Awareness Mania

HUMAN RIGHTS  \\ DEFINITION: >HUMAN RIGHTS are the rights that all people have by virtue of being human beings. ......... >HUMAN RIGHTS are derived from the inherent dignity of the human person and are defined internationally, nationally and locally by various law making bodies........... > HUMAN RIGHTS is defined as the supreme, inherent, and inalienable rights to life, to dignity, and to self-development. It is concerned with issues in both areas of civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights founded on internationally accepted human rights obligations............ Characteristics of Human Rights........... >Universal............. >Internationally guaranteed.......... >Legally protected......... >Protects individuals and groups........ >Cannot be taken away....... >Equal and indivisible......... >Obliges States and State actors.......... Legal basis - UN Charter.... Sets the pr...

Human Communication What is communication? •All social behavior is a form of communication........ •But it can be inadvertent ..like age, sex, size, ethnicity, apparent strength, weakness, gender........ •Need to delimit communication in order to study it........ •It must be goal-directed and purposeful behavior......... • Any signal given out by one individual used by another either to predict the behavior of the first individual, or something else in the environment (Thelma Rowell)...... • Signals function to permit interaction between fellow species members (con-specifics) thereby making reproduction and survival possible......... Aspects of Communi cation • Signal..... • Meaning.... • Function.... • Development.... • Evolution..... <Human Communication> is 100% verbal/symbolic, productive (new words and meanings can be invented); is 100% non-verbal (involves multi-modal sensory system;   touch (tactile)…movement (...