...certain entitlements simply for being a human. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscious and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2010). They were developed in a democratic and universal manner. Throughout the world, human rights are acknowledged in various ways, such as shared norms of human moralities, justified moral norms, natural rights, or legal rights which are enforced at either a national level or within international law. However, the concept of human rights has been a heated topic of debate, as there is no consensus as to what should or should not be considered a human right. Human rights are relatively modern, only being in force for just over 50years, however the foundation of this concept is seen in the history of philosophy and concepts of natural law, rights and liberties in classical Greece and the development of Roman Law. Human rights concepts have existed for a lot of human history; however these liberties that are known can hardly be considered human rights as such. The idea existed historically, for instance Aristotle wrote on the rights of citizens to property and participation in public events. However a universal conception of human rights was non existent with the Greeks and Romans, as slavery was prevalent in their society and considered a natural thing. A lot of modern human...
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...The battle between natural law and human law is very present , a described in, A Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr., and Antigone by Sophocles. In both tales, two minorities fight to overcome the great power of human law in order to do right by the almighty power of natural law. As well as the struggle to enforce natural law, the feat to restore universal humanity to society is an immense focus point throughout both, A Letter From Birmingham Jail, and Antigone. Both are tales that live on for ages due to the great virtue represented within each. “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” (Martin Luther King Jr., Letter From Birmingham...
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...This I Believe is a collection of people's personal philosophies of life. Many share the same principles, such as kindness. Kindness is a key element of human existence; it is a universal concept that does not differentiate between people of different backgrounds. In Sarah Adams essay, “Be Cool to the Pizza Dude,” she expresses several steps and reasons to be kind to others. Sarah writes about equality and universal kindness; “After all, the dude is delivering pizza to young and old, families and singletons, gays and straights, blacks, whites, and browns, rich and poor, and vegetarians, and meat lovers alike” (Adams 8). In Sarah's first principle she highlights that the pizza delivery dude is a link between people of all branches of life. He does not discriminate between race, age, religion, and delivers pizza to everyone alike. She conveys to the reader that kindness is not exclusive to people of...
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...All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, written in 1929, is in the perspective of a German soldier named Paul. This novel is based on World War I and follows Paul and his unit throughout the war. In the novel, it showed four different types of themes such as, universal brotherhood, comradeship, horror of war, and questioning of authority. After the end of World War I, most still thought that war was a good idea, but little did they know the horrific experience of the soldier and the large numbers of deaths from the war. Remarque using the four themes, made this novel to convey that fighting in war was not a good idea in hopes of preventing future war. Horrors of war is used to back up the main idea not to fight wars. Remarque shows the central idea when Kemmerich’s leg was amputated. Kemmerich was struck in battle with an intense injury and you can tell from descriptions that he is not doing too well. Kemmerich painfully and slowly died in the end. Another way the author makes the main idea more prominent was bombardments, a continuous attack with bomb, shells or other missiles. There was a lot of shots that hit and weakened the German army in this, like when Kat dies from the shrapnel splinter in his head, many other people died...
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...and tumbling forever. I feel my skin burning from sliding on the pavement; my head was traumatized as I continued to roll before finally coming to a stop. My husband recalls the night of his terrible motorcycle accident. Motorcyclists should be required to wear helmets in all states in order to be consistent, to avoid serious head injuries, and to reduce the amount of deaths due to accidents. Inconsistent The first universal motorcycle helmet law was legislated in 1967, and accepted in all but three states. Currently, half the states require helmets for all motorcyclists. Illinois, Iowa, and New Hampshire are the only states that don’t require motorcyclists to wear helmets (Governors Highway Safety Association, 2014). The federal government has twice enacted universal helmet laws, and then repealed them. In 1976, Congress revoked federal authority to assess penalties for noncompliance and states began to weaken helmet laws to apply, only to young or novice riders (Governors Highway Safety Association, 2014). Thirty-one states have had a universal helmet law repealed (undo law: to officially end the validity of something such as a law). The fact that the law has been repealed on several occasions demonstrates the inconsistency in regards to states requiring motorcyclists and passengers to wear helmets. Head Injury A head injury is any trauma that injures the scalp, skull, or brain (National Library of Medicine, 2014). According to the Centers for Disease Control...
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...effectively fights terrorism to a certain extent. The New York Times released an article to talk about the dark side of drone attacks. In the article, mainly talks about how Obama wanted to end the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, but as terrorism increased. Obama rely more towards...
