Essays 211 - 240
it turns out, he has reason to wonder. Here are his findings in an informal table format: DATE POLL BUSH GORE July 18 2000 CNN/US...
dollar program, "funded through the Recovery Act," that encourages competition among the states "to inspire education reform" (de ...
Plessey would be law until much later, down the road, when Brown v. Board of Education would alter things, suggesting that separat...
some insist was run as much on manipulation and subjugation as it was by effective political strategy. Daleys administration was ...
an eerily accurate cultural commentary on gender, class, and race in the United States. In the film, all of the major power broke...
clients rights in a hostile work environment. Ethical codes are in place that dictate what is appropriate and what is inappropria...
hook when it comes to discriminatory practices. It means that no discrimination can take place from the moment the job applicant w...
policies. The acronym "LPC" stands for "likely to become a public charge," and was a term applied exclusively to women who immigr...
At the same time, in the early 20s, "opportunities for young black men in Tulsa...were severely circumscribed, regardless of educa...
dealing with in regard to racism and discrimination actually can be traced all the way back to the original colonization of this c...
right direction, but change is slow and the collective influence of thousands of years does not disappear easily. One theory tha...
his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...
freedom that I am today had I not begun to oppose that gendered notion of learning that suggests that politics is the realm of mal...
racial profiling and how it is often the minorities who are sentenced more often and for longer amounts of time than their white c...
and the sexes, in particular with efforts like those put forth by the womens movement, to reshape not just male and female identit...
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This sort of organized effort was necessary in order to chip away little by little at the m...
some periods of history than in others (Sowell). Author Shelby Steele writes that "whites in America today are fearful of being co...
like small-town governments: personal, despotic, paternalistic, and absolutely without teeth (Eitzen, 2000, p. 147). Accor...
and diabetes are just two of myriad diseases and conditions that modern medical sensors serve to help in situations beyond the ind...
When discussing competitive motorcycle racing, when such racing is taken off road, one usually refers to this as motocross (McGrat...
Yet, while affirmative action makes sense in theory, it has not fared well in practice. Also, if one takes race into account, one ...
penalty. It may be argued this is a nature or a nurture difference or may be explained by another factor however whatever the rea...
is held not by individuals but by the society itself; and that "individual attitudes are shaped much more by the interactions of t...
did not go by the name Affirmative Action. Still, the concept did exist. In fact, it is known to have evolved since slave days (Ru...
Stereotype vulnerability is the manner by which ethnic populations believe themselves as being subordinate to their white counterp...
all susceptible to being infected with this devastating disease. Unfortunately, in fact, HIV infections are increasing among all ...
"nationalism and racism have dominated South Africas history" (Foster, 2003, p. 657. The emergence and dominance of white South Af...
fully clothed to completely nude was a symbol in and of itself: Aphrodite had begun a journey exemplifying female physical beauty,...
we are actually looking at "is a pattern of features derived from common ancestry in the area in question, and these are largely w...