Affirmative Action – do we still need it? Affirmative action is a set of public policies and initiatives designed to help eliminate past and present discrimination based on race‚ color‚ religion‚ sex‚ or national origin. The original policies of Affirmative action were set up to help African Americans and other minority groups to overcome the past effects of discrimination. African Americans‚ minorities‚ and women discrimination in certain areas like employment‚ resources‚
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to you about what we as humans are doing to our planet. I want to help setup regulations and laws to help us start to make a change in our behavior. If our environment is not changed it does not bode well for us. According to Adam’s‚ “we are over using the resources the earth provides for us.” (Adams‚ 2010). If we keep using the amounts of oil‚ cutting forests at the rate we are‚ contaminating water supplies‚ and over use energy sources at the rate we are going at some point we will run out. These
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because some officer’s use these extreme measures in situations when it is not need‚ Reform is needed in law enforcement. Law enforcement should look at if they held liable if force is used improperly‚ they have been properly trained to use force‚ and they use the same amount of force with everyone. Police officer are humans and humans make mistakes but the police officer make they same mistake over and over again and we wonder are they really mistakes are they being held liable for their action
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would be like if we did not have technology? Technology can be a great enhancement to our education but it also has its flaws. When you first get a new enhancement you should always check factors that could go into consideration. Some factors to put into consideration are communication‚ handwriting‚ and access to anything on the internet. These are some of the disadvantages to technology. The first disadvantage to technology is communication. As Tim Wilson says in Source B “how do we communicate with
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The need to belong is a fundamental need within all of humanity‚ and has played a key role in society since the beginning of time. The novel by S.E Hinton‚ ‘The Outsiders’ conveys this need and the yearning to feel social acceptance within us all. ‘The Outsiders’ comments on this inherent part of humanity through its realistic portrayal of teenage gang life‚ centering on the dependency of the gang members to feel a sense of inclusion and support from their gang. Insert The Outsiders plot line
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wonder how much and how far a school voucher should offer individual families and whether or not they should be restricted to certain schools. Part of the controversy surrounding school vouchers includes the use of taxpayers’ money‚ the educational needs of children‚ and the terms of the 1st amendment that separate the church and state. Taxpayers are concerned that their money is not going into local schools and that the money they are paying is increasing due to school voucher expenses. Similarly
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Imagine losing a home because the cost of living was too expensive. This horrifying scenario is not imaginary‚ but an occurring conundrum in America today. The welfare system was established to aid families in hard times to avoid these situations. The United States of America’s Welfare System is a program that was constructed to help struggling citizens with little to no income to aid basic necessities for themselves and their family. The idea of welfare was carried over from the British who had
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the officers should be fully punished. We are more now more aware of police brutality then back then since police brutality has always being happening. According to the police brutality infographic “Rapid growth in a video- enabled smartphones is largely responsible for the increase of police brutality‚ with more than 60% of Americans are now carrying a video enabled mobile devices”. Saying that we are now we are more aware of such a brutal crimes because we have a visual evidence of what is going
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which would be difficult to pass (Schmidt‚ Shelly‚ Bardes‚ 184). With this in mind‚ it does not make any sense to even make an effort to make such a motion. Therefore‚ they need alternate ways to bypass the Electoral College standards as they were set when the Constitution was signed (Schmidt‚ Shelly‚ Bardes‚184). They need to come up with alternative ways so that prevention of an unpopular president becoming elected can take place. A proposal was made requiring each participating state in an interstate
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to have relationships not only with people‚ but also with the environment such as the animals‚ plants‚ waters‚ spirits‚ skies‚ weather and the land. “Like a human mother the land gives us protection‚ enjoyment‚ and provides for our needs economic‚ social and religious. We have a human relationship with the land.” (Coombs & Dodson‚ 1994). Each group of families lives in a specific area that they own in relation to its own ancestral law. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people‚ sea‚ land and
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