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...We must retaliate against the barbaric, cruel and unacceptable police brutality in a peaceful manner. When an organization established for the protection and wellbeing of the citizenry turn upon us, fire ammunition at us and savagely beat down the protesters. The time has come for us to rise up and make our argument heard across the whole of Hong Kong. Don’t get me wrong, democracy and freedom is, or at least should be, the fundamental and central goal of the Hong Kong people. But the anger displayed by the protestors and councilmen truly shock me to the core. Born and bred in a city of love and tolerance, I urge you, I urge the Hong Kong populace to not turn upon oneself. We need not resort to violence and anger, and we must not fight among ourselves, lest stoop to the level of the communist regime in the mainland. To quote Gandhi; “If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment’s purchase.” We must not achieve our aims through a coup d'etat, not through ravaging the streets of the city we love and definitely not through refusing...
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...diseases and syndromes like Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) has changed my thinking and how treating a patient with this condition appropriately. According to "Basic Information About Hiv And Aids" (2011), “Both types of HIV damage a person’s body by destroying specific blood cells, called CD4+T cells, which are crucial to helping the body fight diseases.” With this knowledge and knowing this information I still use appropriate universal precautions when necessary. But I do wear a mask into a patient’s room that I am aware has this syndrome if I am having cold or flu like symptoms. My body is able to fight off infections but there body is not. Another change that has affected me with my present job is “The most important factor in the decline in mortality during the twentieth century was essential hygiene, supported by home and workplace improvements and attempts to improve the environment. Better hygiene accounts for approximately one-fifth of the reduction in mortality.” (Stanfield, Cross, & Hui, 2009, p. Chapter 1 Page 4) Hand washing and using universal precautions appropriately is required in a hospital setting due to all the different diseases we come into contact with. The health care reform under the Obama administration will be helping all Americans with and without healthcare insurance. It will also help businesses and the economy. It has affected me as a future Physician Assistant because “These measures will encourage...
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...plethora of flourishing fields lies the field of human rights. Since 1945, the field of human rights has prospered so rapidly that present day human rights differ immensely from the human right laws of 1945. The definitions and institutions of human rights have evolved so greatly that a whole new world has opened up. Through decades of determination as well as struggle, these definitions and institutions of human rights have made vast advances towards the inclusion of basic human rights to all. Between the United Nations, nongovernmental organizations, and citizens of our world, the fight for equality has brought about a successful change. The concept that every person is entitled to certain, inalienable rights simply by the virtue of their humanity is relatively new. The year of 1945 marks not only the historical end of World War II, but it also indicates the propulsion of human rights into the universal scale. The combined extermination by Nazi Germany of over 11 million Jews, Gypsies, communists, Polish, homosexuals, and mentally and physically disabled stunned the world. In her essay Hunt notes, “ As the war ended, revelations about the scale of the horrors deliberately perpetrated by the Germans shocked the public,” (Hunt, p. 201). She continues to report that, “The Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46 not only brought such atrocities to wide public attention but also established the precedent that rulers, officials, and military...
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...around the world to be proud of their race and to see beauty in their own kind. A central idea to Garveyism was that African people in every part of the world were one people and they would never advance if they did not put aside their cultural and ethnic differences and contrast. He led a movement that articulated a distinctively nationalist approach to African American identity and politics. This movement, which he founded, was called the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). The Universal Negro Improvement Association is dedicated to racial pride, economic self-sufficiency, and the formation of an independent black nation in Africa. It is an educational, institutional, constructive, and expansive association that does its work to uplift the people of African Ancestry of the world. I think that what the Universal Negro Improvement Association stands for is relevant today. Just like during Garvey’s travels he believed that uniting the ‘blacks’ was the only way to improve conditions. If they just come together and fight with love, faith, and charity they can accomplish what is needed and would be blessed. Oppressing the weak will only lead to confusion and further turmoil. Present day there are still minority groups who are being taken advantage of and are in need of improve conditions. Following the guide like the UNIA, people can stand together and realize that they, as a group, could make a difference. An aspect of the UNIA movement that is not relevant...
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...cultural diversity on a high level, not just because of ethical reasons, but also to keep the rating of your newspaper and to maximize profits. But the most important is that tensions will be held on a normal level. A country cannot exist and operate without tolerance and cultural diversity, and so is the media. 3. What are the three most important things a journalist must think of when reporting of ethnicity? “Culture takes diverse forms across time and space. This diversity is embodied in the uniqueness and plurality of the identities of the groups and societies making up humankind. As a source of exchange, innovation and creativity, cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature.“ In November 2001, the Universal Declaration of Cultural Diversity was adopted. It was...
