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
What impact has had the work of Malala on you?
I think that the work of Malala has taught me a lots of things. I admire very much Malala, she has an incredible bravery. What she has done was for all women and girls and not only for her; she risked her life for other people, for me she is a real heroine. In her speech at the UN Youth Assembly she said “we realized the important of light when we see darkness. We realized the important of voice when we are silent”; I love these words because they have a deep mean, it’s true that if we have a lots of things we don’t know the real mean of poverty. If we are fine we don’t know how a person with cancer, for example, feels. So we shouldn’t speak if we don’t know. We should try before criticize, this is the message that I take. We sometimes should think about people that didn’t have anything, about people who suffering, about people that don’t know the word “love”.
We have so much things that we don’t realized that in other parts of the world there are problems, serious problems.
Malala is an heroine because she has had fight against a lots of people and she has spoken out. And luckily this has had a result: all the world has heard and has read the words of Malala and the problem of Swat, now, is known by many people.
Malala is an example for me. She is an example for all guys. She is an example for the world.
Malala is my inspiration because she’s the same age as me and she did so many things to fight for her rights and dreams.
I want to take on board with me her strength and her determination because she didn’t give up.
She taught me to believe in my dreams and overcome difficulties.
I also take on board with me her generosity because she didn’t fight just for herself but for every girl in the world who doesn’t go to school, who doesn’t have rights or can’t do the same things as us.
In the UN Youth Assembly Malala told to everybody the emphasis on rights, on freedom and on peace. She’s very strong and she didn’t change after the attack of the Talibans. In her speech she mentioned Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Gandhi and Mother Teresa who are people that changed the world.
I think that everybody in the world should read her story and learn from her because she’s a point of reference.
I think Malala is a heroine!
She have courage, determination and especially she is humble, I love these things about her. She is incredibly strong and at only 16 years old she is already an adult in the way of speaking and thinking. I really like this quality of Malala. I really like even the speech she made at the United Nations. She said beautiful things and mostly true, I agree with her. I agree with every single word she said, for example when she said that every person have the rights and must fight for them. None can prevent someone to speak, think and live in peace because we are all equal, nobody is superior or lower to anyone else. She said even that the hope must not die in none. We must believe in what we want because only in this way we will be able to get it, and we will be able to change our future, like Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and other people who with them courage and determination have change the history but especially because they believed in what they made.
Malala speaks on behalf of all the people, she want peace, democracy, equality, and respect, she want that the rights are respected by all, that the education is a right in all countries. I agree with this because I think that without education our future will be decided by other, the ignorance leads to not know what our rights are and so at the submission. We must know! Because the knowledge is a very important thing. Malala said that we must stay united for the justice and we must not forget all the people that are died for us, for our freedom ! and finally she said that “one child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world [..]”. I would like to take on board these things, these thoughts.
Watching Malala’s speech, I understood how a teenager could be more mature than an adult and could teach something also to politicians, using simple clear words, coming from the heart. Malala is fighting for women’s and children’s rights. She wants a world where equality and education are for everyone. She taught me that if I have a plan, a goal or a hope I have to fight to make this real. We should not see the obstacles as something that stops us but we should make them a force that encourages us and makes us stronger (like Malala did). We live in a country where lots of times, our rights are taking for granted and where we don’t care if in another part of the world poverty and ignorance are a problem. We are a selfish society where people live and think only for themselves.
We don’t know how education is important in our life. If we don’t go to school we will never know how to write and read and we will never support our ideas or goals to make our life better.
Pakistan was a peaceful country since Talibans arrived. They are misusing Islam’s values and they are using a peaceful religion only for their personal purposes. Talibans are against schools and education and, as Malala said, “they are afraid by the power of pens and books”.
Malala makes me thinking about what is happening in some parts of the world where people are suffering for poverty, racism, discrimination and where people are tired because of the conflicts and wars.
Lots of times we don’t think about those problems because we live in a house, we go to school, we have a family and we live in a democratic country where we have the freedom of speech and we can protest against our government’s decisions.
We have to think and support people who are fighting against those people who think to be better, not because they are more intelligent, but because they don’t give the possibility to study and learn, so people can’t rebel democratically.
Malala said “Education is the only solution, education first” if we don’t know, we won’t defend our ideas and we won’t make our world and our lives better.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI
I saw Malala’s speech, she is a girl full of confidence and strength.
I have learnt that I have to be strong, clever and not to give everything for granted if I want to realize my goals.
I really liked when she said: ‘They thought the bullet would silent us, but they failed. The terrorist thought that it would stop my ambitions but nothing changed in my life, except this: weakness, fear and hopeless died, strength power and courage was born.’
This is the biggest message Malala gives us, to be strong and to use our moments of weakness to grow stronger.
Now Malala is not alone, she is known all around the world and she has a lot of support.
I do really believe in what she said at the UN Youth Assemblyand and I think that if we all fight with Malala we can help her expand her message even more so all children could have an education.
Malala is one of the strongest people in the world because even if a Taliban shot to her she didn’t head even a single intempt to kill or complain against them. If I were with a gun on my hand and the Taliban who shot to me in front of me, I would probably kill me because I would be so angry and so vendicative that I would kill him. I also admire Malala because she had the bravery to say her own thought about the Talibans; I wouldn’t have it. She even had the courage to rebel against the Talibans and went to school. I personally think that Pakistan is a normal country, not like other people say just because there are Talibans. I hope that Malala will realize her dream.
Malala is an example. She said she’s not the only one. In fact se said that there are many young people who fight against terrorists and talibans but she specified that she isn’t fighting against someone but she is fighting for human rights and for giving free compulsory education. In fact she doesn’t want talibans dead but free compulsary education even for them. This is a difficult thing to understand and I struggle to do not want my enemies punished, but I think it’s a beautiful idea Malala’s one. Malala’s ideas are examples to follow.
We can’t understand what means not have right of going to school. School makes you stronger. School gives you the opportunity to speak up for what you want. School gives you the opportunity to sopport your ideas. School is an opportunity. It means that school makes you powerful so you can frighten your enemy and this is the reason why talibans don’t give the opportunity to pakistani girls to go to school. They’re frightened.
We can learn a lot of thing from Malala for example that fortitude is fondamental if you want to speak up.
If someone decides to speak up he mustn’t do it just for himself. He must think about other people.
I really appreciated what Malala did and what Malala said. It made me think that she’s brilliant.
She’s an example to follow. For little or bigger things.
WHAT I THINK OF MALALA
I appreciate what Malala has done because she hasn’t fought only for her but for every person, especially women in her country, who do not have the right to be educated.
Honestly I would never have the courage to make a thing like this and fight as she did.
Now, that I know exactly what Malala did for all these people, she’s one of my heroines.
Malala Youngsafzai is absolute my hero. She is the youngest winner of the Noble Peace Prize. She fight for the affirmation of civil rights and the right to education (which is very important to me because everyone should be allowed to learn). I read a few days ago a say of Malala on internet. She said:
“I don’t mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I’m afraid of no one”.
I think she was very brave to say this in front of million people because she might risk death. She isn’t afraid of this, the only thing she is afraid of is the absence of education. I really want to meet Malala one day because I think she is great and I want to ask her some question like:
Aren’t you afraid of Taliban? They can murder you. If I were you I would be frightened, I am afraid of death and I am not much younger than you! How do you do??
Or how did you learn English so well alone? How did you feel when you were given the Nobel Peace Prize?
I hope I will meet my heroin Malala one day for ask her these short questions.
You could write to her. Why don’t you?
I think that Malala is really a great person. She appears like a naive girl, who always tries to see the good part of people and situations and, despite all the things they made to her, and all the ways they tried to shut her up, she never gave up her ideals and projects. I think that her naivety and candour aren’t a flaw, but instead, they are her force. Her ingenuity makes her be one of the most positive people I’ve ever heard speaking, despite the fact she’s also one of the people who suffered more in life. Her ingenuity makes her special, positive and unique, and makes her not be afraid of people who wants her dead. She’ll keep speaking and fighting until she can.
