Rising action

world is constantly aiming its decisions among color, a simple matter that presides with too many hidden details. Specifically, the color of human flesh tends to dictate a large portion of society’s ‘rules’ or actions towards treatment of one another. Many people have adapted affirmative action to counter mistreatment of minorities despite its flaws. In a 2013 Princeton poll, it is stated that “two-thirds of Americans believe college applicants should be admitted solely based on merit, even if…

unnecessary advantage to the minority races in America. In a 2009 Pew Poll, “58% of African Americans agree” and only “22% whites agree” that there should be “preferential treatment to improve the position of blacks and other minorities.” Today affirmative action and other racial injustices tend to be in the spotlight quite often, such as the “Fisher v University of Texas at Austin” case which highlighted that many highly qualified white prospective students are passed over for less qualified…

He states that African Americans need to put aside there frustration with things that whites have done in the past and whites need to stop getting upset about things lik affirmative action. Once we do this we can turn our attention to common enemies and focus on ways to make out country better. Beth Virnig’s “A Matter of Race: Early-Versus Late-Stage Cancer Diagnosis” discusses the inequalities between whites and African Americans…

The American industrial worker was heavily impacted by the technology changes, the increase in immigration, and the creation of labor unions that happened between 1865 and 1900. The development of new technology in communication, steel production, and transportation led to the creation of new businesses and jobs, and it helped many existing businesses expand. This increase of businesses resulted in more jobs, and this influenced many people from other countries to migrate to America. The…

article, The Case against Affirmative Action, that even in extreme cases reverse racism and strong affirmative action are wrong. Pojman differentiates between strong and weak affirmative action and in his article he focus on strong affirmative action. Pojman defines strong affirmative action as preferential treatment to someone based on race, ethnicity, or gender in favor of the under represented groups to get equal rights. The first argument made for affirmative action that Pojman disagrees…

Copulation, formation, and gestation, are the stages needed to create an entirely original individual. Inside the mother’s womb, the fetus is holds boundless potential. All men are created equal, but not all men are treated equal. As soon as the baby pops out, it is shackled and branded with labels of sex, religion, race, region, labels that cast babies into the minority or the majority just after birth. The baby then grows up into a world where it may discriminated against, shunned away,…

“ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. This quote is a direct excerpt from the United States’ Declaration of Independence from Britain, which established principles of equality in America. The ideology that Americans were created equal and had the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” generated the American…

The human brain consists of about 100 billion nerve cells that receives and send messages to other cells through chemical and electrical means (Skaggs, 2013). The main job of the nervous system is to receive data through sense organs, translates messages, process and respond to both internal and external stimuli (Saladin, 2012 p440). Nervous system uses chemical and electrical signal to communicate from neurons to another at high speed. More than 100 billion neurons found in the brain. Basic…

If you search “Women’s rights in the workplace” on the Internet you are likely to find articles that have something to do with women’s rights in the past and how women stood up to discrimination in the workplace in the past. The majority of people in our society, who hear about those events, assume that those things are fixed and that women have equal rights, but that is far from reality. We need to let go of the past and focus on the problem that is set before us in the present times, women do…

When looking at the pros and cons of affirmative action and the effects it has had on America and minorities, it can be argued that although the benefits Affirmative Action was supposed to come with seem great, in reality, the benefits are either outweighed by the problems or are…