HUMAN RIGHTS AND PREPERENTIAL OPTION FOR

THE POOR

Human rights guarantee people the means necessary to satisfy their basic needs, such as food, housing, and education,
so they can take full advantage of all opportunities. Finally, by guaranteeing life, liberty, equality, and security, human rights
protect people against abuse by those who are more powerful. Preferential option for the poor means that Christians are called to
look at the world from the perspective of the marginalized and to work in solidarity for justice. The gallery walk activity which
includes the discussions and sharing about human rights in different aspects in life really brought an impact in my life. Our rights
should not be taken for granted and should be used correctly and wisely. Anyone should not abuse his or her rights, instead, to
use it prudently and correctly. This lesson helped to know the importance of being aware and interested in our rights, for it
ensures that our basic needs are met, protect us from abuse, allows us to stand up for the truth, stand against corruption,
encourage us to freedom of speech and expression, and allows us to choose and do what we want and is right. Human rights
embodies values that emphasize human equality, dignity and liberty.

I’ve grown in my knowledge, loving, living and serving of Jesus. Knowledge of Jesus: By learning that Jesus will always
think about our rights. As the bible teaches, God does not discriminate or show favoritism (Acts 10:34). It means that God shows
equality in every human right. Loving of Jesus, I’ve grown by knowing that Jesus is always b y my side to always help me in times
of difficulties in life. He will not allow that one of His children is treated unfairly. Living of Jesus, I’ve grown by still imparting the
values of Jesus in achieving my rights as a human. Serving of Jesus, I’ve grown by serving him every Sunday. Giving my time to
listen to His words.

As man is God’s special creation, humans have been blessed with certain “human rights”. The bible teaches that God
does not discriminate or show favoritism (Acts 10:34). Every person is unique creation of His, and He loves each one (John 3:16).
As man is created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). Because of this, man has a certain dignity and was given dominion over
the rest of creation (Genesis 1:26) Thus, God’s people are to help whoever is in need (Proverbs 14:21). This lesson became an
instrument for me to fully realize that God will always stand for our equal rights. Whenever we feel unfair treatments, we know
that He is there to listen to us. He may not be visible in our eyes, but His presence is always in our hearts.
  Exposition: "Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona where we lay our scene, From acnient grudge break to new
mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean, From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-crossed lovers
take their life. The fearful passage of their death marked love and continuance of their parents' rage which led to their children's
deaths."

 Conflict: Romeo and Juliet are lovers whose lives are ruined by a conflict that has been going on between their families, the
Montagues and the Capulets, for many years. In this respect the play resembles an epic in which the lives of relatively powerless
humans are affected by the clash of powerul forces, such as the war between the Greeks and Trojans in Homer's Iliad Neither
Romeo nor Juliet can be called the protagonist or antagonist in Shakespeare's play. The heads of their families are the
protagonist and antagonist, and it would seem that the head of the Capulet family (Juliet's) would be considered the protagonist
and the other the antagonist, because the Capulet's cause the problem by trying to force their daughter to marry Paris.