One thing that made me think a lot about these videos is when, in the Angelina’s speech, she told that when Malala’s father told her that she was one of the most powerful people in the world, she didn’t rejoyed, instead, she wasn’t very happy because she thought that “people shouldn’t be categorized that way”. I think that this simple, naive, disinterested phrase is a really powerful thought. In our culture everyone wants to be powerful, and wants to be told that he is the number one. Malala doesn’t. She just wants to make a difference for a better world. Her soul is pure, not corrupted by greed of success, envy and mischieviousness. She should be an example to all of us, an example of sound ambition, courage and perseverance, and I’m happy that a lot of young people got to know her and her incredible story.
I appreciate the fact that you emphasise the fact that Malala did not approve of her father’s categorization of Anelina Jolie as “powerful”. What does “powerful” mean? What does “power” consist of?
I did not know neither who Malala Yousafzai is, nor what did she do, so watching the videos I was opened-mouth. This girl, since she was very young, has fought for what she believed on, without giving up, even if many people tried to prevent it to her. I extremely admire her for her courage, because when someone wants to kill you, isn’t easy carry on your projects and your ideals. She has overcome the difficulties and she is become a heroin and an idol of many children, men and women. She is stronger and more determinate that how people could think, and she is like that, because she really believes on what she fight and for that reason, she is a fantastic example for all teenager all over the world. She wants that her rights being respected and she is ready to risk her life to defend the most important thing to her: education.
According to her, education is one of the life’s blessing. She is right! Education is one of the most important things of our life; without education, the world wouldn’t exist.
Another reason I admire Malala: she is afraid of nothing, or at least, she is so determinate that she does not give up; she continues what she began, with powerful and resolution.
Moreover, she is the idol of many people because she raised the hope of a better world, even where quality and dignity, peace and life are not safeguarded at all; she is a heroin because she gave hope to people who do not know neither what hope is, to people who were skeptical of what a 16-year-old can do.
She is young, but the items she raises are not young at all! And it is time that rights being guaranteed all over the world, it is time of a world where no one do not know what education is; Malala Yousafzai does not fight just for herself or for her friends, but she also fights for people all over the world, she fights for us
Malala
To me, this young girl is a heroine. I mean, really. This can almost be taken for granted because is obvious to everyone that she did outstanding achievements, but I think that the way she managed to make the world listen to her soft voice is just amazingly shocking. She should be a role model to every child, every woman, everyone. Despite her age, she made the world change. How? Just by following her goal: giving the right to education to everyone. We don’t know how important education is, because we take it for granted, but basically it’s the possibility of learning that gives us the power of knowing, thinking, questioning, acting. And we are so selfish as we don’t think that some teenagers like us in other countries aren’t allowed to have this “privilege”. Malala didn’t think in this way, she didn’t fight only for herself, she fought and spoke “for those without voice can be heard” too. She didn’t do something simple. Probably, she fought a war bigger than her, against the system terrorists had created. She knew it wouldn’t be easy, but she didn’t give up and finally she rocked the boat and now we see her there, standing in front of the UN Youth Assembly after winning a Nobel Prize. She is an example of extraordinary strenght and bravery, the proof that young people can make a difference, the proof that we can’t possibly stand still watching others do bad actions and just complain, the proof that if we stand up and speak out we can change things. She said that it was thanks to her heroes, such as Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Gandhi and her parents, that she found the courage to do what she did and to forgive her “enemies”. Well, I think that now she can absolutely consider herself as a heroine too. In the end, I love the way she explained how to reach the purpose of guaranteeing an education to everybody. She talked about this as a war which must not be fought with guns or violence(as the extremists do), but with knowledge and strenght, with books and pens, because these harmless weapons are the ones which will make a real difference. So, to me, this young girl is a real role model, maybe the one whose age, objectives, actions, behaviours and points of view are the closest to me.
I admire you, my young talented girl. You have the capability of grasping things and appreciating things most teenagers don’t. Be proud of yourself, you should really be proud of who you are. You will certainly make a difference if you believe in how you can contribute to creating a fairer world.
