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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…

For many years, affirmative action, a policy that engages in efforts to promote social equality for groups who are historically disadvantaged due to factors such as race, national origin, religion, color, or sex in American society, has been a highly controversial topic surrounding the constitutionality of the program. Specifically in higher education, the affirmative action program is used to assist in admission policies and increase diversity on college campuses by providing equal access to…

The late 1960s showed a valiant effort to integrate equal opportunities for everyone. Decades later, racial equality became lost in translation. I agree with the article that there are some issues with Affirmative Action. Mismatch often sets minorities apart from their classmates because they are not matched to the class and will more than likely get lower grade averages than a prepared student would. Self-confidence in mismatched student is undermined and stereotypes are set, do to racial…

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…

Politics aside, 1919 was also a year of a number of huge scales social protests and riots. The Seattle General Strike, for one, was a five days strike of workers demanding a higher wage. The strike first started with about 35,000 participants but had grown to 60,000 by the time it ended on January 16th. Although no violence was involved throughout the whole protest, the Seattle General Strike was, however, considered by many as a radical attempt of overthrowing the US institution. Another…

Lafora disease is a rare, inevitably fatal, autosomal recessive, progressive myoclonus epilepsy. Being autosomal recessive, the disease is most commonly seen in communities that practice consanguinity. The onset of the disease occurs within the first two decades of life, with an average life span of 10 years following diagnosis (Monaghan & Delanty, 2010). Lafora disease is characterized by myoclonic and tonic-clonic seizures and neurological dysfunction, such as dementia (Monaghan & Delanty,…

I strongly disagree with what Affirmative Action is known as in our society meaning aiding those whose who feel discriminated in other words,” giving special consideration to minorities and women”. As the opposition to affirmative action and the special treatments granted to these so called deprived minorities, affirmative actions should end before the end of the next presidential term. Firstly affirmative action its self is discriminating towards many students and violates the equal protection…

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…

at Reagan, who was described as ‘union busting’ by labor leaders. It was partially true because for years after the PATCO strike unions lost ground. The hiring of permanent replacements for strikers became a common tactic of corporations. Reagan’s action was legal, and set the tone for labor-management relations for a generation. On October 22nd 1981 the Federal Labor Relations Authority decertified the union. It was final on October 27th. In December, Robert Poli resigned as president of PATCO.…

The Case against Affirmative Action Here are many reasons to go against Affirmative Action. Many people know of Stanford and believe it is a great University. Stanford has gone against racial minorities especially in hiring, contracting and financial aid. Recently the University has decided to change this policy because of a public debate on affirmative action. Affirmative action on the opposite of discrimination. All laws of the United Sates of American make sure all people are, and that they…