I am Malala is the memoir of a fourteen-year old girl’s campaign for women’s right to education. In 2011‚ Malala was shot by the Taliban in a bus on her way home from school. Two Taliban men boarded the bus and asked‚ “who is Malala‚” soon after‚ firing shots into Malala’s head (Yousafzai 9). The Taliban‚ a radical Islamic group‚ wishes to instill a conservative version of Islamic law called Sharia. Malala grew up in a society in which women were treated as inferior beings‚ housekeepers‚ and had
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I am a very optimistic and determined person. We’ve all heard about the girl raped‚ abused‚ or even in foster care right? Luckily‚ I was neither of the those. Although just because I have never been that girl doesn’t mean I haven’t had my own struggles and obstacles I have had to overcome. Obstacles that made me who I am. The ones that gave me my identity. My obstacles started as a baby. I was conceived when my mother was only thirteen years old. She lost custody of me and my older three siblings
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What if I am a celebrity? It sounds ridiculous. But what if it really comes true? What will I do? I am wondering what I should do after that‚ maybe I could do something for my most beloved country‚ Malaysia. First of all‚ I will make my country to become well known. I will make it famous as a tourist center so that there will be a lot of tourists come over our country and enjoy the Malaysia’s splendid environment. I will also tell them that Malaysia is a beautiful and also a wonderful country
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Karina Zepeda November 21‚ 2014 Mr. Allen What Would I Do If I Were President When it comes to being the President of the United States‚ it is THE most important and stressful job you could have. The fate of the country is in your hands. Of course you have the help of others like your cabinet‚ the House of Representatives‚ and congress‚ but in reality as the president‚ you are blamed for any problems that the country faces. You are the face of what the country undergoes‚ and there are so many pressures
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At the present time‚ there are three things I would change about the US Army. One is that I would get rid of the Corporal rank. I know there are a lot of other people who feel the same and really‚ I don’t see the point in this rank at all. I know a lot of higher enlisted say that ‘A person becomes a CPL when there is a position of a NCO open and the individual does not have enough points to make SGT.’ There are SPC’s in charge of other soldiers. There are SPC’s in the position of Supply NCO. My
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handkerchief he had given her. I did not know that he was so jealous that it led to my mistress death. I did not witness Othello’s death but I’m sure he sure he must have felt guilty. Lodovico‚ Desdemona’s cousin spoke” I did not witness Desdemona’s murder but I heard of it and came to look for the rash man who killed her. He was once a good man but was tricked by Iago. I told Othello that he had being stripped from his power and command and that Cassio will govern Cyprus. I also told him that
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How do I know what I know? Question 1: Which main questions‚ concepts‚ and theories of epistemology are dealt with by your selected philosopher? As a rationalist‚ Plato challenges inquiries of “what we know how we know” by centralizing the human mind (conscience and thought) as the essence of knowledge. Plato often debates using his deceased mentor‚ Socrates‚ to honour Socrates’ reputation as a valuable teacher. True knowledge can be rediscovered deep within the mind; otherwise known as
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I wish I was the richest person on earth‚ I wish I was the president of Maldives‚ I want to be a singer‚ I want to be a doctor. I’m sure you have dreams like these‚ well‚ not precisely‚ but I’m sure you will have dreams. Anyway‚ most of the times we see that people hesitate to become what they want to be and often give up on their first or second try. Why do they give up? Haven’t they heard the saying‚ “Failure is the key to success”? Respected teacher and my amicable friends‚ today I’m here to
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to be unspoken is not only the darkness related to the topic itself‚ but in fact‚ what comes after it (if anything at all). For as long as humans have inhabited the earth‚ people have had their own theories about afterlife. In the poem “I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died‚” the ghost speaker reflects on her last minutes of life‚ curiously searching and reassuring herself of the possibility of an afterlife promised by God when suddenly a fly shifts her thoughts to pointless wandering. Despite the fact
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Although published over thirty years apart‚ the poems “I‚ Too‚ Sing America” by Langston Hughes and “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou both address racial issues. Hughes published his poem in 1945 when racial segregation was still common place‚ and Jim Crow laws were still in effect. Meanwhile Angelou’s poem was published a generation later in 1978 when Jim Crow laws had been overturned but racial tensions were still high. Although both poems are about the plight of black people in America‚ their messages
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