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    The first question you may ask is " what is affirmative action?" Affirmative action is the encouragement of increased representation of women and minority group member, especially in employment (Dictionary). This applies mostly in schools and workplaces. Evidence suggest that it has had some success in improving educational and economic opportunity for women and minorities (Gale). This topic has started many large debates and has become a very big issue since it has to deal with discrimination…

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    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…

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    Affirmative Action Affirmative Action first began in 1961 on March 6 from The Executive Order 10925 signed by President John F. Kennedy. In 1964, the Civil Rights Act made discrimination illegal for employment regarding to race, cultural background, color, or religion. Over the course of time, this began to become beneficial to a lot of people especially if they wanted a job because of discrimination and enforced diversity and giving minorities opportunities or chances. Even though this is such…

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    Affirmative action is the policy of increasing representation of minorities in areas such as employment, education, and culture which they have been historically excluded. These policies often involve preferential selection, affirmative action thus generates intense controversy. I will evaluate affirmative action in one of the most widely debated areas of minorities in university admissions in the States using GR-type reasoning. University admissions initiated affirmative action in the 1970s…

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    Affirmative Action is a federal agenda passed in the 1960s designed to counteract historical discrimination suffered by minorities and other underrepresented groups in the United States. To foster diversity, institutions with affirmative action programs prioritize the inclusion of minority groups in employment and education. For example, Affirmative Action programs have allowed minorities entry into certain professions formerly deemed off limits. However, one can argue that affirmative action…

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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…

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    I am going to start my essay by defining Affirmative Action (AA). AA is giving preferential treatment in hiring or admitting the less qualified candidate on moral grounds being discrimination or fairness. I am going to defend the view that the best-qualified candidate should not always get the spot in education, instead I am defending the view that it is morally just to give first nation students preferential treatment, on the moral grounds of promoting greater positive consequences, minimizing…

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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 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, by definition, is an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education. Using varying instruments and policies, Affirmative Action aims to help underrepresented groups have a better job opportunities or college admissions. Generations of people have been disadvantaged by institutionalized discrimination and one way to remedy this is to place a policy that evens out the playing field. There has been…

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