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- 9731: America and Affirmative Action
- ... country. When racial categories were created, simply being in question and stigmatized in this country. When racial categories were created, simply being labeled a minority carried with it quite a slanderous stigma. Even to this day Black Americans combat lingering racism an stereotypes about their intelligence, tendency toward violence, sexual prowess, etc.... The idea that affirmative action policies introduce stigmas that did not already exist into the life of minorities seems ...
- 9732: Quotas are Outdated in Affirmative Action Programs
- ... it. In affirmative action's beginning, the government needed laws to help aid the blending of minorities and women in American economics and culture. In a world economy that grows more competitive with every passing day, our quota system is a dead weight to the American businesses that are trying to survive. Not only is advancement based on race and gender but also it is costly and time consuming. American's ...
- 9733: The Need For Affirmative Action
- ... but what about most of us who work hard have the same requirements as the whites but don't get the job because we are not white. You and I both know that to this day Black Americans feel the lingering racism and stereotypes about their intelligence, tendency towards violence, sexual prowess, and so on. Maybe when all of this unnecessary and pointless stereotyping is gone we can do away with ...
- 9734: Rasputin
- ... and two girls. One son died in infancy, the other, Dimitri, was disabled. But the two girls, Varvara and Maria, grew up normally and eventually went to live with their father in St. Petersburg. One day, while working in the fields, Rasputin claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary. According to his version, she instructed him to become a pilgrim. He decides to bid his family farewell and ...
- 9735: Rasputin: The Man, The Mystery
- ... food, presents, and money. Rasputin has had no long period of religious or spiritual training. He also had very limited education so he was left illiterate. This made his theatrical abilities become very useful. One day while Rasputin was plowing in the fields he had a revelation. The story states that a Heavenly Mother touched him. She told him of young Aleksei, the tsarevich and she instructed him to appear at ...
- 9736: Affirmative Action
- ... for the next available representatives. The president of the firm puts out a notice of hire. The word is spread throughout the business community through the newspaper and the internet. Resumes are received every business day. The board members of the firm review hundreds of resumes that are received daily. They rate the applications according to qualifications and experiences. The names are disregarded at this point. A dozen of the applicants ...
- 9737: The Mass Media and Politics
- ... He is young, relatively handsome, and charismatic. His opponent, who airs on television immediately following, is an older gentleman with a rough voice and gray hair. Obviously, the younger man is the "people pleaser." Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to handle the broadcast media well. Most newspapers did not support him, and television broadcasting did not exist, so he presented his views to the people over the radio with ...
- 9738: The Watergate Scandal
- ... will only believe this if they have proof. Many of these trusting observers finally received the proof they needed to be convinced that politics are corrupt. On June 17, 1972 during the presidential campaign, Washington, D.C. police arrested seven burglars at the Watergate Hotel who were involved in a political scandal which would dramatically influence politics for years to come. The Watergate Scandal has caused a cloud of distrust to ...
- 9739: The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
- ... term Hanna had done a great deal of controlling the president, and he feared what would happen if Roosevelt became vice-president. McKinley did not show any special preference. Hanna chose his own candidate, John D. Long, but was convinced through some slightly shady political maneuvering to vote for Roosevelt against his own better judgment (Morris 727). Hanna's personal dislike of Roosevelt did not diminish in the slightest, however. Shortly ...
- 9740: Response to Wilson's "Just Take Away Their Guns"
- ... this from happening is to do one of Wilson's solution, perfect a metal detector that police officers could carry around with them. This would stop the unlawful, harassing, demoralizing searches that would happen every day. The police officers could just aim the detector at the individual and tell if they had a big hunk of metal in their pocket. If they detected enough metal on someone, then that gives them ...
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