Brennan's

Transition of an individual is usually difficult; they face issues and challenges along the road yet are able to discover themselves better after the consequence. Transitioning can be confronting, exciting or even demanding. Tom Brennan, the protagonist in The Story of Tom Brennan is haunted by an accident and is faced with a hard transition, and as with the other members of his family, with the use of first person and colloquial language, J.C. Burke demonstrates the outcome of a transition can…

In the short stories “What of this Goldfish, Would You Wish,” and “The Wife’s Story,” by Elgar Karet and Ursulu K. LeGun, respectively, and the majority of the opinion by Justice Brennan, ”Texas v. Johnson,” characters or people do not show acceptance of others who are different. In the “Goldfish” story a young man from Israel named Yonatan decided to make a documentary of him going door-to-door to ask strangers what they would wish upon if they had a goldfish that could grant them three wishes.…

Supernatural is a television series about two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, who fight supernatural creatures including: poltergeists, demons, and even angels. Recently Sam and Dean had to stop the apocalypse by throwing Lucifer and the Michael, the warrior arch-angel, into the cage (Hell). The show is usually more serious than “Clap Your Hands If You Believe…” (Season 6 Episode 9) but this episode wanted to give off a comedic vibe. The episode begins with Sam and Dean going to Elwood,…

normal mandate is the best description of a political candidate’s support, wherein the manifest normal mandate (MNM) refers to the amount of support expressed for a candidate through the electoral system in a certain area (Guerroro, p.298-299). While Brennan’s “lesser of two evils” paradigm addresses the fact that voters must sometimes vote for a candidate they don’t wholly support, I think that Guerroro misses another important case: the fact that even if a voter supports two candidates for a…

As many Canadians have noticed, on the back of their health card is the option to become a donor in case of death. Last year, according to the article, “A Perfect Market is Impossible” by Pedro García Otero; 123,000 people were waitlisted for organs in 2015. However, UNOS only received 30,000 donations. With that said, it is obvious that the demand for organs is much higher than the supply. Most of these organs needed are kidneys, because of this, a new idea has formed. A legal market for…

The majority of the court’s opinion was presented by Justice Lewis Powell. In their analysis they concluded that the Baldus Study did not establish the clear intent of racial discrimination in the plaintiff’s case. They claimed that McCleskey failed to prove that any participating member in his case acted in a discriminatory manner against him. They concluded that discretion is crucial factor in the criminal justice process. Due to the critical need for discretion the plaintiff would have to…

The characteristics of Drones, or unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), epitomize advances made in warfare over recent years. Boasting high precision assault capabilities, as well as stealth and reconnaissance use in addition to a virtual lack of risk to the operator. Yet, despite the aforementioned benefits, the clandestine nature of drone operations has led to them becoming a point of debate in the world today, as they have become symbolic of various issues surrounding the so called The War on Terror.…

The plain view doctrine is a further exception to the warrant requirement. The doctrine outlines three requirements for law enforcement to validly seize an item without a warrant. “First, the police officer must lawfully make an ‘initial intrusion’ or otherwise properly be in a position from which he can view a particular area.” Any item the officer sees from a place of lawful access will have been viewed from a lawful vantage point. Second, the item must possess some quality to make it…

back to their Townhouse, rather than where she wanted to go (Couric). After a short time of being there, she was led up to an empty bedroom and raped by the two basketball boys she got a ride from, and eventually a third basketball player (Couric). Brennan’s story goes to show how easily a sexual assault on campus can happen. Because the University of the Pacific provided little protection for women being assaulted on campus, Brennan is scarred for life. She is forced to face the fact that she…

all day. Brennan’s favorite show was cops. He loved the action of the cops seeing the bad guy and going into a car chase. The cars would swerve in and out of traffic coming so close to nearby cars that you could not put a piece of paper in between them. The cops will keep gaining and gaining on the suspect, they had the number advantage here. Eventually, the suspect will spin out and you smell the burning rubber miles away, the cop approaches the car and detains the suspect. If Brennan’s mom…