Essays Tagged: "Clarence Thomas"

Sexual Harassment and the Clarence Thomas Hearings

Sexual Harassment The sexual harassment allegations filed by Professor Anita Hill against Clarence Thomas and the proceeding Senate Judiciary Hearing thrust the issue of sexual harassment in ... were not the first and were by far not the most controversial. May cases and hearings prior to the Clarence Thomas Hearing set the stage for the out break of hysteria in 1991.Landmark Cases Ba ...

(7 pages) 176 0 4.2 May/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases

Is T.V. Harming America?

bstaintially as well. As a nation, we watched the Gulf War, the Clinton Impechment proceedings, the Clarence Thomas hearings and several other pivotal news stories that we otherwise would not have had ...

(1 pages) 68 2 2.7 Oct/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Public High Schools: Your Childs New Parent?

rticipating in an extracurricular activity give probable cause to test a student for drugs? Justice Clarence Thomas downplays the possibility of any violation of students' privacy by saying "Given the ...

(6 pages) 81 0 4.6 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Sexual Harassment in the US Workplace facts, figures, and solutions.

Sexual Harassment in the WorkplaceWhen you think of Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, or Lorena Bobbit what comes to mind? If you are like many people, sexual harassment ...

(10 pages) 581 6 3.5 Jul/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Affirmative action where it all begun to the present. .

ue but it is a major cause of the continuation of the stereotypes given to minority groups. Justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative who is the courts only black member, who has long maintained that gi ...

(7 pages) 110 0 4.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Imagination in Cornel West's Race Matters: The First Step Towards Restoring Hope to the Nihilistic African-American Community

paralyzing pessimism and stultifying cynicism as a people" (West, 158). West's thorough example of Clarence Thomas's downright inadequacy and the black community's subsequent silence demonstrates the ...

(5 pages) 76 0 4.6 Jun/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Racism Against Justice Clarence Thomas

te and exploit others. I believe racism and racial stereotyping played an important role in Justice Clarence Thomas's life. He has achieved a lot through his life to get where he is now.Clarence Thoma ... ough his life to get where he is now.Clarence Thomas was born June 23, 1948, in Pin Point, Georgia. Clarence was raised by his maternal grandparents in Savannah, Georgia. His grandfather was determine ...

(5 pages) 33 0 0.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases

Affirmative Action

amaged credibility and integrity. Often cited as examples of affirmative action victims are that of Clarence Thomas and Colin Powell. Critics of affirmative action say that when Clarence Thomas was no ...

(13 pages) 165 0 5.0 Sep/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Harrasment

hose outcome, provides an appropriate level of relief.On October 11, 1991 Anita Hill testified that Clarence Thomas had sexual harassed her for ten years. In her testimony, Hill claimed that Thomas ha ... eculate on what had motivated their attacks sticking instead of what she knew, when the court found Clarence Thomas nto guilty of sexual harassment ti shocked the nation. Even if Clarence Thomas didn? ...

(6 pages) 62 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Antonin Scalia (1936--)

rvative, showed himself eager to overrturn recent liberal precedents, and with Rehnquist along with Clarence Thomas, elected in 1991, formed the Court's right wing. A usual thing for Scalia is to writ ...

(2 pages) 13 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Sexual Harassment

but it became nationally known phrase during the United State Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Clarence Thomas when Anita Hill testified against him.Sexual harassment is considered a form of ille ...

(1 pages) 14 0 0.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

The Harms of Affirmative Action

tory. But the fact is that Affirmative Action is what is really discriminatingSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas expressed that concern in his dissent in the Michigan case: The majority of blacks a ...

(6 pages) 41 2 5.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies

Checks and Balances

ould be too long to detain someone without the basics of due process." (Seattle, 2007)"Only Justice Clarence Thomas embraced the administration's positions without reservation, referring in a nonconfo ...

(2 pages) 26 0 4.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: Law & Government Essays