The first thing that makes me think of reading the story of Malala is the huge difference between a girl like her and a girl like me.I could not fully understand what she’s feeling because nobody has lived what she has lived, no one was shot in the head and no one as she struggled for their rights.Malala is a determined girl, who does not give upIn his eyes you see the pride of what he is doing, because being in front of so many people, and above all the courage that allows her to trust people again after what has happened. Furthermore, the way he speaks English in the video will understand how much he had to learn this language and what really amounts to her being an educated person.We understand from the faces of his parents that even if they risked losing a daughter does not want to surrender.If one day I met her I would ask where he finds her courage and her strength.I conclude by reminding her comment “I’m stronger than fear”
She’s a model to follow.
While I was watching Malala’s speech she made me think about the dangers and injustices that exist in the world, particularly education, that is “prohibited” in some poor countries.
If I think that an ordinary girl like Malala, even if without education, was able to be heard by the whole world and she managed to survive after her accident. I would immediately demoralize myself because I, who am lucky to have all the possibilities to study,even if I tried hard, I will not be sure of reaching my life goal ;but she, despite she didn’t have anything, she made it by herself and managed to study alone a language totally unknown to her to be able to let anyone know about her message.
I totally respect Malala Yousafzai because if I was her I would never be able to reach her level.
Why wouldn’t you be able to achieve your goals/dreams? Why are you telling yourself you would be incapable of fighting for your dreams? If you see strength in Malala, there is strength in you. If you see determination in Malala, there is determination in you. We cannot recognize in other people what we do not have ourselves. Perhaps you just need to clarify to yourself your priorities in life. The tend to commit to them, not to things that are not that relevant to us.
MALALA
Well, what also to say about this extremely powerful little woman?
Personally, I think the only words I can say about Malala are the ones which can express my infinite respect for this girl… The incredible power that she puts in her speeches make these something impressive because she at first sight appears like a normal teenager from Pakistan, but in the real moment when she speaks we can clearly understand that she isn’t so at all. Malala Yousefzai isn’t only a girl, she is the little woman who wants to make her rights and her hopes respect, which are the rights and the hopes of every single woman or child in all around the world. She is a complete role model who decided to fight in what she believes and to carry on doing it, despite everything and everybody. Because she and her hopes are stronger than all, stronger than fights and stronger than any possible attack from terrorism too: she was shot in her head at the hand of people who tought to hush her voice, but now the voice of Malala isn’t only her voice, but the one of the worls. She thinks that peace is the way to follow if we want a better future foe everybody, and she’s right.
This Pakistani little woman has all the characteristics to be consider a heroine who wants to change the world into a place where equality, peace, dignity and the right to live a free and respectful life are guaranteed for every single human being, man, woman, and child, despite of color of their skin or Nationality. The items which Malala speaks about are rich in power and meaning because this is a girl who really believes in her words and in her ideals, so she teaches us also this. We should never give up in what we believe because only who does it can make the difference in a world which isn’t so fair like we tought.
Malala is one of the most incredible woman in world, she is strong, courageous and selfless. She is a Heroine, she is the heroine of every young girl from her country or Pakistan, Iraq. Every woman all around the world admire her for what she stands for and for what she’s fighting for.
In one of her speech she said that she speaks for all the young women that are going through what she had been going through. She is fighting for the women rights; she is fighting for let every young women from Pakistan, Iraq, etc. go to school because in these Countries is forbidden and she is just 17 years old. I admire her, I absolutely admire her, I think I wouldn’t ever have her courage.
She is so powerful and amazing, when she speaks I can see confidence and strength. She deserved that Nobel Peace Prize even if it’s just a prize, she have spoken out and she can now see the results of what she stands for. I would love to fight with her.
Now I understand how lucky I am, I can go to school, I can study and I can make my future. Before now I never thought that way. Every morning is a struggle going to school and I’m so stupid because there are girls who can’t go to school even if they want to and there is me that even if I can, I don’t want to.
I stand for Malala, I am Malala.
