Assignment 1
Hello everyone. My name is Maria Canela Basilio. Yes, I have both of my parent’s last names. As my mother would say “I birthed you so its only right I get my last name in there as well.” Well my mothers’ strong, independent way of thinking is what has led me to CWE. I am on my final semester of my undergraduate career. My major in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Social Welfare. This was stood out to me because I feel that I need to be more educated in order to be the best feminist that I’m capable of being. During the Woman’s March I saw a sign that read something like “Women rights are human rights.” This sign just proved to me that me taking this course was needed. I’m very interested in becoming more educated and aware of all the struggles that women all around are facing. As we all know, women in the US aren’t being looked at as equal of value as men are according to the new elected President Trump. I hope to gain knowledge and confidence as the semester progresses. I hope to enjoy and feel empowered by this course.
“Founding Fathers,” but what did they really find. The Declaration of Independence, according to Lynn Hunt (2007) didn’t give much independence or human rights to anyone that wasn’t a rich white male. This is similar to the way in which politics are being viewed in today date. This document served as a starting point to proclaim that humans needed to have basic rights. However, the people considered human enough to be granted these rights fell into a very slim group. Jefferson was one of these Founding Fathers, what’s controversial is that him himself was a slave owner. Whether he gave them “better treatment” or not is still going against what he was stating in the Declaration of Independence. Even though, we have come a very long way there is still a lot of gray areas. The United Nations adopted these articles as the International Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. However, there are still restrictions, rights are limited depending on where you fall in the pyramid of society, class, and socioeconomic status and religion. In todays day protests are happening often. Social media is one of the most powerful ways in which injustices are being shouted upon. As individuals it is our duty to call out when one’s basic human rights are being taken advantage of, when a human isn’t being treated equally because of where they come from, because of whom they belief in.
