to the Taliban with her great courage, and is getting a better education today.

The article , “Malala the Powerful”, By Kristin Lewis, describes a girl who got hurt for what she stood up to in the world, so her and other went through lots of courage and challenges. That are still happening in this world today. But a lot of what she and others went through is still going on today in Taliban. Malala was a girl who fought for others girls to be in school that affect the world because if the taliban knew the would kill them or hurt them are something like that. when the Taliban came around and stroll the streets she still went to school, but she hid herself and the other children as well. As she was getting on a bus one, day two men walked up and asked for Malala and she got up they shot her. She recovered,

The article, “Malala the Powerful” by Kristin Lewis, describes the roughness of Malala, a Jewish girl, who like many girl Jews, crumbled in the hands of Taliban. Malala was alive when the Taliban took over Pakistan. She and many other girl jews were kicked out of school and forced to follow all these stitched rules. In 2009, Malala took action and started a blog. She talked on T.V shows about how hard life was like and was standing up to the Taliban. In 2010, the Taliban shot Malala in the face but she and many other Jews still survived. Though she lived in rough and tough challenges, Malala show lots of courage trying to stand up to the Taliban and their powerful government.

Challenge means ‘A task or situation that tests someone's abilities’ (Google Dictionary) and David Suzuki has experienced such tests many times in his life. David was born in Vancouver on the 24th of March 1936. He is a third generation Canadian. His grandparents were from Japan and his many life challenges were due to his nationality because of the attack in Pearl Harbour brought upon by Japan. Because of David’s nationality, he, his parents and his three sisters were taken to an internment camp where is troubles began. But despite all of his troubles David went on to become the “greatest living Canadian” (National Review of Medicine, 2008).

Not all stories, write about challenges but when they do the character reaches a point where they think to themselves. In “My People” by Margaret Peterson Haddix, and “Speech To The Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward by Gwendolyn Brooks discusses the importance of opportunity for young people who are growing up and searching for their identity. In both texts, they have characters that face challenges find a way to battle through them.

Personal challenge is something that everyone has to face at least once in their lifetime. I personally believe that personal challenges are a way to motivate a person to do better by achieving them. Overcoming personal challenges gives people a sense of feeling that if they can overcome their challenges then they can do anything. Everyone has gone through personal challenges, Kayla Montgomery, a girl from an article that I have read, has gone through her personal challenge and she is still going through it to this day. My mother went through her challenges and still going through one. I've also went through some personal challenges myself.

On the blog, Malala wrote about fears of losing education and freedoms within Pakistan. Even so, she and her father received death threats from the Taliban for their expression of educational rights. However, like Antigone, the law of the Taliban did not render Malala’s fight. She continued to spread awareness of the freedoms that she felt were necessary for every human being. Her morals remained steady and swift.

Some people do not like challenges, but still choose to face them with courage. Others choose to turn down difficult tasks. Everyone has different reasons which makes it difficult to understand why some people face challenges and why others do not. One reason why people would choose to face a challenge is that they are not only protecting themselves, but they are protecting other people.

Malala goes into detail about the Taliban in her interview with Jon Stewart. She told him that the Taliban gained support by telling the people of Pakistan that they would create a new court system that would grant the people of Pakistan faster trials, something that the government of Pakistan had failed to do. The Taliban was claiming that what they were doing was in the name of god, but they used this as a way to justify their motives to the masses. According to Malala, the Taliban were slaughtering around two people from her town a day, and that during the month of Ramadan the Taliban blasted the town's generators, leaving many people without water. Women were not aloud to attend school or even go to the market. The Taliban were basically

The Taliban’s violent ways come from the ideas that one should stay true to their culture. Some people support Malala’s actions and thoughts on the vicious attacks from the Taliban,

Malala Yousafzai being a completely different person that any girl in her country demonstrates the gruesome ,and savage nature of the men and women in the country of Pakistan. She not only shows the unawareness driven by fright among the people there, but displays how horrid it truly was. Influences of a misinterpretation form of Islam yield the innocent under the hands of the miserable forces of the evil such as the Taliban. Subsequently, the country of Pakistan under Taliban rule has gone through continuous fear and discriminations that strip girls from their education. Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani women who only wanted an education, was obligated to view her life at its worst and at the same time, view the desire and dreams of girls who brawl for there education that they have been denied.

To begin with, Malala can be described as a determined. In 2007, when she was ten, the Taliban took over the Swat Valley. The Taliban is an Islamic group