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"That Really Happened?!" DC Comics Tournament Entry #36

Baseball Game to Save Two Worlds

[ID: Comic title page for Young Justice titled "Baseball Field: Myrg or There's a Saga Born Every Minute". The Young Justice team stands near a baseball diamond in uniform while large cyborgs also stand at attention. Arrowette says, "Of all things to dream, it had to be that I'm in a sequel to that lousy movie with what's-his-name, the basketball player, and those cartoon guys." /END ID]

What Happened?

The story starts off with the Young Justice Team (1998 version, not the show) finding out their friend Doiby really misses his wife(?) Who is on his home planet. The tram decides they are going on a road trip through space in Bart's space ship that he won from the Prince Ali Ben Styne (this is a whole different adventure) to go meet her and help them reunite. Only to find out when they get there Doiby is a wanted criminal and they almost get shot out of the sky but before they can, Lobo (yes the Actual Lobo The Space Biker he was a part of their team at that time) blows up the space cop car before they can get shot. There are more cops who escort them to City Hall and the only reason Lobo doesn't blow them up is because Tim Drake puts his foot down and Tim Drake is one of the few beings in the universe that Lobo actually Listens To. Anyways, turns out the planet was invaded and taken over by an asshole named Prince Marieb and forced Doiby on the run so he could marry his wife. Halfway through kicking the Prince out, a new set of aliens shows up called The Slag, Masters Of THE GAME. Which turns out to be BASEBALL. The crew has to play them for the fate of Doiby's planet and if they loose the whole planet gets blown up. Also, the Slag decide, "eh, fuck it. This game is for Earth too kids because clearly if you're good enough to represent this planet you can represent your own too at the same time." And now Earth is on the fucking line. Over Baseball. Their baseball game lasts for three full chapters and is honestly quite exciting, even if the team is implied to have won via cheating. Also the Prince Asshole is implied to be in jail and Doiby gets back with his wife who is actually Queen Of The Planet. Oh and they don't even get to go home after all that, no the Super Cycle opened a boom tube the team got sucked into that lead them to New Genesis where they got to meet The new gods and Lobo got into a really intense wrestling match with Big Bear, followed by The Super Cycle falling in love with New Genesis's Super Cycle. Also Suzie, aka Secret became friends with The Real Actual Darkseid while they were there. But technically, that's a whole different story ; )

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nievefergie · 5 years

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A Research Paper on ABC’s ‘General Hospital’

