In Wilson v. Southwest Airlines Company case‚ a male sued the airline after he was not hired as a flight attendant‚ because he was male. Southwest argued that allowing only females to be flight attendants was a BFOQ. The airline claimed that maintenance of its female-only hiring policy is crucial to be financially successful. Bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ) is legalized discrimination‚ and available only on rare occasions‚ when the employer is able to prove that the ground for choosing
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APUSH Study Guide 26 The Path of Empire‚ 1890-1899 Themes/Constructs: In the 1890s a number of economic and political forces sparked a spectacular burst of imperial expansionism for the United States that culminated in the Spanish-American War—a war that began over freeing Cuba and ended with the highly controversial acquisition of the Philippines. Various developments provoked the previously isolated United States to turn its attention overseas in the 1890s. Among the stimuli for the
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ABM Treaty: In the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems the United States and the Soviet Union agree that each may have only two ABM deployment areas‚ so restricted and so located that they cannot provide a nationwide ABM defense or become the basis for developing one. Each country thus leaves unchallenged the penetration capability of the others retaliatory missile forces.. Both Parties agreed to limit qualitative improvement of their ABM technology. The ABM Treaty was signed
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Assignment 3 The Canadian Senate By: Courtney Marie Lester. What role does the Senate play in terms of Canadian democracy‚ and in light of that role‚ should the Senate be retained in its current form‚ reformed in some way‚ or abolished entirely? The Canadian Senate has often been referred to as the sober second thought. The house of commons was originally set up to have two chambers‚ the upper and the lower‚ to carefully decide Canadian laws. The Senate‚ in the upper house‚ reviews proposed
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the Germans. Whereas countries such as the United Kingdom and the USA wanted majority peace throughout Europe and felt that peace was the main objective rather than annexation of land etc. It is fundamentally clear that Frances ideas pursued in the treaty was solely based on anti German feelings. They wanted to annex the Rhineland and‚ even worse‚ the coal production would be given to France with reparations on top of that. By taking their coal supply Germany will crumble. They already owe money from
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Violence in Kansas spilled over into the Congress itself. On May 22 1856‚ the day after the sack of Lawrence and two days before Brown’s Pottawatomie Massacre‚ a sudden flash of savagery on the Senate floor electrified the whole country. Just two days earlier Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts had finished an inflammatory speech in which he described the treatment of Kansas as ’the rape of a virgin territory‚’ and blamed it on the South’s ’depraved longing for a new slave State.’ Sumner made
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While the senate was created along with the rest of the Canadian government and is written into the constitution‚ it is deeply flawed and must be reformed. Firstly‚ the senate does not equally represent each province according to current populations. Though originally seat distribution was based off populations‚ drastic changes in population since 1867 have not been accounted for. For example‚ as of 2014 New Brunswick has a population of 753‚914 and holds ten seats‚ yet British Columbia has a population
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The names of the authors that wrote an article titled candidates and policy in the United States Senate elections are Gerald C. Wright and Michael B. Berkman. Although‚ previous literature on the subject suggests that policy is not a major factor in the decision making process‚ the article argued otherwise. It is a known fact that a substantial policy differences between the candidates in a particular race exists. The outcome of the race determines policy. Positive correlation exists between a district
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creating the survey that we gave to students‚ and just getting to spend time doing weekly interactions. During this month‚ I got to grow even more as a senator on the ASGCU senate‚ and feel that I am starting to make a different on the GCU campus. I want to share with you the busy and amazing month I have had on the senate. The first thing that I accomplished this month was getting two resolution ideas cleared to start writing the initial resolution. My two ideas were‚ to extend the hours at Fresh
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of U.S. Senators have been heavily discussed in legislative research to understand and predict the votes cast in the senate. Specifically‚ the research on factors that lead to senators voting against their party has become prominent because of the increasing partisan polarization in Congress (Poole and Rosenthal 2007). Finding statistically significant factors that influence Senate voting is important in understanding Senators’ willingness to vote against their party in a system that depends on bi-partisan
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