Imagine yourself as a school age child eagerly waiting to go to school. When the day finally comes, your mind becomes a sponge as you absorb all of the lessons your teacher has provided you. At the age of ten, there is an announcement that you are no longer allowed to go to school. The terrorist group, the Taliban, has banned all females from going to school. You are infuriated. To do something about it, you decide to write on an anonymous blog ranting your fury and outrage towards this freedom that has been removed from you. Despite the consequences for speaking out and for disobeying what has been decreed, you continue to further your education. For the next five years, you go to school but always on alert. One day, as you are walking along the sidewalk with your friends to catch the bus, you notice …show more content…
With support worldwide, she began to speak publically about her story and even wrote a book, “I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban.” She didn’t stop there. Malala co-founded the Malala Fund to help other students globally going through the same struggles. As an advocate, she has traveled to Jordan, Kenya, and Nigeria to speak out against other terrorist groups like the Taliban that tries to stop girls for going to school. All of these strides to help with education won her a Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17, one of the youngest recipients. According to the Nobel Prize Organization, she is “funding education projects in six countries and working with international leaders, the Malala Fund joins with local partners to invest in innovative solutions on the ground and advocates globally for quality second education for girls.” When she accepted the award, she reiterated “this award is not just for me. It is for those forgotten children who want education. It is for those frightened children who want peace. It is for those voiceless children who want
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
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’.
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 Yousafzai is the youngest person to have ever won the Nobel Peace Prize, one of only 16 women to have won the prize, and the only woman from Pakistan to have won the prize. Malala won that prize for standing up for the social issues of Pakistan and almost getting killed for standing up for what’s right. There are several issues going on in Pakistan but more specifically in the valley of Swat. The social issues going on in Pakistan are gender discrimination, education rights, and extremism.
“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
On the 10th of December, 2014 Yousafzai became a Nobel laureate. Malala’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech is more than you would expect from a sixteen year old child. During the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, which took place in Oslo, Yousafzai raised her voice in a silent room in the presence of a distinguished audience to say what she believes is right. She began the speech by saying a very short prayer in her Islam. She greats her audience and salutes the Nobel Peace Prize committee for selecting her for the award. She appreciates her parents there in her trying-times,
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.
Later on Malala won back girls basic rights in Pakistan and the world. In 2013 she authored a book called "I Am Malala: The Girl who stood up for education and got shot by the Taliban. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, she also won a Shorty Award for teen hero, she won many other awards. She was the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. "One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world", this quote was 9 months from Malala her attempted assassination.
The Taliban refused to let girls go to school, so in protest Malala went anyway. She ended up being shot in the head on the school bus because of this. She miraculously survived the attack and went on to become the youngest person to ever win a Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
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
On October 9th, 2012, Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani student, who was on her way home from school, was shot in the head by a Taliban member, and ultimately survived. Yousafzai had repeatedly spoken out against the Taliban’s policy of destroying schools and depriving young girls of education in the Swat Valley, Pakistan. Yousafzai’s defiance made her a prime target for the Taliban and an attempt was made on her life. Miraculously, she survived the assassination attempt, and in 2014, she became the first Pakistani and youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate at age 17 and delivered an acceptance speech that was meant to get people personally invested in and spur to action for her global cause, it did an excellent job of achieving this.
In 2009 the Taliban band 30% of girls to go to school from going to school in Swat Valley. Malala definitely didn't think that was fair. So she decided to stand up to what she believes in. The head of one of her speech was called “How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education”. In 2011 Malala received the Youth Peace Prize award. She was the first person in her country (Pakistan) to get that award. She was nominated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. While she got more noticed and recognized, the Taliban had voted to kill Malala.
Malala Yousafzai was announced the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on October 10, 2014. She received the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight against the suppression of young people and for the right of children to be educated. She is the youngest Nobel Peace Prize recipient. She opened a school in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, near the Syrian border, for Syrian refugees. The school educates and trains girls ages 14-18 years old. Malala Yousafzai called on world leaders to invest in “books, not
On October 9, 2012, Malala Yousafzai was shot in her head by a Taliban militant because she believed that all girls should be able to go to school. This event changed Malala’s life. SHe wrote a book about it and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. Malala Yousafzai is an important person in today’s society because she represented the girls in Pakistan and around the world whose government or religion didn’t allow them to go to school, stood up against Taliban’s statements, and taught everyone that one voice can change everything.
In 2013 she was able to attend school again. She had attended a school in birmingham. When Malala was 16 she had wrote an autobiography that was titled “I am Malala: the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the taliban”. When she released this the taliban still considered her as a target. The same year that malala had released her autobiography she was nominated for the nobel peace prize. One of her quotes that stood out was “My goal is not to get Nobel Peace Prize… my goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child”. The reason this quote stood out was because she didn't care for a Nobel peace prize it was for her to have an education with other children. Although Malala didn’t receive the nobel peace prize