Strict scrutiny

to find a job with steady, secure income. This pressure from his parents helps him desire to push away from his Russian lineage. “[He] now know[s] to avoid anything even remotely Russian” (148). However, one Russian commonality he cannot escape is strict parents. This contrasts the American belief that all parents should be soft, caring, and loving. Gary’s father demands: “Just don’t write like a self-hating Jew.” (30). He ignores this demand, and conveys his true emotions and self through his…

Green's article, Normalizing Torture answers the issues on the role of "24" best. "The true question of torture's role on "24" seems more complex than whether the show presents it as deplorable or justified." He wrote, "To be sure, very little public scrutiny -- much less protest -- of violent interrogation is depicted. In fiction, as in life, human rights violations take longer than 24 hours to come to light, when they do at all. But if the good guys on 24 go about their work largely…

It was held that the Schools interest in diversity was not in fact compelling enough to the court. After being brought to the court of Appeals, though, a binding precedent did establish this as compelling and they say it should be viewed under strict scrutiny. The legal issue here is deciding wether the Law school has the right to take race into consideration when accepting and rejecting students with diversity being a driving factor. Does this Admission process violate the equal protection…

does violate marital privacy. The bill of rights can not be infringed and the right to privacy is fundamental in such states as marriage. The state has to prove to the court that its law is compelling and absolutely necessary to overcome the strict scrutiny test. Griswold wins this case because it was decided that the constitution doesn’t state anything about a right to privacy, however, the bill of rights does create an area that promotes a right to privacy. The combination of a few amendments…

Leon Litwack, an American historian, uses the personal testimonies and memories of black Southerners in his book Trouble in Mind, in order to describe the terrible injustices they faced regularly in the post-Reconstruction, Jim Crow South. Litwack pulls no punches when describing what everyday life was like for Southern African Americans between the 1870s and the Great Depression. Though this book is not a chronological telling of segregation, the author guides the audience through the…

am facing is simply the decision about what I want to do with my life after my high school career. In my freshman year of high school my goal was simply to get through the year in one piece. I was forced to conform to my new environment and all the strict rules that came along with it. Along with that it was the sudden transition from being the "big dogs" as eighth graders at my middle school to being "fresh-meat" in my first year high school. With so much attention placed on me as a freshman…

seek salvation through conversion in their faiths. In order to achieve this goal, the community would need to be resilient in their undertakings. “The integrity of the community demanded religious conformity. Dissent was tolerated, but only within strict limits” (“The Puritans”). This idea of uniformity contributed to the unfolding of the Salem Witch Trials. The Puritan people, afraid of losing their favor with God, jumped at any chance they could to condemn other people of rebelling against…

In the essay “The Ugly Tourist” written by Jamaica Kincaid, she expresses that when people are surrounded by others who are similar they are comfortable and normal and once they leave their habitat to visit others as a tourist they become “ugly”. In “Shooting an Elephant” written by George by Orwell, he illustrates what it is like to be a white man who is against the oppression yet he works for the same people that oppresses them. He gets a better perspective on imperialism when he is faced a…

decision extended the reach of the federal government over tribal land, which reinforced the government’s power to delegate rights. The culmination of these cases illustrates that although the tribes were given sovereignty, they were still under strict scrutiny by the federal…

28. How does sexual harassment have to do with the 1964 Civil Rights Act? Through interpretation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act during the late 1970s, the courts decided that sexual harassment was a form of discrimination. The courts recognized two forms of sexual harassment: “quid pro quo” harassment (implied threat wherein submission is “continued employment”), and “hostile environment” (offensive/intimidating employment conditions). After much debate, the courts ruled that sexual…