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...treaties no longer apply,' Joanne Mariner, director of the terrorism and counter-terrorism program at Human Rights Watch said at the conference in Paris last week. The trend has worsened over the last seven years, according to Mariner, Some 2,000 human rights experts and activists have attended the annual United Nations Department of Public Information Non-Governmental Organizations Conference. The UN DPI/NGO conference on 'Reaffirming Human Rights for all: The Universal Declaration at 60' was held at the headquarters of the Unites Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The conference this year commemorated the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in Paris in December 1948. During the war on terror, however, the United States has not been fully as inclusive as it was in its war against communism. Aside from those in the "coalition of the willing," even most European countries have distanced themselves from Washington. When it came to fight the war on terror in Iraq, The United States never realize, moreover, the depth of the fault lines in Iraqi society between Kurds and Arabs, Sunnis and Shiites, and the...
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...between 300 BC and 300 AD) has the honor of being the longest epic in world literature, 100,000 2-line stanzas (although the most recent critical edition edits this down to about 88,000), making it eight times as long as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey together, and over 3 times as long as the Bible (Chaitanya vii). According to the Narasimhan version, only about 4000 lines relate to the main story; the rest contain additional myths and teachings. In other words, theMahabharata resembles a long journey with many side roads and detours. It is said that “Whatever is here is found elsewhere. But whatever is not here is nowhere else.” The name means “great [story of the] Bharatas.” Bharata was an early ancestor of both the Pandavas and Kauravas who fight each other in a great war, but the word is also used generically for the Indian race, so the Mahabharata sometimes is referred to as “the great story of India.” The work is divided into 18 books (concerning an 18-day war among 18 armies). The main narrative concerning the war is contained in the first ten books. Pronunciation guide of the main characters: Vyasa [Vee-YA-sha]: narrator of the story and father of Pandu and Dhritarashtra BHISH-ma: half-uncle by marriage of Pandu and Dhritarashtra Dhri-ta-RASH-tra: blind king, father of Duryodhana and the Kauravas GAN-dhari: wife of Dhritarashtra KUN-ti: wife of Pandu and mother to the five Pandavas and Karna Yu-DHISH-thira: leader of the Pandavas, rightful heir to the throne BHI-ma:...
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...Mission Impossible: Universal Civil Rights Imagine a world where everyone is accepted for who they are and they don’t have to worry about being judged by the world around them. In Kenji Yoshino’s “Preface” and “The New Civil Rights” he talks about creating a new civil rights which would do just that except just for North America. He promotes not covering, putting on a façade, to start this process. One place where we could begin being ourselves is online, by collaborating everyone’s intrinsic ideas, according to Marshall Poe’s “The Hive”. But not everyone one has a computer. That’s when Thomas Friedman’s “The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention” comes out to publicize supply chains which are different countries collaborating to make something together, like Dell computers, all over the world, which could altogether stop wars between united countries. This could potentially create a Universal civil rights. If other countries can forget our differences to work on a project together then maybe we could also work together to agree on a Universal civil rights. There’s just a few elements that are stopping this from happening that include disagreements in religion, culture, and computer access could thwart this mission before it even gets started. Religions all around the world have varying definitions on what is okay and what is not okay. Most religious people think that gay people should not get married. In the Bible it talks about Sodom and Gomorrah which are two cities that were...
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...Relativism and Morality SOC120: Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility March 12, 2012 I have many thoughts on the subjects discussed by Lenn Goodman in his article. Determining whether Goodman is right or wrong is simply a matter of opinion, it is the perception of the person or people who believe in these ways. It is my strong belief that what Goodman is stating in his article is right. “Granted, any norm, to be effectual, must be embedded in the thick of life.”(Goodman, 2010) Discussing the different areas in which Goodman talks about in his article the first is Genocide, Famine, and Germ Warfare. “All living beings make claims to life.” (Goodman, 2010) Goodman tries to compare murder and warfare in this article. I can agree with him on the fact that murder is wrong, but at the same time there must be some type of line drawn to determine whether this act is committed on behalf of wants, needs, or desire. There are many different facets of murder, all having the same end state of death. Some commit this act of violence on the cause of jealousy or envy which speaks on that individual’s character. Sometimes murder may be committed in acts of self-defense, in these cases I would say that this violent act would possibly be excusable due to the constraints of the situation (either he dies or I die). In this term it is a matter of survival going to the mere basics of humanity. Within the confines of murder comes genocide. Genocide unlike murder...
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