...Mary Damayo Mrs. Blumenthal English 2 Honors 3 January 2014 I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai, along with Christina Lamb, composes an autobiography that illustrates Malala’s tale in a dangerous country, while also displaying her passionate dedication to making the world a better and equal place. This nonfiction piece of writing was published on October 8th, 2013 by Little, Brown and Company. It has since received the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Memoir & Autobiography for the great achievement of recollecting Malala’s brave endeavors. In I Am Malala, she begins with recounting her younger years in which her demand for equal women’s rights had stemmed from, and afterwards, how she grew into an independent, young woman who spoke for millions of females in her country that could not receive education. In the beginning of I Am Malala, Malala describes her home as “the most beautiful place in all the world. My valley, the Swat Valley, is a heavenly kingdom of mountains, gushing waterfalls and crystal-clear lakes” (15). She also spoke about everything that she had loved and was proud about in her home: from her admirable father who, unlike most Pashtuns, rejoiced upon receiving a daughter in a country that honors sons, to her best friend Moniba, with whom she had laughed and confided in, and Malka-e-Noor, her rival for top of the class at Kahshul School. Her name derives from Malalai of Maiwand, “the greatest heroine of Afghanistan”, who “inspired the Afghan army to defeat...
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...Summary of "I am Malala" "I Am Malala" is Malala Yousafzai's courageous memoir which begins on October 9, 2012; the day the Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate her. Malala was riding the school bus home, like everyday, when her bus was ambushed by two men. "Who is Malala?" one of the young gunman asked and then shot her in the head at point-blank range. This inspirational story of Malala's supernatural recovery has taken her on an astonishing journey from northern Pakistan to the United Nations in New York. Malala and her family lived in the Swat Valley of northern Pakistan that was incontrol of the Taliban, which were against girls getting an education. However, Malala was not just attending school, but was also thriving in it. Her father owned a chain of schools himself and encouraged education for both sexes. Eventhough Malala was the only girl from his three children, he supported and championed her to attend school and educate herself well, just like her brothers. He even often spoke out publicly against the Taliban and criticized the Pakistani government for not fighting the Taliban harder. Malala was inspired by her parents to speak and write for woman rights, especially educational rights. She was interviewed by the BBC and other national and international news organizations to promote education for girls. In 2011, she even won Pakistan's National Youth Peace Prize and was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize for her boldness in speaking...
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... and politics . However that's where the United States culture and Malalas culture in pakistan differ when it comes to the role of women. Good examples of this is the women's role in the house, the woman's right to go to school, and how a woman acts, dresses, and etc in both cultures. Each example shares a role in the differences of cultures. Up until about the 1960s, both United states and Pakistan's culture were similar in the role of a woman's place in the household. It's referred to as the traditional family, wife stays at home and cooks, cleans, and cares for the children. In many ways this was expected of the women in both cultures and education for women never exceeded very high results. But after the 1960s into the 1970s, women in the united states started to get better careers and realize there is no need for a man's dependence. They did not need to be confined in a house all day and could become more independent in their fields. This is where the cultures started to fall completely different. In islam culture and in Malala culture, the women is expected to find a husband. Give her husband children. Then stay at home, and do the cures expected of her. Malalas mother at the age of six dropped out because she knew what was expected of her culture as a women. “there seemed no point in going to school to just end up cooking, cleaning, and bringing up children”Malala. Even in today's modern 21st century, this is how it is in...
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...Social Movement (Malala Yousafzai) Malala’s journey of her social movement is not only significant to me, but also to millions of other people and more specifically, to females all over the world. The way she composes herself and her impactful speeches are ingenious. She has taught me many significant values of principals such as the right of education and speech. Anyways, I think I got the most inspired by her when she won the Nobel Peace Prize and when she survived an attempted assassination. Anyone who wins the Nobel Peace Prize must have done something that everybody, no matter the race, gender, and ethnicity, can stand and/or cheer for. The fact that Malala won the prize when she was only seventeen, makes it all more inspiring, as I am seventeen myself, yet one can easily compare our lives and...
