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I strongly disagree with what Affirmative Action is known as in our society meaning aiding those whose who feel discriminated in other words,” giving special consideration to minorities and women”. As the opposition to affirmative action and the special treatments granted to these so called deprived minorities, affirmative actions should end before the end of the next presidential term. Firstly affirmative action its self is discriminating towards many students and violates the equal protection…

Affirmative action policies are policies in which an institution or organization actively engages in multiple efforts to improve opportunities for historically marginalized and excluded groups in America (Pojman, 1998). These policies focus on both employment and education. In institutions of higher education, affirmative action refers to admission and recruitment policies that provide equal and equitable access to education for those groups that have been excluded or underrepresented, such as…

Affirmative Action in College Admissions The history of the United States is saturated with vivid accounts of ethnic discrimination and segregation. Ever since the country’s birth, people whose ethnicity is seen to be in the minority, which includes Americans of Asian, African, and Latin descent, have been both viewed and treated as lesser than American people of European descent; this is evident in the history of slavery, suffrage, and employment discrimination. Though the Unites States has…

government employers should strictly, “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.” This executive order was later revised and rephrased by another president. Nonetheless, Affirmative Action is a policy that allows minorities to have opportunities, whether it be in a workplace…

Affirmative Action Affirmative action was enforced to end discrimination in education and employment based on race, gender, and sex. Affirmative action is one of the many important controversies in the United States. The affirmative act was passed during the civil rights movement. “In 1961, President Kennedy was the first to use the term "affirmative action" in an Executive Order that directed government contractors” (Messerli). We always wanted to have equal opportunities for everyone including…

For many years, affirmative action, a policy that engages in efforts to promote social equality for groups who are historically disadvantaged due to factors such as race, national origin, religion, color, or sex in American society, has been a highly controversial topic surrounding the constitutionality of the program. Specifically in higher education, the affirmative action program is used to assist in admission policies and increase diversity on college campuses by providing equal access to…

Affirmative Action is not a necessary program that is just discriminating against people who have worked hard to get to the point of trying to into their dream college but they cannot do that because of affirmative action. It is ruining peoples live just because of their Skin color. It should follow the same rules that all people follow all people are created equal and should be treated fairly not people are created equal and are not treated equally. As a result of this the people that get in…

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS RACE BASED PREFERENCE One of the most controversial topics in higher education concerns affirmative action. It has been a subject of endless debates among those who are pro affirmative action or against it. Citing the positive and negative effects of this policy. But what is affirmative action? The term affirmative action means ensuring opportunities and access in areas of education and employment to minority groups and or disadvantaged race. This term was first…

redress historical discriminations, affirmative action has, inherently, built reverse discrimination against Asian and white males. Due to a limited number of accepted applicants in high-level institutions, the preference that affirmative action gives to minorities have had dramatic effects in the acceptance rates based on race, with the Asians and whites face much harder competition amongst themselves. Consequently, as Ron Unz points out, affirmative action serves as quotas on Asian…

Affirmative Action When students go through admissions processes every year should their merit or their last name be the indicator as to whether or not they get in? Every year applicants, particularly college applicants, go through a process of admissions to get accepted into the best universities all over the world. This process is however biased towards certain minorities in order to fulfill an ethnicity quotient due to affirmative action. Affirmative action was originally a mean to satiate…