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- 4051: Quotas are Outdated in Affirmative Action Programs
- ... Rights Act Title VII). These laws can be justified by our constitutional principle that all men are created equal, and should remain a part of our laws and thought process. However, penalizing a business or school because they haven't hired or accepted the number of minorities required by law is injustice. According to Roberts (1995), a Gallup Poll taken in July of 1995 shows that Americans agree that quotas are ...
- 4052: Truman Doctrine
- ... the Marshall Plan to fortify America: The first was to temporarily enact the Draft. The Second was a long range plan called Universal Military Training. This was designed to train all males graduating from high school for combat. This idea never had a chance in Congress. Truman also made a pact with Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Brussels pact nations. This was all a prelude to the upcoming conflict ...
- 4053: Battle Royal
- ... not have the highest test scores or grades, but who are ready to do the job may be hired(Lopez5). Employers have traditionally hired people not only on test scores, but personal appearance, personal connections, school ties and on race and gender preferences, demonstrating that talent or desirability can be defined in many ways. These practices have all contributed to a segregated work force where whites hold the best jobs, and ...
- 4054: 1984: A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- ... only by penetrating throu gh a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons (Orwell 8). In a totalitarian state something resembling a Ministry of Love is common place. It's a place where the government can inflict pain on its subjects for crimes big ...
- 4055: Affirmative Action: Opportunities of Character, Not Color
- ... college applications, they will probably do better in the college lottery than if they conceal this fact" (Steele 322). Remove the section on college applications titled "Race," and consider students by their hard work in school, not by the color of their skin. And how can we even be surprised that there is racial tension among students in universities? The white student sees minorities as undeserving, while the minority student sees ...
- 4056: Battery Is It Safer To Leave O
- ... lives. (Corrao, 1985) One-third of the children who witness the abuse of their mothers grow up with behavioral and/or emotional problems, including, psychosomatic disorders, stuttering, anxiety and fears, sleeping disorders, excessive crying, and school problems. One of the most common mistakes that battered women make is taking the abuser back leaving. This is called the "Sweet Baby Syndrome". The first syndrome is the Honey Moon Syndrome which is also ...
- 4057: Bring Back Foolishness, Corpor
- ... young convicted felons? This special treatment of youth implies his distaste for them. In addition it seems as if he believes that our culture would be conducive to children being publicly flogged. With all the school shootings lately, maybe he should consider the changes to our youth that have occurred in the last 100 years. Near the end of his column, Jacoby begins to grow desperate for support. This is illustrated ...
- 4058: Fascism as opposed to Communism
- ... camps were given different colored sy ls for easy identification. At this point, no one dared speak against their country even in the privacy of one's home lest their children let something slip at school. If you control people's thoughts, you control them. Propaganda was an important tool used by both Germany and Russia. Hitler appointed a man by the name of Joseph Goebbles to head the Ministry of ...
- 4059: Bulimia Nervosa
- ... ethnic backgrounds. June, Engel (1993) reported that once considered just a subclass of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa is now recognized as its own disease, occurring mainly in women aged 16 to 25, especially among high school students. Bulimia nervosa affects an estimated 2-4 percent of Canadian females aged 12-25 (and some adolescent males.) Like anorexia nervosa, it too involves extreme weight-preoccupation, but with alternate side effects of binging ...
- 4060: Guardian Ad Litem
- ... social services agencies involved. Specifically, a volunteer acts in the interest of each child in five different capacities. First, as an investigator, a guardian learns as much as possible about the child' background (i.e. school, church, friends, and any other people/organizations that affect the child). As a monitor, a guardian makes sure social services agencies, and any other organizations involved with the child are meeting their responsibilities to the ...
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