Teen Activist Will Always Be Brave

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There are many people who are passionate about something, but there aren’t many teenagers who are willing to do whatever they can for there passion, sometimes even risk their lives. Those people are called teen activist. Teen activist will always use the internet, they will always be brave, and they will always have obstacles and challenges to overcome.
Teen Activist’s such as Malala Yousafzai and Iqbal Masih have to be brave in order to make a difference in the world. Malala, a teenager from a village called Swat in Pakistan, had to be brave in all the time in order for her to get her passion for girls education around the world. From the interview with Jon Stewart, Malala’s friend told her that she was getting targeted by a group of terrorist called the Taliban and at first she didn’t believe it but when she looked on the internet it was true she was getting targeted by the Taliban, but she was brave and kept trying to pursue her dream for girls education by speaking out in her village. A little while after she found out she was being targeted, she was shot at point blank in the head while riding in the
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Alex libby an anti-bullying activist was bullied throughout his life a lot and he had to be strong through all of it and he couldn’t stop trying or else it would just get worse and he fought a lot for his passion to show it he also did multiple things. One of which being he went on several interviews and even went on a movie about bullying to try to get bullying to stop. Not only that but he also made a facebook page dedicated to bullying so other people can check out how bad bullying is there. He also has plenty of websites possibly hundreds of them he even has his a wikipedia titled Bully (2011) film. That is all about the movie about him. Alex Libby is one of the many teen activist who use the media to their

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