I have been watching soap operas since I was nine years old. Soap operas made me who I am today — they laid the foundation of my love for stories and real television beyond cartoons. Soap Operas are a foundational television genre in defining the television industry. Soap operas began on United States radio networks in the 1930 as the radio was being introduced to homes across the United States (Soukup). The early soap operas were fifteen minute daytime radio serials used to market products such as soap and other mainly feminine products, earning the name “soap opera”. The commercial sponsorship of soap operas is what formed the structure of advertiser-supported programming that we currently have on television today (Meyers). With the World War II over and television on the rise, broadcasting networks adapted their radio shows for television to meet the demands of the developing world (Soukup). The familiarity of soap operas from the radio is arguably said to have been one of the reasons audiences across the country were so easily able to change mediums from radio to television. By 1951, all three networks had their own soap operas. Into the 1960s and 1970s, more than 10 hours of network programming per day was dedicated to soaps and brought audience members over the 20 million mark. Once the 1980s arrived, soap opera ratings began to decline and more than ten soap operas have been cancelled since the 1990s, including iconic ABC soap operas like One Life to Live and All My Children in 2011. As of 2017, there are only four soap operas currently on broadcast television (Meyers). This is a shame. We don't value soap operas like we use to which is a loss to the culture of The United States because daytime soap operas focus on taboo social issues such as AIDS and abortion more than any other genre of television. Many people remember the iconic episode of Degrassi where a young girl gets an abortion. In fact, it was not aired in American during the early days of its airing in 2004. The N (a subsidiary channel of Viacom’s Nickelodeon now known as TeenNick) refused to air the controversial two-part episode until two and a half years later in August of 2006, when the actress ranked it her favorite episode and so the network had to air it (McDermott). But this wasn’t the first time abortion had been a featured storyline in United States television. The first abortion storyline on television took place on the soap opera Another World (Lane). This begs the question - If we talked about it all the way back then on daytime television, why can we still not talk about it today on primetime? Another World aired from 1964 to 1999 on NBC for 35 years. Pat Matthews’s boyfriend, Tom Baxter convinced Pat to have an illegal abortion in New York. Pat had the abortion and then developed an infection which left her able to have any children. Tom then revealed he never loved Pat, and she shot him. While on trial for murder, she fell in love with her attorney, John Randolph. In the 1970s, the writers of Another World had Pat have correctional surgery and she had twins (Newcomb). In 1973, Erica Kane (played by the iconic Susan Lucci) on All My Children had the first legal abortion on Daytime television before Roe vs. Wade was decided on. Erica had her abortion because she was a model and did not want to end her career. The storyline made headlines over its controversy of the reasoning to have an abortions — to maintain a career rather than due to health concerns. The storyline was perceived well by feminists and ratings rose from 8.2 to 9.1. These groundbreaking moments in women’s history proved daytime television dealt with complex social issues that were relevant to the mainly female audience and their sophistication (Jr., Kevin Mulcahy). In the 1990s, AIDS was still very underrepresented and stigmatized. Children were warned to stay away from people with HIV and AIDs and treated it like the common cold. Most people still didn’t even know all the facts about it or its symptoms — they just knew to be afraid. One of the first shows to ever feature a character with AIDS was Stone Cates in 1993. Stone was living with the iconic mobster, Sonny Corinthos, along with his brother, Jagger Cates. He then began dating Robin Scorpio. Their love story was called “epic” and “tragic”. Stone became sick with the flu and Robin took care of him. Robin, a volunteer at the hospital, asked Stone to get tested for HIV. Stone got tested a year prior and was HIV negative, so he did not take another test. Unfortunately, the test was only negative because he took it to close to exposure for the antibodies to come up. Robin and Stone then had unprotected sex. When Stone’s flu did not let up, he got tested and was diagnosed HIV positive. Once Stone was shot and got his blood on Robin’s hands, he confessed to her that he was HIV positive and his previous girlfriend had been a drug addict and could have possibly contracted HIV. Robin and Stone were tested again, where Robin tested negative and Stone was revealed to have AIDS. Later, Robin contracted the flu and tested HIV positive as well. When Stone died, he had gone blind, but asked Robin to stand by the window and the light. As Stone looked towards the light, he saw Robin one last time before he died. The actor, Michael Sutton, was nominated for an Daytime Emmy for his performance. Stone, although a very prominent character in General Hospital’s past, was only on the show for roughly two years from 1993-1995. Dr. Robin Scorpio-Drake, however, remains a very prominent recurring character on General Hospital to this very day since 1985. Robin’s storyline has been a wonderful example to those living with HIV that they can live healthy, fulfilling lives. Robin ends up getting married to Patrick Drake, having a healthy daughter named Emma and a son named Noah, and becoming a renowned doctor. Robin still often brings up Stone Cates, which is a rare occurrence for such a short lived character arc. Robin refers to Stone as her first love and the reason she became to pursue her career as a doctor. Robin’s story influenced thousands around America because thousands of people watched Robin grow up from a child into a teenager for almost ten years. The storyline of Robin becoming HIV positive was so important to viewers because she was a character no one wanted to see go — and uninformed people assumed HIV positive was a death sentence. Robin Scorpio-Drake’s legacy still lives on, giving hope to many others living with the disease. An after school special called Positive: A Journey Into AIDS aired December 7th, 1995 on ABC after General Hospital hosted by Kimberly McCullough and Michael Sutton, who played Robin and Stone respectively. The after school special