The government reacted to internal resistance by passing further repressive laws which caused even more resistance to the apartheid system. ... As black resistance grew, the National Party Government took harsh repressive action in the form of violence and new laws. ... In reaction the government introduced the Internal Security Act. ... His philosophy and growing fame caught the white governments attention and set off and alarm to the appartheid system. ... Steve Biko will always be remembered for the hope and new mind set he gave to blacks to overcome the cruel and unfair system of apartheid...

• Word Count: 1075
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bakke (1978) by a 5-4 margin that "fixed quotas may not be set for places for minority applicants for medical school if white applicants are denied a chance to compete for those places" ("affirmative action"). ... Starting with several cases in 1989, the Supreme Court has restricted affirmative action by: "[giving] greater weight to claims of reverse discrimination, outlawed the use of minority set-asides in cases where prior racial discrimination could not be proved, and placed stricter limits on states' use of racial preferences than it did on the federal government. ... Pena (1995), t...

• Word Count: 2072
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ending Racial Profiling The federal government should end racial profiling by requiring policemen and other law enforcement officers to keep detailed records of each individual they stop to question or search. ... But the trooper set loose a drug-sniffing dog to comb the car's exterior, including the windshield, the hubcaps, and the taillights while Wilkins and his family stood in the rain. ... In such cases, courts have generally insisted on applying "strict scrutiny"-the most intense level of judicial review-to government actions. Under this tough standard, the use of race in gov...

• Word Count: 1414
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Apartheid was a government policy of complete racial separation that gave power mainly to the whites. ... Also, it was forbidden for black citizens to be in large cities such as Capetown and Johannesburg after a set curfew; if they were found in the cities after the designated time, they were again arrested. ... Black citizens did not have the right to vote in either country due to laws passed by the government. ... These ten million citizens had no representation in the government, and their voices for governmental changes weren't being heard by not permitting them to vote. ... Clearl...

• Word Count: 1517
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After the passage of these amendments, two of the three branches of government disconnected themselves with the issue of black civil rights. ... The Court prompted discrimination by implying that if blacks wanted legal protection, they would need to seek it from their state, not national, government. ... Although the Radical Republicans had embarked on a costly Reconstruction plan and set up legislation meant to protect black civil rights, the blacks did not thrive. ... Rulings made in the later half of the 19th Century reduced the scope of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, and lead to th...

• Word Count: 1530
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Kennedy signed a bill forcing government contractors to extinguish discrimination due to race, religion or national origin. Since that law came into existence, many changes have taken place to provide a broader scope of protection for what the government calls protected class members. ... Kennedy signed a bill forcing government contractors to cease discrimination due to race, religion, or national origin. ... Government was unable to ignore the issues any longer without a great penalty. Compassion to help the underprivileged also attributed to government making the first step to take actio...

• Word Count: 1980
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this instance King felt that his duty to obey the laws would not serve the common good as the laws were not laid out with the common good of all of society in mind, the Negro race was set to carry a heavier burden and receive a lesser benefit. ...

• Word Count: 2706
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Such distortions include the hiring of unqualified workers, the causing of problems for groups it originally set out to help, and reverse discrimination that results in unfair standards into higher education and the work force. ... Our most powerful and sacred document that holds all the power in the government is colorblind. ... The US government has " more than ninety thousand organizations with contracts valued at $50,000 or more." ... In order to create a system that is fair the government needs to do additional research in improving its present situation. ... Herzberger, the debate is w...

• Word Count: 2152
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When we start to believe in a hierarchy of races and decide to set ourselves at the top of that pyramid we are only strengthening the color lines that separate us and hinder our ability to function together in a democracy that values all people of different backgrounds. ... If I got mad over a story and was disgusted by our government's fictional actions I can definitely understand how racism is still evident in today's society and why African Americans feel the need to fight the "white power". ... Reading the government's apology in class to the Native Americans still...

• Word Count: 2862
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Drawing on Pieter's secret journals, to which she gains access after his disgrace is made public, Tante Sophie sets out to piece together the story of her nephew's self-destructive behavior. She is motivated both by her guilt for failing to prevent Pieter's tragedy and by the wish to show mercy, in contrast to the racially divisive laws that separate Pieter and the country The novel is set in the time following World War II, and Pieter and the other South African soldiers who volunteered to go abroad and fight with the British have returned home and resumed their lives. ... The...

• Word Count: 1438
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bakke held that the Constitution forbids public universities and other government agencies to use rigid racial quotas but does not forbid the use of race as a "factor- among others. ... Institutions with affirmative action policies generally set goals and timetables for increased diversity - and use recruitment, set-asides and preference as ways of achieving those goals. ... Knowing this- companies, universities, and other institutions should have a guideline on where to set the boundaries. ...

• Word Count: 1755
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ believe that Smith, under divine guidance, translated a set of golden plates into the Book of Mormon. ... During the last half of the nineteenth-century the government formed strict laws to thwart the strong beliefs of polygamy until church leaders denounced the practice. ... Government officials, mainly the Republican Party, began to pass strict laws concerning anyone practicing plural marriage. ... Leaders often referred to passages Smith had written about a close descendant of Ham that established the first government of Egypt; He became a very wise ...

