** Affirmative Action** Have you ever wondered what effect discrimination laws and diversity have on our American society today as a whole? The issue of affirmative action has been a highly controversial topic since it's origin in the mid-1960s. "It began as a program to "correct&q...

Introduction: Affirmative action in higher education should be abolished. College admissions should be based on what the admissions board is looking for, not what the government says should be required. In this paper, I will present evidence to support that position. At one time, affirmative ac...

School choice will improve education in America. Public schools are grossly inefficient, and are not educating many of America's youths adequately. Schools that are run independent from local government bureaucracy provide better education at lower cost. School choice would allow more students ...

Affirmative Action: Mend it or End itThe act of hiring minority groups in order to "balance out" the employment pool and therefore end discrimination in the workplace is called affirmative action. Many businesses and college campuses today use affirmative action to hire or accept new recruits base...

Racism - The Future Racism People see it everyday across America. A group of whites burn down a black church, someone gets hurt or murdered from a racial slur, or fights break out at school or in public. These are the extremes of racism. Racism is definitely not a good thing, it's a power t...

Turner CressMs. RiversEnglish 104-5475 October 2000Affirmative Action - "Reverse Racism?" Affirmative action is a comprised plan created by local and state governments to "fight fire with fire." It is supposed to stop discrimination against the blacks, but at the same time is just another s...

Turner CressMs. RiversEnglish 104-5475 October 2000Affirmative Action - "Reverse Racism?" Affirmative action is a comprised plan created by local and state governments to "fight fire with fire." It is supposed to stop discrimination against the blacks, but at the same time is just another s...

Affirmative Action...Why?In the beginning of the 1960's minorities and women were treated as though they were sub-human. They were thrown in jail for no reason, given stereotypes by the majority, and cursed upon in the streets. An uprising began to occur called the Civil Rights Movement. They cal...

School Choice: What Choice is there?Public schools are grossly inefficient, and are not adequately educating many of America's youths. Schools that are run independent from local government bureaucracy provide better education at lower cost. School choice would allow more students to attend better s...

Abstract This paper examined the problems in the current school reform movement, and shows what the government has done over the past twenty years to improve our school system. With the research gathered from numerous academic articles, this paper shows the positive and negative to current ref...

RacismPeople see it everyday across America. A group of whites burn down a black church, someone gets hurt or murdered from a racial slur, or fights break out at school or in public. These are the extremes of racism. Racism is definitely not a good thing, it's a power that has taken over through the...