was done as a documentary as the actors talked to real people living with HIV and AIDS to prepare them to do the part justice. The special also showed a press conference where a reporter asked Michael Sutton if he was nervous about being stereotyped as gay due to the abundance of gay and bisexual men affected by the disease. Sutton responded that he was heterosexual and comfortable with his sexual preferences, but remained challenged by the interviewer’s question. He spoke about how “pigeon-holed” AIDS and HIV are and that people want to stereotype it as a gay disease in order to downplay it (Harrington & Watkin). The after school special won two Emmys in 1996 (""ABC Afterschool Specials" Positive: A Journey Into AIDS (TV Episode 1995)"). This special was so important because it was a fictional weekly story talking about the making of the storyline and talking to people who truly had HIV and were living with it in order to better the fictional weekly material. The Nurses’ Ball was founded in 1994 as an event for the citizens of Port Charles to fundraise for HIV and AIDS awareness and research. The event stands as a catalyst for various different storylines because all the characters are put together in one place. The actors who portray citizens of Port Charles, New York perform song and dances. In 1996, once Robin was diagnosed with HIV, The Nurses Ball became personal for many characters, each donating money for the cause. Even beyond the characters in the show, the show itself has donated more than $109,000 to the nonprofit organization Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation since 1998. The Nurses Ball became a day to mark the nationwide Day of Compassion. In 1997, AIDS-infected actor Lee Mathis, who played a recurring lawyer on General Hospital, passed away weeks before the annual ball he helped stage. General Hospital then donated the royalties from Robin’s Diary, a book to go along with the storyline, and Nurse’s Ball t-shirts (Bidwell). In 2013 when the Nurses Ball was brought back on as a plot device, the soundtrack to each performance was released on iTunes. And I could not find any sources for this, but I’m sure that some of the royalties to toward the same AIDS foundations. Not only has General Hospital and other daytime serials spent their money and time from their small budget to portray complex social issues, but they also donate money to the outside real people who’s real life stories they are portraying. Celebrity Health Narratives and The Public Health notes, “Interracial romance, homosexuality, divorce, alcoholism, mental illness, unwanted pregnancy, abortion, impotence, addiction, incest, down syndrome, suicide, anorexia, HIV/AIDS, rape, adultery … you name it. Daytime has dealt with it. NO other form of entertainment as so effectively addressed social issues” (Christina S. Beck,, Stellina M.A. Chapman, Nathaniel Simmons, 135). Because soap operas air every weekday, they are able to tell their stories from a unique place of creating suspense everyday. Everyday there has to be a reason for you to turn in tomorrow. And every Friday there has to be a reason to turn in next week. They constantly have to create drama to fulfill the quota of airing almost 250 days out of the year. And to create drama, the writers of soap operas take real issues in society and bring them to the beloved characters we already know and love and grew up with. They use things like abortions and AIDS and HIV to create a lasting impact on characters who have a long history. For example, when Starr Manning from General Hospital lost her baby in a car crash, it was more painful because we as an audience had grown up watching Starr and the actress Kristen Alderson — she had become family. We watched her day in and day out 250 days out of the year. That’s more than I see my own family. So instead, soap opera families become family. That can’t happen on primetime television. Primetime shows are based around the formula of there being a problem that is solved for the most part within thirteen to twenty-one episodes. Soap operas, on the other hand, can have baby switches that last more than half the year. Soap operas air so often that storylines can be given proper timing — pregnant characters can be pregnant for nine whole months. Primetime television simply doesn’t have the time to create such a product based on interpersonal relationships rather than the actual drama itself. These issues have to be personalized and how do you personalize someone when their time on the air is so short? Soap operas, however, can get into the heart of personal-social problems. Personal- social problems “consist of extraordinary circumstances that affect individuals or individual units of society - usually, crises in relationships or health” (Thoman). These problems are about people, and only then become a societal problem after people begin to be affected. The AIDS epidemic being a prime example — people were not interested until it began to effect the people in their community that they cared about. Soap operas talk about the people and the people who are affected and are able to give their time and effort in portraying stories about people and their personal-social problems that audiences can relate to. In conclusion, it is a shame that we as an American society value primetime television more than daytime soap operas because the latter gets to talk about social injustice and real life issues such as AIDS and abortion to educate their viewers. I think that is is truly tragic that audiences are being aged out of daytime when back in their prime, the 1960s-1990s, people of all ages watched. College students were a main part of the age group — both males and females spend their time between classes glued to a television screen (Lemish). And it probably meant a lot more for young impressionable kids living with their parents stigmas about HIV to see teenagers living with the disease. When I started watching One Life to Live in fourth grade, it was because I fell in love with pregnant sixteen year old Starr Manning and her high school friends. I fell in love with the character Shane Morasco and the question of who his father was. I fell in love with the missing baby Sam storyline. It was the storylines about children and teens that attracted a young Nieve to tune in tomorrow. I truly believe that if soap operas put their time and effort into teenage characters again, they will see a resurgence of young fans, especially if the storylines have to do with the social climate of Trump’s United States. Society is begging for a progressive genre on television, and I hope that they soon learn that it has been here all along, waiting, during the day rather than at night.

