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One of the major channels of the spinal cord is the spinothalamic tract; a sensory pathway. It conveys nerve impulses for sensing pain, warmth, coolness, itching, tickling, deep pressure, and crude touch. (Tortora, 2014-01-22, p. 461). Based on that description and as the name implies, information will travel from the region of stimulation on the skin to the CNS, ultimately landing at its destination at the thalamus; thus, making it an ascending pathway. This pathway is further divided into…

Is Affirmative Action Necessary Discrimination happens everywhere and anywhere. When it comes to reaching a certain goal, that certain person probably won't be able to reach it because they are being held back from people who are discriminating them. When it comes to applying to college or a university some don't get the chance to go in and some do , because some think it's discrimination. There are some universities or colleges that may choose another person because their age race or even…

Currently, I am a high school student at Cross Creek Early College. As a senior, looking for the right college is a must. “Should I stay at Fayetteville State or Transfer to a different school?” is the question I ask myself all the time. I am an African American female who has always wanted to attend a Historically Black College or University. I find myself always defending the value of HBCUs in comparison to other schools across the country. A number of people, especially African Americans,…

UNIOINIZED AND NON- UNIONIZED WORKPLACE UNIONIZED WORKPLACE In a union workplace, they bargains with the employee for the contract. The collective agreement is a contract and then they make sure that the contract must be carried out. The contracts can be defined as the legal documents between the person and the employer that finalize about the wages, benefits, and rules of the employment. PROS AND CONS OF UNIONIZED WORKPLACE 1. Unionized workplace offers higher wages. 2. They have better working…

The Chicago Times and the Chicago Turbine were two leading newspapers in the late 1890’s. Both of the newspapers had coverage of the Pullman Strike available to their readers. The Pullman Strike is an event in Illinois history where workers chose to walk out of their occupations due to the environment. The depression made the worker’s wages get cut by twenty-five percent. This cut was the cause of workers to have an enormous amount of stress, eventually leading to a strike against the…

“Never stop” – looking back the conflicts of unions and collective bargaining Since the last few decades, there is a major decreasing from the union membership, which causes the American unions function less influential to their labor movement. Since the federal statistical data shows that there is only about 12% of workers are union members, which is about 20% cut down in 1980s; compared to the private companies, the number has plummeted a staggering 10%. Based on the reduction of the union…

The Pilbara Strike Summary • Started May 1st 1946 and ended in 1949 • Hundreds of Aboriginal pastoral workers left their work for better pay and conditions • This caused sheep stations to stop production • Strike was organised with no phones or radios • Longest strike in Australian Hisotry • 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers from 27 stations in Western Australia walked away from their job • Predates the Wave Hill strike in NT by 20 years • Sometimes referred to as “Blackfellas’ Eureka” • Wanted…

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…

professionals should carefully review job applications, interview questions, selection tests, employee handbooks and other similar materials to ensure their content can be clearly defended as a business necessity. If it cannot, the prudent course of action would be to remove that content which cannot be defended. In the example of social media above, it would be extremely difficult to show a business necessity for reviewing an applicant’s social media posts in advance of hire unless the job in…

In today’s society Affirmative Action in Higher Education has been a heated debate for many years now. Affirmative action is a set of guidelines that take into consideration certain factors such as race, color, religion, gender, and origin. With the elimination of Affirmative Action our society and the higher education system has the potential to eliminate stereotyping and discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, and origin. Martin Luther King Jr. once said "A man should be judged,…