yanlimeng

This is more of a rant than a well-thought out article, but since this here is called "soap-box", I am going to use it.


I'm currently writing my paper for my Human Rights class. Sometimes I come upon articles that are so messed up...

I can understand articles that argue for example for economic interests against human rights. I do not agree with those, but at least they have often an argumentation that makes sense.

But the article I just read... it was actually published in a booklet by Amnesty International. I have no idea why they put that in there. Maybe to show how ridiculous some argumentations...

I’ve been thinking about human rights in art and literature. Two specific things come to mind. In my English class, we read Melville’s Billy Budd, a Christian allegory about impressed sailors. In my anthropology human rights class, we talked about “the Rights of Man,” by Thomas Paine and my mind drifted to the name of Billy’s original ship, the Rights-of-Man (abbreviated to “Rights.”) It was an obvious allusion to Thomas Paine. It was incredibly blatant symbolism that Billy was impressed onto a ship called the Indomitable. Impressment is just one of the times in history in which...

For Fanpop's third annual Human Rights Awareness month, which I have organized every year since 2008 (OK, for two years), I am going to do...

Absolutely nothing.

And I am terribly guilty about it. Or I was. I'm disgustingly busy this year, so much that I barely have time to Fanpop at all, let alone head an entire campaign that, let's be honest, only a handful of people on Fanpop really care about anyway.

But I know that the people reading this article are part of that handful of people who do care about Human Rights, and about HRAM on Fanpop this December, and were maybe even wondering, "Hey,...