Eleanor Roosevelt: On The Adoption Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

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Shine On the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States. One of her speech was “the adoption of the universal declaration,” to the president and fellow delegates. Her main idea was to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Right. During the time, United States wanted to adopt the other countries human right. Soviet wanted United States to adopt their declaration on human rights. United States rejected their request after much debate. Yet once again the soviet sent another request by changing the amendment’s wording. Her purpose was to establish the declaration of human right. Paragraph 3: “The first two paragraphs of the amendment to article 3 deal with the question of minorities, which committee 3 decided required further study, and has recommended, in a separate resolution, their reference to the Economic and Social Council and the Human Rights Commission.” She uses polysendeton by using “and”. Her use of polysyndeton restates what the Soviet Amendment says. Though she does not agree with the Soviets, she continues to restate their Amendment which makes it easy for her to counter argue their human rights. The following sentence she opposes their idea. As set out in the Soviet amendment, this provision clearly…show more content…
The first passage describes the problem. Second passage gives a solution to the problem. More than any passage the first paragraph tells the reason why the article is bad. This sentence is all we need to forget about the soviet article, “It restricts right without violating the article.” Second passage describes her purpose. “As we here bring to fruition our labors on this Declaration of Human Rights, we must at the same time rededicate ourselves to the unfinished task which lies before us.” These two passages are important because they summarize the whole speech, from their problems and hopelessness to their solutions and

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