What are the qualities a person should have to be considered heroic?
What is your mental picture of a hero/heroine?
Look at the following definition? Were you right?
The following is a definition given by a young British person:
Can you think of any figure (in the field of history, science, literature, art, politics, etc.) that matches these definitions?
How old are the heroic figures you came up with? Is any of them of your age?
What are the rights generally taken for granted in our country which are not necessarily guaranteed elsewhere in the world?
When I think of a heroic figure the word that pops to my mind is courage and the image I picture in my mind is that of a person overcoming incredible difficulties, of a person who manages to keep his/her balance regardless of the pressures s/he is subjected to.
We gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face.
We are going to work on an incredible young girl’s act of defiance, an act that almost caused her life to come to an end, an act that has sparked constructive reactions all over the world, an act that has reminded me of how young people can make a difference in this world and how adults can learn from them.
Malala Yousafzai is a young woman striving for getting education in developing countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Africa. She was attacked in 2012 in Swat when she was going home from school; she was shot by militants Taliban because she had been criticising them for not allowing girls for getting education in the Swat Vellay.
Read the following article about Malala and be prepared to answer the following questions in class together. I am indebted to the idea of a post on Malala and to the article to my colleague Nella Maccarrone. As you already know I often work with Nella and the other great colleague Laura Cimetta, whose website you have visited on different occasions. She created a post on Malala too, visit it! What would I do without these friends and colleagues that spark enthusiasm and creativity in my teaching?
Questions on the newspaper article taken from Current
Now watch a BBC Interview to Malala. What are the questions you would ask Malala? Jot down the questions asked by the interviewer? Do they satisfy you? What strikes you about Malala’s way of speaking?
Watch Malala’s speech at the UN Youth Assemly and do the activities prepared by Nella.
Malala has become a heroic figure around the world and has inspired petitions, debates and prompted a beautiful song, proof that Malala’s voice sparked creativity in some young singers who apparently seem so distant from her personal fight and plight, but certainly share the same need to see their rights preserved. They can go to school without seeing their right to an education thwarted by the system, so why did they write this song in support of Malala? I am Malala official song (the lyrics)
Different star figures have taken to raise people’s awareness and inform them of Malala’s plight.
Look at the following video clips and be prepared to discuss in class the different ways these famous figures used their influential public resonance to endorse Malala’s cause.
Which one did you like best? Why?
The boundary between self-referentiality (self-publicity) and true humanitarian support is very fine, almost impossible to put it down in black and white.
Now I would like you to create a video with quotes, catchphrases, images, poems written for Malala, a page of her diary (written by you but inspired by her!) with a background song to be posted on Youtube to celebrate this great young woman.
This is the way some teenagers reacted to Malala’s words. Let me hear your voices too, let me see how you can pay tribute to Malala too.
If you want you can read the first pages of her book “I am Malala” and the diary she originally wrote in Urdu published on the BBC webpage.
In 2014 this Pakistani child education activist and Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian child rights campaigner, have jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the age of just 17, Malala is the youngest ever recipient of the prize. The Nobel committee praised the pair’s “struggle against the suppression of children and young people”.
Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, paid tribute to Malala’s achievements by saying: “Despite her youth, Malala Yousafzai, has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education and has shown by example that children and young people too can contribute to improving their own situations. This she has done under the most dangerous circumstances. Through her heroic struggle she has become a leading spokesperson for girls’ rights to education.”
Malala was named one of Time magazine’s most influential people in 2013, and awarded the EU’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize that year.
Nobel peace prize
Here you can find her Nobel Peace Prize Speech
FACTS
95 Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded 1901-2014
16 women have been awarded the prize, including Malala Yousafzai
17 Malala’s age, making her the youngest ever laureate
62 average age of laureates when they were awarded the prize
3 laureates were under arrest at the time of the award: Carl von Ossietzky, Aung San Suu Kyi & Liu Xiaobo
I want to know many things about Malala, for example I do not understand with what force a girl of her age has been able to deal with these things. For this reason, I would be very curious to see how she was able to overcome his dark past and I ask myself where he has found the strength to do this thing, I’d like to know what were the lessons that this bad experience has given her and I’d like to know how this story has changed her life, I would like to know what are her principles of life now and what is now the most important thing for her aside from (oltre a) go to school, I’d like to know how her life was before the meeting with Taliban. I would also ask her, if she think that the experience in its brutality has opened her new doors to fight for what she wanted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHts96lDKNI
she is Sever Suzuky of 12 years old that in 1992, with others children, tried to make a difference to make people of the USA open their eyes, she for 6 minutes silenced the world. She speaking for ECO (environmental children organization), she and the other was faiting for their and our future the future of the animals and our world…..
