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- 2171: An Ethical and Practical Defense of Affirmative Action
- ... force people to hire unqualified minorities? No. But affirmative action programs should cause us as a society to re-evaluate how we assess qualifications and how we measure merit. Let us become tenured Harvard Law School professors for just a moment. Suppose we have two applicants for an open associate professor position. The first candidate is white, a Harvard Law School graduate, has impressive board scores, served as editor of the Law Review, etc.... , but has never practiced law before. The other candidate is Black, a Howard Law School graduate, average board scores, has excellent person skills, and practiced law as the county defendant in an inner- city neighborhood. Under the traditional system of merit the white Harvard graduate gets the appointment hands ...
- 2172: Affirmative Action
- ... s Electric Encyclopedia, 1993) Affirmative action plans that establish racial quotas were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the case of University of California VS. Bakke in 1978. This case arose when the medical school of the University of California at Davis twice rejected Allen Bakke's application while admitting members of racial minorities who had lower test scores. Bakke charged that the medical school's policy of setting aside 16 of the 100 positions for racial minorities was a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. In a complex 5-4 decision the Supreme Court ordered ... line in the debate to minority VS. minority, as well as black VS white. On the side of those who favor Affirmative Action and would like for it to remain a part of California's school system are many optimistic voices. Affirmative action at Berkeley represents an essential and healthy adaptation to a changing California and a changing nation. Affirmative action is not for underrepresented minorities. Affirmative action is for ...
- 2173: Pythagoras of Samos
- ... the traditional views. The union of mathematical genius and mysticism is commonly enough. Originally from Samos, Pythagoras founded at Kroton (in southern Italy) a society, which were at once a religious community and a scientific school. Such a body was bound to excite jealousy and mistrust, and we hear of many struggles. Pythagoras himself had to flee from Kroton to Metapontion, where he died. It is stated that he was a ... with the senses, Plato argues, remind us of things we knew when the soul was out of the body and could perceive reality directly. There is more difficulty about the cosmology of Pythagoras. Hardly any school ever professed such reverence for its founder's authority as the Pythagoreans. 'The Master said so' was their watchword. On the other hand, few schools have shown so much capacity for progress and for adapting ... a group of early Greek scientific and religious thinkers influenced by Pythagoras of Samos. Many lived in quasi-religious communities centered in Croton, southern Italy. Much of the information about Pythagoreanism, which existed as a school of philosophy from about 525 to the mid-4th century BC, comes from indirect or later sources: summaries in Aristotle's Metaphysics and fragments of the book of Philolaus, a prominent Pythagorean of the ...
- 2174: RedScare
- ... though Allen´s treatment toward Poe is not exactly known, we know that Allen never treated Poe with sensitivity. In 1815, the Allen family moved to England on business. There, Poe entered the Manor-House School in Stoke-Newington, a London suburb. This school taught him "the gothic architecture and historical landscape of the region made a deep imprint on his youthful imagination, which would effect his adult writings" (Levin, 14). The Allens left England in June 1820, and arrived in Richmond on August 2. Here, Poe entered the English and Classical School of Joseph H. Clarke, a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin. On February 14, 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. Though he spent more time gambling and drinking than studying, he won top ...
- 2175: Creationism vs Evolution: Through The Eyes of Jay Gould
- ... values has also brought the return of age old debated topics. One issue that truly separates Americans is the issue of creation versus evolution. Since the 19th century, this divisive topic has been debated in school boards and state capitols across America. In many instances religious fundamentalists won the day by having banned the instruction or even the mention of "ungodly" evolutionary thinking in schools. With today’s social and political ... of necessary skills . . . but these skills do not exhaust the limits of what such a complex machine can do" (57). Gould ends by describing Wallace’s thinking as having direct ties with creationist thought. A school of thought that Gould obviously portrays as wrong throughout his essay. Throughout The Panda’s Thumb, Gould tells us about the debate between Darwin and Wallace over sexual selection and the origins of human intellect ... friendly" while sufficiently and consistently arguing a clear and precise point are the attributes that make Gould’s essay such a delight to read. More important, however, is the social implications of this essay. While school boards across the nation debate the subject of whether evolution should be taught in the schools, Gould’s work stands out with it’s overriding validity and straightforwardness. It is an example of reasonable ...
