Papers on Politics and Government
Affirmative Action - History
Words: 1488 - Pages: 6.... set out to help, and reverse discrimination that results in unfair standards into higher education and the work force. The practice of affirmative action must be stopped.
The main argument for affirmative action is that it creates equal opportunity for people in the work force and for students seeking admission into higher education. However, this is not a valid point. While affirmative action creates equal opportunity for some individuals, it discriminates against others, primarily white males. Therefore, affirmative action uses reverse discrimination to solve the problem of discrimination. Do two wrongs make a right? The answer i .....
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Materialism Vs Idealism
Words: 602 - Pages: 3.... tree dies or the chair is thrown into
a fire the atoms do not burn up or die, but are dispersed back into the
vacuity. The atoms alone are without mind or secondary qualities, but they
can combine to form living and thinking objects, along with sound, color,
taste, etc... Atoms form life, consciousness, and the soul, and when our
body dies there is nothing left of the latter except for its parts, which
randomly become parts of other forms.
Matter is never ending reality, only changing in its form. In the
philosophical system developed by Irish philosopher George Berkeley,
Idealism, Berkeley states that physical objects, matter, do not exis .....
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Sobering Studies
Words: 578 - Pages: 3.... or job market stress. On the other hand, just because someone drinks more than one glass of wine for dinner doesn't make that person a problem drinker. If everyone who drank at Penn State went to an alcohol counselor, the lines would dwarf those apparent for this year's Penn State-Michigan game. What students (as well as everyone else who drinks) need to realize is that drinking is not a solution to any kind of problem. Alcohol, like caffeine, nicotine and heroin, is a drug. Beverage companies can paint them any color they want, but nothing is going to take away that fact. Like any drug, alcohol is potentially addictive. The best test .....
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Should The President Be Impeached?
Words: 1731 - Pages: 7.... trial (Drew 79). The
act of presidential impeachment being rare to our nation , the process
itself needs to be further clarified and certain questions need to be
answered. Is impeachment a remedy to the situation ? Should the president
be impeached and convicted?
The impeachment process is part of the checks and balances of our
government. The power of impeachment allows congress to remove the
president out of office. In this particular case if Bill Clinton is
convicted, he is thrown out of office, and Vice President Al Gore replaces
him as President. The U.S. constitution explains impeachment as the removal
from office for , .....
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Facism And Patriotism
Words: 1265 - Pages: 5.... of their fathers," as Alexis de Tocqueville put it in his Democracy in America. It is a kind of filial piety. But no one, not even a Spartan, is born loving his country; such love is not natural, but has to be taught, or inculcated, or somehow acquired" (Berns, 1997, pp. PG). Though the definition of patriotism has an expectation that it must be learned, the connotation, the shared meaning within the current cultural setting, demands that there be an element of free agency to patriotism that is not part of the shared definition of the totalitarian policies of either Fascism or Nazism.
This element of choice is the difference between .....
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Barbie As The Epitome Of Beaut
Words: 508 - Pages: 2.... their attention on their looks, which in my opinion has turned into a social disease. I think that Barbie was an early advocator of the "beauty myth". A doll who, if she were real, would be too thin to fit all of her internal organs and is too busty to stand under her own power. Barbie living in her pink palace and riding her pink corvette with her molded man Ken. Barbie had taught me that every member of society was living this very same life. I have to question if the weight of responsibility for this beauty myth falls only on Barbie's tiny plastic shoulders? But of course not! To be fair, Barbie was not the only culprit, I can remember g .....
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Affirmative Action In Seattle
Words: 1046 - Pages: 4.... on the basis of gender or race.
What the City of Seattle's affirmative action program does is very
simple: first, it gives City managers and personnel officers a snapshot of the
labor market, so that they are aware of the availability rates for different
groups for a given job classification. Through these availability rates, the
City can determine whether or not women, people of color, or persons with
disabilities are underrepresented in a given job classification within the work
force; second, the City's affirmative action program encourages managers and
personnel officers to make special outreach efforts into grou .....
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Clinton Administration Policy Toward The Caribbean Country Of Haiti
Words: 790 - Pages: 3.... arose out
of Haiti after the exile of Aristide. Issues of: human rights there were
reports that the new regime brought back "death squads" killing people who
opposed the new leaders. One of the main targets of the Clinton policy is a
group called the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti of FRAPH. The
administration has targeted this group for their continued backing and support
of General Cedras, for their human rights violations.
Issues of , refugee's illegally trying to enter the United States
creating an economic burden on much of south Florida. All of these issues arose
during president Bush's term in office. The Bush .....
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Apartheid In South Africa
Words: 2039 - Pages: 8.... for anyone but white citizens..
Apartheid laws 'sorted' people in terms of racial origin, to ensure white
citizens got "the best land, the best jobs, the best social services; all
other races got the leftovers" according to a 1989 Canadian Government
report,
South Africa has changed in just a few years... the first election to allow
all citizens to vote for a new government and a new system came took place
only in 1994, after decades of racial injustice.
That first free, all-race election chose a black man, Nelson Manila,
elected President of South Africa... after he spent 26 years in jail, for
opposing the 'apartheid' of the form .....
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Chlamydia
Words: 1056 - Pages: 4.... of symptoms. People are spreading it around without even knowing that they have it. is at an even greater risk in the Santa Clara County, where it is the number one STD among sexually active people in our area.2 is caused by the bacteria trachomatis. This bacteria can only live inside of cells, therefore it can only be passed on through the exchange of bodily fluids such as semen, blood, breast milk, and vaginal fluids. It can be transmitted during vaginal, oral, or anal sexual contact with an infected partner. can be treated because it is a bacterial infection. If treatment is not prescribed in time, however, the disease most .....
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