Zachery Rich English 1 Blair 9 Sept 2018 I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai is a Swati girl born into sexism. At about three or four, Malala had been placed in classes at her father’s school for older children. After the 9/11 attacks, the terrorist group, the Taliban, had come to their little valley of Swat in Pakistan. They had gained immediate control of the valley by fear. They took women’s rights of almost everything outside of their home. They took away their right to get an education, go to the store without a man, talk to others while outside, and much more. When hearing her father talk about finding someone to publish a diary for the BBC about life under the Taliban, she had accepted the request and had been given the name Gul Makai to protect her real identity. Since she had almost no internet, she had spoken to someone over the phone to type it. After having to succumb to the bribe for school registration, Malala’s father had found the Swat Association of Private Schools. At that time, he easily gained position of vice president for there were only fifteen members. After achieving the position of president, the association had expanded to a sum of over four-hundred principals. One day, two men had stopped the school bus Malala was on. Before she even had the opportunity to answer the question they had asked, she had been shot in the head. Noticing what had happened, the bus driver had immediately started driving to the nearest hospital. Traveling from hospital to hospital, Malala had many different treatments. After moving from the Military hospital under very high security to a hospital in the United Kingdom, she had started to get better. Although she couldn’t use one side of her face, a neural surgery had given her the opportunity to gain those muscles back. After recovering from the shot, Malala had gone to New York on her sixteenth birthday. She had written a speech not only for the United Nations, but for all the people who could make a difference. She had also been nominated for a nobel prize but lost.