 Rising Action: The balcony scene, it made them want to be together even more now. The marriage. Tybalt sends Romeo a duel.
 Climax: Romeo kills Tybalt. Romeo is banished.
 Falling Action: When Juliet hears of Romeo's banishment she is in a state of despair. Juliet is told she must marry Paris. She
takes the potion from Friar Lawrence.
 Denouement: When they knew of the couple's death, the Montagues and Capulets reconciled, letting go of their grudges.
 Setting: Verona and Mantua, Italy, Renaissance, 14th or 15th century
 Romeo: son and heir of Montague, protagonist of tragedy
 Juliet: daughter of Capulet, naive child who trusts and gives her life to Romeo
 Friar Lawrence: a priest, friend to both Romeo and Juliet, who secretly marries them and gives Juliet the potion
Romeo and Juliet Summary
An age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed. A group of masked Montagues risk further conflict
by gatecrashing a Capulet party. A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her
father’s choice, the County Paris. With the help of Juliet’s nurse, the women arrange for the couple to marry the next day, but Romeo’s
attempt to halt a street fight leads to the death of Juliet’s own cousin, Tybalt, for which Romeo is banished. In a desperate attempt to be
reunited with Romeo, Juliet follows the Friar’s plot and fakes her own death. The message fails to reach Romeo, and believing Juliet
dead, he takes his life in her tomb. Juliet wakes to find Romeo’s corpse beside her and kills herself. The grieving family agree to end
their feud.
Another SUMMARY
In the streets of Verona another brawl breaks out between the servants of the feuding noble families of Capulet and
Montague. Benvolio, a Montague, tries to stop the fighting, but is himself embroiled when the rash Capulet, Tybalt, arrives on the
scene. After citizens outraged by the constant violence beat back the warring factions, Prince Escalus, the ruler of Verona, attempts to
prevent any further conflicts between the families by decreeing death for any individual who disturbs the peace in the future.
Romeo, the son of Montague, runs into his cousin Benvolio, who had earlier seen Romeo moping in a grove of sycamores.
After some prodding by Benvolio, Romeo confides that he is in love with Rosaline, a woman who does not return his affections.
Benvolio counsels him to forget this woman and find another, more beautiful one, but Romeo remains despondent.
Meanwhile, Paris, a kinsman of the Prince, seeks Juliet’s hand in marriage. Her father Capulet, though happy at the match,
asks Paris to wait two years, since Juliet is not yet even fourteen. Capulet dispatches a servant with a list of people to invite to a
masquerade and feast he traditionally holds. He invites Paris to the feast, hoping that Paris will begin to win Juliet’s heart.
Romeo and Benvolio, still discussing Rosaline, encounter the Capulet servant bearing the list of invitations. Benvolio suggests
that they attend, since that will allow Romeo to compare his beloved to other beautiful women of Verona. Romeo agrees to go with
Benvolio to the feast, but only because Rosaline, whose name he reads on the list, will be there.
In Capulet’s household, young Juliet talks with her mother, Lady Capulet, and her nurse about the possibility of marrying Paris. Juliet
has not yet considered marriage, but agrees to look at Paris during the feast to see if she thinks she could fall in love with him.
 The feast begins. A melancholy Romeo follows Benvolio and their witty friend Mercutio to Capulet’s house. Once inside,
Romeo sees Juliet from a distance and instantly falls in love with her; he forgets about Rosaline completely. As Romeo watches Juliet,
entranced, a young Capulet, Tybalt, recognizes him, and is enraged that a Montague would sneak into a Capulet feast. He prepares to
attack, but Capulet holds him back. Soon, Romeo speaks to Juliet, and the two experience a profound attraction. They kiss, not even
knowing each other’s names. When he finds out from Juliet’s nurse that she is the daughter of Capulet—his family’s enemy—he
becomes distraught. When Juliet learns that the young man she has just kissed is the son of Montague, she grows equally upset.
As Mercutio and Benvolio leave the Capulet estate, Romeo leaps over the orchard wall into the garden, unable to leave Juliet
behind. From his hiding place, he sees Juliet in a window above the orchard and hears her speak his name. He calls out to her, and
they exchange vows of love.
Romeo hurries to see his friend and confessor Friar Lawrence, who, though shocked at the sudden turn of Romeo’s heart,
agrees to marry the young lovers in secret since he sees in their love the possibility of ending the age-old feud between Capulet and
Montague. The following day, Romeo and Juliet meet at Friar Lawrence’s cell and are married. The Nurse, who is privy to the secret,
procures a ladder, which Romeo will use to climb into Juliet’s window for their wedding night.
The next day, Benvolio and Mercutio encounter Tybalt—Juliet’s cousin—who, still enraged that Romeo attended Capulet’s
feast, has challenged Romeo to a duel. Romeo appears. Now Tybalt’s kinsman by marriage, Romeo begs the Capulet to hold off the
duel until he understands why Romeo does not want to fight. Disgusted with this plea for peace, Mercutio says that he will fight Tybalt
himself. The two begin to duel. Romeo tries to stop them by leaping between the combatants. Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo’s
arm, and Mercutio dies. Romeo, in a rage, kills Tybalt. Romeo flees from the scene. Soon after, the Prince declares him forever
banished from Verona for his crime. Friar Lawrence arranges for Romeo to spend his wedding night with Juliet before he has to leave
for Mantua the following morning.
In her room, Juliet awaits the arrival of her new husband. The Nurse enters, and, after some confusion, tells Juliet that Romeo
has killed Tybalt. Distraught, Juliet suddenly finds herself married to a man who has killed her kinsman. But she resettles herself, and
realizes that her duty belongs with her love: to Romeo.
Romeo sneaks into Juliet’s room that night, and at last they consummate their marriage and their love. Morning comes, and
the lovers bid farewell, unsure when they will see each other again. Juliet learns that her father, affected by the recent events, now
intends for her to marry Paris in just three days. Unsure of how to proceed—unable to reveal to her parents that she is married to
Romeo, but unwilling to marry Paris now that she is Romeo’s wife—Juliet asks her nurse for advice. She counsels Juliet to proceed as
if Romeo were dead and to marry Paris, who is a better match anyway. Disgusted with the Nurse’s disloyalty, Juliet disregards her
advice and hurries to Friar Lawrence. He concocts a plan to reunite Juliet with Romeo in Mantua. The night before her wedding to
Paris, Juliet must drink a potion that will make her appear to be dead. After she is laid to rest in the family’s crypt, the Friar and Romeo
will secretly retrieve her, and she will be free to live with Romeo, away from their parents’ feuding.
Juliet returns home to discover the wedding has been moved ahead one day, and she is to be married tomorrow. That night,
Juliet drinks the potion, and the Nurse discovers her, apparently dead, the next morning. The Capulets grieve, and Juliet is entombed
according to plan. But Friar Lawrence’s message explaining the plan to Romeo never reaches Mantua. Its bearer, Friar John, gets
confined to a quarantined house. Romeo hears only that Juliet is dead.
Romeo learns only of Juliet’s death and decides to kill himself rather than live without her. He buys a vial of poison from a
reluctant Apothecary, then speeds back to Verona to take his own life at Juliet’s tomb. Outside the Capulet crypt, Romeo comes upon
Paris, who is scattering flowers on Juliet’s grave. They fight, and Romeo kills Paris. He enters the tomb, sees Juliet’s inanimate body,
drinks the poison, and dies by her side. Just then, Friar Lawrence enters and realizes that Romeo has killed Paris and himself. At the
same time, Juliet awakes. Friar Lawrence hears the coming of the watch. When Juliet refuses to leave with him, he flees alone. Juliet
sees her beloved Romeo and realizes he has killed himself with poison. She kisses his poisoned lips, and when that does not kill her,
buries his dagger in her chest, falling dead upon his body.
The watch arrives, followed closely by the Prince, the Capulets, and Montague. Montague declares that Lady Montague has
died of grief over Romeo’s exile. Seeing their children’s bodies, Capulet and Montague agree to end their long-standing feud and to
raise gold statues of their children side-by-side in a newly peaceful Verona.