Malala Yousafzai Thesis
The voice of my generation
When I think of the voice of my generation, the first name that come to mind is Malala Yousafzai. Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known mainly for human 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. Her advocacy has since grown into an international movement.
When she was 11 going on 12, young Yousafzai had written a blog for the BBC Urdu detailing her life under Taliban occupation, their attempts to take control of the valley, and what views she had on promoting education for girls in the Swat Valley. This made her a public target for the Taliban, and on October 9, 2012 was shot in the head by a gunman who boarded her school bus in the northwest Pakistani …show more content…
That is why I abide her message that all deserve the right to an education. Many might look to people like Shawn Mendez, Jaden Smith, Silento, or Kylie Jenner has influential voices of our generation, but have they done anything to aspire change? For example, Kylie Jenner commands an audience of 60 million people across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and her best-selling app, and is known for inspiring trends like the #KylieJennerLipChallenge, for which thousands of social-media users (unprompted by Jenner) tried to mimic her cosmetically enhanced lips with at-home suction tricks. This does not promote reform in any way that is trying to make a difference. We need more people who are willing to take action like Yousafzai did to ensure that all children were able to receive an education in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, and all over the
When I think of the voice of my generation, the first name that come to mind is Malala Yousafzai. Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known mainly for human 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. Her advocacy has since grown into an international movement.
When she was 11 going on 12, young Yousafzai had written a blog for the BBC Urdu detailing her life under Taliban occupation, their attempts to take control of the valley, and what views she had on promoting education for girls in the Swat Valley. This made her a public target for the Taliban, and on October 9, 2012 was shot in the head by a gunman who boarded her school bus in the northwest Pakistani …show more content…
That is why I abide her message that all deserve the right to an education. Many might look to people like Shawn Mendez, Jaden Smith, Silento, or Kylie Jenner has influential voices of our generation, but have they done anything to aspire change? For example, Kylie Jenner commands an audience of 60 million people across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and her best-selling app, and is known for inspiring trends like the #KylieJennerLipChallenge, for which thousands of social-media users (unprompted by Jenner) tried to mimic her cosmetically enhanced lips with at-home suction tricks. This does not promote reform in any way that is trying to make a difference. We need more people who are willing to take action like Yousafzai did to ensure that all children were able to receive an education in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, and all over the