Assignment 1
Hello. I am Nicole Palma. This is my first semester at CWE after graduating from The Borough of Manhattan Community College in the summer of 2016. I hope to get my bachelors in two and a half years for the Center of Worker Education. My major is Early Childhood Education with a concentration in Childhood Studies. I was interested in this class because it was one of two hybrid classes that fit my schedule. I wanted to take a hybrid class because I have never taken an online course and I felt with this class being half on campus and half online, it would provide me with the perfect opportunity to try online course but no being fully enrolled in an online course only. Also with the current election of President Trump, I felt I needed to gain more knowledge on Women’s Rights but more importantly Human Rights.
This is a very exciting semester for me because not only am I taking classes that I am truly interested in but I am expecting my first child at the very end of the semester! I look forward to the both the journey of motherhood as well as the journey as a Center of Worker Education student that the year of twenty seventeen has in store for me. In closing to my self-introduction I would just like to congratulate my all time favorite sports team of all time The New England Patriots in winning the Superbowl!
In the beginning of the introduction to Lynn Hunt’s book Inventing Human Rights, she talks about Thomas Jefferson’s first draft of The Declaration of Independence, which was prepared in mid-June of the year 1776 that he made his own revisions that he made to the draft. Towards the middle of her the introduction Lynn Hunt “Human Rights and “The Rights of Man”” she referred to the term “natural rights” which was more commonly known as now as human rights. I found it interesting that all though Thomas Jefferson spoke of and used the term “Rights of Man”, it did not become “commonly used” and/or gain significant meaning until Jean-Jacques Rousseau used the term in his Social Contract along other “rights terms”, such as “Rights of Sovereignty”, “Rights of Humanity” and “Rights of the Citizen”. Jean- Jacques Rousseau Social Contract was a book of theories he created on the best way to make a “Political community” function. “How Rights Become Self Evident”.
