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    discriminate when hiring employees for projects paid for by the government. Though this Executive Order is like the Executive Order created by John F. Kennedy, it was implemented after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it included women in the list of groups not to discriminate against. This Executive Order later became a federal law in 1977 which requires “10 percent of funds for public works be allotted to qualified minority contractors” (Britannica). Affirmative Action isn’t aimed at just…

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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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    majority of the society shares a common goal, to apply and be accepted into a college. College administrators choose which applicants to accept, except now many affirmative action programs require colleges to accept a specific percentage of a racial group. Affirmative action can be defined as a policy favoring minorities that provides them with equal opportunities for education or in the workplace.Oftentimes affirmative action is viewed as positive discrimination. Supporters of college…

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    Cons of Discrimination Affirmative Action, the compensation to minority groups for discrimination, has been a controversial topic since its signing in by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. This executive order has mandated specific guidelines for the incorporation of minority groups and women into education and the workforce. This purpose begs the question “How has Affirmative Action bridged the education gap for minority groups, and created a content, fair, and connected society for all of…

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    Ralph Ellison once said, “There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale (Ellison).” With the help of great sociological researchers like Dorothy Robert and Michael Root, this paper will expose some of the sociological fairy tales that exist here in today’s society that have been perpetuated for decades. Many times, there are issues that…

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    Foster care are like toy stores, every foster child symbolizes a toy who has put on the shelf and has been labeled used, damaged, and/or out of date. Still they have the same dreams and aspirations as the new models, to go home with someone who will love, and cherish them with all their overflowing stuffing, missing button eyes, matted fur, and uneasy temperament because too often have they been thrown about and trampled on. Too long for any child or toy to sit and hope for something better to…

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    What Is Modernism?

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    JMJ Christian Crispin Condron Dr. Daniel Clasby World Civilization April 27, 2016 Analyzing Primary Sources #2 Beginning in the nineteenth century the philosophy of “Modernism” through the current ruling governments started to take effect as Monarchies along with other governments around Europe were forced to change and react to the peoples wants and needs as a result of the ongoing revolutions occurring amongst that nation’s citizens. This sense of “Modernism” that these Monarchies were going…

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    The government is able to control them when they are locked up in these institutions. This is illustrated through racial profiling and terms such as “driving while black”. In conclusion, blacks are being overrepresented as well as any other minority groups in the prison system allowing the government to control these individuals. Paul Grimes and Kevin Rogers focus on the growth in the prison population describing the “get tough on crime” policy as problematic. There has been an increase in…

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    Multicultural Literature

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    To conduct this research, forty five picture books (fifteen for each ethnic group) were systematically selected and reviewed by insiders who were a part of the culture or ethnic group that each book represented. Once the results from the study were published, the authors were able to make some evaluations about how these three cultures are portrayed in multicultural picture books…

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    Non Aboriginal Women Essay

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    Recently, a huge stride was achieved for indigenous women across the world, as the first indigenous Mrs. Universe was crowned. Not only that, but the 25 year old Cree woman from Alberta is using her win as a platform to speak up against the injustices that aboriginal women face, focusing in on the staggering 1,181 missing and murdered females. (insert stat citation). Ashley Callingbull competed in beauty pageants at a very young age. She managed to win the Enoch crown before her 9th birthday.…

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