Education In most countries, women have less access to education than their male counterparts. According to UNESCO (2013), of the 110 million children out of school in developing nations, 60 percent are girls; women also represent nearly two-thirds of the world's illiterate population. Some countries are even worse than others. Examples include the fact that nine out of ten Afghan women are illiterate, and the shocking truth that only one in twenty attend school beyond the sixth grade. Chad is another prime example of the disparity between men’s and women’s educational standards- only ten percent of Chadian girls have completed elementary school. Women with higher education tend to be healthier, earn more, have fewer children, and provide …show more content…
One of these groups is the Gulabi Gang, an organization in rural India. The Gulabi Gang began when Sampat Pal Devi, saw a man who was beating his wife. When she begged him to stop, he began to beat her as well. The day afterwards, she and five other women thrashed the man with bamboo sticks. News of this spread, and other women came to Sampat Pal Devi in order to request her protection and to enlist in order to protect others from domestic abuse. The Gulabi Gang now strives to prevent child marriages, train women in self-defense, and register FIRs against sex-offenders and abusive husbands (History of the Gulabi Gang, …show more content…
This quote certainly proved true for Malala herself. Malala is a young Pakistani activist who campaigns for the education of women and young girls. As a young girl, Malala rebelled against the Taliban after it began attacking girls’ schools in her area. In September 2008, she delivered a speech entitled "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?" and the following year, she began blogging under a pseudonym about living with the Taliban’s threat to her education. When she was fifteen years old, a gunman shot Malala in the head while she was on the bus home from school. Miraculously, Malala survived the attack, and after being flown to Birmingham, England for critical care, she continued to campaign for women’s education. In 2014, at only seventeen years old, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person in history to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Since then, she has opened a school for Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon, continued to raise money for girls’ education via the Malala Fund, and has inspired girls in her home country and throughout the world to pursue
Malala Yousafzai, born on July 12, 1997, grew up to become an advocate for girls’ education. She believed that girls demanded the right to be allowed to receive an education and with that she received a death threat from a Taliban. On October 9, 2012, Malala was traveling home from school and she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman. She was left in critical condition but she miraculously survived. After her recovery, she continued to be an advocate for women’s education and gave a speech at the United Kingdom. In October 2014, Yousafzai received the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the youngest person to receive this award. In her speech, Malala uses many rhetorical strategies to get her message published. Some of the strategies include: apostrophe, anaphora, oxymoron, hyperbole, and antithesis.
After reading the book ‘’I Am Malala’’ I noticed that she was one of the bravest strong young girls in the world. Malala Yousafzai is a young girl born on July 12, 1997, in the city, Mingora in Pakistan. She fought for something that is she is passionate about. Heroes are people who stand up for something, they are courageous, they are noble and they are loyal to something they stand for. Malala is known as the fifteen-year-old girl who got shot because she fought for women’s rights and education. This young girl named Malala is brave, persistent, and influential.
said Malala Yousafzai, a girl who fought for education for women, also living getting shot by the Taliban.
People at first viewed her as a young girl that was just sticking up for what she wanted, whereas later she was viewed as a strong independent woman. After speaking out to the world multiple times, the chances of the Taliban attacking her grew enormously. They hated the fact that she was rebelling against them instead of following their rules. She continued on, even after being harassed by the Taliban to back down. Malala was secured until one day when she was riding the bus to school. The Taliban had raided the bus and shot her. “...Malala was in bad shape. The bullet had destroyed her left ear…but miraculously she clung to her life,” the article stated. Although, Malala never surrendered to the Taliban, instead, she had persistence and kept going, even though she was hurt. After the unfortunate incident, Malala gained, even more, supporters. People realized that she was so “...dedicated to teaching students and helping students and empowering students,” since she had the passion and ability to inspire as it said in “What is a Role Model? Five Qualities that Matter to Teens” by Marilyn Price-Mitchell. She was able to be so successful that she won the Nobel Peace Prize in the year of 2014, at the age of 17, being the youngest ever to be awarded the
And it is no piece of fiction. Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for fighting for every child’s education rights and continued to do so even after being shot by the Taliban. She endured emotional and physical abuse for fighting for the rightful education of children, as reflected in her Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, and she changed her country forever. In lines 22-23, Malala states in her lecture “I have two options. One was to remain silent and wait for the dead to be killed.
Millions of young girls aren’t given the freedom to go to school. In countries such as Pakistan, young girls are advocating to their right to freedom. Among these advocates is Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistan native who exercised her right to education and was shot in the head at the age of fourteen. She survived and today she represents millions of girls across the world. Malala represents how courage comes from all corners of the world.
Certain neighborhoods in Central America are under the control of various gangs. The women and children are live in a constant state of panic. Women especially fear that they will be attacked. If anyone angers the gang or doesn't pay whatever said gang says that they have to pay to live there they or their children are under threat to be attacked.
