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Affirmative action policies do not benefit those who are supposed to be helped
in any way. Instead of Affirmative action decisions in their favor, minorities
and females are entrenched in their status because of the lowering of standards
and expectations imposed on them by businesses and educational institutions due
to the cries of racism and sexism in standards by advocates of AA. Ernest Van
Den Haag put it best, when he declares that. " Affirmative action has done as
much injury to black scholars as to black students." Isn't it time to return to
hiring people on individual merit, and return the millions spent on Affirmative
action. That money could be better spent on bringing minority and female
applicants up to standards. I ...
Affirmative action has been the subject of increasing debate and tension in American society. The debate has been more emotional than intellectual, and has generated more tension than shed light on the issue. Participants in the debate have over examined the ethical and moral issues that affirmative action raises while forgetting to examine the sys...
Should Canada Be Allowed To Continue With Genetic Engineering Without Should Canada be allowed to continue with genetic engineering without federal guidelines? In the past ten years there has been a rise in a relatively new science, a science that raises alot of controversial questions with very few answers. This science is called Genetic Enginee...
Many people think that Al Gore will not make a good United States President, but have they really compared and contrasted his plans for our future? He has a lot of good ideas on how to create high quality universal healthcare for every single American. He is now working with Ted Kennedy, who is in charge of healthcare and Medicare, to help him ac...
Affirmative action policies do not benefit those who are supposed to be helped in any way. Instead of Affirmative action decisions in their favor, minorities and females are entrenched in their status because of the lowering of standards and expectations imposed on them by businesses and educational institutions due to the cries of racism and sexi...
Of the total federal expenditures in 1995, Social Security together with Medicare(federally founded health program aimed at helping the elderly, founded in 1965) was the largest, accounting for about 34 percent. In 2005 this figure is predicted to be as high as 39 percent. This is caused by the "graying" of America and the increased number of elder...
Introduction to the tax system The laws governing taxation in the Philippines are contained within the National Internal Revenue Code. This code underwent substantial revision with passage of the Tax Reform Act of 1997. This law took effect on January 1, 1998. Taxation is administered through the Bureau of Internal Revenue which comes under t...
I believe that the overall security of a nation is more important than an individual's right to choice. If everyone was free to do whatever they wanted the world would be chaotic and unorganized. Then if there was no national security our country's condition would be even worse. If everyone were free to do whatever they wanted our country would...
Currently, against the backdrop of the globalization, people are connected better together. This phenomenon means that people demand more immediacy and convenience of information dissemination. The advancement of technology has greatly reduced the transaction cost of obtaining information, but this improvement has also become a prone to pre-emptive...
Choice and Trait Theories What I think should be done about or for the children of violent criminals is use some kind of screening before people have children, sterilization, or they should be targeted from an early age by the government to prevent them following their parents into a life of crime. Children would be tracked by the authorities fr...
President Clinton has declared that "the enemy of our time is inaction," pledging to forge bipartisan agreements on a balanced budget and campaign finance reform within months, and to lead a "national crusade" to improve education by the turn of the century. Education, Clinton vowed, would be his "number-one priority for the next four years," and...
Communism is a term that has several meanings. It is a form of government, an economic system and a way of life. Communism is believed to be one of the most powerful forces in the world. The fall of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union was more than a political event. It was a powerful bond between economics and politics. The communist reg...
During the past decade, our society has become based solely on the ability to move large amounts of information across large distances quickly. Computerization has influenced everyone's life. The natural evolution of computers and this need for ultra-fast communications has caused a global network of interconnceted computers to develop. This glo...
I would like to argue that in order for Latin America to progress it must abolish its institutions of Church, Oligarchy and it must stop foreign intervention. These institutions have dominated Latin America since the colonial period and they have assisted in the underdevelopment of Latin America. The oligarchy has expioted the people of Latin Ameri...
Emery begins his book by telling about how Nixon and his campaign managers were going to do whatever it took to win the presidential election for his second term. The bugging and the telephone tapes were all part of this. Nixon was a very paranoid person thinking that everyone was plotting to take him down and vote him out of office. He was very...
