(Written for Prof. Bulger’s Intro. to Oral Communication [COMM100] class at George Mason University.)

I have been on the bench of the United States Supreme Court for five years, and seldom has a case come across my desk where a decision from a lower court literally angered me. Not since the electoral decisions from the Florida Supreme Court in 2001 have I ever heard of a state court being so entirely out-of-line with law and reality as the decision that the New York Court of Appeals made in this case.

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(Written for Prof. Bulger’s Intro. to Oral Communication [COMM100] class at George Mason University.)

How many of you have known somebody your entire life? You know, that somebody that you’re just unbelievably close to. Somebody who you just can’t live without? I met somebody like that more than eighteen years ago.

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(Written for Prof. Nichols’s Composition [ENGL101] class at George Mason University.)

History has demonstrated thousands of times the importance of individuals in the shaping of events. For example, if George Washington were to be removed from American history our nation would likely not exist today, at least not in the form that it does. However, in this work, I would like to focus on an even more important shaper of events on this planet. I would like to focus on the person who created the Earth as it exists today, Professor Mel Nichols.

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