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    Affirmative Action Case Study

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    As it is now, it facilitates the entrance to college to minorities of the higher classes. In its current form, affirmative action is well intentioned, but it is rather ineffective, and it sets itself up for causing a stir among whites who feel that minority status is taking precedent over academic performance, and calling this practice reverse discrimination. The case against…

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    Affirmative Action In 1964 John F. Kennedy signed the Civil Rights Act of the year 1964 in which guaranteed “equal opportunities among races, genders, religions, people with disabilities and veterans, in an effort to counter past discrimination against these minority groups” but 3 years before the executive order 11246 was put in place by President Lyndon B. Johnson to demand government employers to take “affirmative action” to give all race, religion and national origin at chance to hire. Then…

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    Affirmative Action Affirmative action has been a highly controversial issue in America since its creation. The policy that was put in place to make up for the poor treatment of racial minorities quickly became reverse discrimination: encouraging the professional and academic worlds to make decisions about a person based on their race which is, by definition, racism. The policy now serves as an offense to both sides – giving a race-based advantage to minorities against majorities and considering…

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    AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Affirmative action is reverse discrimination, it favors minorities who struggle in trying to get employed or an education. Anyone can go through this, it is not just one race. This started on March 6, 1961 when President John F. Kennedy signed the Executive order 10925. This encouraged many to not discriminate people for their religion, color or background. Affirmative Action is not necessary because it is very unfair to most of the kids who wake up each morning more…

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    Affirmative Action is an unjust practice in the college admission process due to the fact that it is sometimes valued more highly than factors that involve merit. The University of Michigan is merely one of the multitude of universities in the United States that gives minority applicants an unjust advantage in the admissions process. The admissions program of the university was examined by the Supreme Court in a case regarding the constitutionality of the Affirmative Action practices in their…

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    Seeing the movie, A Civil Action, puts into action the material we have learned in the course involving before, during, and after a trial. At the beginning of the film, a young man serves the summons and complaint to the defendants. The complaint was served personally to the various defendants, at the place of work. Serving the defendants the lawsuit paperwork notifies them that there has been a complaint filed against them. Another tactic that is seen in the film for pre-trial is how they are…

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    President John F. Kennedy created the affirmative action program to provide equal opportunities for everyone in education. While this program started in the 1960’s, problems continued to present themselves as shown through the many court cases, such as Brown vs. Board of Education and Fisher vs. The University of Texas. Some people believe affirmative action is needed because it increases the number of underrepresented minority acceptance, leads to diversity in higher education, and eliminates…

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    Affirmative action was created in the 1960s in order to give the groups that had been marginalized for years a leg up in order to help them out. The mentality behind its creation is best summarized in a quote from a speech given by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 in which he says, "you do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others, and still just believe that you have…

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    Hormones operate using a type of mechanism. Releasing these hormones can trigger actions in particular target cells. One receptor on the cell membrane binds to one type of hormone. The binding hormones change the shape of the receptor, which causes the response to the hormone. Through the process of steroid hormone action, the hormone goes through a certain process of two steps. The hormone binds to receptors on the nuclear membrane once it is inside the cell that produces an…

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    Affirmative Action policies have stirred debate about fairness of favoring certain groups over others. The most controversial part of these programs is their use of minimal levels of required minority participation. “Affirmative action policies are those in which an institution or organization actively engages in efforts to improve opportunities for historically excluded groups in American society”ncsl. Affirmative Action has left many people out in the cold, it allows people to be chosen by…

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