Equal Opportunity Act/ War on Poverty The Equal Opportunity Act of 1964 led to the creation of the War on Poverty. President Johnson created it and it focused on bringing awareness to poverty nationally. The War on Poverty promoted opportunities to the poor through public works and training. It focused on three main programs which are head start‚ the Job Corps‚ and community action (Hazirijan‚ P. 229). Head start provided preschool education for the minorities. The head start program was the most
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greatest advances come from science‚ engineering‚ technology‚ and math (STEM) fields. It would make sense that people of all genders should share in these triumphs since boys and girls alike have equal education opportunities in the United States. The sad fact that girls fall short in STEM opportunities leads to questions; how can society remedy this? Studies show math and science fields typically favor men. Between 1998 and 2010‚ over half a million people took the gender-science IAT (implicit-association
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Affirmative Action: Equal Opportunity and Diversity for Minorities The term "Affirmative Action" originated in the United States and first referenced when President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925 on March 6‚ 1961 (Infoplease 2000-2007). The term was used in the Order to mandate federal employers to take affirmative action to ensure employment practices are free from racial discrimination against minority groups. Executive Order 10925 increased diversity between minorities and whites
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P4 –Explain how national initiatives promote anti-discriminatory practice Not every individual working in a health and social care setting is expected to know all the laws that promote anti-discriminatory practice in health and social care. However it is important to know the existence of the laws and principles that helps to safeguard service users‚ their families and the care providers as well. In this booklet‚ I will be explaining the term national initiatives with an explanation of how it promotes
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management: equal opportunities approach and managing diversity approach. While the managing diversity approach focuses more on business efficiency‚ the equal opportunities approach concentrates on equal treatment of employees in a bureaucratic sense. The paper begins with definitions of both approaches; continues with explaining differences and similarities of both approaches comparatively. The relative superiority of the managing diversity approach for business organisations with respect to equal opportunities
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this country each state is required to have an education system‚ but the federal government doesn’t have much regulation over each state’s program. The things the government does regulate are ensuring that everyone gets an education. The Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 ensures that no one can be denied an education based on race‚ sex‚ etc. One of the few other major acts related to education is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. That act outlines the qualifications
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Fair Innings and Equal Opportunity The justification behind fair innings and equal opportunity as an age-based rationing tool‚ contains the idea that it would be best to allow people an equal opportunity to live for a long time‚ by shifting resources to the young so that they may also ideally reach the arbitrary ‘old age’ figure‚ thereby maximising the life-years saved. Kilner argues that such justification is dubious as it “places value on the potential life-years saved rather than the actual lives
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* Equal opportunity. Equal opportunity is a stipulation that all people should be treated similarly‚ unhampered by artificial barriers or prejudices or preferences‚ except when particular “distinctions can be explicitly justified.” The aim according to this often "complex and contested concept" is that important jobs should go to those “most qualified” – persons most likely to perform ably in a given task – and not go to persons for arbitrary or irrelevant reasons‚ such as circumstances of birth
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Why Homosexuals Deserve an Equal Opportunity to Marriage Mark Stillion PHI 103 Instructor: Gloria Zuniga y Postigo January 27‚ 2013 Why Homosexuals Deserve an Equal Opportunity to Marriage A very big topic that lingers on the hearts and minds of so many Americans today‚ on the desks of so many politicians and in so many courtrooms around the country today is gay marriage. There are two very identifiable sides to this debate and both sides have very defendable points of view‚ which are constantly
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For years‚ I took from my community. I grew up in a welcoming place where I had ample opportunity to succeed. However‚ in recent years‚ I have begun promoting this same excellence and equal opportunity to both my own community and the rest of the nation. I have also begun contributing back to the community in a way that will foster the same enjoyment for education that I have. In college‚ I plan to do the same on a much grander scale. On field trips as children we were always told “you’re representing
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