Teaching Human Rights

As a teacher of human rights to snarky, know-it-all preteens, I would have my students enter the classroom but I would not acknowledge them. On the board in English, it would say “First day of Human Rights class.” Then, after everyone is seated I would have out a form to …

Human Rights in the Philippines

Although I am sure that this is not a problem, I could not stop at just two – I read all of the provided poems by Dr. Igloria. I must say, she has quite a few revolving themes throughout her work. For instance, Help and Swarm Migration are about live-in maids with Swarm Migration more …

The Key – Vo Phien

The symbolic significance of the key wears refers to the man’s reluctance to let go of his life in Vietnam. This is …

Islamic Revolution in Iran

The revolution in Iran was characterized as the overthrow of the dictatorial monarchy that had lasted 2500 years by an Islamic faction. …

Human Rights and the Internet

Last week, Euronews released an article about an app, Absher, that allows males in Saudi Arabia to track the activity of their …

Rwandan Genocide

“Sometimes in April” conveyed the message of the horrors of genocide better than reading Dawes “Genocide”. Although language can bring readers to …

Gold Fever

After finishing the excerpt of I, Rigoberta Menchu, I noticed there are several correlations between her memoir and the film, Gold Fever. Also, Gold Fever has correlations …

Slow Violence

In a day in age where technology is ever-growing and media can reach the masses on six continents, people only have the attention …

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 23, it says that everyone has the right to work in favorable conditions.  Unfortunately, not …