CMLIT 143- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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Homework: post info about yourself on canvas, post a comment/question on canvas, do class reading from syllabus. What are some sources of human rights ideas from before 1800: a survey of early moral codes and duties, hammurabi (1795-1750bc, babylonian (today"s iraq) king who set down first written code of laws. Homosexuals persecuted: major difference: secular universal rights discourse as a way of ending religious wars and contesting the divine right of kings . Tolerance: modern imperialism led to contradictions between universalist claims and imperialist practices, two key events and their rights documents, the french revolution (1798-99) and the declaration of the rights of. Innocent until proven guilty: freedom of religion and opinions, right to organize, can"t give up rights, the american revolution (1763-1776) and the declaration of. Independence (1776) and the bill of rights (1791: the bill of rights (1791, separation of church and state, freedom of speech, compare the bill of rights with the declaration of the.
