It showed discrimination in a wide variety of public and private settings. ... Title VI outlawed discrimination in federal funded programs. Also, Title VII prohibited discrimination by both private and public employers. ... So far, it has lasted 30 years and has not solved any of our current problems dealing with equal rights. It was created to use reverse discrimination to solve the problem of discrimination. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Affirmative action is a plan designed to end discrimination by guaranteeing minorities will be hired, regardless of race or gender. ... Our government must acknowledge the fact that affirmative action is not putting an end to discrimination; in all actuality, this plan has succeeded in creating new minorities, and more reasons for discrimination. ... A more effective method of hiring fairly, without discrimination, may be a faceless and nameless interview. If perspective employees could send in their resumes, be assigned a number, fill out a written interview, and be hired entirely ba...

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• Grade Level: High School

Our government must acknowledge the fact that affirmative action is not putting an end to discrimination. In all actuality, this plan has succeeded in creating new minorities, and more reasons for discrimination. ... One of the misconceptions is that affirmative action Fosters "reverse discrimination" by giving minority candidates an unfair advantage over white candidates. ... Giving people money or just allowing them to work solely on their background will not solve anything, but it will make matters worse. ... Since the passage of 1994 additions to the Civil Liberties Act, all that the ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Today and in Southern California, Mexicans suffer from discrimination, similar to what others have faced before. ... I think that this problem will not be solved unless, society as a whole works to accept one-another....

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If the minority students had the same opportunity as the children in the suburbs, then a major part of the problem would be solved. ... Many people agree that the problem is education but there has been nothing done to solve the problem. ... Even after the unqualified become qualified there will still be a need for Affirmative Action because there will always be discrimination, but at least now we couldn't use the excuse of the one person being more qualified than the other (Porter 70). ... Those that want to get rid of Affirmative Action need to realize that it will go away only whe...

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• Grade Level: High School

Papers are piling up on top of a desk. People are running around trying to meet their deadlines. Assignments are being pushed back to later dates. Phones are being answered, but put on hold for the next available representatives. The president of the firm puts out a notice of hire. The word...

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• Grade Level: High School

While "reverse discrimination- may benefit one class or race, it truly hinders another (Tivnan 195). ... Affirmative action has now ricocheted to fight an "inequality with an inequality,"" the very problem Johnson designed it to solve, which results in "the ambitions and aspirations, the hopes and dreams of individual Americans being trampled- on so the government can counterbalance past injustices (Tivnan 195) (Grapes 43). ... America, however, should refrain from using the quota system "a system that further promotes segregation, a system that further propagates discrimination, a syst...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although Canada is seen as a multicultural nation, there is still much discrimination against certain ethnic groups. ... When the government overlooks a minority and neglects to solve its problems it creates a pattern of failure within that minority thus a stereotypical view is created. ...

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