Month: October 2017
Expanding the Family
When asked to envision 1950s America, many today would picture a two to three story home, a white mother and father with 2 children, a dog, and a white picket fence. The family is middle class, the father works nine to five, and the mother takes care of the home. This is the … Continue reading →
No Backbone: Failures of Human Rights
After the end of World War One, a new governing body was put into place in order to prevent future wars. This was known as the League of Nations and their policies stayed in effect from 1918 until 1940 when it failed from preventing the world from going to war again. It was not until …
Family of Man
World War Two was the war that spawned the Human Rights movement into what it is today. The gross violations of Human Rights committed by the Nazi’s before and during the war sparked the flame behind this movement. This movement also led to the influential Family of Man photo gallery which show cased human rights […]
Domestic Human Rights Postwar
World War II made human rights an issue that the West believed it was their duty to get behind. The terrible human rights violations by Hitler and the German Nazi regime were so horrific that even the US and … Continue reading →
Human Rights and the Family of Man
We have heard it all of our lives that there are some inalienable rights that all humans have, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The reality is that this has not been true throughout history and, to some extend, remains untrue today. The question of human rights has not always been what …
Blog#4CJackson
Christopher Jackson The Family of Man Human rights simple sounding and at first glance some would say it is just common sense. These Human rights are supposedly inherited rights belonging to all human beings. This is regardless of nationality, sex, ethnic or racial origin, religion, or any other status. All human beings are said to …
