Papers on Social Issues
Treating People Fairly Is A Right That Has Been Changed By Affirmative Action
Words: 2082 - Pages: 8.... favored more if everyone is created the same, and by law have the same rights and freedoms. No one person has more rights than another. No matter what is an individuals color, size, intellect, lifestyle, religion or ethnicity, he or she has the same rights as the next person.
Affirmative action was created 30 years ago for the cure of the underuse of minority and female and humane resources in the workplace. Affirmative action refers to active measures and passive non-discrimination as a means of increasing the recruitment of minorities and, ultimately, ensuring equal employment opportunity. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is .....
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Mark Schaller's Study About Fame
Words: 1452 - Pages: 6.... most famous songwriters in the United States in the early twentieth century. The third person was the fiction writer, John Cheever. Cheever obtained the Pulitzer Prize in 1978.
The reason Schaller chose these three people is that they all had self- destructive tendencies in the forms of drugs and alcohol and also had psychological problems sometime during their period of fame. Each of the three were also writers which was a vital part of Schaller's study. Schaller wanted to show that fame increased the self-consciousness in each of these people. To do this he analyzed the songs and stories written by these authors and found an increase in t .....
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Women In The Police Force
Words: 3444 - Pages: 13.... fireman or police officer. Women were still being marginalized into a certain category of jobs. However, women continued their fight and today they fulfill such roles as doctors, fireman and police officers. In this essay, we will focus on the entry of women into the police force. We will not only look at what it took for women to get into the police force but also what types of roles they play in the police force today. In addition, we will look at what roles women hope to play in the police force in the future. By doing this we hope to show you how far women have come in the area of police work in the past one hundred years and how .....
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The Problems Of Affirmative Action
Words: 592 - Pages: 3.... and women so that it will create more opportunities for people of minorities. Colleges also require a less severe requirement for those of a minority party because the number of the people that did fit the requirement would not fit the quota. Thus, many more deserving majority Americans were denied jobs and acceptance to college because the quota had to be met.
Affirmative Action promotes the hiring of less skilled workers, thus creating reverse discrimination. It upsets employers, forcing them to choose the best employee from a limited pool of minorities, not just simply the best employee. This creates a hostile environment wher .....
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GI Jane
Words: 791 - Pages: 3.... battle to enter the Citadel, breaking a 152 year
tradition of training men only. On August 14, 1995, during her first day of
military training, she collapsed from heat exhaustion. Within days, she abruptly
withdrew from the college, forced to admit that she could not withstand the
rigors of "hell week." Ms. Faulkner, fighting back tears, explained that two
and a half years of stress had "all crashed in" on her in the first days there.
After not quite making the cut, and surviving the stress and trials of these
places, they say that it is because the men were too hard on them. "Too hard"
is not a valid sentence in the military, you ar .....
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A Black Cloud
Words: 513 - Pages: 2.... by marching in
white cloaks in protest and also by burning the churches and neighborhoods
of blacks. Just as Hitler and the KKK express hatred, the Skinheads are
yet another group which have strong prejudices. These so called Skinheads
abominate most races other than their own. White hooded silhouettes,
German Soldiers echoing “Hail Hitler!”, and the infamous Skinheads are
harsh reminders of hatred which exists throughout the world.
In the same way that prejudices of large groups of people are
expressed, hate crimes are committed to demonstrate acts of hatred. Most
recent are the burning of black churches across the South .....
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The First Impression
Words: 753 - Pages: 3.... Indeed, first impressions are
dangerous, but they are also inevitable, for it is a natural instinct that every
person is born with.
Take the classic cliché "You cannot judge a book by its cover." Not everything
is what it seems to be. A young man who was on a quest to find himself decided
to do a trek across the United States. When he reached the state of Arizona, he
met up with a man in ragged clothes, messy hair and in need of a bath. Still,
the young man started up a conversation and found this hobo to be very
intellectual and pleasant man despite his appearance. As night approached each
went and sought shelter for the night, .....
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Only Those With No Hope Take Drugs
Words: 318 - Pages: 2.... of drug use will not
affect them personally. At the age of rebel, teenagers are curious of trying
new things which they've been told forbidden. Adults may begin using drugs for
some of the same reasons as young people. In addition, the stress of life, job,
and family pressures may lead people to seek relief in drugs.
When people do not know how to handle their stress and depressions
properly, they seek for ways that can solve, at least lessen their pains. Using
drugs is certainly one method to reduce pressures and stress when there is no
help coming from others. Because drug causes temporarily delusion of what a
person sees, hears, .....
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Rapid Population Growth
Words: 2896 - Pages: 11.... it. A stable relationship with plants and animals must be attained or future populations will suffer.
Problem
About 140 000 million babies will be born, and 53 million will die which gives the overpopulated world an additional 84 million people per year. With the planet growing at alarming rate 230 000 per day people, With the increasing population, pollution is on the rise, making safe water scarce In Asia the population increases by 50 million, the population of Africa by 17 million and Latin America and the Caribbean by only eight million. Africa has the hightest growth rate at 2.36 %(Internet Source). These are places where peopl .....
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Prostitution: A Victimless Crime?
Words: 700 - Pages: 3.... and sexual frustration some would continue to pay others to satisfy them. Prostitution should be made legitament by saving taxpayers money form not having to inforce the laws, creating red light districts and regulation.
One could argue that as for as crimes go prostitution is a victimless crime, but others would say that it is a matter of public safety and disease control. Would harsher laws end prostitution or result in a lot of persons getting their car impounded? Regardless as to what effects harsher laws will have on prostitution, new laws are still being tried out in several sates in America. Advocates for legalization say that ha .....
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