I’d like to know lots of things about Malala, for example how she felt when the Taliban attacked her; if she remembered something about the accident ; what does she want to be when she grows up and how she feels now in England.
He is Mattie Stepanek, a young American poet, who suffered from a rare form oh muscolar dystrophy. He died in June 22, 2004.
He wrote lots of poems, that were published. He became a peace advocate and motivational speaker for kids with disabilities like him.
Mattie was never the kind of kid that was self centered, he loved talking to anybody that would listen.
I chose him, for his qualities,strengh and bravery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Rg9TTuoDE
14. What else would you like to know about Malala?
I want to know where Malala finds the courage to criticize Talibans openly because I wouldn’t have it. I think that she is very self-confident. I want to know if she was afraid of the consequences or she was safety because she was supporting her ideas. Finally I want to know if she thinks that culture is more important than anything else for a girl because I think that for her culture, women are more related to it that men.
16. Surf the Net and look for a young person who made a difference in his/her life and whose actions set an example for other young people in the world. In class you will create your own post to be uploaded on this blog. Do become my heroes and heroines! Do share with me other touching and uplifting personal stories like Malala’s. I learnt a lot from her and I will learn a lot from your posts too.
Leonarda Dibrani, a 15-year-old girl of Roma origin, on 9 October 2013 was seized by the police on a school bus during a class outing in France. Leonarda, her parents, and five siblings were detained and deported from the country as illegal immigrants. The case sparked significant public resentment that culminated in thousands of French students blockading entrances to their schools and marching in the streets to protest the expulsions of immigrant families. The police told her that she could return to France but she rejected because she didn’t want to go without his family.
If I could know other things about Malala, I would ask her:
• when you were writing the blog, how did you feel? And how did you fell when lots of people encouraged you?
• I am your age, what can I do to help you and your work?
• When Talibans came into the bus, how did you feel?
• And now, what are you doing to help people in your country?
Nujood Ali, 15 years old, is now a central figure in Yemen’s movement against forced marriage. At the age of 10 she obtained a divorce breaking with the tribal tradition.
Nujood was a pretty little girl when she and her family escaped from her small village. They moved to San’a but her father couldn’t find a work and she must married a 30-year-old man.
Her in-laws always beat her and her husband raped her. She escaped from her new terrible life on 2 April 2008, two months after the wedding and she returned home. On advice of his father’s second wife she went immediately to court to seek a divorce. She was noticed by a judge who gave her temporary refuge. Then Shada Nasser, a lawyer that helped his family in the past, agreed to defend Nujood without pay her job.
Yemen law allows girls of any age to wed, but it prohibits sex with them until an indefinite time when they are considered adolescents. In court, Nasser told the judge that Nujood husband violated the law since he raped her.
On 5 April 2008 the court gave her a divorce. After the trial Nujood returned with her family, now she is going to school with the plan to became a lawyer to help other women like her in the future.
She wrote a book where she explains her story, it become a bestseller and now she is a symbol of courage and an heroine for her country.
1. I would ask her how she find the strength to fight against the Taliban who are brutal and powerful people.
I’d know how she continues her struggle even after the shooting and how she didn’t stop it even if the Taliban vowed to kill her because I’m the same age as Malala and I’m not so sure that I’d do all the things that Malala did.
I’d ask her if after she said to the world Pakistan’s problems something has changed and if some girls have the same courage as her.
I don’t want to ask something else but I just need to say to her that I admire her courage and her strength.
2. Ellie Schrock is 6 years old and she’s from Waterford. She has been committed to bringing clean water to Africa since she was three years old. Ellie has made it her life’s mission to raise money for Drop in the Bucket – a nonprofit that builds wells in schools in East Africa.
She immediately approached her first-grade teacher, Jennifer Knipper, with her intention to raise the money necessary to build a well for a school in Africa.
i would like to know two things about Malala : if there is something that allowed her to go on and not give up (aside from the wish to go to school,to study, and become a doctor ), and which was the thing that she feared the most.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up82OC83wq4
I would like to know many things about Malala. I would define her as a “Super woman” because I have never found a teenager like her: I was really startled to know how she has overcomed that brutal accident without never give up to reach her goal: make sure that one day also girls will be allowed to get education in the Swat Vellay without no more discriminations.
