Affirmative defense

Discrimination means the practice of treating one group in society in an unfair way (LD384). The causes of the discrimination are various. Discrimination exist nowadays even in countries where freedom is believed strongly. In this democratic world, people still discriminate others.Gender discrimination often happens to women because they were born as women. Men keep discriminating women because they keep assuming that they are the ones who have the power over women. There is a taboo that…

trained and trainings should become a regular routine. Keeping track of this training will help whenever there is a crime of sexual harassment you have records that show a strong history of the anti-sexual harassment training which can help to the defense. A neutral process needs to be put into action so that aggrieved employees can have at least two individuals to inform their complaints to, and they will be assured that employers will investigate all the complaints in a proper manner. There…

“In institutions of higher education, affirmative action refers to admission policies that provide equal access to education for those groups that have been historically excluded or underrepresented, such as women and minorities. Affirmative action is an outcome of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, intended to provide equal opportunities for members of minority groups and women in education and employment” (NCOSL). Affirmative action policies, at first were established in order to improve the…

Education is important to individuals because it opens the door to rewarding careers, and places those individuals in elite positions of responsibility and leadership to serve others. However, one particular race dominates these rewarding careers. Elizabeth Anderson and Lawrence Blum address this in different ways. Anderson takes a top-down approach and the focuses on fostering racial diversity in order to make elites more diverse, thus furthering the public good. In contrast, Blum takes a…

Affirmative Action on Education Affirmative action was created to help those races who have been historically suffering under segregation and domination to obtain representation in society and to balance the income disparity (Hasan, Zoya vii). Affirmative action is the special tool box that the government uses to accelerate the progress of the position of groups that have difficulty because of discrimination. The ongoing action has caused lots of problem benefiting minorities while majorities…

What is public opinion? Public opinion is the views prevalent among the general public. Moreover, it is one of the most frequently suggested terms when it comes to American politics. It represent’s people’s shared preferences on a matter that is related to government and related to politics. There are many interpretations that come behind public opinion. For example, individual opinions do matter – but when it comes to a decision making process by a leader, the opinions of the majority weigh…

There has been a lot of research done on ways to reduce prejudice against minority groups. In order to reduce prejudice, we must support diversity. There are two different perspectives when view diversity. There is prevention focus and promotion focus (p.368). Prevention focus is when you are being motivated by feelings of duty, responsibility or obligation. While on the other hand, promotion focus involves desires to support others or to achieve a common goal (p. 368). Prevention motives have…

Allan P. Bakke was a 32 year old caucasian male who was denied admission into the University of California twice after applying to their medical program. Despite Bakke’s impressive academic record as National Merit Scholar, former Marine officer, and NASA engineer his race overshadowed his career accomplishments as he was denied entree solely due to his ethnicity. This lead to Bakke filing a suit against the university on the basis that their admission procedure violated the Fourteen Amendment…

Government CBA 5/6/16 Fisher v. University of Texas-Austin Fisher v. University of Texas, (2013), is a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the affirmative action admittance policy of the University of Texas-Austin. The Supreme Court overruled the lower appellate court's ruling that favored the University and protracted the case, holding that the lower court had not applied the standard of strict scrutiny, articulated in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Regents of the University…

Philosopher Pojman argues against strong affirmative action, Philosopher Hettinger argues that affirmative action is justified even though the fact that such policies differentiate against young white males and Philosopher Steal shows a study of race relations in the United States. In this paper I will discuss why I side with Philosopher Pojman’s argument against strong affirmative action, you choose the path you go down and have an option to be different than others, you have opportunities and…