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Current Issue: Spring 2006

Picasso's War Images

Elizabeth Francesconi

Picasso said in 1944, after joining of the French Communist Party, “Painting is not meant for decorating apartments.  It is an instrument of active and defensive war against the enemy.”¹  Many of Picasso’s works throughout his life appear to abandon current events except in times of extreme turmoil.  However, certain incidents that pertain to his Spanish heritage, like the Spanish Civil War, were more likely to be seen in his works at that time.  In his later works, Picasso did not deliberately focus on creating a war subject . . .read more

Individual Perception in Blake's "The Garden of Love"

Heather Schofield

In many of his poems William Blake seeks to justify the desires of the individual’s soul.  Blake sees organized religion as an entity that oppresses the desires of the individual and that also uses the masses and their “forced faith” as a mechanism to further the powers of the church.  In Blake’s poem “The Garden of Love”, the speaker seems to be a once innocent and perhaps gullible child who is now witnessing the take-over of his childhood and personal connection with God.  Blake’s illustration, more specifically plate number forty-four in the Blake archives, depicts  . . .read more

Japan's Judiciary:
Shying Away from Judicial Review

Peter Mosleh

The role of the judicial system in Japanese politics has evolved since WWII, yet this evolution has taken place without any significant changes to the actual structure of the judicial system.  One of the main goals of the U.S. forces in Japan after WWII was to set up a government that spreads power among the 3 branches of government (legislative, executive, and judicial), yet over the course of the last 50 years, the Japanese judiciary seems to have been getting weaker compared to the other two branches.  In order to try and solve the mystery of why Japan’s judicial branch has been getting weaker, it is necessary to analyze in greater detail what MacArthur . . . read more

Appropriating for Justice:
An examination of the relationship between federal jurisdiction and the sufficiency of
judiciary appropriations

Michael Correll

Welfare Policy:
The primary factors that attribute to the stark differences in welfare policy among the United States of America and various countries of the European Union, specifically the United Kingdom

M. Katharine Brunson

In this comparative research paper, general American and European welfare policy is analyzed.  It is ironic that the United States can crush the cruelest of regimes, yet cannot alleviate the social miseries within her own land, which happens to be the world’s richest country.  The United Kingdom on the other hand, offers a much more comprehensive and acceptable welfare system for her citizens.  This is consistent with the social service trends in the rest of Europe.  This paper discusses the primary reasons for the differences in welfare policy between the two most powerful democratic states in the world, the United States of America and the United Kingdom . . . read more