A Civil Action

personal belief or likes and dislikes can be one-sided practice, and it’s illegal to conduct this approach. 2. Some employment practices can create an adverse impact, which may occur in hiring, promotion, layoff, training, and other employment actions can have a discriminatorily influence on a protected group. In fact, EEOC will be harsher with…

The Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) prohibits credit discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age, or because you get public assistance. Creditors may ask you for most of this information in certain situations, but they may not use it when deciding whether to give you credit or when setting the terms of your credit. “The Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and its related amendments, acts, and regulations are intended to prohibit or discourage…

A Minority is a subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their lives than members of a dominant or majority group Not limited to mathematical minority for an example women, Blacks in South Africa, Blacks in Mississippi and South Carolina in the 1920's. Minorities must always be understood in relation to others in the social structure. A minority groups lacks power, prestige, and privilege in relation to others. They are unable to achieve their will. They lack…

Dear City Council Member Mark Squilla, I’m writing to you today because of my concern about the way SEPTA runs. Many philadelphia citizens take public transportation daily. We trust that the system will get us to our destination. I have seen that recently over a couple of years that people feel angered by SEPTA. I think the anger comes from the delays, the detours, the wait time and the physical condition of the buses and trains. The buses are old and do not run very fast at times. The…

The cell is at rest at -70mV and as it gets more positive, it reaches threshold (gets more excited). This change in electrical potential also excites neighboring sodium and potassium channels to open up in a chain reaction, which is known as the action potential. Because the sodium influx at the beginning is faster than the outflux of potassium, the inside of axon at the beginning of the excitation is negative while the outside is positive. But a little after the first sodium and potassium ion…

strike. Since mostly everyone was anxious during the whole strike the government thought it was finally time to take a stand. On June 10 Mayor Charles Frederick Gray decided to arrest the eight strike leaders and that caused a lot of trouble. This action taken by the mayor caused The Bloody Saturday to happen which was the day two strikers were shot and many other strikes injured because of the Royal Mountain Police attacking them due to the mayor orders. The government had a meeting after the…

my students, I feel that it is imperative that I continue the action research process. My goal as a teacher is to provide the best education possible to the students I teach. If there is an issue within my classroom or instruction, it is my job to fix it. Most of the time this will consist of reading literature, reflecting on my current practices, and making changes to my future practices. Other times, it may require an in-depth action research study to determine what will work for my student.…

and must have an impact on working conditions and the possibility that there might be insufficient cover for a particular shift. Work to rule is another course of action that the fireman would have been able to implement. This would indeed hinder the senior management, forcing a reassessment of the best way forward. This course of action works by the employees not being flexible and working strictly according to the rule book. Another option open to the firemen would be the use of the ACAS…

Affirmative action has been a controversial topic in the society over the last few decades. The fight for equity and equality has led the heightening of the fight for equality and justice in the society. In this regard, there have been many fronts set up to have such policies well implemented in the society. The implementation of the policy has been an essential part of the society that has been debated for long. Among the many fronts upon which the affirmative action policy has been seeking…

The Massacre in Ludlow, Colorado In the early 1900s, labor issues in the United States were becoming more of a problem that people acknowledged and began to respond against. During this time, the western part of America was flowing with business; including many labor intensive jobs such as mining and laying railroad tracks. Although these jobs were often dangerous and exhausting, desperate men were willing to work under poor conditions just to care for their families. Eventually workers began…