Deck 1: Introduction

Question 1

In 1938, President Roosevelt called what conference to stop the abuses of the Third Reich?

Answer 1

The Conference of Evian

Question 2

At the conference, the U.S. was afraid to bring attention to its _____.

Answer 2

public lynchings

Question 3

Human rights provide the legal mandate to fulfill _____.

Answer 3

human need

Question 4

The United Nations was founded at

Question 5

The drafting committee of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was chaired by _____.

Question 6

Which profession has asserted outright that it is a "human rights profession"?

Question 7

What percentage of the U.S. population controls nearly 50% of its net worth?

Question 8

Which country spends a little more than half the amount of global military expenditures (bombs, planes, firepower, nuclear submarines, etc.) ?

Question 9

The famed philosopher Hannah Arendt is attributed for what chilling phrase?

Question 10

The Dred Scott decision ruled that an African-American man was _____.

Question 11

Roughly, what percentage of Americans has ever heard of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Question 12

Freedom of speech would be called what "kind" of right?

Question 13

Adequate shelter would be called what "kind" of right?

Question 14

Peace, international distributive justice, and humanitarian disaster relief are examples of _____ rights.

Question 15

Human dignity and nondiscrimination are the legacy of which religious tradition(s)?

Question 16

President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech was immortalized by which artist and set of paintings?

Question 17

The wisest and most prudent of all mortals was which mythological character, popularized by the author Albert Camus?

Question 18

Who said, "We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both"?

Question 19

The first president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom who refused to give in to evil images was _____.

Question 20

The proviso of ___________ would find the cutting off of hands for stealing inimical to human rights principles.

Question 21

A corporation suing a government for antismoking policies because it interfered with the consumer's right to choose would be known as a _________ argument.

Question 22

The literary device of _____________ refers to the depiction of an exaggerated scenario, making it appear that such a case is similar to most others.

Question 23

Posing only two choices when there are actually other alternatives is referred to as a _________________.

Question 24

What is the rationale that the author has for this work? What is the meaning of a "human rights culture"?

Question 25

Discuss how at least two of the helping and health professions have asserted the importance of human rights.

Question 26

Discuss at least five preliminary issues to consider while moving toward the creation of a human rights culture. Give examples of each.

Question 27

What are five core notions in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Give examples of each.

Question 28

Discuss at least five provisos for the human rights defender/social justice advocate. Give examples of each.

Question 29

Give some examples of political arguments that are strategically crafted and appeal to goals, problems, and solutions as discussed in the book.