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...I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai is a dramatic, eye opening story that truly had my jaw dropping. Malala, a young ambitious fearless women is someone who goes against anyone that tries to take the things she loves or believes in. She will go to any lengths to succeed, even if that means to put her life on the line. This thrilling book showed me the true aspects of bravery and gave me the full first person omniscient in the context of her beautiful home in the Swat valley of Pakistan. Malala's acts of courageousness taught me that, if one is valiant towards his or her beliefs, they will be bound to succeed. The challenges I faced while reading I Am Malala, were more graphic if anything. How Malala painted the pictures of the scenarios she faced were very difficult and to make it worst, these were all real life events. I think that's my biggest predicament with...
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...Emma Watson vs. Malala Yousafzai I am going to compare two very important speeches, in my opinion. Emma Watson’s was on the HeForShe Campaign and Malala Yousafzai’s promoting education for girls. Bothe speeches were delivered at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Emma Watson, at the age of 24, launched a campaign called “HeForShe” on September 20, 2014. She is the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and she was cohosting this event when she gave the speech. She is a famous British actress and has been advocating for gender equality. Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for going to school, and on July 12, 2013, at the age of 16, she delivered a speech promoting education for girls. She has become a champion for the rights of children everywhere to be educated. Emma Watson began her speech by addressing “Your Excellences, UN Secretary General, President of the General Assembly, Executive Director of UN Women, and distinguished guests.” (Normaljean2, 2014) As for Malala she began her speech, not only this one but every other one she did, “In the name of God, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful. Honorable UN Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Respected President General Assembly Vuk Jeremic, Honorable UN envoy for Global education Mr. Gordon Brown, Respected elders and my dear brothers and sisters.” (A World at School, 2014) Both were very respectful. I believe that the first challenge a speaker faces is to establish their credibility to speak...
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...Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and also the youngest person to have ever won the Nobel Peace Prize at just seventeen years old. She was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora Pakistan. A few years later, the once peaceful country started to change as the Taliban strengthened their control. The Taliban originated in the early 1990’s in northern Pakistan after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The Taliban’s goal to the Pashtun people was to restore peace and security and enforce their own strict Islamic law once in power. In both Pakistan and Afghanistan, they performed acts of Islamic punishments consisting of public executions, convicted murderes and amputations of those found guilty of theft. By 1998,...
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...but, as I watched the brothers running across the roof, flying their kites...I wondered how free a daughter could ever be”(Yousafzai 26). Her father and mother had a respectful and loving relationship, as well as her father owning a school that of which she grew up in. Seeing how most females in her country did not share this luxury, Malala was inspired. Malala’s story shares a connection with the second memoir I read, The Color of Water, by James McBride. The Color of Water is a story that follows McBride’s childhood and the mystery behind his white mother. McBride, growing up in the early ‘60s, faced much racial discrimination. McBride’s mother, Ruth, who grew up in the south, also witnessed this aspect of cruelty, saying she “ always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets”(McBride 95). McBride, despite facing discrimination, is proud of his skin, saying that his “siblings had already instilled the notion of black pride in [him]”(McBride 90) and that “ as a kid, [he] preferred the black side”(McBride 91). This connects with I am Malala as even though it would feel as if the world around them was against them, the two narrators still manage to find pride and achieve excellence in who they...
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...Bang bang bang, goes the Taliban’s assault rifle. Two women not wearing headscarves drop to the ground dead. Other women scurry away scared that they also broke one of the Taliban's many rules. Imagine living in this horror for years on end. Many Pakistanis do live in such bad conditions that they leave Malala is one of them. The Taliban began raiding Swat Valley, Pakistan around 2008. They focused their attacks on people not following how they perceive the holy Quran. All people should be equal is a theme that is shown through I am Malala because women in Pakistan do not have educational rights, independence, and religious freedom. Women's education rights have improved because Malala fought back against the Taliban and Government. Years later all girls were allowed a public education until 16 years of age. In Pakistan many girls are forced into house labor and shopping but never even learn to write or read. The girls who do receive an education would be hunted...
