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carry a negative impact. A last name could mean the difference between closing a deal or not, and a business retaining customers. Division by caste can also be seen in the affirmative action policies India prides itself on. To make up for the injustices the lower caste was historically subjected too, an affirmative action-esque quota was put in place to give social mobility to the new generation of lower caste citizens. Many Indian of the newer generation come from families who are not wealthy,…

every day; while some might have a better opportunity at grasping anything such as a degree we are all humans and make mistakes. Some of us are smarter than others no matter how we look. Affirmative action is a topic we all have different opinions about. As defined by the Merriam-Webster Affirmative Action, “the practice of improving the educational and job opportunities of members of groups that have not been treated fairly in the past because of their race, sex, etc.” It gives them a boost in…

The researchers used two groups of rats: one fed the ketogenic diet regimen and the other a control diet. They found that chronic ketosis resulted in the increased production of mitochondrial proteins as well as proteins associated with oxidative phosphorylation, the cells primary mechanism for producing ATP. The researchers used electron micrographs from the dentate-hilar region of the hippocampus, and visually analyzed the micrographs from ketogenic diet fed rats and control diet fed rats.…

class action lawsuit by Wal-Mart employees was filed in the Alameda County Superior Court for wage theft. Workers were refused proper breaks and reclassified to avoid paying for overtime since 2011. At the same time, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ordered Wal-Mart to pay $151 million in compensation for wage theft to 187,000 employees deprived…

Chapter 4 is started off with a meeting Dr. Moore had with a professor at Presidential Law School. The professor had questions about Dr. Moore’s Research at Presidential, the professor did not see a point to her research, the professor believed that no matter what they did to make a black student feel welcome they will still complain, he made this clear when he said. “ We give them the moon but they still complain” (Page 89) This conversation is a clear representation to what many of the…

Affirmative action was first introduced by President Kennedy in 1961 as a method of readdressing discrimination that persisted in spite of civil rights laws and constitutional amendments. This lead to profound civil rights battle. The debate on affirmative action brought up an excellent question such as “is it righteous to support affirmative action?” The answer is of course all people should be granted an equal chance to succeed in life despite of their cultural background. In order for future…

Collins, Benny, Angel, Joanne, and Maureen. This play 's setting takes place in New York. The main plot of the story in the play primarily revolves around these friends struggling to pay rent, but also showing a love story between two people. The rising action starts when Roger is first introduced to Mimi and continues to see her. The conflict of this is that Mimi is a drug addict and just wants drugs, meanwhile Roger doesn’t, and is focused on his music career. There are many…

views, stances, opinions and even laws on affirmative action. In 1961, “affirmative action” was first said in an Executive Order signed by President John F. Kennedy. President Lyndon Johnson followed through with the advocacy for affirmative action by signing an Executive Order in 1965. That executive order required government contractors to use affirmative action policies in their hiring to increase the number of minority employees. Affirmative Action was not strictly used for employment, but…

The dictionary definition of euthanasia is the “the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma”. While euthanasia is synonymous to the term “mercy killing”, it is illegal in most of the states in the USA. In the late 1930s and early 1940s in Germany, though, this act was legal. Its accessibility drew in Adolf Hitler, leading to the formation of Aktion T4, a forced euthanasia program with the intentions of killing the incurably ill,…

first grade to beginning of second grade. The student received all his academic instruction in her adaptive classroom with six other students. She taught the students with the aid of a teacher assistant. I took the opportunity to conduct an action research study to address the undesired behavior. The first step was to determine if the student was eligible to take part in a self-monitoring intervention program, which is a research based strategy used in managing behaviors. I used the six…