Affirmative Action Reflective Essay

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Affirmative action is a product of the Civil Rights Movement, in an attempt to give equal opportunities to all the people across America, mostly minorities and women. Even though the Civil Rights Movement did end segregation and attempted to give equality to minorities and women, it was not successful in doing so. Affirmative actions was the means in which minorities and women would have a better chance in the workplace as well as education to be given an equal chance in getting the job or acceptance into a college. There is a very hot debate in whether accepting minorities and women, who are sometimes less qualified to get the job or acceptance, just based on their sex or ethnicity.
The idea of diversifying workplaces as well as universities is very appealing to me but the way in which we are doing so to attain this just is not ethical. I would completely do away with affirmative action for the reason that it brings race, gender and religion into the decision-making when it comes to accepting people for a job or into a university.
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Conservatism is the set of values and ideals that are basically preserving traditional values and morality. Usually it is against big social change, keeping the government as small as possible and as closely aligned to the constitution as possible, also keeping the government out of businesses. I agree with this for the most part, I think the government should stay out of an individual’s way as much as possible so we can live free. Also it seems that people are always blaming the government for being the problem in America and liberals constantly want to make it bigger, which has always blown my mind. One of the traditional values that I don’t agree with on the conservative side is gay marriage, I believe that people should be able to do whatever they want when it doesn’t affect other people and this is one of those

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