The most common themes that have so far appeared frequently in the Cluster has been, Human Rights and Language. In our three specific classes our given assignments have all connected to Language and Human Rights in some way. All assignments have broaden my view on the topic, Law and Human Rights and how Language is involved. In all three classes we look in-depth to the violations against Human Rights both past and present drawing specific examples of Language and its influence.
In our Law and Human Rights class, we have been discussing daily, "what is human rights?", we constantly look throughout history as well as present society for examples that portrays the genuine meaning of Human Rights. We also discuss that even though we are all born with 'Human Rights', the use of Language determines the outcome of events in our society that affects our Human Rights, leading to both positive and negative outcomes. The used of Language comes in the form of 'speech' and 'physical body language', these human characteristics are used daily affecting Human Rights. Political Science evaluates the state of our government and it's politics. We also have been fortunate enough to not only evaluate 'our' government and it's laws, but also look globally using other countries as references to compare and contrasting the similarities and differences in respective societies.
In our English 101/103 course we also have the frequent connection of Language and Human Rights. We have been using text that includes events of past American culture in which we draw these connections and often compare and contrast them to our present society. Examples of events that connects both Human Rights and Language comes from the text we have studied, the most common being, Slavery, Lynching and many other complex events. In one of the text that we have already completed, "When I Was A Slave", Memoirs From The Slave Narrative Collection, edited by Norman R. Yetman, it consist of many individual interviews of former Slaves discussing their time of enslavement. In all specific interviews we can clearly draw the connection of how each of the former slave's "Human Rights" were violated. In the form of ownership by the "White Supremacist". The slaves bodies were own by the whites, and were used to as tools working on plantations. Apart from just being just plantation workers, many individuals experienced physical and barbaric punishments. The basic logic I personally can summarize from learning this topic has been the violation of human rights in the form of supremacy, the theory of White vs. Black culture. The basis of the White man labeling America a White man's country signifies the violation against other cultures, a racist belief.
Learning in a multicultural classroom is very interesting, we often get different opinions and have very interesting discussions. I personally really like our learning environment in the cluster, I feel very comfortable learning each day in class. In our LIB 110 class, we basically 'extend' on our topic of 'Human Rights', we sometimes write, read, and listen to Human Rights issues around the world. It is very interesting the stories we are introduced too, it opened our eyes on the state of our society. One of our professor's, Ms. Bojana Blagojevic introduced us to her personal book "Story of One Heart", which is filled with many poems she wrote as a teenage growing up in a "War-Zone" society at the time, it was all inspiring. Ms. B explains in depth at the time her situation, which also relates to how 'her' human rights were violated. Overall I can truly say everything I have learned from the first day of classes to now has all been well worth the time I invested. I have to thank all three professors for being very helpful in guiding me to learning and having a more open mind to such important information. Going forward I would not change a thing about the cluster, I hope it continues to go smoothly, and have a lasting effect on my academic career as a college student.
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