å Tuesday, January 31st, 2017

Due Sunday, February 5th, by midnight. Word count: 400 words. Please make sure everything is in your own words. If you paraphrase, make sure to include the proper citation.

1. Write an introductory post that tells the class who you are and about your interest in this class.

2. Then, in about a page, reflect on the following: In the introduction to her book, Inventing Human Rights, Lynn Hunt (2007) draws our attention to some of the legal documents that were precursors to the Universal Declaration for Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948. Choose one of these works and begin to contextualize it in relationship to the framework for human rights that exists today.