Enduring Issues Essay Setup

** Suggested issue:** Desire for human rights

** Sample documents that could appear:** (1) excerpt from Locke's Second Treatise, (2) Declaration of Rights of Man (1789), (3) Toussaint L'Ouverture's proclamation, (4) Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, (5) a later document on human rights for continuity (such as the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

** Thesis template:** "The desire for human rights is an enduring issue because throughout history people have demanded recognition of their natural rights to freedom, equality, and political voice, even in the face of severe oppression. This issue can be seen in Locke's argument that government must rest on consent of the governed, in the French Revolution's Declaration of the Rights of Man, and in the Haitian Revolution's extension of those principles to enslaved people, each of which expanded the meaning of human rights in ways that still shape political life today."

** Extemp parallel:** Maria should approach this as a three-minute extemp on "How have movements for human rights expanded over time?" Open with the issue (universal rights), thesis, three body points (each anchored in a specific case: Locke, French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, with optional fourth point on Wollstonecraft and gender), and a close that connects to continuity (the same struggle continues in twentieth-century civil rights and decolonization movements).