To know the only reason you were accepted was because of your race or gender can damage anyone's mind state. Known as "stereotype threat" which is "how racial and gender stereotypes, floating and abstract though they might seem, can affect concrete things, like grades, test scores, and academic identity" (Steele 211). ... The problem is it is no longer race or gender that is creating an unequal America but their social class. ... Affirmative action does nothing to make people equal to one another but actually makes others considered to be more valuable based on ethnicity and gender. ...

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This is probably one of the hardest questions I have been asked: "What does it mean to be an American?"" If we developed a survey and asked a hundred people to answer that question, we would certainly collect a variety of different answers. There is no single definition that can describe the "typica...

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The government and voluntary agencies have joined in order for the society to find ways to solve these issues and strive for equal opportunities for people from all income levels, and gender. ... This company values herbal remedies, creating products that are not tested on animals, and packaging their products in recyclable materials. ... Our group-wide Equal Employment Opportunities & Diversity Policy emphasizes that we recruit and promote employees on the basis of their suitability for the job without discriminating on grounds of race, color, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual ori...

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Southern Pacific Company, the supreme court clarified the concept of a " jury of one's peers " by noting that while it is not necessary for every jury to contain representatives of every conceivable racial, ethnic, religious, gender, and economic group in the community, court officials may not systematically and intentionally exclude any juror solely because his or her social characteristics (Schmalleger, 2012, p. 231). ... When a scientific test is performed that shows evidence of guilt or innocence "but the prosecution chooses not to perform that test and present its results to the...

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The Millennium Declaration commits the international community and member states of the U.N. to the achievement of eight major goals. Two of these goals are the eradication of hunger and poverty and the promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women. The third problem I will be discussing is ...

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