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Malala As A Teen Activist

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Activism is is the action or policy of campaigning to bring about political or social change. That enough is hard to do, but imagine doing that as a teenager. Teen activism is fighting for what you believe in, making a difference, and making yourself heard. Teen activism is seeing a problem in your community and fighting to fix that problem. Teen activism takes courage, guts, determination, integrity, and so much more. Teen activists are special in the world, they do amazing things by choice. Some think “that's not our problem they can deal with it” or “ someone else is dealing with it “. Malala, Alex Libby, and Craig K could not ignore what was happening to our world or themselves. Malala is a great activist for our world. For example, she has a big part of the inspiration for education. In her homeland, Taliban told girls they weren’t allowed to go to school or dance, play outside, sing etc. She believed girls had much of a right to go to school as boys do. Malala started to go to the boys school as one of her own rights. At this point, the Malala become a target to the Taliban. She was fourteen and the Taliban struck her on the bus with a shot in the head. She was hit in the head but missed a little bit by her skull. She came back strong at sixteen years and showed she will never give up for girls rights. “ I speak with my voice” she would say in an interview. Just because we have feet and hands, knees do not …show more content…

He was a victim of bullies at middle school. He was stabbed with pencils, punched, and choked on his bus. His parents would tell the assistant principal about what was happening. The assistant principal said that “there was no way that this bus is bullying it is an amazing bus.” Well, then you are saying they are lying. Alex later was present during a bully documentary of his own life. By big surprise, he meet the president and got to have a chat with a Miss Beauty pageant

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