Assignment one
My name is Shatorra Harris and this is my last semester here at city. The reason why I am taking this course is because I need a substitute for Spanish three. When I first came to city I entered in majoring in early childhood. The process to get into the program was longer than I foreseen so I decided to change my major over to social work. Although I love working with children I want to expand my knowledge and work with children and their families. At first I thought I really didn’t have any interest in this class but seeing how women didn’t have rights way back then and seeing the rights we have today is there really a huge difference. Hearing my grandma talk about her times when she was growing up and all this terrible things she had to endure made me think of how strong she has become.
Lynn Hunt describes the universal declaration of human rights as everyone being born with free an equal rights. The French did not believe in these rights. They had developed their own rights or deprived citizens from practicing their rights. The French declaration wasn’t so universal. They had blacklisted; people of color, children, mentally ill. And people who did not own property. The French was seen as discriminatory because of their inefficiency to acknowledge everyone truly having the same level of rights. When the rights of man are ignored it would cause corruption. People would commit crime because they didn’t think that their rights were self evident. This happens today in the workplace. Workers protest because they may feel that the employer is violating their rights as an employee.
Human rights must be consistent, identical and worldly. In order for these wise to be considered human rights, all humans from all over the world must acquire them on the same level. If you questions were asked such as when does someone have full participation of these rights? And do noncitizens share these rights and which ones? I believe when a person is able to fully understand their rights that’s when they should be able to participate in them. I also believe that all immigrants or noncitizens should also engage in these rights because they are still humans. They may have participated in the right where they came from so why can’t they participate in the right where they are currently residing. They’re able and aware of how to follow these rights. Thomas Jefferson changed the name of the rights to rights of man. But all men did not have access to these rights. Jefferson didn’t enable these right to Africans and African Americans but only to the slaves that were at home.
Human rights are not self evident because there is still some discrepancies within the rights themselves. It’s says that all men are born equal but one man or person can’t partake in these rights because of the color of their skin or because they came from another country.
