In language arts class with Ms. Taynton, we worked on the human rights and responsibilities. We learnt about the basic human rights by searching resources on Internet and doing a wikispace. I was working on the human right “freedom of expression” with Ian and Abdullah, we were sharing a page and we worked together to find information and opinions. I struggled with finding opinions of different people from different countries on Internet. I think I explained well what “freedom of expression” is and what is the principal debate about it that is still being discussed in some countries, which is “should we keep the freedom of expression or not?”. I did some research about this question and I found good and convenient opinions on both sides, now I understand why this question is very important and why it is very hard to answer it. I used to think the freedom of expression couldn’t be taken away because it is very important for me to express what I think and believe, but now I think the freedom of expression has negative sides too. Per example you can yell “bomb” in an airport because it’s your freedom of expression but it’s taking away other people’s rights, so you aren’t allowed to yell it. I thought there were no limits to the freedom of expression and most people in the world wanted to keep it. But after searching on Internet I saw that most people don’t want to keep it and there are also a lot of limits that not everyone agree with.

I think I learnt a lot about rights and it completely changed my opinions. I still think that the freedom of expression is important but I think there should be some limits that everyone should respect.

Next time I will have to research on the human rights I will try to find more personal opinions of people from all around the world.