PRO-AFFIRMATIVE ACTION What is it? Well affirmative action is‚ in plain text‚ the consideration of your class‚ race‚ gender‚ color‚ ethnicity‚ national origin‚ and disability when deciding who gets a certain job or admission into a school. If you are amenity applying for a job and there are other people that are applying as well then you will be considered for the job over one of the other people‚ even if they have more experience. It is not only for jobs‚ it is also used in any situation
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Running Head: EQUAL OPPORTUNITY WITH ADA AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Equal Opportunity with ADA and Affirmative Action BSHS422 Tim Nolan February 14‚ 2010 Equal Opportunity with ADA and Affirmative Action Living in an equal opportunity society as before the early years‚ may not be so equally viewed by others. As humans‚ one is not able to determine how he or she is born. Of course one wants to be born to what society views as normal‚ but this is not always
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The shortcoming with Affirmative Action is the belief that justice is based on what is fair and what isn’t. Equal treatment lives in the soul of the idea that justice equals fairness‚ which gets looked at as all people are the same‚ which is incorrect. This falsehood leads to the need for fair play. With this‚ Affirmative Action becomes nothing more than equitable measures trying to level the playing field. This leads to the round hole square peg problem when we realize we’re still staring inequality
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America has had a long‚ dark history of oppressing minorities. In an effort to rectify this‚ affirmative action was implemented in the 1960’s to provide minorities greater access to education and jobs. According to utilitarianism‚ this is‚ and continues to be morally correct. Utilitarianism deems an action moral if it is optimific‚ meaning it yields the greatest balance of well-being over drawbacks. Affirmative action both qualitatively and quantitatively fulfills the utilitarian requirement of increasing
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Affirmative Action in the words of Louis Fairykhan (humor) Affirmative Action is Necessary for Minorities to be Competitive in the Workplace The audience that I intend to attract are those that are minorities and agree with the idea of affirmative action. The persona that I chose is that of Louis Farrakhan‚ the leader of The Nation of Islam. I imagine that this is a speech to thousands of African-Americans that agree with Mr. Farrakhan. I appeal to tha emotions of my intended audience because I feel
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Is Brazil’s race-based Affirmative Action program a good one? Affirmative action refers to policies that take factors including race‚ color‚ religion‚ or national origin. In 2001‚ several Brazilian institutions established race-based affirmative action for the first time in Brazil. This action represented a major step in Brazil’s process of democratization and nation building‚ which went against Brazil’s long-held ideology of racial democracy. Affirmative action is a great idea due to the fact
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Affirmative action is defined as a policy that was put in place trying to take into consideration the members of the minority groups in the society or the groups that are considered as being disadvantaged due to the fact that they experience discrimination in the society currently‚ or they have suffered that before. Among the groups that had been covered by the affirmative action were the women since for the longest time‚ women had been considered as the weaker and inferior gender and thus suffered
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10% guarantee for admission category. The President of the University‚ Bill Powers‚ argues that their use of affirmative action respects the rights of all students and is vital to maintaining the diversity that creates a beneficial learning environment on campus. Edward Baum‚ part of the American Enterprise Institute‚ is a republican that worked with Fisher on combatting this Affirmative Action case as he has many before in the past. Civil rights groups and individuals such as Baum‚ assist in swaying
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gender roles. Finally‚ there is the Liberal Feminism‚ this theory focuses on the idea that all people are created equal and that education is the primary means to change discrimination. Groups in favor of this theory are the N.A.C. the National Action Committee on the Status of Woman‚ an organization representing 500 feminist oriented women’s groups‚ and the N.O.W. the National Organization of Women. Both of these organizations and Feminism as a whole are and have been influential on the national
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Affirmative action ultimately fails in its attempt to address the social imbalance caused by past discrimination because it only treats the symptoms rather than the cause. Do you agree? A growing number of equality programs‚ also known as affirmative action‚ which include quotas‚ minority scholarships and job opportunities based on diversity‚ have been proposed by governments throughout the world‚ as measures to diminish the inherited discrimination towards different groups of our society. But what
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