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    The constitution protects racial prejudice. When racial prejudice is used into action it becomes an act of discrimination. This shows that the government tries to lessen minorities of using racial prejudice into action. Also, the NAACP involves itself in discrimination cases when it believes minorities have taken racial prejudice in action. “The NAACP stressed the point that it is illegal, through a law of confidentiality, for census data to be used for any purpose other than to provide

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    more diversity amongst student bodies, these laws make some minorities feel like they cannot succeed without a regulation, add tension to a society defined by skin color, and may serve as discrimination towards non-minorities. Affirmative action laws in college admissions should be eliminated to bring forth more equality for applicants. Affirmative action was created to enable equality in education as well as to help represent minorities and ensure a more diverse group of individuals on campus. From

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    “Epidemic of Invisibility” For numerous years film studios have been casting and funding movies from all different genres and backgrounds. Most films have a reoccurring and common theme to them. There is a protagonist who faces adversity in a particular setting and must take on various trials and tribulations to achieve his or her goal. For long as I have been watching movies (I’m 19) the main character has had two universal traits in majority of the films I have seen, which are white and male.

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    New Haven violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (website). According to Dye and MacManus, affirmative action is defined as programs pursued by governments or private business to overcome the results of past discriminatory treatment of minorities and/or women by giving these groups special or preferential treatment in employment, promotion, admissions, or other activities. Race was the issue surrounding this affirmative action decision. The City of New Haven was worried that because more

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    suppose to bring equal opportunities for everyone. The world today is a world where many opportunities passes by only because of race and gender. Mostly jobs and higher education. Discrimination is the cause of affirmative action because woman and minorities was being discriminated against while trying to enter a school or get a job or other opportunities. Affirmative action seems to fail due to the discrimination still going on, it had a lot of success and at the same time has been destroyed by diversity

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    In this film “Minority Report” the Criminal Justice System, and their way of handling crime is different from the way our criminal justice system functions. In the film “Minority Report” the year that has taken place in 2045. This means that their technology in their year is more advanced compared to our current technology, which would interfere with our criminal justice system being slow. Starting from the beginning of this film it demonstrates how the pre-crime team prevents crime from happening

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    To restate my controversy: Does affirmative action benefit minority students or does mismatching set them up to fail? For this summary, I decided to research Richard H. Sander, one of the authors of the main text I analyzed. To acquire this source, I used Google and the keyword “Richard Sander UCLA” to obtain Sanders biography, bibliography, and courses on the official UCLA Law website. The first keyword I used was “Richard Sander” and ended up getting results on Richard Sanders, the actor who plays

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    officials of minority races by discriminating in their favor. While research varies, affirmative action in college admission offices is the equivalent of adding 150 to 310 points on an SAT score for a minority. Studies show that middle and upper class minorities gain the most from preferential favoring, while poorer members of this same group suffer and remain passed by. B. Perhaps the most tragic side effect of affirmative action is that very significant achievements of minority students can

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    reason for Affirmative action being designed. Affirmative action works on the assumption that if minority applicants were striving to take admission in colleges, then there would be some limitations or constraints attached with the applicants. Therefore, this system in which an additional weight granted to applicants for their race or ethnicity was made, has had a major impact on the African-American minorities in education. Daigle is a published author, who speaks about Affirmative Action and how it has

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    Affirmative action was created on March 6, 1961 by president John F. Kennedy and has since then expanded into a heated debate. Affirmative action was first established as a result of the Civil Rights Movement to grant equal opportunities for minority groups in the United States. Affirmative action can be seen as a compensatory measure to a racially discriminated group in a cultures history. It is very easy for someone to become involved in a debate about affirmative action because we live in a society

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