Essays Tagged: "inequalities"

Gender Roles in Education

ce is rooted in what shapes future employees and employers-- education. This paper will examine the inequalities in policy, actual teaching situations, admission to post-secondary institutions, hiring ...

(7 pages) 435 0 4.7 Mar/1997

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

Capital Punishment, Injustice of Society

sentencing does not constitute serving justice. Today's system ofcapital punishment is frought with inequalities and injustices. The commonlyoffered arguments for the death penalty are filled with hol ...

(5 pages) 88 0 4.2 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Capital Punishment - Is it required?

entencing does not constitute serving justice. Today's system of capital punishment is fraught with inequalities and injustices. The commonly offered arguments for the death penalty are filled with ho ...

(8 pages) 288 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Minimum wage in the US.

It sounds simple raise the minimum wage, reward hard work, and strike a blow against the society's inequalities. It's an emotional argument that blurs out the truth and make's people forget one impor ...

(3 pages) 237 0 3.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Apartheid and the Environment

ns that exist throughout the world among race, gender, poverty, and the environment. Among the many inequalities which exist is an ailing environment which provides meager employment and playgrounds f ...

(5 pages) 74 1 4.7 Jul/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

This essay is about Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem the seedling. It reviews the poem and Dunbar as the first reconized black poet.

race. He realized that the whole world would have to change before anything would happen about the inequalities that his people faced were changed. He was born in 1872 in Dayton Ohio and only lives t ...

(2 pages) 78 0 2.5 Oct/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Capital Punishment

sentencing does not constitute serving justice. Today's system ofcapital punishment is frought with inequalities and injustices. The commonlyoffered arguments for the death penalty are filled with hol ...

(5 pages) 58 0 4.3 Sep/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Afirmative action in workplace: discussing with Kantian and Utilitarian theories

tionalized or informal cultural norms and systems of inscriptive group-based disadvantages, and the inequalities historically resulting from them. Also, any attempt to promote an ideal of inclusive co ...

(4 pages) 165 0 3.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Abraham Lincoln the Man. What were his achievements?

ajor issues were uprising and due for a massive explosion meaning war. It was a time of slavery and inequalities among the white settlers and the African American people. Abraham Lincoln was not that ...

(3 pages) 131 0 3.1 Dec/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

Increasing Utility Through Affirmative Action

ualified white males. Furthermore, that the implementation of these programs are only creating more inequalities and ill-will towards the minorities the programs are intended to help; thus, they feel ... grams, in any form, are not justifiable. While it is true that affirmative action does lead to more inequalities in some instances, this alone does not inherently lead to the conclusion that such prog ...

(6 pages) 172 1 4.2 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Is Society Inherently Unequal? Essay comparing and contrasting views of social structure by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Barbara Ehrenriech, and David Brooks

Social, economic, and political inequalities or differences all have been a part of society since the development of civilizations. ... natural world. Their lives are wholly guided by their feelings of pity and love for each other, and inequalities do not arise. As the human mind begins to develop, and as man becomes more aware of oth ... er of one society.Rousseu and Ehrenreich both share the view that economic, political, and cultural inequalities among members of a society are dividing the society into different parties. The haves a ...

(5 pages) 144 0 4.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Comparing "Blue Winds Dancing" with "Lunch Counter sit-ins"

ter Sit-ins" in comparison with the shortstory "Blue Winds Dancing", is because they both deal with inequalities and acceptancebetween different races, especially between minorities and Caucasians. Bo ...

(9 pages) 50 0 4.1 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Race related issues are not a new concept.

race and what role race should play in our society. (Is one race superior? How should be deal with inequalities among races?) There is a strong, but growing faction of theorists, though, who contend ...

(11 pages) 276 0 4.4 May/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

School inequalities.

l. Unfortunately, not every student in America's schools gets the education that they deserve. Many inequalities among students can hold back the education process, preventing them from succeeding lat ... ic schools.In this paper I intend to show that from my own research I have found other schools with inequalities such as the ones that Jonathan Kozol found. I will find data that supports his allegati ...

(7 pages) 279 2 4.7 Jun/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Kakutani's "Word Police".

rt the claim that our language is on the brink of absurdity because we hide our true identities and inequalities with euphemisms. In regard to euphemisms, Kakutani states that they "tend to distract a ...

(5 pages) 53 0 5.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Pat Barker's "The Ghost Road".

eneral) was a society of exploitation. Barker appears to be saying that any society that allows the inequalities of early 20th Century Britain, while thinking itself completely fair and civilised, is ... class is also a major part of this theme. Prior, being from the working class himself, finds class inequalities distasteful. The ruling elite sees the working class as a commodity, something to be us ...

(3 pages) 40 0 5.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Visions of Freedom - Comparing the visions of Douglass and Krakauer

e over injustice in the world," and how Chris took college classes that addressed racism issues and inequalities in the world ( p.123). Chris was intense and outspoken in his beliefs as was Frederick ...

(2 pages) 28 0 0.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Public versus Private School Debate.

ectors to understand that the social field of education has its way of reproducing social class and inequalities. At its very heart, its participants are being governed by conservative practices withi ... through its hegemonic ideals. The curriculum was identified as having the power to reproduce social inequalities and social injustices. As a result, the DSP program was replaced by The Priority School ...

(10 pages) 283 0 5.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Gender Bias In The Workplace And Pay Inequalities.

Gender Bias In The Workplace And Pay InequalitiesIn 1972, the government attempting to correct discrimination in theworkplace passed the ... groundOrganizational Culture First, does the organizational culture attributeto gender bias and pay inequalities? In researching this topic, I findthe answer to be yes. Many times, the organizational ... pic, I findthe answer to be yes. Many times, the organizational culture andclimate foster workplace inequalities and these inequalities aremaintained by group pressure (Hale, 1999, p. 13). Informal ne ...

(13 pages) 429 1 2.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

The NDP and Its Inability to Garner Support Among the Poor.

of the economically disadvantaged. Democratic socialism seeks to liberate the individual from the inequalities and exploitation of the capitalist system and believes in equality of the condition not ...

(4 pages) 32 0 0.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science