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- 11811: Quotas are Outdated in Affirmative Action Programs
- ... S. Becker, “the best affirmative-action schemes do not bring unprepared minorities up to the level of the students and workers who gain their positions on merit alone” (1995, p. 16) Affirmative action is meeting great opposition by white males and by minorities as well. These programs have long since been due for termination. The money that is spent on affirmative action programs could be used in a more useful way ...
- 11812: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- ... the violence stopped. he did this a number of times and it always worked. Also if he created notes, memos or writings about India's home rule, the government would throw him in jail. The great thing about Gandhi is that he never denied a true accusation and happily was taken of to jail. I believe that Gandhi once said 'It is not as if I am sentenced to prison, just ...
- 11813: Affirmative Action is Wrong
- ... government with the intent of correcting the social evil know as prejudice; but in doing so, they created a monster. Affirmative action has become an ineffective, outdated, and socially harmful policy that is weakening our great nation. "The adoption of Affirmative Action programs in the 1960s reflected our national aspiration to overcome long-entrenched injustices and become a society where equal opportunity, or at least a fair opportunity, was a reality ...
- 11814: Government Cutbacks
- ... years. Each year a different politician gets up, and decides how the money is going to get distributed. It is understandable that government find some ways to recoupe some money, and they have done a great job with welfare, and in many other cost saving ways. But the most important health care and education should not be cut back. Why, you ask? we'll start off with education. Children are our ...
- 11815: 1984: A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- ... the Ministry of Truth is to spread lies and to have control over its citizens using memory erasing techniques. "...the distinction between true and false in their usual meaning has disappea red. This is the great cognitive triumph of totalitarianism: it cannot be accused of lying any longer since it has succeeded in abrogating the very idea of truth (Kolakowski 127). These same control techniques are used by totalitarian nations that ...
- 11816: The Use of The Second Amendment In The Home
- ... used it in 1982 to kill a neighbor in an argument over a parking space" (Isaacson, 163). A gun makes suicide easy and instantaneous. Thousands of people a year commit suicide because of hopelessness and depression. "Although there's no way of knowing if all these people would have taken their lives by other means if a gun had been unavailable, it is reasonable to assume that some of them would ...
- 11817: Mozart
- ... whom he could confide. This contrasted strongly with the strained relationship that Mozart enjoyed with his father. In the autumn of 1791, Mozart’s health became progressively worse, and he was subject to fits of depression and presentiments of death. However, he worked feverishly to complete the Clarinet Concerto, K.622, and the Masonic Cantata and was trying to finish the Requiem. He died on December 5, 1791, and was buried ...
- 11818: Muddy Waters
- ... They would play some Saturday nights in downtown Clarksdale and others he would sell fried fish on nights. And other nights he would watch the greats like Son House, Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton were great musical influences on Waters. The main influence on Waters was Son House, although Waters style of play was more similar to that of Robert Johnson. Muddy Waters was first recognized by word of mouth. Alan ...
- 11819: Computer History
- ... military equipment. Today’s modern computers are undoubtedly the result of the United States military’s early developments and technological advancements in computing. Because of the military’s need for the computer earlier this century, great advancements have been, and will continue to be made in the way of computers and other technologies. Truly the first computers, or tools made with the intention of being used for calculating, were made many ...
- 11820: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- By: justin E-mail: justintime_420@hotmail.com Justin B. Mrs. Wilkinson English Honors III 02/24/00 Nathaniel Hawthorne The 19th century had many great achievements happen within its 100-year time period. From the building of the Erie Canal, to the steel plow being invented. From the invention of the telegraph, to Thomas Edison creating the first light bulb ...
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