• Word Count: 3075
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The movement was initially advanced through the amendment process, an essential method of change in our government. ... It became evident that history would really have to wait before out reactive society and government ever become proactive. ...

• Word Count: 1986
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In the opening paragraphs, Kennedy writes thoroughly of a specific set of guidelines his parents taught him. ... This allows Kennedy to set up many of the appeals that follow in the writing. ... Kennedy writes, "This transformation has been marked concretely by legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as well as its four reauthorizations, and by the exercise of power by blacks at the highest levels of government- . . . president (Barack Obama)" (32). ...

• Word Count: 1498
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To Kill a Mockingbird is set during the 1930s during the Great Depression and post-World War Ⅱ. ... This oppressive category is aimed to force the people it's discriminating against to stay in a certain status level; usually created to keep someone at a poverty ranking, their education low or refusing the correct law and government benefits. ... Even though this was unlawful and it went against everything the law was set up to offer American citizens, it was twisted by the citizens of Maycomb. ...

• Word Count: 1567
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Outside of the work being discussed, two of the authors most notable works include Burgers Daughter and Jurys People both of which would be banned by the South African government for their anti-apartheid views. The two works would set up the title short story in a profound way, gaining the audience of readers who found themselves as a part of the anti-apartheid movement but also eventually proving willing to meet half way and express an understanding of the people of the pro-apartheid mindset by writing a short story that did not show their views as completely ridiculous but actually somewh...

• Word Count: 1018
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Racial profiling is being a set on many young blacks and Hispanic males being stop due to the smuggling of drugs, driving fancy high priced cars with fashionable accessories, or being a suspect of criminal encounters. ... (Schencker, Brenner, The Daily Illini) Taylor states, "in constitutional-law parlance, while racial profiling may be presumptively unconstitutional, that presumption is overcome in the case of airline passengers, because the government has a compelling interest in preventing mass-murder-suicide hijackings, and because close scrutiny of Arab-looking people is narrowly tailor...

• Word Count: 1099
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Students growing up in poverty often don't do as well in school because they are forced to work to help provide for their family or discouraged from achieving higher goals set for themselves. ... " Other government policies to help minorities in school include the California Dream Act, which is to help undocumented students who were brought over as minors by their parents attend college and receive financial aid. ... Their focus is the students and what teachers, policy makers, and government legislation can do to help these students succeed in all grades and levels of education. ...

• Word Count: 1872
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He completed an internship in cartooning and set design under the aegis of the French Community of Belgium. ... Tourists are known to have a major influence on Mbaye's work as he resides in the "Village des Artes", a large space with 50 studios set aside especially for artists by the Senegalese government in 1998 in order to give the people of the country a chance at the global contemporary art scene and to have them continue the tradition of unique Senegalese art (McKinley, 2003). ... The role ethnic identity play in the works will also be determined here. 1.10) Preliminary ...

• Word Count: 3101
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Sanders believes "blacks constituted an American underclass in all parts of the United States in 190013" whilst Chambers contrasts this, believing "the black codes did not technically re-establish slavery.14" Also in contrast to Sanders is Dunning who states "as the black codes were concerned, it was pointed out that they could not be alleged as a tendency to restore slavery since the offensive acts had in many of the states been repealed by the legislatures themselves and in all had been superseded by the civil rights act.15" I agree with William Dunning to an ex...

• Word Count: 3529
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While the commonplace approach of analysing the novel would be to place it within the context of its time of publication and/or the time frame the story is set in, this paper seeks to determine its current-day relevance in terms of how racial issues are treated within the American judicial system. 3. ... This part will look at the three most salient racial points raised in the novel and compare them against today's reality in Mississippi where "A Time to Kill" is set and other southern US-States. ...

• Word Count: 4938
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Through their non-violent confrontations in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Rides, sit-ins, and the March on Washington, participants in the Civil Rights Movement won both widespread media coverage and government intervention. ... But as evidenced through America's past, legislature does not necessarily set the precedent for social change. ...

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Justice Sandra Day O"Connor also supports this action by saying "The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination is an unfortunate reality and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it." and finally Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says that "..The court [recognizes] the persistence of congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination, but also to counteract discrimination's lingering effects. ... Unfortunately the way things are set up now, a poverty stricken white student who uses discipline a...

• Word Count: 1530
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Progressive reformers moved to correct flaws in government and improve societal equality, but they soon found the widened divisions in American society to be difficult, if not impossible, to overcome. ... Some states also set minimum wages, which allowed the incomes of the working class to increase. ...

• Word Count: 1668
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It is obvious that significant improvements have been made in the way that the criminal justice system deals with Blacks during the history of the United States. Blacks have not always been afforded a right to trial, not to mention a fair one. Additionally, for years, Blacks were unable to serve on juries, clearly affecting the way both Blacks and whites were tried. Much of this improvement has been achieved through various court decisions, and other improvements have been made through federal and state legislatures. Despite these facts, the development of the legal system with regard to race ...

• Word Count: 3584
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate