Affirmative Action on Trial: Is Fairness an Elusive Goal? GENERAL BACKGROUND: What are the origins of what is known today as affirmative action, the programs that seek to remedy past discrimination against minorities and women? The original American foundation for social justice, fairness and civ...

With the signature of Executive Order 10925 in 1961, President John F. Kennedy created the President's Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and thus, began transforming the world of minorities, woman and the handicapped to equal existence with Caucasian males (Shelton 10). Still, this wa...

Title IX, the Education Amendments of 1972, is a federal act that states: \"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial a...

Resolved: That colleges and universities have a moral obligation to prohibitthe public expression of hate speech on their campuses.Alexander, Larry. BANNING HATE SPEECH AND THE STICKS AND STONES DEFENSE. Constitutional Commentary. Spring, 1996In addressing this issue, I, like most of the scholars, s...

A Brief Analysis of Reverse Discrimination Sean Lynch and David Cherence Legal Environments Rowan University Racial discrimination is defined as unfavorable treatment, or having fine judgement or taste against a distinct race or minority. It is an epidemic that has been occur...

A Brief Analysis of Reverse Discrimination Sean Lynch and David Cherence Legal Environments Rowan University Racial discrimination is defined as unfavorable treatment, or having fine judgement or taste against a distinct race or minority. It is an epidemic that has been occur...

When people talk about the civil rights movement, the first thing that comes to mind is the famous speech "I have a dream" by Martin Luther King. His dream in short was to have equality among human beings. For the past thirty years, this country has been revolutionizing humanitarianism because ther...

Since the incredible events of September 11, we Americans have had plenty to be concerned about: the nation has been grieving over the tragic loss of lives, nervous about the economic fall out from the attacks, reluctant to fly in commercial aircraft, anxious over the threat of bio-terrorism deliver...

Where Have All the Guns Gone? In today's society guns are everywhere. News casts shower the public with stories about gun violence, movie heroes blow away the bad guys, cartoon characters brazenly shower each other with flying bullets, and children shoot each other in school roo...

PROBLEM AREA II: RIGHT OF PRIVACY The Right to Be Left Alone: An Examination of the Right of Privacy Prepared for Submission to the 1999 National Debate Topic Selection Committee by Cindi Timmons Colleyville Heritage HS Colleyville, Texas and Aaron Timmons Greenhill School Dallas, Texa...

Brown vs. Board of Education and School Integration The strength of American society is weakened, as it has been since the first slave ship set sail for this country, by the deep-rooted prejudices embedded within the great-grand daughters and sons of former slave owners and slaves. Althoug...

Euthanasia has always been a very controversial subject. Some countries allow it, yet in other countries, it is tolerated but illegal. In some places, passive euthanasia is accepted better than active euthanasia is. Many people think that if a child is born with severe deformities, it and its family...

Introduction American History is full of struggles and the fight for equality forall people. The civil rights era was among the most memorable battles inAmerican History. It involved many sacrifices on the part of minoritiesand those that fought for their civil rights. The civil rights battl...

English 10024 May 2000UntitledThrough the course of time, society has been confronted with the problem of what to do with its worst criminals. Society has been faced with this particular conflict and having to decide what is considered just for each particular crime. Many societies have used capit...

Arturo AguilarNishi WittEnglish 10024 May 2000UntitledThrough the course of time, society has been confronted with the problem of what to do with its worst criminals. Society has been faced with this particular conflict and having to decide what is considered just for each particular crime. Many s...

Arturo AguilarNishi WittEnglish 10024 May 2000UntitledThrough the course of time, society has been confronted with the problem of what to do with its worst criminals. Society has been faced with this particular conflict and having to decide what is considered just for each particular crime. Many s...

CASE CITATION:Rubin v. Coors Brewing Co. (514 US 476), 1995BACKGROUND"The rules and principals of commercial law are of ancient origin. Throughout the centuries merchants engaged in trade and commerce have recognized customs and usages which regulate and control their conduct. Gradually over the y...

According to Shinto legend two gods, Izanagi and Izanami, which were brother and sister, dipped a spear into the ocean and drops from the spear formed the island of Onokorojima. Izanagi and Izanami then fell to earth and married. Izanami then gave birth to the islands of Japan and a couple more gods...

IntroductionThis day in age murderers' actions are getting more and more incomprehensive. They are no longer just committing murder: they are torturing, mutilating, and engaging in grossly inappropriate acts against fellow human beings. Behaviors such as this will continue if nothing is done to s...

The year is 1962, and the Supreme Court is about to make a landmark ruling, concerning the constitutionality of faculty lead prayer in school. Democratic President John F. Kennedy is in his second year of his term. Many Americans saw the Kennedy administration as a liberal Presidency that was ...

What is more important... absolute protection of the First Amendment, or the right to equality as guaranteed in the Fourteenth Amendment? Furthermore, what exactly IS guaranteed by the First Amendment, and what lies outside the boundaries? Virginia v Black 123 S.Ct. 1536 (2003) addresses the issue o...

In 1798, there was a young Republican publicist named Benjamin Franklin Bache, the editor of the Philadelphia Aurora, who was known as "Lightning Rod, Junior" because he was the grandson of Benjamin Franklin and was known for his shocking phraseology. Impetuous, harsh, narrow-minded and d...

"There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state, as religion. Let it once enter our civil affairs, our government would soon be destroyed. Let it once enter our common schools, they would be destroyed." Supreme Cour...

I once heard this story a long time ago. I can't remember what I was doing at the time, and it is rare that I can remember a story in such detail, but when I do, I consider it has profound meaning. Wait, now I remember. I was working in a cancer ward and I took my break next to the patient rooms. Od...

Better Education: The Controversy Over School VouchersEducation remains America's most influential avenue of opportunity. Most Americans recognize the necessity of an elementary and secondary level of education to succeed within the highly competitive world beyond adolescence. Without a basic foun...