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...Summary of the person: Malala Yousaszai was born on July 12th 1997 in Mingora Pakistan. Malala parents are Tor Pekai Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai and her two younger brothers Khushal Yousafzai and Atal Yousafzai. Malala attended Khushal public school in 2012 and went to high school at Edgbaston high school. When the Islamic fundamentalist political movement took over the swat valley where malala lived, they banned every girl from attending school. But Malala stood up to what she believes in and refused to be silent about her rights to have an education. Sadly her actions were soon dealt with when she was shot in the head on her way home from school. They believed Malala wasn’t going to survive with her injury, but by miracle she made a full recovery. After that fatal incident, Malala became an activist for females to have rights to an education, and published many books explaining her rights to have an education, women’s rights and the...
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...fairness, dignity, and a desire for equality. A large aspect of moral behaviour, to me, means actually following through with what one believes. Malala Yousafzai is a 19-year-old Pakistani female who has fought for the right to education, especially for females. She wrote publicly about her life in a Taliban controlled area. The Taliban shot her after refusing to stop going to school and speaking out against their oppression. Even after being in critical care, she said that she would not let them rule and dictate her life and refused to stop going to classes. Malala risked her life to fight for the rights of other and herself. She protested against a group of extremists in an incredibly dangerous area of the world, to stand up for what she believes in....
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...of Pakistan. Her name is Malala Yousafzai, and she was 17 when she accepted the prestigious award. She is a human rights advocate centered on children’s education and women’s rights. Though she has been an advocate since she was a young child, she has become the face of an international movement. Malala’s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, ran the school in her valley. When the local Taliban began banning girls from attending school, he spoke out against them. When she was twelve years old, inspired by her father’s advocacy, Malala began writing a blog about living under Taliban control and her ideas about children’s, specifically girl’s, rights to education. The blog was published by the BBC (British Broadcast Company) under a pseudonym. Her name was released when a New York Times journalist, Adam Ellick, made a documentary about her life and the military of Pakistan intervening in her region...
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...Can you imagine getting shot in the head because of something you strongly believed in? Well, that is just what happened to this lady. Her name is Malala Yousafzai and she was able to survive a bullet to the head. Malala was born on July 12th, 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan. She attended the school her father founded called Khushal Public School. She and her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai both of them shared a love for education. At this time in Malala’s town, the Taliban were trying to take control of her area. The Taliban began to try to restrict education and prevent girls from attending school. In 2009, BBC was looking for someone to tell what life was like living under the Taliban’s threats. Malala’s father actually recommended her and she began to write what her life was like. To hide her identity she went by the name Gul Makai but she was revealed later that year by...
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...They came from two different centuries; one was born into slavery, the other born into a life in a 3rd world country. Fredrick Douglass and Malala may have come from two different worlds, but they have two things in common, the power of education and women’s rights. Douglass believed that all men are equal even if you were a slave. Malala also shares this when it comes to women, she believes that women should have the same rights when it comes to education, not just for men. Both Douglass and Malala fight for the right of education for both men and women. Fredrick Douglass life on the plantation as a child was not hard since he worked in the household of his master. At such an early age, he witnessed many beatings of other salves, he suffered...
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...Education is readily available in many countries. The convenience of receiving a proper education resulted in us taking it for granted. However, it is not the case for Malala Yousafzai. She is a teenager, 17, from North- West Pakistan. She lived her childhood in the darkness of ‘space’. Under the Taliban’s rule, education for girls was restricted. Offenders will be severely punished by the Taliban. However, this society barrier did not hinder Malala’s desire for education. She stood up and fought for equality in education despite living under the control of the terrorists. Malala secretly wrote a personal diary which chronicled her love for education and for girls to have a fair chance of education. Malala continuously spoke up for the weak....
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