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Unions are most known for getting its employees fair pay and for helping to provide a safe work environment. Although a few unionized plants are still around, many companies have relocated because of the fair of unions. God desires that we all work. Labor Unions represent an essential tool for employees to obtain a united, powerful voice with employers. The ultimate goal of Labor…

practices. Two main interests of the state are: autonomy and homogeneity. The use of Juche allows the public to understand actions that are not “self-relied” upon. For instance, instead of relying on international help from other countries, North Koreans are taught to depend on themselves and their country’s system. Additionally, this adopted mindset by North Koreans can have a positive influence on the state because it will help build the national power of state, influences…

Life is not fair. That is not new information for most people. It has always been like that, though, but what makes life so unfair? Well, social justice is a very large part of that. People all over the world face discrimination and harassment for things they cannot help, and that is not right, but it is the way things are. People of color and the LGBT community are both large groups of the minority and they both face a lot of discrimination and social justice issues. The two words were…

Affirmative action is the act of hiring or encouraging the promotion of minorities, often dealing with race. Many colleges across the United States offer “minority scholarships”. This is a form of affirmative action. These schools offer scholarships to the lesser common with the hopes of creating a more diverse atmosphere. Colleges should not only accept those of solely one race. This essay will explain why race should or should not be a factor in college admissions and why. The first…

Many people who immigrate to the United States do so because they wish to actualize their visions of fulfilling the American Dream. The commonly referred to "American Dream" is mentioned quite often in popular literature, art and speech defining the mindset that everyone has an equal opportunity to achieve ultimate success through hard work and dedication (Library of Congress). Although there is a perception that America is always fair regardless of gender, class, education or traditional…

federal housing administration, Roosevelt’s New Deal, “urban renewal”, Fair Housing Act on 1968 and 50s to 60s house market growth, among others. Owning a house in the suburbs became a new social definition for whiteness; and racial instability has been the result of the government’s slow transition to social equality. On the 1910s immigrants were the ones in America running the factories and mines. They came to the United States to establish in a society that already had a history of racial…

Kist 1 Protection for Employees The Fair Labor Standards Act is a federal law that lays out the foundation for minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards for all employees. This act assures that, for all hours an employee works that exceeds the 40 hours a week, they will receive overtime. The overtime pay is considered to be one and one-half times the employee’s regular wage. F.L.S.A. provides a set minimum wage that all employees are entitled to, unless the employee…

institutions. South Carolina’s judicial system has drastically evolved over the past fifty years. The state has made great progress in modernizing the structure of its judicial system and its operating procedures in spite of the state’s reputation of being hesitant to change. I believe that South Carolina’s judicial system is one of the better systems in the country because of the progress the state has made restructuring the system and developing a more professionalized and independent…

just another form of corruption in our government system here in America that has stopped actual justice from being made in cases like Tom Robinson’s in To Kill a Mockingbird. The United States has an extensive background on violating human rights due to racial disparities. For instance, in 2005, the United States Sentencing Commission wrote a report that stated, “African Americans receive longer prison terms for drug offenses than whites. In 2002, the average prison term of 105 months for…

still people who wish to increase the minimum wage. History of Minimum Wage: In early 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was signed by President Theodore Roosevelt. This act protected American…