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- 891: Affirmative Action
- ... otherwise qualified individuals. The roots of affirmative action lie in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. At first, affirmative action aimed to eliminate racial imbalance in hiring policies; later the goals were extended to include college admissions and extended protections to all people of color, women, older people, and people with disabilities. Equal opportunity laws ban discrimination. Affirmative action goes farther by requiring employers to take affirmative steps to achieve a ... is really about. If young Americans were being educated about the wide opportunities that are available for them, more would give it a try to acquire a higher education or job training. Everyone knows that college and military recruiters come to high schools to recruit graduating students, but the school faculty really need to go above and beyond their call of duty to educate students about the different types of programs ...
- 892: Easy And Difficult Works In Ed
- ... young people should realize that they have to put many efforts in order to achieve their goals. Also, men and women should know that they would face the difficult tasks before they success. Besides, no college can educate people with all they want, and all they need in the future. Although people study literature, logic or history probably have a fewer job opportunities, these fields actually have more wide job opportunities ... works. The hard works can develop people s own knowledge, and that can train their brains to think deeper. People will have better abilities to face the future problems. The more experience people have in college, the better performances they can achieve in the society; for example, the biology students have to do a lot of lab works before they become a medical student even a doctor. If they don t ...
- 893: Racism - The Future
- ... and racism is one of them. For some reason many people cant figure out, is why are many standards being lowered? The government has given blacks many ways to get in and out of college and its not fair for the average white person. Throughout history blacks havent always been the smartest people. They have consistently under performed in IQ (Emeagwali). A black athlete then doesnt have to be as smart as the average white athlete to get into college. Blacks blame their faults and disappointments against society and the whole race in which they live in. They say that since they grew up in a poor family, they cant do good or excel ...
- 894: Upton Sinclair
- ... 15 years old. He mostly wrote ethnic jokes and fiction for a fun magazine. He wrote these silly stories and jokes in order for the magazine to pay for his studies at New York City College. After he was done at New York City College, in 1897, he enrolled at Columbia University. By this time, Upton was putting out many novels and respected works. He was already being realized as one of the greatest writers of his time. Upton was ...
- 895: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... rich family, so, in this he literally went from rags to riches. Needless to say, this happiness did not last. At the age of 18, Mr. & Mrs. Allan decided to send young Edgar off to college. In his very first year at the University of Virginia young Edgar seemed to some how created a substantial amount of gambling debts. Mr. Allan then refused to pay any more of Poe's so called "college fees." Poe and John had a big dispute and Poe decided to run away and join the army( under the name Edgar A. Perry). Poe spent three years in the army, during this time he ...
- 896: Lewis Carroll
- ... many times to explain how good he was doing academically. Throughout his juvenile years he received an endless series of excellent marks, prizes, and congratulations. When he was eighteen, Charles applied to the Christ Church College at Oxford University. Here he studied, gave lectures and lived for the rest of his life. Again, he distinguished himself with the first class honors in math, second class in classics and the Butler scholarship ... Alice and Wonderland was started as a picnic story as he told three of the Liddell girls, the middle which was named Alice. The Liddells were the daughters of the dean of the Christ Church College. In 1864, Charles wrote out the Alice stories and they were published under his pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland is undoubtedly his most famous book. Harvey Darton once said that it changed the whole ...
- 897: The Declaration of Independence
- ... 13 colonies from the largest and strongest empire of that time. Jefferson was from the southern colony of Virginia, he was well educated as both a student and gentleman. At age 17 he entered the College of William and Marry, where he continued his studies of math, science and classical literature. After College Thomas went to study Law, by the year 1767 Jefferson had become an active lawyer in the courts of Virginia. In 1768 Jefferson got his first taste of politics as a member of the Virginia ...
- 898: The Existence of Prejudice: Past and Present
- ... twenty-five states had made it illegal for employers to discriminate by color, and thirty-one states passed laws against discrimination in public accommodations. Other states banned discrimination in the sale of private housing and college admissions. However, laws continued to vary from state to state and were not enforced. Before the Civil War in the North and South, public school segregation was common. Laws existed that forbade the teaching of ... a decline in registration. In 1990, only fifty-nine percent of all eligible blacks registered because the strength of the Democratic coalition has weakened. In 1980, 9.2 percent of all blacks were enrolled in college. By 1990, that number had dropped to 8.9 percent. By 1990, the median black-family income was still less than three-fifths that of whites. During this time, there were unskilled foreign workers competing ...
- 899: James Clerk Maxwell
- ... University of Edinburgh. He then went on to study at the University of Cambridge in 1850, graduating with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1854. He became a professor of natural philosophy at Marischal College in Aberdeen in 1856. Then in 1860 he moved to London to become a professor of natural philosophy and astronomy at King's College. On the death of his father in 1865, Maxwell returned to his family home in Scotland and devoted himself to research. In 1871 he moved to Cambridge, where he became the first professor of experimental ...
- 900: Poverty
- Poverty MSU College of Technology, Great Falls English 122-8:00 p.m. John Kenneth Galbraith, the position of poverty, brought on a lively class discussion with many personal views being voiced. I do not think poverty is ... to pay the government back for the help received when it was needed. The individual is free to live and work where they choose. An individual on government assistance can obtain a degree from a college or university while receiving government assistance and graduate to become a respected individual in society. I believe poverty can be overcome if the individual is willing to work hard for their future, keep A positive ...
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