Affirmative action in the United States

Abigail N. Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin- 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause Abigail Noel Fisher is a white female who applied as an undergraduate at University of Texas in 2008. Fisher blamed the affirmative action program and sued the university for race discrimination. Her reason was not sufficient enough to be approved in court. Fisher’s grades were not good enough, she had explained that she was not accepted when people of a different race were but that 's not the case. “ If…

To their surprise, his election to presidency made racism much worse compared to its previous state. Obama 's election solidified the racist vote as a political quantity recognizable to politicians. These votes are enormous in some places to the extent that they can be used to decide an election. Obama also has had to deal with two sets of opposition:…

The existence of a veto ensures that any progress towards a resolution by the SC is locked down and frozen until the individual interests of P5 states are satisfied, and said interests don’t always match up to the resolution of any problem in question. The only significant disadvantage for P5 members to veto is negative attention through public and press scrutiny both in their own countries and…

PGA Tour v. Martin Discrimination has been around since I was born in some form or another. Discrimination can come in the form of sexually, age, and even race. Affirmative action is a step taken to ensure that those who have been victims of discrimination, in the past, are given the opportunity to work in positions, they would not have attained had there not been discrimination (Jennings, 2015). Casey Martin, a one-time professional golfer, was discriminated again by the PGA Tour. This paper…

1. During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, was the United States growing more united and inclusive, or divided and contentious? Explain. Johnson lobbied for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made discrimination based on race, religion, and gender illegal. Johnson’s Great Society programs were also created to eliminate social injustices in America. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Johnson’s war on poverty were attempts to ensure a more united and inclusive country. However, the South still…

The number of public school students in the United States, whose primary home language is not English, continues to grow each year. Nationally, the English Language Learner (ELL) population increased 61 percent in the decade from 1994 – 2004 (VanDeWeghe, 2008). In 2007 there were over 2 million Pre K – 3rd grade ELL students enrolled in public schools across the country (Xu & Drame, 2008). The largest district in the state of Arizona, Mesa Public Schools (MPS), reported an average of over 27…

The fourteenth amendment according to dictionary.com is “an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons”. To my housemate, Tara, she didn’t even know what the fourteenth amendment was, but when asked how she defined equality she said “fairness”. To my mom the fourteenth amendment was having “the same rights regardless of sex or race”. Listing the variety of different…

consisted of France, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Empire, whereas the other alliance, the Central Powers, included Germany and Austria-Hungary. The equity of the two alliances prolonged the war over several years and exhausted the resources, human and matériel, of the nations involved. On account of the colonial empires of the combatants, the conflict became a global conflict, which the people at that time called the World War or the Great War. The United States remained neutral…

Today in the United States, more than a third of adults have a college degree, compared to fewer than five percent of adults at the time of World War II, representing a dramatic change in what people do when they reach adulthood.1 This year alone nearly two million people in the United States will earn their bachelor’s degrees.2 Our country’s success in promoting a college education would be something to celebrate, if not for one big, embarrassing blemish: those who are already privileged are…

conscious level or not. Bringing those inner struggles and racist perspectives to the forefront to address them head-on might be more productive today than ever. The majority of Whites and Hispanics report that they feel race relations in the United States are generally good, as opposed to a minority of Blacks. Obviously, despite the legislative guidelines saying that races should be treated equally, this is not taking place in society today. Racism, and prejudice are problems that need to…