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treasure-trove-of-my-writing · 7 years

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Hunter x Hunter review!

I wrote all these reviews for a magazine I wrote for in school and this is part one of a 5 article series.

The Unconventional Show That Redefined a Genre

By Kaitlin Meaney

Anime is one of those mediums of television and online streaming that can go one way or the other; it can be either tame and happy, brutal and violent, or it can make you think. The genre of Shounen anime in particular includes series that can do all of those things at once, but only a select few that use the third. First to define shounen: a genre of Japanese animation that typically includes high action and follows a male protagonist. The Japanese kanji characters for “Shounen” translate to “boy” with the female counterpart being “Shoujo” which would be Japanese animated series/ manga (comics) aimed towards girls. A common example for Shounen anime would be Dragonball Z or Pokemon. The plots usually consist of long, (sometimes) drawn out fighting scenes and an end goal that the whole plot is built around, with many obstacles and new characters to be met along the way. These shows, and anime in general, tend to fall into the category of being “cartoons for kids”, but there is more than one series that goes way beyond with more mature content aimed for adults. Case in point, a little series called Hunter x Hunter. This show pushed boundaries no one even noticed were there until it came along and crushed them to dust. It is so unconventional and different that it deserves so muh more love than it gets.

The series was illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi and was serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump in 1998. The first anime adaptation was released in 1999 and ran until 2001 in Japan. A few years later a new anime series was released in 2011 and was said to follow the original manga more accurately. This one is the more popular and well known version and it is the one I will be talking about in this review.

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The story centers around Gon Freecss, a young boy who was abandoned by his father, Ging, who went on to become a Hunter instead of raising his son. He sets off to take the rigorous Hunter examination in order become a Hunter himself so he can become the best Hunter in the world and hopefully find his father. He has the mindset of “well if my dad thought being a hunter was better than raising his son, I want to try it too”. Hunters are people who partake in fantastical pursuits such as locating magical beasts, discovering unexplored parts of the world or even just hunting down those who don’t follow the law, to name just a few. While taking the examination he meets three other applicants who become close friends of his: Kurapika, the last of the late Kurta clan who had been wiped out in order to harvest their glowing crimson eyes; Leorio, a medical student; and Killua Zoldyck, the member of a prestigious family of assassins. He also meets Hisoka, a murderous magician (and token female fanservice), who becomes the first of the many villains that occupy this series, and he’s the only one that’s consistent until one whole arc.

Now, that is just the base premise but there is way more to it than just the simple story of a boy wanting to meet his father. This show starts all happy and hopeful, but it eventually gets really real, very slowly. It would be way too much to spoil if I went through the whole series, and frankly it’s better if you go in blind. One thing you should know if you do decide to give this show a chance, is to power through the first few episodes since they do not do the show much justice and will be hard to get through for the faint hearted. What I will discuss, is what this show does right that other shows have either done wrong or never even attempted.

The first thing about this series I loved was the character development and the characters in general, side and main. In every episode or so new characters will be introduced. What is amazing about these characters and how this series handles them gives you enough information for you to care about them even if you only see them once in a while. Another thing is that these characters are never only seen once; they always pop up again at one point. Due to the information you get in their first appearance, you immediately recognise them and do not question why they would be there or who they are. You feel for them and you root for them. That is an example of great writing right there.

One final thing is that it kept me guessing. Nothing in this show was inherently predictable to the point where you knew characters would make it out of a situation unscathed mentally or physically. This is the breaking of another boundary surrounding anime and that is the notion that the “power of friendship”, or simply being main characters, can solve everything or save everyone. During very tense moments I found myself not knowing for sure what would happen next and it was frustrating but it kept me guessing and kept me interested. The show even has you questioning whose side you’re really on and which characters are right or wrong. It makes you question the concepts of good and evil instead of making evil “bad” and good, well “good”. There are no true good guys or bad guys in this series; they’re just characters with their own moral agenda that does not follow any predetermined rules and it is done so well.

This anime blew me away. There are no words to describe how much I loved this little show that could. I won’t lie, it’s very long and the first few episodes are hard to get through but dang is it worth it. I encourage you to give this one a try, anime fan or otherwise, this show is worth your time.

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johnaculbreath · 6 years

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ConLaw Class 10 – The Executive Power II

The lecture notes are here.

Dames & Moore v. Regan

This is Donald T. Regan, who was the secretary of the treasury in Dames & Moore v. Regan.

This is the logo for the Dames & Moore Group Company.

Justice Rehnquist wrote Dames & Moore v. Regan in a short span of 8 days. There are several remarkable aspects of this opinion. First, Rehnquist cites as the definitive statement of executive power Justice Jackson’s concurring opinion Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer.

Of course, Rehnquist clerked for Jackson that term. As Judge Bybee noted in this article:

Rehnquist’s first professional brush with the separation of powers came soon after the start of his legal career as a junior law clerk to Justice Robert Jackson. It was an auspicious start. Rehnquist began his clerkship in February 1952, just months prior to the famous Youngstown separation of powers litigation at the Supreme Court . . . . On May 16, 1952, the Court voted 6-3 in conference to reject Truman’s claim of authority to seize the steel mills.15 As Justice Jackson described the vote to his then-law clerks William Rehnquist and C. George Niebank, Jr., “Well boys, the President got licked.’

Yet, Youngstown was written by Jackson himself, with little involvement by his clerks. In fact Rehnquist and his co-clerks suggested resolving the case on non-separation of powers grounds.