I would ask her how she has found the strength to carry on her dream, what are her favourites subjects at school, how she find the school in England and what are her intentions for the future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9VGVLF-fD4
Ana Dodson was born in Cusco(Peru) and was adopted as a
baby by a family from Colorado, where she has grown up. Ana
first returned to Peru with her mother in 2003, when she was
eleven years old. During a visit to a small girls orphanage in
the hills outside of Cusco, Ana was saddened by the poverty in
which these girls were living. Ana came home determined to do
something to help the girls she had visited. With help from her
father, Ana started a non-profit organization called Peruvian Hearts in order to bring a
quality of life to the girls that had changed her life.
Ana is now a sophomore at Colorado College where she is interested in studying cultural
anthropology in addition to continuing her service work. Ana has been recognized for her global initiative work on several occasions. She is the Youth Ambassador for the Stop Child Poverty Campaign.
In 2005 Ana earned the Prudential Spirit of Community Award and
the Gloria Barron Young Heroes Award. In 2007 she was recognized as a CNN Hero. People Magazine highlighted her as one of their “Heroes Among Us” in 2008 and in 2009 she received a Caring Award from the Caring Institute in Washington D.C. and was honored by the DoSomething foundation as one of the BR!CK AWARDS finalists.
I chose her because it is important what she did,I was also involved by her way of speaking and I also feel her love for her country. I think we should learn from her because she helped all the girls without family in her country. Personally I think that we should take care of this.
14. I’d like to ask to Malala why did she answer back to talibans, because I think she’s been very brave, becuase you have to have lot of courage to answer back to people who’re pointing you a gun; then I’d ask her what were her feelings when she understood she was alive and what did she think when she didn’t see people she knew when she woke up because she was brought in UK; if I was her, in that moment, maybe I would prefer being shot and died, than alive but alone.
16. Rene Silva is now nearly 20. But when he was just 11 he set up a new newspaper, and last year he finished his last book that denounce using drugs in his community. He lives in a favela in Brazil, and he knows that there is a big drug circle. He also knows that there are good people that are against drugs, so he decided to do something for change a little part of the world. He informed other people using social media and his own newspaper: his teacher asked him to do it, and he had now resolved some of his country’s problems. “In the past, it was drug trafficking. Today, there is more recognition of the people who are trying to do good and change the reality of the place where they live.” he said. And now he had become the focus of every media organisation in Brazil. He has also his newspaper online and there are lots of followers that are securing his sponsorship.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/18/teenagers-changing-world-malala-yousafzai
MALALA
I’d like to know more about this extraordinary girl, because I think that knowing more about these heroes/heroines make us think and reflect. We often take for granted a lot of things and rights in our life, because we always have the possibility to rely on them. But a lot of others people in the world don’t have our rights and don’t live in a democratic country that assure the circumstances to live a comfortable life. We are surrounded by a lot of material things that we really don’t need, nevertheless we want them. So the important question we have to ask to ourselves everyday is : what really matter in our life? I think we should ask more questions to ourselves and listen more carefully to people’s voice and less to our will. We have to be less selfish. Only in this way we could improve the world we live in and we can discover heroes like Malala and learn from them. Malala’s story gave me the possibility to reflect about the value of my life and of my rights. I’d like to know a lot of things about Malala. I think I’d spend hours and hours talking to her because I admire her and her goal and I think I would learn a lot from her words. I’d like to know what really matter in her life before and after the accident and what is changed. I’d like to know what motivate her to continue her fight about girl’s education after the shoot. I’d really like to know if she should be happy to born in another country from Pakistan, where the right to go to school is secured to everyone. Then I’d like to discover if she consider herself an heroine and what is her biggest dream now. I’d also like to understand if she would like to return in her country and why and if she thinks that the situation with Taliban will become better in the future. And at the end I’d like to know what help her to do not give up during her convalescence.
MY HERO
In my opinion another little hero is Iqbal Masih, a Pakistan child who became a symbol of abusive child labour in the world. He was really a hero for me, because he also died for his fight. During his life he fighted to denounce the slavery child, a brutal activity that abuse innocents kids only for business. I read Iqbal’s book and I watched the Iqbal’s movie too and throw them I could know more about the slavery and I could know above all about an amazing boy that changed his life and the other’s one, giving freedom and hope again.