Astonishing, incredible, brave and unique- this is Malala. A strong little girl that had the courage to fight for her and other girl’s rights. Nobody in my opinion could define her for what she did, because what she did is undefinable, but many people tried to and so do I. I say many people because almost everybody knows Malala and, who wasn’t amazed by what she did? Obviously who she fought against. In my opinion, Malala is not just who made people aware about what happened in the middle-east, she is also a person who we can take an example from, she is somebody that above all us teenagers should take an example from. I think we can learn from her many things and one of them is that there are many problems in life and we have to face them with courage and determination, but serious problems, not ours, that belong to a shallow society. In fact, she tried to empower young girls to follow their education life, because in Pakistan girls shouldn’t go to school, based on the opinion of the Taliban. She didn’t accept it and she fought for herself, other women and for education, that she considers what can render someone “powerful”. That way, she generally fought for human rights in the world, that particularly in Pakistan and in all the middle-east seem not to exist. All in all, what surprised me the most is that Malala seems to be the only one that is convincing teenagers to appreciate school, because unfortunately not everyone can or could receive an education nowadays.
Malala is a Pakistani girl who was shot in the left side of her forehead by gunmen when she was coming back home after a day of school. Fortunately she is saved and she starts write a blog for the BBC which has made her famous all over the world. She is one of the youngest people who have received a Nobel Prize for the peace. During her speech at UN Assembly, she tries to explain the importance of the education and how it can change a person. She also would like to thank people who have supported her after the attack. I was particularly struck when she said that she doesn’t hate the man who has shot to her. She mentions leaders like Ghandi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela and the qualities that she has learned from them. She also thanks her father and mother who have taught her, that everyone in this world is equal, and maybe is this the reason why she doesn’t hate the Taliban. She also said that pens and books are the most powerful weapons. This phrase is amazing! I think that we don’t give the exact importance at school and at the education. These are the most important things to change the world. We should feel lucky to be able to go to school. Malala is an example, for us and for the world.
Thus teachers should celebrate the beginning of the school year with Malala’s words: students would be more dedicated and would not take if for granted the opportunity they have to go to school!!!
I really respect Malala for what she did. She’s a very brave girl, this is the first thing I appreciated of her. She did very courageous things: she fought against Talibans, who don’t want women to be educated in their country, Pakistan. And she continued fighting against these injustices even if terrorists shot her in her head, while she was going to school!! She had the RIGHT to be educated, like all women who wanted to go to school in that country. Malala fought, and she won. In my opinion, she’s a concrete example. And she should be that for everybody, especially for women, who have been always considered inferior to men, for everything. When I watched the video where Malala speaks, I was really surprised. She speaks English very well, better than people who learnt it many years ago! She’s fluent, and I understood what she said. This girl knows more things than adults. She’s more intelligent. I think that people should learn something from her. She had a dream. She believed in her dream. She fought and her dream came true. Everyone should do this. But I must to be honest! If I were her, I wouldn’t have the courage to do the same things she did against terrorists. Lots of people appreciate Malala, even celebrities like Bono, Angelina Jolie and Madonna. But they’re not the only ones. Malala is not only the girl who fought for her right to be educated… She’s the girl who fought also for women’s emancipation from a sexist world.
We tend to fight for our own rights, she fought for the rights of every girl in her country. This is what makes her great in my eyes.
When I was a child I never had a hero or a heroine, because I thought about them like immaginary people in the cartoons, films or books with special powers. But growing up I discovered people like Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela ,Maria Teresa and Malala. For me they are the real heros and heroines that we must show to the new generations.
They are people like us with the power of speaking. They gain their rights risking their lifes. In my opinion these heros made the basis for a better future and I extremly admire them. Malala is new in the group but not less important. If I have to say the truth I didn’t know a lot of this beautiful,courageous girl, but thanks to the blog of my teacher now I know more.
Describing Malala with a single word is really impossible. She is a donation for the humanity and an example for us and for all these children who don’t have the Right of Education.
