Victor G. Atiyeh

loss, Victor Hugo helped to define the romantic movement in France through his writing. His works include many poems, books, and plays revolving around love and politics. Many of his works were either published or performed during his life. While Victor Hugo is known for his many works during the romantic movement, he wrote his most famous works around the time of the French Civil War. Victor Marie Hugo was born to an aristocratic mother and a father who was a major in Napoleon’s army (“Victor…

Our Forgotten Past This is no secret, but only the shadows of their past clouds the future lay before them. Some call it “Beauty and the Beast”; in the perspective of the victims themselves, it was “Mr. And Mrs. Frankenstein”. Oh the horror it must have been within the lab for that was just the beginning of it all. It’s effect created another life form beyond scientific reason, but what shocked him wasn’t the creation itself. It was the life that Scientist had used to create this magnificent…

Around the beginning of the twenty-first century, Marvel produced X-Men crossover series. However, readers opposed these series because the plots veered away from the main storyline. With the release of the film X-Men (2002), fans were able to see a new form of the X-Men as Professor Xavier fought for peace with while Magneto attempted to completely control human society thus making mutants superior. The 2008 publication of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men further exposed readers to a reinvented…

Hellraiser is a horror film written and directed by Clive Barker. This movie is about a man who has been recently resurrected by his brother’s wife, who seeks out mortality despite the underworld creatures coming for him to return to hell. This movie was made in the United Kingdom, but found it’s way to the United States to scare it’s way into our hearts. Hellraiser is very gorey, spellbinding, and unique. This movie has impacted the horror film community greatly with this iconic movie.…

Context of the Case: King v. Burwell, 576 U.S (2015), was a judgment made by the United States Supreme Court, explaining the provisions of the ACA (Affordable Care Act and Patient Protection). The decision of the Court was upheld and confirmed, as consistent and well aligned with the statute, the money of premium tax credits to supporting the persons in all the states, both those with exchanges directly established by the state, and those oppositely made and implemented by the Department of…

On January 23, 2002 a senior at Juneau-Douglas High School, that goes by the name Joseph Frederick, was excused from his classes, with the other students, to watch the Olympic Torch pass by in his town of Juneau, Alaska. Him and his friends went across the street and waited for the TV cameras to start rolling to unravel a banner that they made that said “Bong Hits 4 Jesus”. The principal, Deborah Morse, soon saw the banner and ran across the street to intercept their act. Principle Morse says he…

Capital Punishment: as this idea brings some great comfort to society,it is also shown to bring a discomfort. This is happening in due to the fact that people believe taking a person’s life no matter what they did is wrong and cruel, and wrong people are killed at times. Many of the reasons why people hate capital punishment are because the religious values one holds. The different kinds of religions that influence an individual’s values are those really popular religions that countries get run…

The term stare decisis means, “Let the decision stand”, or in other words a doctrine that establishes precedent. For once a legal issue is settled, stare decisis suggests that any following cases presenting the same question shall follow the preceding ruling of the case that set the initial precedent. Honoring stare decisis provides the Supreme Court greater legitimacy because it maintains the, “fundamental principle of jurisprudence that promotes certainty in the law and uniformity in the…

Chief Justice John Roberts stated that marriage is a matter of constitutional law. In Roe Vs Wade the court decided that abortion was protected under the Due process clause just like same sex marriage. The role of the court is not to make things legal that they personally feel is better for society. They go with what they perceive will be best for public policy. People who support same-sex marriage say that the country was already on its way toward fully legalizing it and that this decision just…

Utopia is a masterpiece of world literature written by Sir Thomas More. In the novel, Utopia is a name of an island where everything is perfect from the society to the economy. This “island” can be seen in another well-known novel called The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. There are a lot of similarities between Utopia and The Time Machine, however, the fate of the Utopian and the future mankind is contradictory. For many centuries, human has been seeking a perfect world where people can live…