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Lydia Chavez' The Color Blind California's Battle to End Affirmative Action

gives certain people preferential treatment. Interestingly, this book reveals, with significant candor, both sides of this now co...

Affirmative Action in Academic Institutions in California

academic affirmative actions programs in allowing affirmative action to be part of the enrollment process. While there is no ques...

Applied Ethics, Ethnic and Racial Discrimination

In four pages this paper examines conventional applied ethics within the contexts of contemporary ethnic and racial discrimination...

Annotated Bibliography for Paper on Affirmative Action

think carefully about hard choices, they turn out to be very hard indeed." He focuses on black/white relations because he is most ...

The Pros and Cons of Affirmative Action

only persons of all racial backgrounds but also genders, disabilities, sexual orientations, political orientations, and nationalit...

Battle of Dien Bien Phu Between the Vietminh and the French

In five pages this battle that brought an end to Europe's involvement in Vietnam is examined....

An Affirmative Action Overview

In eleven pages affirmative action's history is examined along with the arguments that have long surrounded this programs and some...

Herodotus and Plato on Gyges of Lydia

about him, without the veil of nicety associated with polite conversation. Platos Gyges discovered the ring during a supern...

Supreme Court Case Adarand v. Pena

from the other direction. Some critics contend that affirmative action has had a crippling effect upon minority groups because of...

Diversity Hiring and Affirmative Action in the Law Enforcement Profession

an extremely long history in the United States, equity per se, has an even longer history. The earliest laws were designed to spe...

Why Affirmative Action Should Not Be Supported

did not go by the name Affirmative Action. Still, the concept did exist. In fact, it is known to have evolved since slave days (Ru...

Differing Perspectives of Irish Americans and African Americans

A research paper that consists of fifteen pages discusses why Irish Americans and African Americans have differing views regarding...

An Overview of Affirmative Action

In five pages this paper considers how the issues pertaining to Affirmative Action are depicted conservatively by Thomas Sowell in...

Common Misconceptions Regarding Affirmative Action

of business and opportunity. Its not like the federal government has not offered aid programs to a certain segment of the popula...

Affirmative Action, Racial Profiling and Morality

is a rather difficult concept to explain. In essence, what Himma is saying is that "pervasive stereotypes cause even the most tale...

Considering Affirmative Action

ever wanted to be considered part of mainstream America, "they needed to gain access to all aspects of society through pressuring ...

The Necessity for and Effectiveness of Affirmative Action

to hire or admit the best candidates" (Wickelgren 165). Race is still a relevant factor even if the organization knows the "econom...

The Evolution of Farming in California

5 pages. 6 sources cited. This paper considers the processes that lead to the creation of California farm country. this paper ...

Hugo Chavez: Bad Medicine for Venezuela?

The first point that should be presented to support this thesis is that there is considerable evidence that Chavezs plans have don...

California Universities and Affirmative Action

In this paper consisting of nineteen pages Affirmative Action alternatives as they pertain to the California university system are...

U.S. Army, Racial Relations and Lessons Learned

In five pages this paper discusses All That We Can Be: Black leadership and Racial Integration The Army Way by Moskos and Butler i...

Affirmative Action and 'Equal Opportunity For All and Preferences For None'

In this paper that consists of 5 pages the abandonment of the college admission practice of affirmative action as practiced by the...

3 Supreme Court Cases on Affirmative Action and Equal Protection According to the US Constitution's 14th Amendment

the founding fathers wrote have done so in an attempt at fairness. They have gone with what appeared to be the mainstream thinkin...

The Battle Of Gettysburg

as a pivotal contributor to the outcome. SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS 1) Robert E. Lee a) Shrewd and defiant military man whose objective...

The Takeover Battle Between RBS and Barclays to Acquire ABN Amro

and mergers in the past. The offer made by Barclays was worth ?45 billion (US $91 billion) at the time (Investment Dealers Digest,...

California's Legalization of Ferrets as Pets

during the Medieval era in Europe, ferrets would be introduced into the Palaces and homes of the royals to control vermin. They wo...

Set Aside Programs and Morality

the consequences (Honderich, 1995). Thus, in the argument presented above, it would not be necessarily wrong to kill an individual...

Students from Low Income Families and Affirmative Action's Impact

increasingly diverse, affirmative action in college admissions is a national imperative" (Dervarics, 2003; 6). And while, as menti...

Affirmative Action's History

today. Many people look at minority doctors and lawyers and in the back of their minds wonder if they are really up to the job. Th...

Affirmative Action and Human Resources

and women to be hired or promoted based on merit and the job they do, rather than the color of their skin. Now,...