As an assignment for this/last week, we were told to find relations between what we are learning in history class and things that we have learned in other classes. One connections that I thought of right away is the connection between human rights and something that we are doing in english. In English class we are in the middle of writing a paper about anything we want regarding the internet.
My topic is about how people behave and interact differently on the internet then offline. There are things that people just simply do not do when interacting face to face with people. Things that they just wouldn't say to someone else. But when interacting on the internet through things like Facebook and Twitter people have a barrier between themselves and the person they are interacting with. Going a step further, there are things like formspring, a website where you can anonymously ask people questions. This allows you to a.) have a barrier between you and the other person and b.) you can do it without the other person knowing who you are. (I personally think that formspring is the dumbest thing ever and if anyone actually gets one, they will not have it for long. You are basically asking people say all the bad things about you).
This relates to history class because right now we are focusing on a unit about human rights. Human rights plays a large role in my topic for english because when people say and do whatever they want on the internet, it is almost as though they lose their humanity a little. It is as if because you can't see the person that you are talking to then you might think that they don't actually have human rights, like they aren't real or something. So basically the effect is mostly negative if people's rights are being taken away. It isn't really "historical" but it still has to do with human rights.
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