HIS 10: History of the Modern World
Bronx Community College
City University of New York
Professor Jason Sanchez
Spring 2022
Term Paper
In at least 5-7 written pages of text in length to be submitted through Blackboard: Make a separate Cover Page on the front; put footnotes at the bottom of every page that match the superscripted numbers at the end of the quote, paraphrase, and summary that show the sources of your information; and write a separate Bibliography Page in the back. In 12-point font, double-spaced, either in Times New Roman or Arial, in Chicago Manual of Style, with no extra spaces between paragraphs, answer the following questions based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ratified by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948:
How is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights both an affirmation of and expansion on Enlightenment ideals of natural rights? Answer this question first with analysis of the document itself: Who drafted it? What prompted the drafting and ratification of this document? Where and when and for whom was this document written? Then compare and contrast its impact as both an affirmation of and expansion on Enlightenment ideals of natural rights in two (2) out of the following six (6) regions of today’s world:
- Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- Latin America
- North America
- The Middle East
Read, consult, and cite the history of and text of the document at www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/. You may download the Universal Declaration as PDF from this website.
Then incorporate two articles (no editorials, no letters to the editor, and no opinions pages) from at least two (2) of the following newspapers and two articles from at least one (1) newsmagazine, available online and, if accessible, in print, for this assignment. Avoid plagiarism at all costs.
Newspapers Newsmagazines
The New York Times Newsweek
The Washington Post Time Magazine
The Los Angeles Times U.S. News and World Report
Christian Science Monitor
The Guardian
Note: For guidance on avoiding plagiarism, formatting, drafting and writing this paper, consult Mary Lynn Rampolla’s A Pocket Guide to Writing in History and/or http://owl.english.purdue.edu. This term paper is worth 15 percent of the final grade.