Current affirmative action programs rest on fundamentally incompatible principles that frustrate‚ rather than facilitate‚ the attainment of true educational diversity. The core problem is that universities have largely disregarded the only permissible goal of affirmative action programs—educational diversity —in favor of remedying past discrimination. In doing so‚ race and other immutable characteristics have become proxies for a diverse student body at the expense of the many factors that more
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Wait Till Next Year‚ by Doris Kearns Goodwin‚ is a personal memoire of Goodwin’s life growing up in Rockville Centre‚ New York during the 1950s. Goodwin talks about multiple members of her family‚ including her father‚ Michael‚ her mother‚ Helen‚ her two sisters‚ Charlotte and Jeanne‚ and her best friend while growing up‚ Eileen. The memoire includes many memories of how she and her family were affected during the atomic bomb and McCarthyism. Also in her story‚ she highlights the good and bad things
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WAIT ’TILL NEXT YEAR by William Goldman and Mike Lupica (August 10‚ 2005) At least twice a day‚ a high school or college student sends me an e-mail asking for advice -- they want to write about sports some day‚ they don’t know how to go about it‚ and they’re wondering if I can help. And I never know what to write back. How can you answer a question like‚ "I want to write a sports column‚ tell me what to do?" Last weekend‚ I thought of an answer. Just a quick back story: I probably own
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The growing trend in over-muscular action figures did not end with G.I. Joe. Instead‚ this toy’s popularity provided the opportunity for other brands to apply these same changes to their products. Harrison G. Pope‚ Jr.‚ a current psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School‚ examined this trend through other action figures and their relationship with American trends in his 1998 research study‚ Evolving Ideals of Male Body Image as Seen Through Action Toys.2 In addition to G.I. Joe‚ Pope examined
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to be successful in the the next ten years of my life at Michigan State and beyond‚ planning will be essential to my success entering into a medical profession. These upcoming years are full of various obstacles‚ changes in life and an immense amount of money coming out of my pocket. Consequently‚ this daunting task of completing the goals I have today simply cannot be done without planning for life’s path: education‚ occupation‚ family and obstacles. The next three years here at Michigan State will
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Within the next five years I am reaching to be at cal state Long Beach (CSULB). To get to that point may be a little bit of a struggle but it will be all worth it when I become a crime scene investigator. There is one small trick to this though‚ I am not sure if I still want to be an investigator. I have been thinking about how many positions will be open and financial wise. I am also thinking about becoming a dentist and going to Loma Linda University (LLU). Last year I was looking into those
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Managing Marketing Programs | January 1 2011 | ASP Tools‚ Advertising Agency‚ STP Analysis‚ message content of advertisements‚ creative content of the advertisements. | Advertisement & Sales Promotion | Maggi Noodles Integrated Marketing Communication Integrated marketing communication is integration of all marketing tools‚ approaches‚ and resources within a company which maximizes impact on consumer mind and which results
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Introduction A number of factors have contributed to the success and problems faced by Thorntons up until 2003. Over the years‚ the company seems to have lost focus on its original strategy based on product differentiation and spread itself too thin in pursuit of multiple objectives. It is clear that the values on which Thorntons was originally founded were the principal reasons for the company’s initial success in Britain. From the very beginning‚ a combination of the quality ingredients that
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Origin Five year plans were first introduced in the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1928 for controlled and rapid economic development. Much of the Soviet industrial successes are a result of the implementation of its five year plans. In 1950‚ India’s prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru‚ impressed by the Soviet system‚ adopted five year plans as a model for economic development‚ and established the Planning Commission which was to act independent of any cabinet and was answerable only to the Prime Minister
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STARBUCKS STRATEGIES FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS Strategies can be divided into two categories in management‚ short term and long term. However what are strategies? The concept of strategy has been borrowed from the military and adapted for use in business. A review of what noted writers about business strategy have to say suggests that adopting the concept was easy because the adaptation required has been modest. In business‚ as in the military‚ strategy bridges the gap between policy and tactics
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