In this common core there should be no sectioning of students by vocational aim or social position. ... The students' aptitudes, abilities, and expectations in life should be assessed and considered by wise and well-trained counselors who should then give the students and their parents their honest and frank advice. This program can help students to choose a major that suites their abilities and ambitious, because some students enter majors that don't suit their abilities due to the prestige, parents involvement, or wrong ideas about the major itself. ... There are also many criteri...

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An example of this would be what white and black college students ask and how a black student may sarcastically answer. ... It is not a student's job to educate other students on the topic of race. It is the student's job to obtain an education. ... "Diversity & Community Day was designed to encourage students to engage in the understanding, accepting and valuing of diverse backgrounds, " stated service learning coordinator Alyssa Friendly. ... Learning about diversity helps to understand, accept and encourage it within a community. ...

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This new freedom has allowed and encouraged women to lead healthier lifestyles by increasing their awareness of exercise, competition, and the idea of being physically fit. ... People who oppose Title IX believe that it is not fair because even though interest and participation in women's sports has blossomed since Congress passed the amendment in 1972, it still cannot compare to the extent at which males are involved in sports, simply because men's sports have had time to grow and participation has always been encouraged. ... In the same respect, Author Kat...

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However, this proposition could have served as motivation to minority students. ... 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 col...

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For example a school may offer acceptance to 30% of African American students, 25% of Hispanic students and only 10% to Oriental students, even if that means lowering the standards. ... As Obama did, many students of color hold an advantage in admittance because of the color of their skin. ... For example, because historically African Americans were only able to hold lets say 5% of the student body regardless of their academic standing, would it be fair now to only allow 5% of white's admittance. ... This is where supporters of affirmative action and non-supporters agree that something m...

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It amazes me that discrimination and racism carries on today, especially among such younger generations such as college students. ... Although it was the first time a sorority had been accused of racial discrimination, one student made the comment thatAlpha Gamma Delta probably aren't the only ones who do it? ... According to Richard Mullendore, vice president of student affairs, few African American students choose to participate in membership recruitment, or rush, which shepherds participants from one predominantly white sorority to another? ... There were many in the fraternity who enc...

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The policy intended to benefit minorities makes it obvious that they are at a disadvantage; the policy not only permits but also encourages others to think less of them, regardless of anything other than the fact that they know they are of a different race. ... The percentage of white students accepted by Berkeley totaled 36.8 percent. Of the 36.8 percent white students accepted, 47.9 percent were accepted on academic merit alone". ... "The average grade point average for a rejected white student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1142. The average grade point average for an accepted African-Ame...

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Affirmative action allows it and encourages it. ... More specifically, "The university's law school is the defendant in a reverse discrimination class-action lawsuit over the practice of admitting minority students with lower grades and test scores than whites" (Internet). ...

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After responding to her, she leads you to a room which has six other prospective students. ... Later on that day, you are informed that the other six people who were in the waiting room with you were asked to be students at that institution. ... A student can be rejected a chance to participate in a certain class or activity because of their gender or skin color. In Rich's essay, she tries to encourage the crowd, to which she is speaking, by saying how important it is to know that women are just as good as men and by telling them that they "[have] enormous potential, even if that pot...

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An example of this is Goldberg's discovery that both male and female university students, regardless of their attitudes toward the feminist movement, rate photos of less attractive women as being more pro-feminist (even though physical attractiveness was unrelated to whether the women were supporters or non-supporters). ... Parents and teachers may work to modify their behavior to encourage lower levels of prejudice in children. ...

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.: The school's student body is 67% female, but women constitute only 43% of its athletic program. ... Today, more girls are encouraged to participate in sports and other activities. ... Other benefits: Title IX requires the equal treatment of female and male student-athletes such as: equip, games, tutoring. ...

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With contracting,, "affirmative action helps firms owned by women and minorities, or firms that can show a disadvantage"(Lemann, 110) Affirmative action in education also reaches out to disabled students, women, minorities, economically disadvantaged students, veterans, etc. It helps them in many ways like: " early outreach programs, recruitment and retention programs, efforts in admissions to diversify the student population, and specific financial aid opportunities."... They believe that the passage of this proposition will encourage a healthy competition for jobs, and that it will ...

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., other than white males), are encouraged to participate fully and develop their unique skills and perspectives. ... Classroom studies have repeatedly shown that students live up-or down-to their teacher's expectations. ...

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One major incident that has occurred is that of Matthew Sheppard, a homosexual student at the University of Wyoming. ... It not only permits but also encourages others to think less of them, regardless of anything other than the fact that they are of a different race. ...

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Bakke, Bakke stated that the University of California at Davis rejected him "even though his qualifications [surpassed] those of the sixteen minority students- (Tivnan 191). ... The existence of affirmative action only encourages and strengthens these presumptions. ...

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The king also attempted to encourage equality in Thailand with school uniforms. Students from different social classes wore the same kind of clothes and studied together in order to decrease diversity between them. ...

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And although universities have equal number of capacities for these different fields, male students tend to pursue degrees in engineering, architecture, physics in science, computer science, and business and management; Females however, are heavily concentrated in nursing, home economics, education, social sciences, and humanities. ... Knowing that more opportunities exist should encourage more minority members to climb up the corporate ladder without fearing the once widespread prejudices that existed in the executive ranks. ...

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Discretion takes our rights away by limiting us to specific characteristics such as "urban" clothing might make someone look like a thug but in reality could be a straight A student who chooses to dress that way. ... Police departments are being encouraged to establish policies to regulate officer's actions by the government because improper use of discretion has started to become more frequently reported. ...

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Reflections from the Past A young and nave child is convinced by an older sibling to commit a rude and senseless act in the presence of his parents. After witnessing the act, the parents then become quite irritated, and they seek out to find the one responsible for informing the child of the wrongd...

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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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