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Should affirmative action policies change their focus from race-based to class-based? The term affirmative action was first used under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was used for job security due to union blacklisting during the Great Depression. However, what would become the present form of affirmative action took shape under Kennedy. As times have changed the implementation of affirmative action has shifted it’s focus from the workplace to campuses. Affirmative action is currently a…

its name to Nike in 1978. Nike is the name of the Greek winged goddess of Victory. After “displacing Adidas in the early 1980s and Reebok in the early 1990s, Nike has become the largest and most important athletic shoe company in the world” (Locke, Qin & Brause, 2006). Currently, Nike is a powerful market leader in terms of all aspects of marketing, designing, and distributing superb athletic apparel, footwear, equipment and accessories for numerous sports and fitness activities. Furthermore,…

For generations, Lake Taihu, China’s third largest freshwater lake in Wuni, Jiangsu Province, has provided a home and livelihood for over two million people. By way of contrast, in late May, 2007, a drinking water crisis took place following a massive bloom of the toxin producing cyanobacteria Microcystis spp. in Lake Taihu.2 Ultimately, due to unusual growth of algae, the lake digressed to completely green. Local reports say algae density is 38% higher than it was in 2016. Lake Taihu was known…

New belief systems and cultural traditions emerged and spread, often asserting universal truths. A. The core beliefs about desire, suffering, and the search for enlightenment preached by the historic Buddha and recorded by his followers into sutras and other scriptures were, in part, a reaction to the Vedic beliefs and rituals dominant in South Asia. Buddhism changed over time as it spread throughout Asia – first through the support of the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka, and then through the…

Originally, Caste system classified into four levels: Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shdras. Brahmans symbolized the highest status of priests. Kshatriyas was the status of warriors. Vaisyas expressed merchants and commoners. Shdras indicated peasants, and laborers (Jordan, 2014). The four levels of caste system first came out from the composition of the Rig Veda in around 1000 B.C.E. The system were developed by Aryas who expanded to India and reject the original structures of Vedic…

the Natural Science Foundation of China in 2012, concluded that those who used the internet more frequently than others had significantly lower fractional anisotropy, a scalar measurement that assesses the connectivity in the brain (Lin, Zhou, Du, Qin, Zhao, Xu, and Lei 2346). Each study further exposes that technology has proven to significantly damage a user’s brain and social…

philosophers believed to have lived during one of these times. The Warring States occurred when seven states were fighting to gain control of China. Through many battles and conquests of war lords, the first united Chinese Empire formed, known as the Qin Dynasty. During this time, there was a desire to find peace. Confucius and Laozi appear to agree that the path to achieve this peace begins with one’s self. By aligning with the way, then an individual would be able to escape the corruption and…

Confucius was born around 550 BC and little did people know he would change the entire ideology of China. His teachings of moral goodness as the law of everyday man were essential and China needed it more than she knew. Criminal punishment up until Confucianism was rather harsh and unforgiving. Confucius on the other hand urged the Chinese to exercise restraint in the imposition of law upon the people (Duhamie). The lash and the Five Punishments gave no restraint and Confucius saw the…

Guan Hanqing was an acclaimed Zaju dramatist of the Yuan Dynasty, and one of the delegate figures of old Chinese musical show play essayists too(West, Stephen H.70). His best-known work is Injustice to Dou E, which is one of the four extraordinary tragedies of the Yuan Drama, the other three pieces of his work are; Autumn in the Han Palace by Ma Zhiyuan, The Firmiana Rain by Bai Pu and The Orphan of Zhao by Ji Junxiang. The Injustice to Dou remains one of Guan’s greatest pieces of writing. The…

The role of software architects is to map the software requirements to the architecture design and guarantee that both functional requirements and quality attributes are met (Qin et al., 2007). Since applications have a diverse set of requirements, it is rare that a single architectural style can address all those requirements. Usually, the system architecture is not limited to a single style, but is often a combination of architectural styles. For example, the design of a web-based application…