Outlining the Thematic Essay:



Outlining the Thematic Essay:

A Collaborative Project by

Barbara Ammirato

Elizabeth Napp

Theme: Justice and Human Rights

Throughout history, the human rights of certain groups of people have been violated. Efforts have been made to address these violations.

Task:

• Define the term “human rights”

• Identify two examples of human rights violations that have occurred in a specific time and place

• Describe the causes of these human rights violations

• For one of the violations identified, discuss one specific effort that was made or is being made to deal with the violation

|Definition of Human Rights: |Examples of Human Rights |Causes of Human Rights |Discuss One Specific Effort that Was|

| |Violations: |Violation: |Made to Deal with the Violation: |

|Human rights are fundamental | | | |

|rights. They include the right | |Spaniards seized Native American|Some Native Americans rebelled |

|to life, liberty, and property. | |lands during conquest. |against their colonial masters. |

| | |Natives were enslaved in the |However, generally, these movements |

| |Native peoples in Spain’s |encomienda system. They were |failed. |

| |American colonies |forced to labor. | |

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| | |The Hindu caste system created a|Today, it is illegal in India to |

|Human rights are fundamental | |group of people who belonged to |discriminate against untouchables. |

|rights. They include the right | |no caste. | |

|to life, liberty, and property. | |Caste was created by the Aryan | |

| | |invaders. | |

| |Untouchables in India | | |

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