In 2006 and 2007 more than thirty percent of women and girls dropped out of school in Pakistan due to speeches that were given over an illegal FM radio station by Mullah Fazlullah, a Taliban militant, who was against women’s education. The Taliban continued threatening and attacking women who tried to get an education and then attacked schools, burning many of them to the ground making them completely irreparable. In January of 2015, an official ban was issued in the Swat Valley that prevented any women from receiving an education in the area. Some women still continued trying to go to school and gain an education in secret, despite the ban.(Washington Times) One of the biggest leaders in this was 10-year-old Malala Yousfazai. Malala was born in 1997, in Mingora, a town in the Swat District of Pakistan. …show more content…
Her father, Ziauddin Yousfazi, owned a school and was a huge advocate for education; Malala learned from a young age that knowledge was important. Despite being so young, she felt that she could make a difference for women all over Pakistan.(Malala Fund) Malala in one of her speeches said, “One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”(Yousfazi, Malala)This shows how Malala sees education and how important she thinks it is for everyone to have one. JK Rowling said that Malala is a “mouthpiece for girls wanting an education.”(Introducing Malala) Despite being a small, young girl, she made a huge impact and “captured the attention of the nation.”(Wylie, Louise) In October of 2012 Malala was shot by a masked gunman who entered her school bus, the man fired one shot that went through her head, neck, and shoulder. After the attack, Malala was moved to the UK where she received treatment. However, the attack only fueled the protesters and brought more attention to the subject.
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for education, especially for females, and equal rights to education in the middle east. She revolutionized education equality for children. She has received many peace awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize. The Taliban outlawed education in Pakistan, where she lived, for all females in 2009. She continued to attend classes and speak out on her BBC blog, the radio, and was even in a documentary about her life in the middle east and going to school as a girl despite the new law. In early October of 2012, when Malala was 15, she became the victim of an attempted murder by a Taliban gunman. She was shot in the head on the bus ride home from school. She was rushed to the hospital and after being stabilized, she was moved to another hospital to remove the bullet. After her tragic personal experience, she became well known and used her newfound popularity to advocate for education in the middle east. This speech is just one example of the many speeches she gave to bring attention to the problem. She also asked many other influential people with a higher status to help her bring awareness to the cause. To understand Malala’s speech the reader needs to understand what her goal is, what rhetorical devices she uses to reach that goal and how effective the speech is. She is quite effective in getting her goal across to the audience through her speeches by using her public speaking skills to get her audience to agree with what she has to say.
Malala a young pakistani girl grew up loving education which was highly encouraged by her father who served as the principal at the local school. This is why she didn't understand when suddenly she was told it was against her religion. She studied the Koran religiously so she understood a lot of it and new that they were incorrect. All that she wanted was a chance to learn in peace. She began her acts of defiance by continuing to go to school and encouraging her friends to feel confident in going to school with her. Malala’s home became more dangerous because the Pakistani Taliban became more confident and many of her friends stopped going to school. Despite this, she felt more confident in her stance and began writing anonymous diary entries that were published in the UK. She stated in one of her entries “What have I done wrong that I should be afraid? All I want to do is go to school. And that is not a crime. That is my right,” (Yousafzai and McCormick 53). The world began to learn what was happening, which began a long journey for her stance. Malala's identity was later discovered.
Malala was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman on October 9, 2012, for attending school to get an education. She is known as an activist for women’s education and leads by example through attending school even after she was aware that she could be killed for attending school in her native country of Pakistan. This is that the local Taliban in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had banned girls from attending school.
Rebecca Rist Mrs. Kinseth English 3 6 May 2015 Malala Yousafzai: The girl who was shot by the Taliban and lived Thesis and Planned Topic List Thesis: Malala Yousafzai spoke up for what she believed, was shot because of it and became known all over the world as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Growing up as an activist and never stepping down, she keeps shocking the world with her astonishing beliefs. I. Growing up under the Taliban: living and growing up as an activist in a war torn environment
Malala was raised in Mingora which is located in a district called Swat Valley approximately 100 miles from Afghanistan. Her family was poor. The birth of girl babies was not celebrated like boy babies were. At the time, most women were not educated. Malala’s father was a teacher and he decided to open a school to educate both boys and girls. He encouraged Malala to learn and become an educated woman. Before the Taliban arrived, Malala’s homeland was mostly peaceful with few problems. Malala was a top student at school. After the Taliban came, everything changed for the worse. Men were the dominant gender over women. Women had no rights. The Taliban recruited boys to join them. They also set up radio broadcasts to burn books, CDs
Malala yousafizai was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan. As she grow up she would support girl’s right to go to school. But a group of people known as the Taliban would target Malala just because she didn’t agree with girls not going to school so then the Taliban would issue a death threat against Malala and her family knew about the death threat (Kettler, 2016). Soon on October 9, 2012 when she was 15 years old on her way back to school on a bus a Taliban gun man boarded the bus and asked “who is Malala?” her friends would directly look giving her location away at her the gun man would aim at parts of her body that would kill her. He shot 2 times at the left side of her head and 1 Malala would be critically injured time
Malala is a girl from Pakistan born in 1997. She lived there with her family. In Pakistan women are treated badly and are not given the right to education or other rights. Malala’s father believed everyone should have the right to education, freedom of speech, and to be treated fairly. He educated Malala at a young age and taught her to respect others. He also built a school and fought for women's rights. The government was losing control of the area and the Taliban took over. The Taliban believe that Islam teaches against education or other rights for women. Malala and her father decided to protest against the Taliban by writing articles against them. This led to major consequences.