To begin, Jackson’s law clerks had very little hand in drafting his opinions generally and little role in preparing the Youngstown concurrence specifically. 30 Thus, the Youngstown concurrence represented Jackson’s, not Rehnquist’s, work product. In fact, archival materials indicate law clerk Rehnquist suggested alternate non-separation of powers grounds on which Youngstown might have been resolved. In an apparently unsolicited memorandum to Justice Jackson, William Rehnquist and his co-clerk proposed they undertake additional research for Youngstown. Interestingly, all the issues proposed non-separation of powers grounds for resolving the appeal–e.g., by balancing equities on the preliminary injunction, etc.31 To be sure, the 1952 clerk memorandum, standing by itself, would be a thin reed to support a claim that Rehnquist had doubts about resolving the separation of powers question in Youngstown against the President. It might merely suggest Rehnquist favored the parsimonious adjudication of constitutional cases by resort to avoidance. The memorandum, however, does not stand by itself. In his book The Supreme Court, Rehnquist, without mentioning his prior memorandum, expressed doubts about how Youngstown was resolved. Noting that the separation of powers issue was not well settled, but in his view “more or less up for grabs,” he believed Youngstown might have been resolved on the balancing of equities and that the law on those issues favored the executive.32

When pressed to write Dames & Moore v. Regan in a short span of 8 days, Rehnquist elevated Jackson’s concurrence to the effect holding of the case (and modified it along the way). And guess who was clerking for Justice Rehnquist in 1981 when Dames & Moore was decided.

A young pup names John G. Roberts (first from the right), who would go on to replace his boss as the Chief Justice of the United States.

On the last day of the term in 1981, for instance, Justice Rehnquist wrote for a unanimous court to say that Presidents Carter and Reagan had the legal authority to nullify court orders and suspend private lawsuits as part of the agreement with Iran that ended the hostage crisis there. The decision, Dames & Moore v. Regan, took an exceptionally deferential view of executive power.

Judge Roberts cited the decision last year in an opinion accepting the Bush administration’s position that it could block claims against Iraq from American soldiers who had been tortured there during the Persian Gulf war.

Hirabayashi v. United States

The lead plaintiff in a related case was Gordon Hirabayashi. In Hirabayashi, the Court upheld curfews directed towards Japanese Americans because the nation was at war with Japan.

Korematsu v. United States

This is a young Fred Korematsu.

This is Fred Korematsu later in life.

This is an announcement the United States Government posted, ordering “all persons of Japanese ancestry” to be rounded up.

It says:

Pursuant to the provisions of Civilian Exclusion Order No. 33, this Headquarters, dated May 3, 1942, all per- sons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien, will be evacuated from the above area by 12 o’clock noon, P. W . T., Saturday, May 9, 1942.

No Japanese person living in the above area will be permitted to change residence after 12 o’clock noon, P.W.T., Sunday, May 3, 1942, without obtaining special permission from the representative of the Commanding General

The Civil Control Station is equipped to assist the Japanese Population affected by this evacuation in the following ways:

Give advice and instructions on the evacuation.

Provide services with respect to the management, leasing, sale, storage or other disposition of most kinds of

property, such as real estate, business and professional equipment, household goods, boats, automobiles and livestock.

Provide temporary residence elsewhere for all Japanese in family groups.

Transport persons and a limited amount of clothing and equipment to their new residence.

Here is a piece of U.S. Government propaganda explaining the “relocation” and do the “job as a democracy should. With consideration.”

Fast-forward to 12:30 when the narrator says there are no constitutional problems with the internment.

Here is a map of the “relocation centers” and camps.

The San Francisco Examiner announces the “Ouster of all Japs in California near.”

To give you a sense of the propaganda, here is a cartoon drawn by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Giesel):

‘This is a so-called “temporary camp” or “assembly center” that were set up in public places, like fairgrounds, before the Japanese-Americans could be transported to the “Detention centers” dubbed “Relocation Centers.”

This is the Topaz Internment Center in Utah, where Fred Korematsu was sent.

Here are Americans locked up in internment camps.

Another photographed of interned Americans.

Here are Americans being rounded up on busses to the middle of the Utah desert.

Here is Eleanor Roosevelt at an internment camp.

This great picture contains a meeting of Fred Korematsu, Minoru Yasui, and Gordon Hirabayashi, who also had companion cases before the Supreme Court.

And here is Fred Korematsu posing with Rosa Parks.

In 1990, Korematsu received a redress letter and a reparations check for his internment.

President Clinton would Korematsu the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998.

Korematsu passed away in 2005.

Ex Parte Endo

This is Mutsuye Endo.