The revolutions had a global impact on the world because they enlightened other countries about how to stand up for their rights and then encouraged them to fight for their rights. The ideas spread throughout the world and they were known as "Global Echoes". The global echoes had a impact on countries for a lot of things however, two really stood out to me. These two were the abolishment of slavery and equality for women. The connection I made regarding these echoes were with the song "Same Love." The song talks about equality for gay people. It describes that love is love no matter what color, race or sex you are. Same thing goes for the abolishment of slavery and the equality for women. Regardless if your a boy or a girl, no matter if your skin color is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, black, white, or grey, all people are people and they are all EQUAL. This was the positive thing that came out of the Global Echoes. It was a realization to people that we should be treating everyone with respect and all have the same rights. Finally, after the echoes took an impact, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights came out in 1948.
Chapter 16 Documents:
I like Document 16.3 because it focuses on the rights of people and the freedom of slaves. The ideas of the French Revolution had sparked a light in realization that people were made to be equal. Additionally, in America once the Declaration of Independence was created and it stated, "all men were created equally."
The document is was in the perspective of a past slave named Douglass. He was a slave, then lead an abolishment, then became a write and a publisher. The main message of this document was to get the reader thinking about what the Fourth of July really means to slaves. In America, we celebrate this day because it was when the Declaration of Independence came out and finally all people had their freedom. However, for people who were slaves, it is a day to remember all the cruelty, wrongs, and injustices that went on years ago. For past slaves, or for families whos ancestors were slaves, it is not a celebration. It is a sad day, so should we really be celebrating it?
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