A Civil Action

Should affirmative action be allowed in schools? Or does the very idea undermine equality? The case of affirmative action has confronted the Supreme Court in 2008 by a white woman, Abigail Fisher, who believed she was denied acceptance to the University of Texas at Austin because of her skin color. The Court eventually refused to make a major ruling, but instead sent the case back to the lower courts for future analysis and for a future ruling. As for now, affirmative action still exists, but…

I am writing to you to address a majorly controversial topic, Affirmative Action. I would like to ask you the question, do we all have equal opportunities? The answer is too often no from minority students. Affirmative Action is a popular debate that has to do with colleges and workplaces letting in more women and minorities. I am going to argue that Affirmative Action should stay legal and should be allowed in more cities and companies. It gives everyone an opportunity at a higher education and…

Supreme Court of the U.S decided to invite reconsideration of affirmative action, the need for schools integration and the ability of education to bring social change. The author is trying to prove that although the Supreme Court of the U.S had all grounds to the belief that these were the major issues affecting the…

Affirmative action is necessary because everyone deserves to go to college regardless of racial background. It is also important to have affirmative action because it promotes diversity in schools. In March of 2008, ACLU stated that they were in for approval of affirmative action. “These programs recognize and strive to correct the barriers that continue to block the paths of many individual Americans, including women, Native Americans, Arab Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and African…

discrimination of Black people in the United States. For example, the brutality of police against Black people is still the common problem; there is not really a serious action taken in this. The government and our society see this problem as normal and they do not do much to stop it. As we are told that every American has civil liberties but those who…

Affirmative action policies aim to ensure equal educational and employment opportunities for minorities and women. They intend to benefit people who had previously suffered from discrimination, such as African Americans, by placing requirements, or quotas, on percentages of races that must be hired or accepted (LaNoue). Employers and schools must consider race or gender when hiring to make sure that both genders and all races have equal opportunities (Hanmer). However, this system is surrounded…

A Race-Free Opportunity “The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal” (Aristotle). This is the foundation when it comes to affirmative action programs. Such programs aim to favor education and employment opportunities for historically deprived individuals, mainly to minority groups. Nonetheless, affirmative action has become outdated in our present society because it is now resulting in discriminating against non-minorities. To be completely fair, college admissions…

Affirmative action is used in a good amount of employment and university systems. In Chandler Smith’s case affirmative action was used to decide who qualified for the five spots left to those who fit the school’s definition of diversity. Chandler being rejected when applying to the spot caused a two sided argument rise on if Chandler deserved to have been accepted or not. One side claims that she did not fit the description they were looking for for diversity and the school is allowed to do such…

different cultural background could bring innovation, improvement, and cultural values. Even though diversity can expand our moral horizon, it is not acceptable to favor a group because of its ethnicity. For example, when the cases of affirmative action make a difference in college application, it undermines many students hard work just because they are parts of majority. According to the Sandel’s example in the book, when a college student Cheryl Hopwood applied for University of Texas Law…

individual responsibility begins. Which conception of equality of opportunity one subscribes to has tremendous consequences for the level of government involvement one might favor. Ensuring substantive equality of opportunity often requires positive action, rather than simply the lack of over discrimination. “Suppose that in the U.S., whites have enjoyed superior social status, enforced by law and social custom, for decades, going back to times in which blacks were enslaved. Now whites on the…