Another factor affirmative action opponents argue is the real goal should be to make our society race and gender blind, but such programs make physical factors relevant to someone's ability for a position. The critics also stand behind the common sense principle, which states that the best applicant should get the job regardless of other physical or social characteristics. ... No person's work ethic is based on eye or hair color, as there is simply no association between physical characteristic and someone's ambition, character, or intelligence (Sacks). ... Affirmative action ...

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Any business is greatly influenced by the local and physical environment in which it resides. ... The characteristics of the specific market determine the necessary adaptation of the managerial styles, just as they also determine the necessary adaptation of the products to the wants and needs of the public consumers (Blough 34). ... In all facets of business operation, "it is necessary to learn and adapt to the special characteristics of each society in which business is to be operated- (Blough 29). ... A sweatshop is a workplace where workers are subject to extreme exploitation, including th...

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Discrimination is defined in civil rights law as; unfavorable or unfair treatment of a person, or class of persons in comparison to others who are not members of the protected class because of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, physical/mental handicap, sexual harassment, sexual orientation or reprisal for opposition to discriminatory practices or participation in the Equal Employment Opportunity(EEO) process. ... No one can be denied equal employment opportunity because of birthplace, ancestry, culture, or linguistic characteristics common to a specific ethnic group. ... It is ...

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The most common characteristic of males with eating disorders is excessive over-exercise. Other characteristics include restriction of food and a bingeing and purging cycle. ... Since they lack body fat, anorexics don't get their periods and often lose their sexual characteristics such as public hair. ...

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Showing the different types of controversies throughout the country through the physical personalities of people, from the inequalities of race and class he points out the difference with these charters. Its as if each person represents a characteristic that represents the problems of the U.S.. ... Adams photography of physical traits of how we live is a broader than Winnograds work because he completely removes the people from the topic leaving the decision of the significance of the picture to the viewer and their interpretation of what life's like in western America in the areas Adams ...

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If one takes drinking too far in a marital relationship, violence, physical and verbal abuse, and eventually divorce will almost definitely result. ... In one study of teen suicide, drug and alcohol abuse was the most common characteristic of those who attempted suicide; 70 percent of these teenagers frequently used alcohol and/or other drugs."" ...

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"Data released by the United States Environmental Protection Agency shows that somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year." (Roach) This statistic is shocking but unfortunately true. Many parts of the world contribute to these numbers, one of the main ...

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Their physical differences were described in terms more attributed to beats than humans. ... Instead of attributing the Indians with human characteristics, the scientists totally ignored the fact that the "savages" may have created the art, so the question of who the mound builders were occupied the attention of professional archaeologists and other scholars for years. ...

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The blacks felt encumbered by what the whites thought of as religious norms, and were discouraged to fully adopt Christianity when they couldn't even speak in church, a common give-and-take characteristic among traditional African worship.18 The inability for most blacks to disassociate the messenger with the message, like blacks such as Frederick Douglas were able to do, prevented them from fully accepting Christianity and created resentment towards whites and their religion.19 This antipathy is illustrated in a letter from a freed slave to his master, dealing with the effect that the ...

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