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throughout the body using electrical synapses. While neurons are made up off a cell body referred to as the soma, dendrites, and axon. Nerves consist of axons and sometimes nerve fibers, and each of those axons has the ability to produce an action potential. Action potential is a well-preserved message as a response to a specific stimulus that travels down the axon. Moreover, sodium/potassium pumps are located in the…

Abolishing Affirmative Action Solves Nothing While potential college students fill out applications, a majority of the applicants will face the question regarding their race. Most educational institutions often strive for blind admissions in order to establish a fair picking process. However, affirmative action has served as an exception because it allows universities to aid specifically minority students in need of educational opportunities compared to privileged students. Unfortunately,…

to higher education. Affirmative Action started in 1965 in hopes to grant minorities more access to jobs , but has grown to also encompass ensuring that minorities are allowed admittance to higher education facilities. The goal was to equalize the population in terms of opportunity, and also be equitable in how people were treated. Since its implementation, many people have opposed it and have given reasons for why the system is flawed. However, Affirmative Action is a policy that needs to be…

Affirmative Action In Shaw’s article he gives four arguments for affirmative action that are counter arguments to others. In this paper I will talk about one of his responses and why I disagree with it. I plan to argue that many companies do not want to hire people of other races, ethnicities, or genders because they may not trust these people for various reasons. According to Shaw, affirmative action is designed to make the hiring process of companies more fair. It is supposed to make the…

Affirmative action is a set of policies that often makes employment decisions a way to preventing further discrimination. A negative policy, this prevents further discrimination by making initial employment decisions blind in terms of race and gender. There are four main reasons that people and companies wish to preserve affirmative action programs. One is that these programs distribute society’s benefits and burdens; jobs are not distributed justly because they are not distributed according to…

In today’s society people are having difficulties getting into college because of affirmative action. Affirmative action is defined as “the practice of improving the educational and job opportunities of members of groups that have not been treated fairly in the past because of their race, sex, etc.” (Merriam- Webster 1).The use of affirmative action in colleges is making it harder for deserving white students who have always gotten good grades and those who have participated in extracurricular…

In the article “Does Affirmative Action Do What It Should?” an interesting alternate perspective concerning affirmative action is presented. In the article, Dan Slater starts off by describing affirmative action. They are a set of policies used by universities across the nation as a means to recruit minority students whose predecessors have been subject to racial discrimination within the United States. These practices have been put into place to “even-out” the overwhelmingly off-balance number…

The features of action potentials are: threshold, all or none, is regenerative, saltatory conduction and refractory period. The threshold is generated when the membrane of the cell is depolarize around -50mv to evoke the action to occur. Action potential is all or none because is either no action potential or a full amplitude of action potential. We say that action potential is regenerative since a new action potential is generated at each location along the cell membrane. The saltatory…

Affirmative Action is often referred to as “reverse discrimination”. The thing is discrimination is discrimination no matter who it affects. Affirmative Action is defined as when a minority is put ahead of a non-minority. Affirmative Action is often used in college admissions and in employment decisions. The purpose of Affirmative Action is to fix 8discrimination by putting the non-minority at the disadvantage. This leaves one to wonder if Affirmative Action is fair to non-minorities, and if it…

Should affirmative action policies change their focus from race-based to class-based? The term affirmative action was first used under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was used for job security due to union blacklisting during the Great Depression. However, what would become the present form of affirmative action took shape under Kennedy. As times have changed the implementation of affirmative action has shifted it’s focus from the workplace to campuses. Affirmative action is currently a…