My Journal Entry - The Journey of a 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
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The role of women, which is centrally discussed throughout the novel I Am Malala, is possibly the most important issue, next to education, debated during the course of the book. When the story begins the author Malala Yousafzai recounts the experience of her being shot in the head for standing up for girls’ education. People were trying to silence progressive women however they could. Another instance is the narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who was never given proper
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categories.Malala Yousafzai stood up for the right of an education and got shot in the head, survived and still kept going, Iqbal Masih was a slave, but he escaped, he went around Pakistan and even visited the U.S. to spread the message about stopping child labor, even though he was murdered on the streets of Pakistan. Last but not least Alex Lin, he read an article about e-waste which changed his life, he tried to pass a law on no more dumping e-waste, he failed too, but he tried again and the second
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Naamah is 16 years old. She is a student at Deerfield Beach High School, located in Pompano Beach, Florida. Naamah is living in an apartment with her parents and three siblings. She has a Yorkshire Terrier puppy. She was born in Ivory Coast but came to America at the age of five. She enjoys social interactions; she occasionally stays after school to participate in cheerleading, cooking class, and other fun activities. Naamah is devoted to attend church during the weekend and, of course, spending
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Shirin Neshat Shirin Neshat, Irani Photographer based in New York City, originally from Iran in 1974 to study in Los Angeles. Neshat returned to Iran in 1990, eleven years after the Islamic Revolution, and she was shocked by seeing the condition of the country then. Neshat works in photography, video, film, and performance, often addressing the theme of the alienation of women in repressed Muslim societies. Shirin Neshat’s Women of Allah series (1993-97) is comprised of four photographs. Each
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One girl wanted to go to school and become educated. Even though others in her society did not want her to go, she went anyway. That girl made a big difference which changed the world for other young girls that wanted the same as her. This was accomplished from her courageous action. That girl’s name is Malala; she stood up for herself, and was brave. Malala knew that it was uncommon for girls to speak up the way she did, but laying aside all of this, she went to school. Malala Yousafzai is
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The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the relationship between the culture of Afghanistan and the rise of the Taliban government, as well as the relationship between the rise of the Taliban government and the United States. It is concluded that the rise of the Taliban government and its terrorists’ actions are linked with historical events that occurred within the Cold War context. While much of the world became more interested in Afghanistan after 9/11, few people know much about the country
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Labour was too eager to hand over power to congress, which would further raise the anxieties of the Muslim League. In January 1946, the British MPs made a small visit to India without announcing there conclusions, but in private some stated that Pakistan must be conceded to avoid Muslim unrest. Viceroy Wavell was keenly interested in making practical preparations for the eventual unpleasantness of announcing the actual boundary lines. This shows that some of the British leaders did foreshadow the
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1947 - Britain, as part of its pullout from the Indian subcontinent, divides it into secular (but mainly Hindu) India and Muslim Pakistan on August 15 and 14 respectively. The partition causes one of the largest human migrations ever seen, and sparks riots and violence across the region. 1947/48 - The first Indo-Pak war over Kashmir is fought, after armed tribesmen (lashkars) from Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (now called Khyber-Pakthunkhwa) invade the disputed territory in October 1947
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of the hope of the nation. The man’s toils bring the sense of grandeur. So this grandeur prepares the way of his mission. Muhammad Ali Jinnah was also a child of his age. Thats why he brought the revolutionary change in the history of the world. Pakistan is the result of his endless struggle. He was the hope of his nation. Ah! What would the world be to us if the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us worse than the dark before”. A philosopher said that a good child makes
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