Affirmative action

applicants are being treated dissimilarly on the basis of race. The Supreme Court finds in favor of Abigail Fisher. The plaintiff has been injured by the actions of the defendant. Specifically, Abigail Fisher suffered financial injury as a result of the University of Texas at Austin collecting $100 in filing fees from Fisher. State action is present because the University of Texas at Austin is a public actor because the University of Texas at Austin is a public university. The Supreme Court…

This quotation is saying that men don’t take paternity leave because their jobs don’t offer the financial support needed. In the ethnic article, it mentions that employers mostly only call back white people for jobs instead of black people. The article also has research that shows that there is still racism within jobs and that is why the unemployment rate for black people is double the rate for white people. The two articles relate to each other because they show that just because a person is…

information. This means that those with records will have the same chance as any other applicant. A state ban the box law is on its way. Nearly 200 worker advocacy groups and labor unions recently sent a letter to President Obama urging executive action for the removal of the box on job application all over the country (CITE?). One of the nation’s largest retailers Wal-Mart adopted a personal company policy to ban the box in…

While the term “minority” is most commonly used to reference a socially subordinate ethnic group based on one’s culture, beliefs, nationality or language; multiple other types of minorities also exist. Minority groups can also consist of individuals with physical disabilities, or economic hardships such as the poor or unemployed. The term “age minorities” refers to members of the work force that are younger or older than the typical working age. Sexual minorities also exist in the general…

My place of employment has a no tolerance policy against discrimination and takes cultural diversity very seriously. They are an equal opportunity employer that has policies in place to prohibit discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, familial status, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected group status. My agency focuses on making a difference in the diverse community we…

Précis Frank Bruni’s article “An Admissions Surprise From the Ivy League”(2015), reveals that there is a fatal flaw in the college admissions process because of the unfair advantage that privileged teens possess. Bruni supports his claim by questioning the intentions of the coalition’s new process, acknowledging the harsh reality of the imbalance in the students receiving an acceptance, and providing opinions from experienced college admissions officers. Bruni’s purpose is to argue for actual…

Identity has originated from surrounding environments and that one perceives herself how she believes others see her. When white men colonized America and brought slaves from Africa, white men perceived their own advancement as faster evolution. They believed that they were better than those who were “primitive”. As the patriarchy and systematic racism have evolved throughout the years, the perception of a white man has become the role model in all things positive, if not at least neutral. In…

Throughout American History, Americans have have always discriminated against minorities. None more than the way society as a whole treated the Blacks and Native Americans. Much of the discrimination in the country during the time of the Civil War is erroneous no matter the minority. Although lots of the discrimination in the US was very much individual, especially when it gets into the latter part of the 1800 's. For example, the changes that Huck and John Dunbar had due to personal experiences…

Getting Real About Race I chose to do my paper on Dawne Mouzon’s “Black People Don’t Value Marriage as Much as Other Groups” essay. This essay not only opened my eyes, but changed even more of the views I had on marriage and race. Mouzon not only speaks about Black, White, and Mexican American marriages, but she also does a great amount of research that helps support her article. Many of the surveys involved questions about how important it was for the family to have a good steady income, an…

Public Education is a widespread way of providing education to citizens of a country. The main features of such an education is that this is a relatively cheap to obtain such an education if compared to the private education. Furthermore, Public Education starts from primary schools to the Post Doc Schools. This increases the overall scope of Public Education. It is essential to note that education is basically the foundation of almost all great things, including the emergence of the United…