This is the link to watch a video about Iqbal’s life. I hope you will appreciate it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLxtkxdtTos
I would like to ask some questions to Malala, for example, I would like to know how she felt to make a speech at the United Nations Youth Assembly and how she felt and feels to talk about her experience in fornt of the cameras; if she is afraid of a new attack against her by the Taliban, even if she is protected in the UK the Talibans could try to kill her anyway because she is going on with her message. However, if things do not change in Pakistan, what will she do?
Jan Palach is not only a martyr but a symbol, a symbol of anti-Soviet resistance, of the struggle of a generation against falsehood and cruelty of a regime which, in the name of equality and freedom, has deleted the man and his dignity. Jan Palach set himself on fire on 16 January 1969, on the Town Square in Prague. He sacrificed himself for Czechoslovak people’s rights.
14)First of all I would thank Malala because she convinced me, through what she didi, that it doesn’t matter the age, if somebody wants to rebel, as she did or even for less important things, can do it!After this introduction, I’m going to write something about Malala that I’d like to know. For example what was the moment when you felt loved the most? Or the action which made you feel loved the most?
An other question I’d like to ask her is: conditions and issues as those you have rebelled are really complex under various points of view and not immediately understandable by a girl as young as you are, so was the desperation to make you so strong? Or you thought a lot about what Talibans were doing and so you got convinced of yourself? Finally I would ask her if she would have ever expected to be identified an heroin from people from all over the world.
16)Jan Palach, on 16th January 1969, committed suicide. He was 20. He sprinkled his body of petrol and set fire with a lighter. He was anti-Soviet and he chose this way to show his protest. He decided to let his notes to people who agreed whith him. According to Jaroslava Moserová, a burns specialist who was the first to provide care to Palach at the Charles University Faculty Hospital, Palach did not set himself on fire to protest against the Soviet occupation, but did so to protest against the “demoralization” of Czechoslovakian citizens caused by the occupation “It was not so much in opposition to the Soviet occupation, but the demoralization which was setting in, that people were not only giving up, but giving in. And he wanted to stop that demoralization. I think the people in the street, the multitude of people in the street, silent, with sad eyes, serious faces, which when you looked at those people you understood that everyone understands, that all the decent people were on the verge of making compromises.”
Lots of people think thath he didn’t decided to set himself on fire but, metaphorically, she was obliged to kill himself.
I want to ask to Malala why she decides to fight for her rights. Why she isn’t afraid of the Taliban? Why she after the shoot didn’t close herself but continues to fight in spite of all the pain that the Taliban had done to her? I would to ask to her parents why they decide to improve the fighting of Malala even if they know how dangerous are the Taliban. I want also to know what are the feelings that she heard when she met Obama or when she had an interview with the BBC and I’ d like to know what will she do for the girl’s rights or for her fighting now that she becomes famous.
I would like to know if Malala is an only child because in a video I saw a boy sitting next to her mum and I wonder if he is her brother. Then I would like to know where she found the courage to deal with Talibans. It would be amazing meeting her and ask her theese questions personally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
I’ve found on the Net a boy who stood in front of a column of tanks on June 5, 1989, the morning after the Chinese military has suppressed the Tiananmen Square protest.
We don’t know anything about him, some have identified him as Wang Weiling, but the name has not been confirmed; we know him as the Tank Man or the Unknown Protester. He was protesting against economic reform, inflation and politican corruption.
When I read the Malala’s article I was surprised. I didn’t believe that a girl of that age could do a similar thing. I think that Malala is very strong and brave. I would know something about her and hisfeelings. I would know if she has ever thought that she will become an heroine. Than I would know, How she felt when she was at school even if the Taliban didn’t want it. Besides, has somebody ever told her(excluded Taliban) that she has made a mistake? That all she has done is an error? I think that nobody tells her this now, I’m asking her about her life before the accident. Another question that I would ask to her is what would she like to do in the future? Finally I would tell her that I admire her, I think she is a beautiful girls and all the Pakistani people should be proud of her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tROlpkg_PdY
Patrick suffered from leukemia when he was 10 years old. When he healed, he decided to found an association called “Driving for Donors” where he look for donors. Until now he has saved ten lives. I think that he’s a hero because when he was ill he was too young and he didn’t become demoralized, but he fighted against the sickness and he won. The nicest thing is that he carried out a project to help the people that need it.
