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Affirmative action programs have helped countless numbers of minorities achieve positions of power. Because racial and gender prejudices have prevented people of color and women from being promoted, being hired, or being accepted to certain academic institutions, affirmative action programs are necessary to enforce equal opportunity laws. While some people might contend that affirmative action constitutes "reverse racism," I feel that prejudices are often unconscious and deeply rooted. Therefore, affirmative action is necessary to ensure an even playing field for all persons, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, or gender.
In my personal experience, affirmative action has made college campuses more diverse and therefore more representative of the world as a whole. I would not want to go to school or work in a homogenous environment, especially since American culture is heterogeneous. I have witnessed affirmative action work, because I know that many minorities that are in positions of power at school might have been passed over otherwise. Especially because universities and corporations have traditionally been run by white males, affirmative action has created necessary changes to these institutions. Affirmative action has made my schools and workplaces more egalitarian
In spite of its being controversial, I feel that affirmative action is still necessary in hiring, promotions, and layoff procedures. Workplaces need to be diverse in the United States. The persons in power must represent a wide range of backgrounds and both genders; otherwise, only a select few end up running the show. Affirmative action ensures that more attention be paid to people who were once overlooked in the hiring or promotions procedures. Furthermore, layoffs should not affect the level of diversity that affirmative action hiring procedures created.
In general I firmly favor affirmative action because it improves the quality of our society. As more and more women and people of color enjoy positions of power, the less prejudice and racism will be evident in our society. Affirmative action is an effective way of promoting diversity in our culture.
Figure 1. Demographic composition of the United States (2003 estimate). Source: Based on tabular data in World Factbook, 2007 (no separate listing is maintained for Hispanics). From a strictly percentage perspective, it would seem that Asian-Americans do not represent much of a threat at all to mainstream American society, but these mere numbers do not tell the whole story of course. For one thing, Asian-Americans are one of the most diverse and
An Overview of Victimology and Its Implication for Helping Professionals and Law Enforcement Authorities Unfortunately, people are victimized all of the time in countless ways, including by criminal elements such as shysters and crooks who intentionally defraud them as well by otherwise-legitimate sources such as politicians and the mainstream media. In the vast majority of cases, people manage to overcome the adverse effects of these events without any significant complications. In
Sex Tourism in the Vietnam War is stationed in Thailand. Combat-weary, his commanding officer takes the G.I. And ten other troops to Bangkok, under the new "R& R" programs. In Bangkok, the young G.I. And his buddies traipse down the streets and back-alleys of the Patpong area in Thailand's capital and before long find themselves each in the arms of a young Thai woman. Recreation and Relaxation -- R& R --
The growing number of New Yorkers lacking health insurance has been a persistent concern of government as well as the public. (309) In contrast, the distribution of health care resources came to the fore more recently. The New York State Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, for example, recommended a series of hospital closures and downsizing, based primarily on financial considerations in 2006. (310) As described below,
The answers offered by the high profit seekers as stakeholders is to take advantage of the immigrant, by demanding high work hours, and even in some cases taking advantage of the individual's low level of knowledge about the rights and responsibilities of the employee and the employer, denying overtime pay, when earned, unauthorized deductions from pay, even things as simple as demanding less "ethnic" hairstyles from employees to the
They have to determine what needs changing, and then figure out how they are going to change it. Only then can they really accomplish something of importance and worth. While Powell is clearly involved in military issues, and protecting and defending his country, he is concerned about other issues as well. Education is one of the issues that he sees as important, and he is also interested in helping those