Check out this link and read through this list of some of the most famous Supreme Court rulings in history. We will be discussing some of these cases in our debates. Some you may agree with. Some you will not. What I'd like for you to keep in mind here is how the Marbury vs. Madison ruling established a much more powerful Supreme Court than the Founding Fathers likely would have desired. Which of these decisions do you consider the most important? Do you think the enormous power and influence the Supreme Court wields is what the Founding Fathers envisioned? Go back and review the Constitution. What does it say about the Judicial branch? Write a response of at least 3 paragraphs, using at least two of the listed court cases to support your position. You must also include at least one quote from the Constitution to support your claim. I'd suggest you look at the article discussing the Judicial branch for more credibility. This assignment is due October 31st.
Grace and Theology: A Necessary Discussion of Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Heather Chandler D.H. Lawrence asserts in his Studies in Classic American Literature, that “the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it” (8). While this approach is helpful and necessary in many works of literature, it is both misleading and damaging to do so with Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” A popular new way of interpreting her work is to look through a secular lens, but separating her Catholic beliefs and allusions reduces her work to a simplistic ambiguous tale, molded to suit our own postmodern desires; and, this is essentially as misguided as looking at Da Vinci’s Last Supper and refusing to note its religious connotations. Instead, we should look at the larger picture,...
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