I don’t really want to know many things about Malala becouse I already know her story, but now I am so curious to see what she’ll do in future. Maybe she thinks to return where she was born.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGLtkbaeupI
He is Felix Finkbeiner and he is 13 years old. this boy would make a change for his future. It is not a big story like malala’s but at the same time he makes a good thing for everybody in a simple way.
I would like to know different things about Malala. For example how was her childhood;what about her family or her mother,is she still alive?? Has she got any brothers or sisters??’Has she ever thought that one day she would become a famous heroine??How did she feel after meeting with Taliban?’What did she think when she write the blog?? How did she feel??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TceZiTqyZXI
This is Beate Sirota Gordon,a woman who fought for the Japanese Women’s Rights.
I chose her, for her determination,qualities and her courage.
14. I’d like to know something more about Malala’s family.I’m courious to see what she’ll do in her future and something about the accident,her emotions at that moment.
16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLJFb7aGXhg&list=PL156C1B7E01BC1484&index=13
http://www.counterfire.org/
I would know other things about Malala and I would ask her these questions:
-How did you feel when the talibans attacked you?
-If you could come back, would you do the same things you have done or would you obey to the strict rules of your country?
-Will you come back to your country?
-How do you feel when you speak to really important people like the members of the ONU?
When I was surfing the Internet I found two examples of young heroes:
The first one is Nkosi Johnson (born Xolani Nkosi) 1989 – 2001) Nkosi was born with HIV / AIDS inherited from his parents. In 1997, he was refused admission to a public school because of HIV status. He became a powerful speaker for treating HIV victims with equality and respect (at a time when there was often discrimination). Together with his foster mother, he founded a refuge for HIV mothers and their children. He posthumously received the Children’s Peace Prize. Nelson Mandela referred to him as ‘an icon of the struggle for life.
The other example is about a group of three young boys from Rome Who make videos on YouTube: they’ are Alessio, Valerio and Simone and their channel is called (sorry about the name of the channel) Fancazzisti ANOnimi and they made a video where they give to the homeless of Milan food, beverage, clothes and money. The faces of the people say all: the people are very happy and pleased to receive these gifts from three common guys from the capital of Italy.
Here three is the link of the video: http://youtu.be/Rld34nThpEM
MALALA’S SPEECH
After the attack of Talibans, she didn’t feel different. She was the same Malala, her ambitious, her hopes and her dreams were the same! She is against with anyone, not even with the Talibans. She would teachs the right education to every children.
She was at the Un Assembly, because she woulds to thank the people that help her ( doctors, nurses, friends, her father and her mother). And, also, she woulds to speak with the Taliban people that attacked her when returned from school by bus.
The leaders that she mentions are: Mohammad, Martin Luter King, Nelson Mandela, Gandi, Mother Teresa, her father and her mother and she choose them, because were famous people that did beautiful things for the world, and also her father and her mother, because help she to overcome the difficult moment.
The Talibans didn’t like education in Pakistan and they changed it! They thought that education wasn’t important and closed the schools.
Malala thinks that, now, the right education is very important for women and their future career. She said that one child, one teacher, one book, one pen, can change the world. She said, also, that education is only the solution.
For me, Malala, did a beautiful and good thing. She was very courage and strong to speak to Un Assembly. I think that this speech will remain in all the hearts and in all the minds of those people that listen the speech or know the story of this heroine!
I think that Malala, will remain, also, in my heart and in my mind, because I’ve never read a story so beautiful about a heroine!
The work about Malala made me realize that if we want to get some rights, we have to fight, just as she did.
In the speech she did, she told that maybe the Taliban, shooting at her, thought that silence was reached and they would have succeeded to change her ambitions, hopes and dreams but this didn’t happen.
On the contrary this fact had a strong reaction. Everybody raised their voice and Malala teaches us that we should all behave like she did: with great courage.
Another thing that struck me about Malala’s way of thinking is that although she was wounded by the Taliban, she never thought about revenge.
She learned compassion from Maometto, Jesus Christ and Buddha, the legacy of changing by Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the philosophy of non-violence by Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Bacha Khan. But the most important teachings that Malala had came from her parents that taught her love and peace for everybody because we are all equal and part of the great creation of God’s love.
