My Top Three REEL ACTION Topics

1. Human Rights
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." -
Article 1 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights(UDHR)
Firstly, I want to learn and then educate others about how the U.N Universal Declaration was drawn up, the history of human rights in the world and get really into what, exactly, the definition means for all of us. Then I'd want to go further with these basic rights that all humans are entitled to- such as examine where in our world and society they are being abused, what possible replies to that are, and how we can implicate these replies. I believe that this is a relevant topic to the global community of today, and one that raises many questions.

3.Conflict,War and Peace is a subject that has been discussed quite a bit in my Humanities class this year. We have focused more on the present day or more current conflicts, as well as examined little known conflicts like the Ethiopian and Eritrea war. Some aspects of the terrible subject are interesting, however War/ Conflict is not my third topic choice because I am interested in war. The peace talks, the discussions between countries that have happened and need to happen are intriguing and something I would love to learn more about. I have been reading a lot of that subject of making peace and could really use that information in my REEL ACTION film!

3. My third choice for a REEL ACTION is the topic of our ever-changing environment, particularly the biggie- global warming. This is a topic that we can see the effects of on a local and global level. I see the local level everyday, and recently is has been those world-wide effects that interest me, and frankly scare me the most. We all our contributing to this problem that is creating huge changes such as ancient ice burgs melting and desertification of already devastated areas. I know that not only do we NEED to begin combating this problem, we CAN with the aid of educational outlets like our videos!