Reflection on LIB progect

1)      Describe how you understand the language of human rights

I understand the language of human rights to be the power language has to either affirm or deny another persons rights. Throughout history people like Martin Luther King Jr have used their voice and language to help change laws. And people like Hitler have used the power of language to take away rights from certain individuals. Language and rights are two important things and putting them together can be very powerful.

2)      Describe how you have illustrated this in your project.

My project describes the need for human rights it connects the heart mind and voice to give you the need for human rights. It describes how human rights shouldn’t only be for certain individuals it should be for all. We are all human no matter what and certain laws should protect us just by being so.

3)      Describe one element from each class that informs your idea the language of human rights.

 In my law and human rights class we discuss and learn about our rights by using the Bill of Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This gives me the ground work and background information on the legal side of human rights. In English 101 I've already read 2 books about African American History which pertain to human rights. The first, When I Was a Slave edited by Norman Yetman, which describes how every human right was taken from African American and they were enslaved. The next Southern Horrors and other Writings Edited by Jacqueline Royster, which shows how language was used to create a misrepresentation of African Americans that allowed vicious mobs to take over three thousand lives. My linguistics has showed me how important everyone’s individual language is to them and how that is not protected and many languages are dying taking along with them important cultural knowledge.