Malala is a young woman who suffered a lot but, despite this, she has never lost hope and I admire her character, first of all her courage and tenacity.
She wants to be the witness of women’s rights and set an example to every teenager
through her simple way of speaking and her loud and clear voice without fear but with fluency and clearness.
I was so impressed by her strong personality and her perfect English that I was so involved and startled when I saw the video of her speech at the UN youth assembly:
she said that she wants peace, respect ,and free compulsory education for everyone.
Her voice, her style and her strength amazed me a lot and I will never forget what she taught to me: to be strong and fight to get freedom.
I think that the traits that I have in common with her are determination and patience and I share with her the suggestion to have a better future without social disorders and discriminations and I’m ready to contribute to make it better.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI
I saw the Malala’s speech at the UN Youth Assembly and I am just amazed and touched. That girl has an extraordinary power and I think that her dreams and hopes can really change the world. I think sometimes we ask for some changes but we do nothing to have them. We have to start fighting for our world and our rights, otherwise we won’t see some changes. And the principal way to fight for the world is education for Malala. Education can improve our world for ever, because a book and a pen can frightened wars, racism and terrorism says Malala. Education is the way to change the world and we have to believe in it.
I think we have to speak out for the important things of our life and we have to dedicate effort and willpower to improve it, like some important people did before. These people help themselves, but above help all the others people, their “brothers and sister”, showing love, brotherhood and unity. These people that Malala mentioned during her speech were Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Madre Teresa and many many others. They were not only men and women, workers and housewives, they were also heroes and heroines. And today I think there’s another heroine in the world: Malala, a little girl that uses her voice and her education to spread the message of freedom, justice and brotherhood. Malala thought me that doesn’t care if we are adults or children, men or women : we can always change the world if we have dreams and hopes. I think that people without dreams and goals are lost in this world, made of insecurities and brutality. And Malala thought me to do not stop dreaming in what I believe: in fact if we continue to dream in our hopes, we’ll reach the goals and we’ll realize our plans. If I could describe Malala in few words, I would symbolize her with courage, dreams and freedom, because I think we have to be courage to follow our dreams and to have freedom. Malala didn’t have the fear to follow her dream and to risk her life to realize it. She teaches me to be more dreamer and more brave.
She teaches to the whole world to be more heroes and heroines.
MALALA
Before we did this work in class I didn’t know who Malala was but now I know her story, what she did and still doing for the girl’s right and I can say that she is an example for everyone. She fought not only for herself but for we all. There were ‘million’ of people who could do what she did but only her, a girl of 16 years old, tried to change something in better. She found the courage og speak in a country where they don’t have the opportunity to say what they want or what they think for this she was shouted on her face. To save her life, she and her family were move to London where she continues to fought. For me she becames an idol because she had never lose the hope and even if she encountered difficultes (that were very hard to deal with) she is still fighting to give more freedom even for the future generation. At our age we think that all the world is against us and we behave as if it is the end of the world for useless things. While on the other side of the world girls try to obtain some rights that we make everyday like watch tv, make up or go out without be accompanied. We don’t realize how lucky we are and we even take school for granted and Malala is the best example for us to realize how important are this little things.
The story of Malala has had a big impact on me, I learned a lot only watching his videos, listening to her voice and looking she into her eyes. Her story helps us understand how we can become strong and powerful with the only desire to fight according to our ideals: In her I see a lot of strength and the desire to say: “hey, it won’t be the poverty, the terrorism or the political and social problems of our society to stop our voices, our strength and ourselves” …. and I use the word “our”, because she fought not only for herself but for us: for all the guys who like her, want to make a difference but did not succeed, and all the guys who did not have the strength to try to do something. It is amazing to think how a girl is able to change things, but this is what she teaches us: we are the strength to ourselves and together we can change many things but only if we fight and believe in what we do and in our abilities. For this reason, in life it is very important to me fight and even go against of what is important to us such as our own lives (like what she do) for the things in which we believe strongly, because it is important to make our voices heard for the important things that hurt us every day, also because there are many things in our world and in our society that are not going well … but there are also so many people who like Malala can change things. She, in my opinion, does not only teaches us to be strong and after do not do something or send out another person for us, but she “say” us that we need to turn our thoughts into actions without fear of making mistakes or the fear of not be enough to make a small difference, because we are the difference.