10 Teenage Girls who have Changed the World

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alannabennett/10-people-who-are-proof-that-we-shouldnt-look-dow-d2yp

Buzzfeed has been doing a phenomenal job lately at showing how awesome women are. What I love about this article is that it shows how teenage girls have made a difference in the world, proving that activism is possible even at a young age. In class, we have discussed numerous times how individuals think that activism is too difficult to do or that they simply do not have the time to do it. These ten girls show how activism can be used in one’s daily life. Angela Zhang, for example, took a high school science fair project to the next level by potentially creating a cure for cancer.

Another thing I really love about this article is that it proves that anybody can be an activist, even a teenager! Each of these ten girls are completely different and bring their own talents to the table in regards to changing the world and making a difference. As the article examines, there are girls like Mary Shelley and Tavi Gevinson, who have changed our world on a culture level through their contributions in science fiction and in fashion respectively. Both of these teenagers obviously took something that they were passionate about and made it their own, which is what activism is all about.

Also, this article does a phenomenal job in showing girls of different ethnicities and social classes. Brittany Wenger is a 17 year old girl from Florida who designed a computer program that can diagnose breast cancer and leukemia. Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin, and Bello Eniola, on the other hand, are from Nigeria, and worked together in order to invent a urine-powered generator. And through a life or death situation, Malala Yousafzai began speaking out on behalf of women’s education when she was only 11 years old, not letting the threat of the Taliban infringe upon her mission. 

I think these teenager girls are a perfect example of how activism can truly be done by anyone, regardless of age and that all talents can be utilized in order to carry out a truly activist mission.