rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Y Malala Yousafzai: A young girl's fight for women's rights in education November 6, 2014 By Gisella Silva http://www.peruthisweek.com/the-break-malala-yousafzai-young-girls-fight-for-womens-rights-in-education-104403 “Malala Yousafzai’s story is one worth sharing. From the age of 11, she’s been advocating…
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The memoir, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, tells the empowering story of Malala’s life as a young girl in the Valley of Swat in Pakistan. Despite the threats from the Taliban, Malala maintained her values and displayed courage. When others were afraid, Malala spoke. Her experiences reinforced her desire to work towards her goal of equal educational opportunities for all children. Throughout this memoir, there were…
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its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction. Amazon.com Review The dramatic and chilling story of an Ebola virus outbreak in a surburban…
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Malala was born on the 12th of July 1997, in Mingora Pakistan. In 2007, when Malala was 10 years old, the situation in the Swat Valley changed for her family and community. The Taliban, a Muslim group that are very strict with religions and traditions, began to control the Swat Valley. Girls were banned from going to school, and by the end of 2008 the Taliban had destroyed more than 400 schools. As a young girl Malala demanded that girls should be…
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father had raised her to believe that women were equals.The Swat is the region that Malala and her family lives in did not believe in this.…
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with a Voice” For young women in Swat Valley, a district in the northwest frontier province of Mingora, Pakistan, having basic rights such as an education is an issue that has been fought for since its existence. Malala Yousafzai daughter of activist Ziauddin Yousafzai is one of many unfortunate young women who have felt the wrath and despair of the Pakistani Taliban regarding this issue. In comprehension of this paper, I will convey to the reader the story of Malala’s journey through her fight…
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a victims face is not necessarily the best feeling in the world. As one victim who was swatted also described his emotional experience, we see how these so call pranks affect the victim in detail. A Gamespot article goes over an emotional victim’s story and what he felt during his swatting incident. Joshua Peters, a Twitch streamer (Twitch is a site where users live broadcast themselves or their PC while playing a game or simply speaking on camera) was a victim of swatting while he was live streaming…
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interprets a scene from the Disney story, Cinderella. Like most of Leibovitz's work, this photo links the character from the story tale to the public persona of the celebrity. Annie Leibovitz aimed to capture Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella because her public persona is similar to that of Cinderella in the story. The photo's purpose was to re-interpret the Cinderella story through a still image, whilst being able to recognise the scene and how it relates to the story. This image also supports and challenges…
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problem, a solution, a loud voice, and some help from friends or family or even random people from all over the world. In a second you will read about three special teen activists named Malala Yousafzai, Craig Kielburger, and Alex Lin and their stories. Craig Kielburger Craig Kielburger is a teen activist that wanted to end child labor once and for all. craig is 12 years old he decided to fight child labor after he read a newspaper article about another 12 year old boy from Pakistan who was shot…
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Andrew Lam is a Vietnamese native who came to America with his family during the Vietnam War searching for safety from Communism. Lam was born in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and arrived in the U.S. at the age of eleven. In 1995, Lam wrote the short story, “Love, Money, Prison, Sin, Revenge” to explain the painful reality that the Vietnam War will never leave the minds of the people from his generation. Lam came to America as a Vietnamese refugee in 1975 before having to really be impacted by Communism…
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