Anthony Kennedy

In Justice Kennedy’s estimation, this amendment does nothing but “withdraws from homosexuals, but no others, specific legal protection from the injuries caused by discrimination, and it forbids reinstatement of these laws and policies”. Justice Kennedy supports this claim by stating that “enumeration is the essential device used to make the duty not to discriminate concrete and to provide guidance for those who must comply”. This implicates that the various city ordinances were properly combating discrimination against those of varying sexual orientations by enumerating their protection and that the revocation of this enumeration, as purported by Amendment 2, would be counterintuitive to maintaining equal protection of the law. Additionally, Justice Kennedy lists the various protections that gays and lesbians will lose under the enforcement of Amendment 2 such as an 1990 Colorado Executive order which bans employment discrimination based on sexual orientation as well as the nullification of various legal protections against unjust discrimination in housing, real estate, and welfare services. An example that hits home is how the amendment even went as far as removing rules in state colleges which prohibit discrimination on campuses, allowing…

Times has posted many articles centering on the same subject, and two being that the information comes straight from the source, making the article very trusting. Logos is a major factor used in the configuration of this article. As I have previously mentioned, the author uses past court cases around the U.S. as facts and evidence of juveniles who have faced life in prison. Some examples given were dealing with a young adult who spent time in jail from the time were a young adult to the time…

Sandra Day O’ Connor was a hardworking and revolutionary woman that never gave up even despite extremely challenging career obstacles. Her extreme strength with these obstacles made her able to become the first woman supreme justice. Sandra was born on March 26th, 1930 in El Paso, Texas. Her parents, Ada and Harry O’ Connor, were also hardworking and owned a ranch they called “Lazy B.” At Lazy B, Sandra learned her core values of being a country cowgirl but also, to be on time and studious. Her…

Sandra Day O’Connor was born in El Paso, Texas in 1930. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in economics, and she also received her LL.B. from the Stanford Law School. O'Connor served as Assistant Attorney General of Arizona from 1965 to 1969, and was then appointed to fill a vacancy in the Arizona State Senate. She became the first woman to serve as its Majority Leader. In 1975 she was elected to the Maricopa County Superior Court and in 1979 was elevated to the Arizona State…

A Clockwork Orange is a film produced in 1971, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess. This movie follows Alex, a young, 15 year old teen living in futuristic Britain. Alex is an ultraviolent youth, who performs gruesome acts of extreme brutality for no other reason except that he simply wants to. He takes pleasure in being just as evil as other people are good; he enjoys the power that he has over people and their lives. In Alex’s mind, killing and violence was just a fun game. The movie…

During my time in Dr. Kennedy 's ENG 111 class, I have been pushed way beyond my limits of capabilities. Before in high school, I had no idea what a rhetorical analysis was. But here it turns out to the normality. Normally, we would just read a book and then answer questions based on said book. We also had only used citation once if lucky prior to the senior project. But there wasn 't much need for detail. But nevertheless, without my experience here at RCC, I would have never known the amount…

cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flow from heaven to the soul (Monet).” Feeling good was originally written in 1965, by Nina Simone. This song has been used in the popular culture such as, “Point of No Return” and “Six Feet Under”. A song cover was later done by Jennifer Hudson in 2011, and Lauryn Hill in 2015. Although Nina Simone wrote the song, Jennifer Hudson sang it better due to melody, rhythm, and instrumentation used in her…

Ever wonder who is cooking the food in the kitchens of America’s favorite restaurants? Anthony Bourdain answered this question in his article titled “Who Cooks?” Anthony Bourdain is a chef, writer and has been featured on some reality television shows. He discussed how the line cooks are not who most people think they are; they are not professionals but instead they are non-American men who cannot make it elsewhere according to his experience. Line cooking involves mindless repetition that not…

Hammurabi’s code is composed of a set of rules set forth by a man named Hammurabi. He is known as Babylon’s most prominent ruler; his reign lasting from 1792 to 1750 B.C.E. Hammurabi’s Code reflects the harshness of the social structure in a Mesopotamian society by basing the code on the law of retaliation, not treating all members of the society equally and fairly, and not letting women be full members of the community. The law of retaliation, which is the basis of Hammurabi’s code, displays…

Censorship is a practice that is continuously used to shield people from reality- banning and suppressing speech that is considered “harmful” to others. Banned books have continuously played a significant role in our contemporary American culture- depicting both civil and ethical issues in our society. Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, and Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, were both novelists who produced books that fell victim to censorship, being banned for their artistic…