Malala Yousafzai is a women and children activist born in Mingora, Pakistan on July 12th 1997. While growing up, she began advocating for the right to education among girls . Due to her persistence and determination in her activism, on October 9th 2012 Malala was shot on her way home from school by a gunman. She survived the incident and became more passionate towards her fight for education for young females. This incident gave her popularity and in 2013 Malala became nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, which she won in 2014. Malala became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (Yousafzai 481). Due to the problems that young females had been facing in Pakistan and worldwide, it was essential to understand her education, the oppression by the Taliban, the devotion towards her religion named Islam and activism on the basis of the novel ‘I Am Malala’.
MS-13 is a gang that was formed in Los Angeles, mostly Salvadorans. Even though it was formed and made in Los Angeles, the gang grew out to the point that El Salvador was a place with all these gang members. A lot of kids joined this gang to have support by people who believed in them. A lot of members joined gangs due to the denial of jobs and other ways in order for them to get money to support their families. A lot of the members are also immigrants so their new to this country. They don’t know anybody so it’s hard to start to look for friends from zero. In order to become a gang member, the rules are sometimes different for both genders. Males need to get beat up, specifically in MS-13, for 13 seconds. Females have the choice to get beat up for 13 seconds or get in by having sex with gang members. They can also tell you to kill someone to see where their loyalty stand. Not all the gangs are the same but this one is the Mara’s
Based on Malala’s documentary, she said this quote at a conference that included many girls from different parts of the world. She said this to make it clear that she wasn’t doing it for personal gain; but she wanted her voice and that of the millions of girls to be heard. Malala isn’t the ordinary people who complain about a global issue, yet do nothing to prevent it. She had confidence and strong will throughout her whole experience-it made her more successful. The most amazing fact is that she was shot in the head by the Taliban but survived. Many people would’ve quit just to stay safe and prevent death, but Malala did the right thing. She put herself in the shoes of all those girls deprived of a proper education, and it motivated her to
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 Yousafzai believes that education is a basic right for every person. Malala, born July twelfth, nineteen ninety-seven is an activist for girls education. She was shot at just fifteen years old as a result of her life as an activist. Malala was nominated for the twenty-thirteen Nobel Peace Prize, but she did not win it. Many people have mixed feelings about the outcome of her nomination for the prestigious award. Malala believes that education is the basic right of boys and girls, men and women everywhere. The controversy which surrounds her life is a direct result of these beliefs, and is the reason she was shot.
Malala was a special girl. She lived in Mingora, Pakistan, where it eventually was controlled by Taliban. She attended a school that her father founded which was taken away by the laws against education for girls that the Taliban was creating to destroy. In the year of 2009, she became a blogger for BBC to talk about the horror of the control that the Taliban were achieving. But on the same year, she was threatened was eventually shot in the head by a Taliban. It was an ordinary day and “Malala was sitting in her school bus when a man climbed on board and demanded to know “Which one of you is Malala?” When she answered, “I am Malala”, the man opened fire” (Kennedy- Macfoy). However she survived the bullet and actually gave one of the biggest messages ever, education for all girls. No one knew should would live and will make a change on the gender roles towards education, especially the Tailban who thought they have gotten away of the assassination. She gave a lot of speeches towards this powerful disapproval of women education and to create a stand that women deserve the right to education themselves. As her ideas and message became to spread, “she became one of the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize” (Kettler). She also got her own day called Malala day on July 12, 2015 where she continued to take action on women education and with Malala funds she was able to open a school in Lebanon. Malala became a symbol over the education for girls and the disagreement towards gender
“I am those 66 million girls who are deprived of education. And today I am not raising my voice, it is the voice of those 66 million girls.” Malala Yousafzai makes this statement in her speech to the Nobel Committee as the first Pakistani and, at the age of sixteen, the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize Award. Malala was unfortunately shot in the head by a member of the Taliban, due to the fact that she defied a culture that did not allow girls to have an education. Despite her brush with death, she not only recovered, but became a champion for the rights of children and girls around the world to receive an education. Malala delivered a speech before the Nobel Committee
The right to education is one important fundamental justice that everyone should have, but most times that right is denied. There 's many reasons why people, states or countries may not take education seriously. Pakistan is one country that has the most curtailment on education towards women. Malala Yousafazi became a young activist, she stood up for her people in Pakistan to restore the rights of education to women. Her journey began when she was just the age of fifteen; she was shot on her head near the school bus by the Taliban in 2012. After her surgery recovery, she addressed a speech to the youth in New York on July 12th. In 2013, Malala and her father co-founded the "Malala Fund" in supporting young girls like her. Malala accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on December tenth, 2014 with Indian children 's rights. She bravely continues to work hard and strive for education justice so that, one day, every child will receive an education.