This was Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This amendment was the guidance that American leaders needed to change the policies under which schools, business and local state and federal government adopted a new era and developed new strategies in which "business" was conducted. In 1972 the Equal Employment Opportunity Act was implemented. Hiring and promotion of minorities has shown tremendous increase since this act was passed into law. ...

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Charles Canady of Florida also proposed this bill), a bill known as "Equal Opportunity Act of 1995" which would make all forms of affirmative action undertaken by the federal government on the basis of race, color, national origin, and gender unlawful. ... Affirmative action is a strategy for curing what ails our society's institutions, which are still plagued with discriminatory attitudes and practices that exclude millions of well-qualified and worthy people from mainstream America. ...

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This lead to such foreign policies as the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Gentleman's Agreement, which forbade Chinese and Japanese workers from coming to America. ... Such tactics, along with many other brutal and unmerciful strategies, provided a "cut-throat" competition amongst the leading companies from each category of manufactured products and the railroads, basically resulting in one company owning the vast majority of facilities for a certain product, controlling the rate and price of the product, whether it be a train ticket or a pair of pants, so that people would be paying an unn...

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Paths are important to understand in order to develop preventive strategies; demographics and lifestyles to understand what sorts of services, particularly shelters, are needed; and barriers in order to design escape strategies. ... The 1988 Family Support Act required that AFDC-UP be implemented in all states by 1994. ... As mandated by the Family Support Act of 1988, recipients who are less than three months pregnant or who have children over three years of age must attend school or other job training programs, or find employment. The model for the Family Support Act is the social contract,...

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However, according to npr.org, Obama thinks that while there is no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence and no piece of legislation that will prevent every tragedy or any act of violence, guns end up in the wrong hands thus leading to massive and needless loss of lives. ... High -profile shootings paved the way for the National Firearms Act. ...

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The Great Awakening of the 1740's proved to be an instrumental event of the new African-American spirituality with its focal point on a "personal relationship" with God and conversion of the masses, rather than the liturgical and theological focus prior to the awakening.3 This development enabled lay preachers with no theological background to attempt mass conversion using emotional strategies rather than ideology to persuade non-believers, and created a more accessible Christianity that the slaves could grasp and integrate into their own spirituality. ... In the public eye, slaves demo...

• Word Count: 1954
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Even in its original state, the unmodified Affordable Care Act of 2010 would leave 6% of the American population uninsured3, and the fiscal deficits incurred from administering the new programs like the healthcare exchange would have been unsustainable without major revisions to the federal budget. ... When insurance companies are allowed to use their marketing strategies freely, specialized care is unobserved by consumers that benefit most from it. ... The largest portion of the revenue raised to offset restructuring costs from the Affordable Care Act comes from a combination of excise taxes...

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America's healthcare industry shows us one of the most revealing contradictions in the country's economy. Even though America claims to be the world's most advanced superpower, it is still unable to provide its entire population with healthcare and even worse, the quality of its healthcare overall is declining in many ways. Though many democratic nations provide their citizens with healthcare access, the United States tries to concentrate the control of medicine into the hands of big businesses like the insurance industry and pharmaceutical companies. The result is that the Unit...

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Introduction Athletes have been taking performance-enhancing drugs in different forms for centuries; the furthest dated supplement used to increase performance was used in Ancient Greece, when they would ingest doop with the hopes of increasing their performance and becoming some of the first Olympic champions. Since then, the development of Performance-enhancing drugs has hit a rapid increase and massive amounts of more powerful drugs have been produced. Athletes of different sports, gender and age use these drugs all over the world. Many different sporting organizations are strongly involv...

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