- 2176: Jane Eyre And Foreshadowing
- ... a “plain and poor and small" orphan living with her cruel Aunt Reed. When she rebels she is locked into a room in which her uncle died. Her aunt sends her away to a charity school run by a harsh man, Mr. Brocklehurst. "do you know where the wicked go after death?" "They go to hell" was my ready and orthodox answer. "And what is hell?" "A pit full of fire ... half dead and starving is rescued by St. John Rivers, a young pastor. St. John and his sisters nurse her back to health and when she is better she becomes a teacher at a small school. She later discovers that her uncle has died and left her a fortune. She also learns that St. John and his sisters are her cousins. She shares the inheritance with them, overjoyed to have family ... deep significant reality, is the characteristic of this book . . . . " In JANE EYRE the author gathered together not merely the recent experiences of her adult years, but the unobliterated recollections of childhood at the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge. Confined as that experience had in reality been to a period of ten months in the author's ninth year, it is given a duration and a prominence in the novel ...
- 2177: Bless Me Ultima 2
- ... The brown water would be stained with blood, forever and ever and ever. Lupito s death is the first time that he is faced with death, and begins his questioning of God. Antonio also attends school for the first year, briefly described and rather unimportant, he skips from first to second grade making his mother proud for his studies and helping to reinforce her dreams of him becoming a priest. As ... Throughout this time the bond of Ultima is near him as she cares for him, as he is sick. In the final chapters Antonio could only concentrate on his communion during the remainder of the school year to him the entrance of god into his body would answer all of his questions. His excellent dedication to the church after school everyday further reinforced his mother's dream for his entrance into the priesthood. During the novel, Tony bluntly admitted that he did not believe in god and when the boys were forcing Antonio to ...
- 2178: Woodrow Wilson
- ... Wilson also taught Woodrow respect for other people.His mother[Jessie Wilson] was shy and reserved,but looked and acted like Woodrow. Woodrow's life was different from mine by the way he went to school.His father taught him till he was nine,and then he went to school. Woodrow spent some of his spare time with his gang, called the Lightfoot Club.Also when Woodrow was fourteen,his education was continued at a private school with fifty boys enrolled that cost seven dollars an hour. One of the parts of the book that I liked was when Woodrow Wilson won the Presidency.One of the things that helped him ...
- 2179: Islam More Than A Religion
- ... its meaning and with a covenant from the heart. The second pillar consists of five daily congregational prayers, which may, however be offered individually if one is unable to go to the mosque. The first prayer is performed in the morning before sunrise. The second prayer is performed just after noon, the third in the later afternoon, the fourth immediately after sunset, and the fifth before retiring to bed. However, only three prayers are mentioned in the Qur'an: morning, evening, and middle prayer in the afternoon. In strict doctrine, the five daily prayers cannot be waived even for the sick, who may pray in bed and, if necessary lying down. The third pillar is the obligatory tax ...
- 2180: Robert Frost: Biography and Review
- ... what he enjoyed. At the young age of only eleven Frost’s father passed away. Soon after his death the family left California to settle in Massachusetts. As young Frost grew-up he attended high school in that state, later would enter Dartmouth College, but would remain there less that one semester. Later he returned to Massachusetts where he would be a school teacher along with two other jobs he held as a mill worker and a newspaper reporter. Then in 1895 Frost married Elinor White whom he had been co-valedictorians with in high school. Then between 1897 and 1899 Frost felt the need to go back to college he attended Harvard as a special student only to leave without a degree. Over the next ten years he would ...
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