She doesn’t fight with her voice just for her, but for everyone, for live together in Peace and for the Equality. When in that bad day The Talibans shoot her in the head, they did not know that they will make her more stronger. After a while she shoot the world with her love and her persistance. Her way of speaking is fantastic, makes me reflect of how many rights are denied and how many rights are taking for granted. Thanks her support children can go to school and achieve their dreams like she did.
This young woman teaches values in the whole wide world with the power of the words, and shows that also the children could make the difference. I have never seen in my life somebody so strong, so patient and so interested for the others.
She watched to her face the death and she smiled at it. She is a force of nature!
I think that for her is just the beginnig of a new beautiful life and in the future she will make others wonderful things.
I am sure she will make a difference in this world and so will you!
Malala had very amazed me with her words and strength.
I really admire her because, even if she was shot, she continues fighting for her dreams and she has never wanted to take revenge on the talibans. Because she is not against them but she’s against the absence of the rights to education.
I really believe that books and pens are the most powerful weapons like she said and that the talibans don’t want education for women and children because they are afraid of it.
We take education for granted while in other places people don’t have the right to it. But Malala wants changes, she risked her life to obtain them.
She raised her voice for every woman, every boy and every girl that don’t receive an education, she raised her voice with no fear.
She taught me that we should stand up and raise our voices, raised them out loud for what we want because things can’t change if we don’t do something.
She is an example for everyone and I hope she will see her dreams come true.
What do you want to raise your voice for?
Malala Yousafzai
This is the name that we most heard when people talk about women rights, because that girl with her force and with her corage has shown to everybody that she won her fight, always fighting for her dream.
When I watched for the first time the speech which she made in front of some of the most leading authorities in the world I was really surprised about what she said, thinking that she’s just one of the thousand girl that are soffering to live a normal life, and not to be use for do housework or use them as objects for fun.
I was really impressed not just for her appeal, but also for how she spoke in english, thinking that she studied it alone in a website! This is another demostration that people like Malala that have a humble life, are the people who really fight for what they want.
Lately I’m sad about my problem like school or about my private life thinking that there aren’t solution to solve them.
But now I understand that these aren’t the problems of the life and if a girl of 14 years old won a nobel price for the peace everybody can dream for what they believe in.
Malala teachers us to believe in our dreams, to be determined and contribute actively for the world we want to live in. If there is anything that troubles you, be active, do something, find a solution. There is always a solution. Look for people who can help you. Malala resorted to the support of her family. She wouldn’t have made it if she had not been backed by her beloved. We are never alone with our problems. There is always somebody who can help and there is always a way out.
I admire this girl. I’m very surprised by her courage beacuse she has my age and if i was malala i would never do what she did. I would be very afraid by the consequences. she is the right example of intelligence, determination and strength. Malala taught to the world that no matter where do you from, no matter if you are rich or poor, no matter how your age is..you can make the difference. I think that one day, malala’s dreams will change the world. The difference between this girl and the other teens like her is that the others complain everytime saying that the society is against them but they don’t try to change the situation. Malala, instead, fought what she was complaining for.
She is an example to follow. We should let our voice to be heard.
Are you telling me that should you be deprived of the right to study you would not react? You would accept it passively? Are you telling me that you are not courageous? Are you telling me you lack determination?
MALALA
I think that Malala should be a heroin for all of us. I admire her so much ’cause of her courage, her powerful and her determination because she never give up ahead of a problem. This is sign of maturity. She is not afraid of no one and she fights for the right to be educated and for the civil right. She has got all my respect.
She should be a model for everybody because in this world there aren’t many people like her. This world must change. There are people who don’t have the chance to live a relaxed life. There are people who don’t have the chance to be educated. There are people who don’t have the chance to have fights for nothing. Is this a good and wonderful world? No, this is a world full of injustice. There are people who die fighting for their fights.
Listening to Malala I understand the seriousness of her and her folk problem.
I was very fascinated by her speacking and pronunciation because she had to study all by herself, without a teacher, and she was only 16 years old. She is absolutely a heroin.
How can you contribute to making this world less unjust? What strategy/skills can you see in Malala’s actions? Can you acquire those skills, that approach, make them your own and prompt some kind of change? I am sure you can, but I would love to read your answer to my questions.