Antonin Artaud

Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud was born on September 4, 1896 in Marseilles, France. He was one of three survivors out of nine children born to a Levantine Greek mother and a wealthy ship fitter father. His parents were first cousins. Such a successive mortality rate may have been in part due to congenital problems that played a major role in his illnesses. Artaud spent time in the Army and was discharged due to “self- induced habit of sleepwalking. His most productive works come only after a sequence of journeys and long asylum incarcerations. His work probes issues of abandonment, confinement, and creativity, and produces crucial images of the resuscitation of life and language (Barber, 5). He was very distant from society, culture, and…

In Cather’s short story, “Paul’s Case,” Cather depicts a dispiriting story a high school boy named Paul with a severe case of depression. Paul is irrationally and foolishly obsessed with theater and the performing arts and often flees from the bitter reality of school and work into his own imagination, using the arts as means of achieving this. “Paul half closed his eyes, and gave himself up to the peculiar stimulus such personages always had for him” (75). However, instead of entering the art…

Law and Order Supreme Court justice could be called the most prestigious law job in America. Justices make some of the most important decisions for the United States, and once appointed they serve for life, or until they step down. Unfortunately, there is no definite time when a justice’s “life term” will come to an end, and Justice Antonin Scalia’s suddenly ended earlier this year. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died suddenly this year during a hunting trip in Texas at age 79. Scalia was…

They go on to state that the overall method that Myriad Genetics used to sequence the DNA was nothing unique to the scientific community, offering no real contribution to the rest of society (Supreme Court of the United States). It simply wasn’t Thomas 4 innovative enough to deserve its own patent. They even state that groundbreaking, new discoveries don’t necessarily even solicit an immediate patent for it doesn’t fully satisfy the rules of section 101 from the Patent Act (Supreme Court of the…

The society built around children in the 21st Century has become one of friendship over parenting. Disciplinarians are more concerned with how children feel about something than how they could help the child learn from an event. However, regardless of the lack of strong parenting, children by the time they reach ten years old have enough cognitive ability to determine broad aspects of what is right and wrong. Some of the first lessons that a child learns are to respect one another, to be kind…

Chief Justice Rehnquist was appointed by Richard Nixon, in part as a response to the Warren Court’s liberal streak, which he used as a campaign issue. During his confirmation he was met with controversy as it became apparent he in fact disagreed with the precedent set in Borwn v. Board of Education. As an associate Justice he began as states’ rights advocate, which often not only placed Rehnquist not only in the minority, but as a lone dissenter. As time wore on the Court began to become more…

defies” not only the Strict Standard of Scrutiny as mentioned earlier but all levels of scrutiny since “it is at once too narrow and too broad”. What this means is the Supreme Court found that all Amendment 2 really does is target a specific class and then remove its rights across the board, a disqualification that Kennedy described as “unprecedented in our jurisprudence”. Thus, according to Kennedy, by failing to provide a compelling government interest as well as being far from the least…

a "right to marriage" in the Fourteenth Amendment, the majority was able to use its “majestic generalities” in defense of same-sex marriage due to the inclusion of a protection for an individual’s “liberty.” The Court determined the ability to enter into a same-sex marriage was a part of this right. As described by the hypothetical Justice Foster in Fuller’s Speluncean explorers narrative, the Court interpreted the law "reasonably, in the light of its evident purpose.” The individual's right to…

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on April 1st, 1950. His parents were Rose Fradusco and Samuel A. Alito, Sr.. His mother was a schoolteacher; his father was the Director of the NJ office of Legislative Services and an italian immigrant. He attended Steinert High School, the local public school, where he immersed himself in extracurricular activities with a focus on student politics and debate. He graduated at the top of his class and continued his education at…

Concert Critique: Meyerson Symphony Center. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Antonin Dvořák Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op.88 Antonin Dvorak was one of the great nationalist Czech composers of the 19th century. Dvorak was had very deep passion for his homeland and all of its traditions. He was even known to be the second Czech composer to receive world recognition. Dvorak was born on September 8 1841 in Nelahozeves, North Kralupy. Although he did not come from a sophisticated family. Dvorak's…