Have you ever heard about the Pakistani schoolgirl who spoke for girls’ education? She was also shot in her head by Taliban gunmen and survived. Today she is recognized for her activism and her many awards.
“They will not stop me. I will get my education if it is in a home, school, or any other place” these are the words of Malala Yousafzai, a Nobel peace prize winner, a human rights activist, and a Pakistani girl, who has traditions, stories, and a unique experience. She was named after Malalai of Maiwand, the greatest heroine of Afghanistan, and she lives up to her name as a heroine for girls education. Despite the cultural traditions of Malala Yousafzai’s community, she has grown as a world leader in spreading world peace throughout the globe, through her challenges, her accomplishments, and her growth in publicity, with her common goal being an education for all girls.
As a Young Girl Malala Yousafzai defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education, she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012 but Servived and went on to receive the Nobel peace prize. It was almost two years to the day when Malala was shot that she was awarded the Nobel peace prize. she was 17 and the youngest recipient to receive it she shared the distinguished award with Kailash Satyarthi, another Childrens rights activist. she's a minor, at 17 years old Malala is the youngest recipient of the nobel peace prize since it's inception in 1901. she been advocating for girls education since she was 11 in 2009, Malala started blogging about living under Taliban rule for the BBC.
The book, I Am Malala, gave a powerful message about activism, family, women’s rights, but most importantly, the power of education. Malala Yousafzai had a very strong belief in education and would not stop at anything to guarantee that every child was able to go to school. Malala grew up believing that education was the key to success, but not everyone else believed that. Malala lived in a society where women were not treated as equals, and soon appeared laws prohibiting women’s right to attend school. Malala was extremely determined to continue her education, she even snuck to school, hid her books and abandoned her school uniform so she would not be noticed. Malala becomes vocal about education and gives her opinion in interviews for many news stations. Many people in her country feared to express their opinions, however, Malala wanted to be the change. Malala expressed her belief that “If people were silent, nothing would change.” (Yousafzai 140). Although Malala knew that it was dangerous to speak against the Taliban, she suggests her opinions in interviews to draw international attention to her cause. Malala dreamed of getting an education so she could become a politician and help her country. But when she was 10, the Taliban took control of her town, making it a law that girls were banned from
Malala Youzafzai is an incredibly inspiring woman. Due to the fact that she has sacrificed her safety and her "normal" life to try and achieve her goals and fix the educational system in Pakistan. The Taliban were taking over and banning girls from going to school, and Malala would've rather taken a bullet to the head than let that happen. Literally. During her aim to help the world, this young girl got shot in the head and survived to tell the story. She took a stand and changed the world for the better. Malala was a very intelligent child with many achievements, who will leave behind a legacy that will last for lifetimes.
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
Malala is a Pakistani education advocate for girls'. The Taliban promulgates a death threat against her because of her actions to defy them. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala on her way home from school. She fought for her life and has since then continued to speak out on the significance of education. Malala spoke to the United Nations and published her first book about her experiences and continues to gather millions of peoples support from all over the world to continue the fight for education for
Throughout history there have been many patriarchal societies within which men were believed to be the ones who were meant to work and by extension needed an education, whereas women were meant to stay in the home; therefore, they didn’t need an education. Even though many areas of the world have progressed to a more equal society over time, there are groups of people who work to maintain a society that favors men. These groups try to suppress women’s rights; for instance, the right to obtain an education, in an attempt to keep them inferior to men. All over the world, there are girls who are rebelling against these groups. One of these organizations of people against the educating of women would be the Taliban, which is the group that made