Abracadabra.. hocus pocus.. WORLD PEACE!

1. When I first started annotating the paper, I highlighted words like "maintaining peace" and "equal rights" because those seemed like key ideas that would be important in the document and the tone that it set. Six pages later, peace and equality were still main ideas. In fact, they were the only ideas. The document continued to discuss these ideas, re-phrasing them in many different ways to get the point across. This is a pretty short paragraph summarizing what the document said, but in truth, it really didn't say that much.

2. The goal of the UN was made very apparent: prevent total war and chaos as they'd seen destroy their countries in both World Wars. In addition, and perhaps to help this cause, intolerance was to stop, and everybody was to be accepting of each other. It seemed to me that the goals of the UN were just a direct response to what happened in the world wars. They didn't really take anything else into account. At the beginning it even says, "To save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind," referring to both world wars. The tolerance idea would fix the problem of genocides and the peace idea would fix wars. Simple as that.

3. Maybe it seemed simple to the UN at the time, but they forgot to address how exactly they were going to reach these goals. I don't know what was going through these leaders' heads when they wrote this, but nobody can just say some magic words, rub their hands together and bring world peace. This was the main problem I saw. I had no idea how it would be possible to achieve the goals they set, and after reading through all of it, this question was never answered.