Rhetorical Analysis Malala Yousafzai - 1211 Words

Adewunmi Adebanjo ENGL 1213 Professor Carney 10 February, 2014. Rhetorical analysis of Malala Yousafzai speech â€Å"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter† Twain Mark. Malala Yousafzai, a teenager and the youngest Nobel Prize winner is a testimony to what Mark Twain (the author of several American novels) said in his quote. Yousafzai started the fight for her right to education and fundamental rights after her school was attacked in 2008. The Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai used her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech to launch an attack on governments that have the resources to begin wars, travel into space but not to enable universal education. She won the Nobel Prize when she was seventeen. On the 10th of December, 2014 Yousafzai became a Nobel laureate. Malala’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech is more than you would expect from a sixteen year old child. During the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, which took place in Oslo, Yousafzai raised her voice in a silent room in the presence of a distinguished audience to say what she believes is right. She began the speech by saying a very short prayer in her Islam. She greats her audience and salutes the Nobel Peace Prize committee for selecting her for the award. She appreciates her parents there in her trying-times, A rhetorical device is a use of language that is intended to have an effect on its audience. The speech entails many rhetorical terms to make an artistic and credibleShow MoreRelatedRhetorical Analysis Of Malala Yousafzai Nobel Peace Prize Speech726 Words   |  3 Pages Malala Yousafzai Nobel Peace Prize Speech Analysis â€Å"I am those 66 million girls who are deprived of education. And today I am not raising my voice, it is the voice of those 66 million girls.† Malala Yousafzai makes this statement in her speech to the Nobel Committee as the first Pakistani and, at the age of sixteen, the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize Award. Malala was unfortunately shot in the head by a member of the Taliban, due to the fact that she defied a culture that didRead MoreMalala Yousafzai ´s Speech Essay1087 Words   |  5 Pages The speaker is Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl; she is sixteen years old. She was shot by Taliban in on October 2012. Malala was the first and the youngest person who received the biggest European human rights prize called Sakh arov Malala was received Nobel Peace Prize in 2013. She also received many other international awards such as women of the year 2013 by Glamour, Womens rights award Raw War (Malala yousafzai Web, 2013). Malala Yousafzai give a speech at the United Nations. The terroristRead MoreA Brief Note On Malala Yousafzai s I Am Malala 2104 Words   |  9 Pages Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan (Yousafzai, 2013, p.233). She is the daughter of Ziauddin and Tor Pekai Yousafzai and has two younger brothers. Some background about Yousafzai as it maintains in her book â€Å"I am Malala: The girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban† she was a child, she became an advocate for girls education, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her (Yousafzai, 2013, 235). On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot