Political Parties and Unfair Elections The Civil War and the Vietnam era of the 1960s forever changed the political party systems of our country. Those two time periods and the issues involved led to America embracing a two-party system‚ which is intact to this day. Due to the two-party system‚ it is extremely difficult for a candidate to be elected if he is not a member of either the Democratic or Republican party. This is not a situation that our founders would have encouraged‚ as they "disliked
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statutory rape laws are unfair in various situations because they hinder relationships intimacy‚ ultimately statutory rape laws are effective because they keep predators away‚ decrease unplanned pregnancies and encourage abstinence. Statutory rape is when an adult has intercourse with anyone under the age of consent. This could be vaginal‚ oral‚ anal and mutual masturbation. There are numerous amounts of cases on the statutory rape law. Many of which people believe are unfair. The statutory rape law
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The article I wrote about is “Chicago-area teacher who punished students for speaking Spanish resigns in disgrace.” This article was about how a teacher punished a student for speaking spanish which is a racial punishment. This story relates to “Leandro” because his teacher also punished him for false allegations that Joan made on him. In the story Joan whisted by accident and Mrs.Butler heard it. So since Joan didn’t want to get in trouble she blamed it on a boy named Leandro. Even though Leandro
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The term “Affirmative Action” originated from the United States of America to prohibit unfair discrimination against certain groups of people because of non job related characteristics in terms of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 . Canada was not far behind in this movement‚ “Affirmative Action” was set in place through the “Canadian Employment Equity Act” for the same purpose. After reading through the articles as well as some supplemental material revolving around affirmative action I have concluded
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jail so they can make more money. Thirty years ago‚ there was 500‚000 people in jail‚ now there is 2.2 million people in jail and this takes around 80 billion dollars a year to keep them locked up(Obama: ‘Much of Our Criminal Justice System Remains Unfair’). Jails benefit financially for the amount of people
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Since the time of FDR the press‚ the general public‚ politicians‚ and academics have questioned the validity of high CEO pay. Following World War II‚ executive compensation was growing‚ but at a relatively slow rate of 0.08%‚ this was up until the mid 1970’s. Then for some reason the growth rate accelerated‚ increasing by an astounding average of 212% (Frydman and Jenter‚ 2010). This rapid growth can be traced back to Milton Rock and Edward Hay who brought about “peer groups” as a means of evaluating
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supply for banks’ CEOs should be allowed to determine banks’ CEOs’ salary. The issue of capping executives’ compensation emerged after the global financial crisis beginning mid-2008.Monetary Policy for the FY 2010-11 provided for making necessary arrangement by NRB to standardize and maintain transparency in respect of salary and benefits of Directors‚ CEO and top level executives of the Banks/FIs. Accordingly‚ on November 26‚ 2010‚ NRB issued guidelines regulating banks’ CEOs remuneration. The
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Pay-for-knowledge pay systems have a number of advantages. It could help the company excel in productivity‚ increasing their global competition. Assuming that the employees would take advantage of an increase in pay to learn and perform new skills‚ the scheduling of employees would be easier. They would have the flexibility of scheduling people who can do multiple jobs much easier and if someone was out sick or on vacation‚ it would make covering that person’s shift much easier by moving staff
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median earnings percentage of 80.4%‚ showing that the gender pay gap is narrowing‚ but will not close completely unless the American people fight to help close it and give women the money that they deserve for working. The big number of seventy-nine percent has decreased especially since the 1970s and will
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of the gender wage gap. There are many obstacles for women in the workforce‚ but a major problem women continue to face is the chance to receive equal pay to men in equal jobs. With lower salaries‚ many women have trouble supporting their family and are only able to afford the necessities. Actions improving women’s opportunities to earn equal pay for equal work are not effective in the United States‚ but could be improved with support and legislative changes implemented by the president and his staff
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