Affirmative action can also be a way of reflecting the country's diversity in schools or businesses. ... Alternatively the group that will be against affirmative action and all of it issues, and will be the most upset about affirmative action would be the majority, also identified as white males. ... I think they will not admit because they do not want to own up to the negative aspects of affirmative action, as for example a white man not being accepted in to a school because there are not enough minorities or women in the school. ... One positive role that affirmative action has playe...

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I was expelled from the school several times when they found out that I was a Baha'i. ... High school was the last level of education that the government would not mind me to have as they did not let me or any other Baha'i student to enter an official university to seek higher education. Sociological imagination is a concept that defines one's ability to examine a personal experience using a bigger picture or think about it from an alternative point of view to understand the larger meaning of that experience. ... It is infamously known that Iran's government allows Baha&#...

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Although you are satisfied with your four years of high school, your SAT's were pretty good and you are confident with your qualifications, something still plagues you. ... For example, if a Caucasian and a Hispanic student were to apply to the same school, having the same academic standing, most likely the Hispanic student would gain acceptance. ... As an alternative to affirmative action I feel that colleges should base admissions on socioeconomic factors. ... Of course they want to be able to get an education, but they constantly have to worry about money, so focusing on school is an...

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It is harder for students from such schools to get into a good college. ... Quotas are used in some schools to get a certain number of minorities in their school to receive more government support, regardless of more qualified applicants. ... There are alternatives to Affirmative Action and they start in the schools. The first and best choice is to fix up the schools. ... Besides, better schools for the inner city and other minority filled areas would eliminate the need for Affirmative Action in the schools. ...

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Another counter argument to the abolition of affirmative action is that minorities for the most part are brought up in poor neighborhoods and therefore their education is not as good as most of the white people whose income level is higher and subsequently have better schools. ... The 10 Percent Plan provides the top ten percent of students in poor schools the opportunity to go to many different colleges. This act does not put one race above the other like affirmative action, but simply gives finical aid to the students that deserve to go to school though they cannot afford it. ...

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These boosts often do not help the minority student in the long run as Source C points out, stating, "Some minority students who get into a top school with the help of affirmative action might actually be better served by attending a less elite institution to which they could gain admission with less of a boost or no boost at all. " The removal of these boosts and benefits presented to minorities might encourage some to take their schoolwork more seriously and actively compete for acceptance into top-tier colleges. ... Because racial barriers are mostly broken down in today's society, s...

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It receives the honor of being banned from many schools across America, being called "uncouth," "obscene," and "unfit for even a sailor's ears", and publicly burned by angry protesters in Texas. ... It may it be in health class, the halls at school, or through the media; eventually they are going to learn about these facts of life; resisting would be like trying to hold back an avalanche. ... Alternatively, would the parents prefer to procrastinate and shrug off their parental responsibilities, having their children notified by a group of joking peers, and then entering the world with a d...

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The problem that schools are learning the hard way is the law supports preferential treatment, not quotas. California schools learned this in the 1980's, the late 70's was actually when it was first recognized and the courts ruled unconstitutional to use a quota system. ... Bollinger involving University of Michigan's law school, and Grotz vs. ... The law school is ____ up to for highly qualified White students were not accepted into the law program but black, less qualified students were accepted. ... The white race began establishing residency in the suburbs, which...

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Take for example the Whitsunday Christian College, where a student was not being allowed into a school. ... Also, appointment of a person in the workplace who would be responsible to deal with discrimination and sexual harassment matters may be one alternative for workplaces to adopt. ...

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Tribunals The EOC has looked at 54 employment tribunal decisions, in sexual harassment cases that were heard between 1998 and 2001, to see what those cases revealed. Successful cases The employee Thirty-four cases were successful. In three of those cases the person making the complaint was male. In most cases the harassment began while the person bringing the complaint had been working for that employer for less than one year, and their work tended to be low paid (e.g carers, shop and factory workers, office staff). Shift work was a factor in a third of cases. ...

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