I Didn T Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier Analysis

The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights is a document that was created in 1948 in hopes of guiding others to follow principles regarding humans’ fundamental rights. After the experiences during the Second World War, the United Nations was created and wished to construct a guide to go along with the UN Charter (). The draft was reviewed by the Commission on Human Rights consisting of “18 members from various political, cultural and religious backgrounds,” which ensured that all rights would consider each individual’s history (). The final Declaration was adopted by the General Assembly in Paris and continues to represent a common ground for many rights and freedoms including rights to education, freedom of opinion and right to property
During the time of World War 1, a popular song was released called “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to be a Soldier” which coincided with those who opposed the war and encouraged the United States to stay out of the war. During the Second World War, comic books went from being published in newspapers to having their own books with characters relating to heroes fighting in the war. As stated in lecture, the characters were used to promote the sale of war bonds and often actively fought Hitler and the Japanese ( ). While these were freely published, some media was voluntary censored for being unpatriotic. In opposition of this censorship is the right stated in the Declaration affirming that “everyone has the right to freedom of expression... and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers,” (The General Assembly, Article 19). Many efforts were made to censor media that was considered unpatriotic in hopes of preventing Canadians from questioning the war while the right to receive information in any form of media could have well informed Canadians of their status in the