Essays Tagged: "national origin"

Anti-Affirmative Action

dy over 30 years ago to imply equality and equal access to all, disregarding race, creed, color, or national origin. As a policy setting out to resolve the problems of discrimination, Affirmative Acti ... by consistently emphasizing broad-based, race-neutral policies. Examples may be, public investment, national health reform, an enlarged earned income, tax credit, child support assurance, and other po ...

(2 pages) 134 0 4.0 Feb/1997

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

Affirmative Action

e Action to ensure that applicants are employed . . . without regard to their race,creed, color, or national origin (Civil Rights)." With the signing of that order, and withoutknowing it, President Jo ... s society were operatingfairly toward Minorities and Women, would measures that take race, sex, and nationalorigin into account be "preferential treatment?" Only if discrimination were securelyplaced ...

(6 pages) 508 0 4.6 Mar/1997

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

affirmative action

t regard to race, religion, religious creed, colour, sex, physical ormental disability or ethnic or national origin." Unfortunately though, sometimes thislaw is not always abided by. Women, aboriginal ... r those groups orindividuals who are disadvantaged due to race, religion, creed, colour, disability,national or ethnic origin, sex, age or marital status. Affirmative action programs aredesigned to im ...

(2 pages) 129 0 3.7 Aug/1996

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

Opinion paper on is America an Equal Opportunity Society.

ity is defined as one who does not "discriminate against a person because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental handicap, or age" (Webster's dictionary, 2002). America's r ...

(2 pages) 119 0 3.0 Oct/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Hate Crimes - This essay is about what hate crimes are, how often they happen, and what we can do to help prevent them

ty damage motivated by bigotry and prejudice against the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, disability, or sexual orientation of another group or individual. These act ...

(3 pages) 255 1 4.1 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Proving Discrimination Employees believing they have been discriminated against must prove the fact.

iminated against on the job or while applying for a job on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, or disability, they may file a charge of discrimination with the U.S. Equal Em ... suspect.' (434).I am in the process of hiring a Department Assistant for the Medical Department at National Health Plans. I interviewed eight individuals. (Three were through a temp agency and five w ...

(5 pages) 577 2 4.1 Jan/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Equal Opportunities in Employment Historical Analysis

s Act of 1964, which prohibited employment discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. One of the earliest movements towards the advancement of this cause occurred in 196 ... s on jobs.1964 - Civil Rights Act Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, or religion. Title VI prohibits public access discrimination, leading to school des ...

(35 pages) 1706 0 4.6 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Affirmative Action is Reverse Discrimination.

edy over 30 years ago to imply equality andequal access to all, disregarding race, creed, color, or national origin.As a policy setting out to resolve the problems of discrimination,Affirmative Action ... by consistently emphasizing broad-based,race-neutral policies. Examples may be, public investment, national healthreform, an enlarged earned income, tax credit, child support assurance, andother poli ...

(2 pages) 156 0 3.5 Aug/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Gangs and the issues about gangs.

what a gang is. The legal definition of a gang is "a group of individuals bonded together by race, national origin, culture, or territory, who associate on a continual basis for the purpose of commit ...

(2 pages) 115 0 4.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Proving Discrimination.

based on an illegal bias. There are steps one can take to prove discrimination based on race, age, national origin, sex, creed, religion, color or disability (Floyd, 2000). In this paper I will be di ... eople form at least one protected category; women, people with disabilities or handicaps, different nationalities, etc (Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1993).What is meant by adverse employment action? A ...

(3 pages) 227 0 4.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Racial profiling-Gives examples and real instances where blacks and minorities were victims of racial profiling.

ofiling occurs when the police target someone for investigation on the basis of that person's race, national origin, or ethnicity (www.washington.com). Examples are the use of race to determine which ... that the data was collected improperly. Similarly, to control the racial profile of foreigners, the national government thought of providing national ID cards. This plan too would do little to combat ...

(3 pages) 200 0 3.0 Nov/2003

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

Discrimination

of equal access to public opportunity." Such discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, or national origin is common even though there are signs that it is on the decrease. It is essentially ... We see that in school too!A Black guy would almost never go out with a Chinese girl because of her national origin. Even if he would not care, everybody else would because it is unlikely to see a cou ...

(3 pages) 201 4 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Discrimination and Reverse Discrimination

ights Act of 1964 was created, it provided protection for all persons regardless of race, color, or national origin. Today colleges and employers are given quotas and are forced to turn down qualified ... est is scored the same way for everyone. The SAT is blind to race, gender, age, politics, religion, national origin, and sexual orientation (1).There are many arguments, which can reasonably support a ...

(9 pages) 411 0 4.5 Mar/2004

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

An anti-affirmative action paper with sources plus extra data many quotations.

g paid with public funds must hire employees "without regard to their race, color, religion, sex or national origin" (US Department of Labor). Affirmative Action has been expanded to include college a ...

(6 pages) 174 0 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Legal Process Outline

nt agency, which exists to protect us all from employment discrimination based on race, color, sex, national origin, religion, retaliation, age and disability. Individuals who feel their employer has ...

(3 pages) 418 2 4.8 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

The Diversity Training Movement and Its Failure

job discrimination illegal.Employers cannot use race, skin color, age, gender, religious belief, or national origin as their basis for hiring; nor can these be used as the basis for promotions, dismis ...

(5 pages) 221 0 4.8 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Considering the economic status of black Americans and Hispanics in the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's, it is easy to be cynical about the accomplishments of their reform movements in the 1960s

ginning of the twentieth century. The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 had eliminated quotas based on national origin. Newcomers from regions other than Latin America were generally admitted on a first- ... . Middle-class blacks had realized great gains from the legislation of the 1960s, from the changing national mood on race, from the creation of controversial affirmative action programs, and from thei ...

(3 pages) 34 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Title Seven Employment Law

ct it states that employers are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, or religion. It was because of racial discrimination that brought about the law. Af ...

(3 pages) 503 0 3.7 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Envrionmental justice or racism towards fish farms and the first nation people of bc.

Justice "as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of envir ...

(5 pages) 112 3 4.6 Jun/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights

Hate Crimes

ivated, in whole or by part, by the offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnicity/national origin, or sexual-orientation." Crimes upon persons because of a difference in how they app ... Eric Holder, a former assistant U.S. Attorney General, "The true scope of these crimes as a growing national problem is just now being realized." (Holder, 1999) Looking back into history, many crimes ...

(4 pages) 128 1 4.8 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues