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- 1101: America and Affirmative Action
- ... structural forces that impede a fair assessment of their capabilities. Perhaps the biggest complaint that one hears about affirmative action policies aimed at helping Black Americans is that they violate the 14th Amendment of the Constitution and the Civil Rights laws., The claim is that these programs distort what is now a level playing field and bestow preferential treatment on understanding minorities because of the color of their skin. While this ...
- 1102: Racism
- ... about/factsheet.html) The association has kept it΄s fight, demonstrating that although the changing process is slow, fighting through legal action has been efective and will, with time, fullfill the right of a full constitution guarantee for the rights of the minority groups. The NAACP, has brought numerous changes through public pressure, and by increasing people΄s conciousness. For 89 years they have restlessly fought to end racial discrimination and ...
- 1103: Capital Punishment: Injustice of Society
- ... Court has steadily reduced the availability of habeas corpus review of capital convictions, placing its confidence in the notion that state judges, who take the same oath of office as federal judges to uphold the Constitution, can be trusted to enforce it.(Bright 768) This makes for the biased trying of a defendants appeals,
given the overwhelming pressure on elected state judges to heed, and perhaps even lead to, the ...
- 1104: Three Ways to End Racial Discrimination
- ... Teach children from a biblical background: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28) or from the basis of the Constitution of the United States, "all men are created equal", and racism will decrease. Along with education about racial differences, comes respect and understanding of the differences. All African Americans are loud gangsters. All Hispanics are ...
- 1105: The War on...Dress Codes
- ... religion, just like worshipping God. Yet students are not allowed to wear clothing involving Satan, Hell, or death. That is an unconstitutional rule though as the freedom of religion is guaranteed by our U.S. Constitution. People are allowed to wear clothes referring to God, Jesus, and the Holy Bible. Why not Satan and other things related to Satanism? The content that should be allowed on shirts has also been a ...
- 1106: Uniforms in Public Schools
- ... concentrate on their main purpose: education. Some students, parents and school officials do not support the introduction of uniforms in public schools. Some of their arguments are that uniforms violate the First Amendment of the Constitution, because they affect freedom of expression. Concerning this argument, students should express themselves through the use of their minds, attitudes, and actions. Other arguments question safety and learning environment created by the uniforms. Those issues ...
- 1107: Cross-Cultural Ethics
- ... be permissible only if it is required to conduct business successfully in the host country and the practice does not violate a fundamental international right, or Bill of Rights, as stated in the United States Constitution (13). Does Ethics Pay? Ethical behavior ought to be our ideal regardless of the economic consequences. A corporation is , however, created for the primary purpose of operating a business profitably and providing a sufficient return ...
- 1108: Intentional Destruction of Native American Cultures
- Intentional Destruction of Native American Cultures America claims to be accepting of other cultures. We all have equal liberties; it even says so in our Constitution. Yet in the 1870s, the United States of America did the antithesis. The destruction of Native American Cultures was intentionally and systematically carried out by greedy opportunists, corrupt government officials and well-meaning, but ...
- 1109: Racism: Issue In Institutional Racism
- ... parties with an interest in keeping privilege. White supremacy and it dualistic vision of society became institutionalized in colonial North America, emanating from the base and structure of society. The Civil War Amendments to the Constitution were no more than words on paper, with short lived legislative muscle. From the vision of Forty Acres and a Mule, the newly freed African-Americans moved on to sharecropping, lynchings, and segregation. The mid ...
- 1110: The Immigration Problem
- ... They feel that they cannot compete with low-wage workers. To show for this is the countless anti- immigrant legislation being proposed to congress. There are grass-roots initiatives out there proposing to amend the constitution to limit American citizenship solely to children born of U.S. citizens only (McDonnel A1). A significant number of people wish to eradicate the rights foreign nationals have acquired through the years. Americans have proven ...
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