When they were first initiated, affirmative action policies were needed to address the discrimination faced by women and members of minority ethnic groups. These policies have enabled many people to secure better employment and educational opportunities. In their wake, however, affirmat...

Bernard A. Weisberg refers in his article's title to the United States as a "Nation of Immigrants" rather than a unique, ancient grounded nation. As Joe R. Feagin states in his "Racial and Ethnic Relations" textbook: "Immigration in the United States is its f...

The AJA baseball league originated around 1906 form the plantation days of baseball leagues. Each ethnicity had their own teams and played against one another regularly. In 1996, former University of Hawaii All- American baseball player Billy Blanchette expressed interest to play in the AJA leag...

Australia is a multicultural society. However, there are mixed feelings among the community about being multicultural. These conflicting viewpoints, stemming from things like the amount of education a person has, their upbringing, media exposure of certain race issues and the political nature of soc...

This is a fictional paper containing fictional characters, none of the names in this essay are real people according to me. The events in the paper in no way reflect my personal life. Its purpose is to depict the life of a professional race car driver. Journal Entry #1 December 28, 1995 ...

Paula Chrystine PolingPoling 1Myths, Memories and Realities of the War Between the StatesDr. Mary Ellen Rowe and Dr. Larry OlpinDecember 15, 1999German, Irish, African and Native are all AmericanFor minorities, as for other Americans, the Civil War was an opportunity to prove their valor and loyalty...

Analytical Paper on Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing Director and actor Spike Lee presents his "truth" about race relations in his movie Do the Right Thing. The film exhibits the spectacle of black discrimination and racial altercations. Through serious, angry, and loud sounds, Lee stays true to the...

'Woman's place is in the Home but Home is not contained within the four walls of an individual home. Home is the community.'1These words, written by Rheta Childe Dorr in 1910, typified the attitude of women during the decades immediately following the turn of the century. The period between 1900 a...