Malala Yousafzai Thesis

Before Malala Yousafzai took a stand for children’s rights, countries throughout the Middle East were brutally oppressed by the Taliban. The Taliban are a radically militant Islamic movement that controlled some ninety percent of Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001 (“The Taliban Once Ruled”). In 2007, a faction of the Taliban regrouped across the border in Pakistan, invading northern cities including Mingora, a region in Swat Valley. These fundamentalist terrorists were brutal and rapidly became the dominant socio-political force in northern Pakistan (“Education in Pakistan”). The Taliban executed those who resisted and didn’t follow their harsh laws. According to a resident of Swat Valley, “we were very scared of them. Our education system was totally

Malala Youafzai's activism started with her passion for education. As a child Malala loved school and felt it was very important. In 2007 the Taliban invaded her home town Swat Valley Pakistan forcing their strict Islamic law onto the ones who lived their. The Taliban were going to extreme measures to prevent women from going to school. Malala being very passionate about her education since a young age

October ninth, two-thousand twelve, fifteen year old Malala Yousafzai boarded a school bus which would take her and other students home from school. The school bus was stopped by two members of the Pakistani Taliban. One went to the front of the bus to interrogate the bus driver. The second man entered the passenger part of the bus, called for Malala by name and fired three times. One of the bullets hit Malala at point blank near her left eye, traveled down into her shoulder and became lodged.

at night Maulana Shah Dauran [ the Taleban cleric who announced the ban on girls attending school] once again warned that they would blow up those schools which are used by the security forces as security posts."  The Taliban had already known the Yousafzai family wasn 't necessarily afraid of them. Malala once said on Pakistani TV, 2" How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?" Although she wrote anonymously, she was later exposed and she became a well-known activist

Malala Yousafzai is a young woman speaking as a young education advocate at the Youth Takeover of the United Nations. This was her first speech since she had been shot in the head by the Taliban in Pakistan on October 9th, 2012. The Taliban targeted her because she was blogging about her own right, and the right of all women, to an education. Her purpose is to inform the people of the denial of education to children around the world. She is also trying to persuade her audiences to join her campaign in ensuring all children gain their right to education before the end of 2015. Her primary audience was all of the delegates who attended the Youth Takeover of the United Nations, and all the people fighting for education. Her

Malala Yousafzai’s home town in the Swat Valley of Pakistan is where her journey first takes place where oppression against womens education is enforced by Taliban rule. The Taliban staunchly opposed Malala’s fierce beliefs in the right for women to have an education and they did their best to silence her voice. Malala and the other women in the Swat Valley were forced to obey their oppressive regime and not gain an education. Despite the harsh climate against her Malala spoke up against this tyranny with the faith that she could cause a change for the better. Unfortunately due to this she was singled out and faced severe retaliation. A Taliban gunman stopped her school bus and proclaimed that she must be punished for insulting the

Malala began her activism by writing blogs for the BBC about her life under Taliban rule, using the pen name “Gul Makai” to protect her identity (Biography.com Editors). She additionally wrote her views on the importance of education for girls all over the world, but especially in her country (Biography.com Editors). After she was profiled in a New York Times document entry, Malala rose to fame as a speaker promoting education for girls in the Swat Valley of Pakistan (Biograhy.com Editors). On October 9, 2012 Malala was shot in the head and neck by Taliban members who had boarded her schoolbus on her way back home (Robison 1). She was shot when she was just fifteen years old (Biography.com Editors). She struggled to survive, remaining in critical condition for an extended period of time (Robison 1). After rehabilitation, Malala was healthy enough to continue her activist work (Biography.com Editors). Despite the Taliban’s threats, she remained a staunch advocate for the power of education (Biography.com Editors). She gave speeches and interviews for

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.

Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12 1997, in Mingora,pakistan. She stood up for girls education from a really young age. Malala got shot when she was 15 years old. She got shot by the taliban. She got shot in the head and she survived. The good thing it didn't go through her brain . Malala has been advocating for girls education since she was 11 years old

Malala has displayed enormous amounts of potency as she fought against the Taliban to give women rights. During her journey to fight against the Taliban, she has faced many dangers. These dangers prover her to be fearless. One danger she has faced are the death threats. While she was fighting for women’s rights, she faced death threats issued by the Taliban. One day, October 9, 2012, Malala was riding home on the school bus with her classmates from her school in Swat Valley. One gunman entered from the front of the bus while another entered from the back. The gunman who entered in the front began to ask the driver questions, while the other gunman wanted to know which girl was Malala. When her scared classmates identified Malala, the gunman began to shoot at her. She, along with two

Malala Yousafzai is not only a nineteen year-old Pakistani teenager, but also a nationally recognized activist. Yousafzai advocates for the improvement of access to education with a focus on young girls and young women throughout the world. Yousafzai additionally promotes gender equality and overall world peace. Being that she was born in the male dominated country of Pakistan in 1997, she has first-hand experienced the systematic oppression faced by women residing in the country. Her activism stemmed from her love and passion for attending school and overall learning and education—traits from which she inherited from her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai whom is a Pakistani diplomat. Through her activism, Yousafzai has received multiple honors such as Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize in 2011 as well as a nomination for the International Children’s Peace prize also in 2011. Her activism has also procured her national recognition and increased her popularity, both of which had upset Taliban leaders. Taliban leaders voted to kill her and in 2012, Yousafzai survived an assassination attempt in which she was shot in the face by a Taliban member in Pakistan’s swat valley as she. In

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.

Malala Yousafzai is well known for her acts towards Women’s Rights due to the factors caused by the Taliban people. Malala (Biographyonline, Malala) was a regular Pakistan school girl when the Taliban started enforcing rules and restrictions against women. Women were no longer allowed to listen to music, receive education, or go shopping. If they did, they’d be punished by the Taliban. Malala loved school and refused to cower in fear like the rest of her classmates and community. Malala formed a secret blog with BBC expressing her feelings about how unfair women were being treated. Malala was then targeted by the Taliban and shot in the head. Malala suffered a coma, but

Malala’s childhood..Where Malala lived, they didn’t allow girls to have an education. Malala was going to school because her father was the owner of the school. The Taliban had warned Malala’s father that if he didn’t remove Malala from the school that they would shut it down. Malala never got removed until the Taliban had finally shut the school down and locked it. Before all of this happened Malala had gave a speech about the threat to her right to an education, after she gave that speech she then gave a speech about the life under the Taliban. Malala was riding

Through it all, Ziauddin’s school remained open, although signs were removed and the girls that attended could no longer wear their uniforms for fear that the Taliban might target them. In late 2008, Malala’s father took her to a press club in Peshawar to protest the school closings. This was her first time to speak out against the Taliban’s actions with her speech, “How Dare the Taliban Take Away My Basic Right to Education?” Yousafzai was only 11 at the time when the speech was publicized throughout Pakistan. Shortly after, the Taliban announced that all girl’s schools in Swat were to be shut down in January of the following year. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) came to Ziauddin in search of a possible blogger who could report on life in Swat under Taliban rule. Malala was given the task, and under the pen name of Gul Makai she wrote about her daily life. BBC Urdu collected her entries from January to March of 2009 and translated 35 to English. The Taliban continued to grow stronger in Swat, with schools including Ziauddin’s being forcefully shut down. Even though Malala’s diary entries remained unknown by the Taliban, many urged her to stop. Some people even attacked her father for letting her participate. After Malala’s appearance on a widely known Pakistani news show and an overall backlash across the country, the Taliban agreed to a cease-fire. Girls were allowed back in school on the condition that they wore burqas and there seemed to be peace.