What is Affirmitive Action?

color of their skin, even in our own country. How can this be in a country that claims that all men are created equal? Racism is so much a part of American culture now that we have claims of reverse racism and programs implemented, such as affirmative action, not just to protect the rights of a different person but to further them along in life and to make things easier for them. When this country was founded, it was believed that people that were born with a different color skin were inferior to those…

Why we still need affirmative action Because of the complex nature of the discussion on affirmative action and the controversies and the emotion surrounding it, it is imperative to first recap on the causes of race and inequality in the United States of America. The policies on affirmative action were proposed as a fractional remedy for the socio-economic impacts of past and present disadvantage faced by certain groups in the population, especially with regard to biases on gender and race. Such disadvantages…

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The Facts In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson issues an Executive Order 11246 requiring federal contractors to “take affirmative action” to ensure that they do not engage in discriminatory practices against workers because of race creed, color, or national origin. Two years later gender was added to the list. Affirmative action is the practice, usually by institutions or employment in government and business, of giving preference to racial minorities and women. The politics were originally…

Colors: What affect can colors have on emotions and actions? What I Know, Assume, or Imagine Did you know that colors could have a mental effect? I’ve learned many things about color before, since hues have been around from the day I was born. In addition, I’ve learned the basics on how colors work at school. I have heard of colors affecting your mood in videos about a company’s logo making you want to buy their item in a video. Well, I think that the color blue is associated with sadness and yellow…

Having the ability to successfully understand what drives human thought and action is a goal of all philosophers. Throughout time there has been a progressive movement to transition the philosophical thought patterns we can trace through a society to one that is based on more scientific reason. But through science we are not able to fully understand all scenarios due to outside influences that may hinder a specific action. Moving away from the scientific approach, we can utilize the ideas that…

Affirmative Action is the name given to programs that try to correct past and ongoing discriminations against women, racial minorities, and others in the work force and in education. The principal goal of Affirmative Action is to create more diversity and equal opportunities in jobs or schools that used to be all or mostly male, white, or both. Affirmative Action programs have been in place only a little over thirty years. Affirmative action works. There are thousands of examples of situations where…

For many the subject of affirmative action is worth protesting over, however, there are a few who would love to see the existence of affirmitive action abolished. Affirmative action has always been a long debated topic with two different communites arguing very different view points. Although affirmitive action can cause friction among many different opionated people, on the other hand, the results of the practice has ensured the college educations for many of minorities in America. Should this…

Colors: What affect can colors have on emotions and actions? What I Know, Assume, or Imagine Did you know that colors could have a mental effect? I’ve learned many things about color before, since hues have been around from the day I was born. In addition, I’ve learned the basics on how colors work at school. I have heard of colors affecting your mood in videos about a company’s logo making you want to buy their item in a video. Well, I think that the color blue is associated with sadness and yellow…

review and reconsider how well the government should protect them and what they are willing to sacrifice for their safety. The dilemma lies in deciding what action should be taken against terrorism through information collecting but also the extent to which it is administered. Should the American public risk give up its civil freedoms and individual privacy for the sake of safeguarding the nation or are the government’s actions too invasive and a pointless means of violating the public’s justified…