to become equal in society. From Elizabeth Blackwell who was admitted into medical school in 1847 as a joke and continued to receive ridicule‚ opened up her own hospital after nobody would hire her to the modern day female education activist Malala Yousafzai who literally looked death in the eye for something as simple as going to school. Though there is a growing list of feminists‚ two particular feminists‚ Emmeline Pankhurst and Lucy Stone‚ have contributed to the feminist movement
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As I began studying and as I grow up‚ I had access to a good school‚ and good teachers. While Yousafzai didn’t have access to good schools‚ she learned by herself. One similarity that I had is family support‚ as well as Yousafzai. If I look deeply in the past and try to remember how I became literate‚ of course‚ I will recall that there are many influences that have affected my literacy. These influences are divided into two sections because I am a bilingual person. I have some influences that make
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“When right of education is denounced” Education is a universal‚ fundamental human right‚ recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights‚ and reaffirmed in international human rights conventions. In this era of technology‚ advancement and globalization‚ education is the key to success and peace. Education is considered as the cheapest defense of a nation. But the worst condition of education in Pakistan reflects the fact that it is unable to defend its own sector. Though 62 years have
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wanted the best for her folk. Even nowadays in some poor-developed countries‚ like Pakistan‚ children‚ especially girls are not allowed to go to school‚ because they role is to stay at home and clean‚ cook‚ and care for the children. In 2012‚ “Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen” ‚ on the way to school in Pakistan but happily survived. This tells that we are not totally reformed yet and that the world still has a long way in front of it before ensuring every person this human right
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A Closer Examination of Sexism Sexism has been woven through the backbone of humankind throughout history and is still in place in a variety of aspects of our society today. Sexism plays a key role in how jobs‚ salary‚ and occupations are filled nowadays. Sexism also appears in everyday life. For example‚ women often spend more time getting ready because of the burden to feel pretty and fit into the model image that is displayed to young girls so adolescent girls grow up feeling the weight of needing
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Malala Yousafsai was born on 12 of July in 1997. She is from Mingora of Pakistan‚ located in the country’s Swat Valley. Her name Malala means grief-stricken. Her parents gave her this name from the famous Pashto poetess and warrior woman from Afghanistan. Her family consists with her 2 youngest brothers and her parents. Malala speaks fluently Pashto‚ English and Urdu‚ being educated in large part by her father‚ Ziauddin Yousafsai. Her father is a poet. Also he is school owner and an educational
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Hidden education ‚ do not show all that you know. This is all that Parvana and Malala faced daily throughout their life. The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis is about a young girl‚ Parvana‚ who is living in poverty with 3 other siblings and her parents. But when her father is taken away by the Taliban he leaves her in control to become his little Malala. “Malala the Powerful” by Kristen Lewis is about a teen girl‚ Malala‚ who faced several challenges with the Taliban for every girl’s right to get an
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General Knowledge * Antonis Samras: PM of Greece * Angela Merkel: Chancellor of Germany * Samar Yazbek: Exiled Syrian author has won Pen’s Pinter International Writer of Courage Award for her book “A Woman in the Crossfire”‚ an account of the early stages of the Syrian Revolution * Amra Babic: Europe’s first hijab-wearing mayor (Bosnia) * MILF: Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Philippines) * Dilma Roussef: President of Brasil * October ‚ 2012: 10th anniversary of the World
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of a terrible breakup and the story that I am comparing it to about Malala she is fighting for girls education that many are against. Jennifer the main character of the book says‚ “I’d gotten a lifetime’s worth of depressing “help” just from The Breakup Bible’s table of contents and introduction. The last thing I needed right now was for Nana to read the entire book out loud to the like it was the actual Bible” (Kantor 136).Malala has a situation relating to Jennifer because they both experience a
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of Malala’s influence is the Malala Fund. The Malala Fund‚ according to malala.org‚ “invests in education advocates and activists who are challenging the policies and practices” Malala’s fund has helped over 90‚000 girls and indirectly impacted 10 million girls around the globe‚ via school enrollment. She helps kids have a future‚ so they can survive as adults. She is helping children get an education so they can get jobs and be able to get a job in the future. Malala also speaks about the issues
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