Essays Tagged: "quota"

Anti-Affirmative Action

ing out to resolve the problems of discrimination, Affirmative Action is simply nothing more than a quota of reverse discrimination.Affirmative Action emphasizes prospective opportunity more towards s ...

(2 pages) 134 0 4.0 Feb/1997

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

Flaws in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

blem is that the book seems to drag on and on the closer you get to the end, as if Twain had a page quota to fill and was not worried about the story. The other problem brought up on our hand-out was ...

(4 pages) 60 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Mark Twain

Affirmative Action is Reverse Discrimination.

ting out to resolve the problems of discrimination,Affirmative Action is simply nothing more than a quota of reversediscrimination.Affirmative Action emphasizes prospective opportunity more towardssta ...

(2 pages) 156 0 3.5 Aug/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Australian TCF Industry Tariff Redutions.

distinguishing feature of the Textiles, Clothing and Footwear Industry has been the high levels of quota and tariff protection applied by many countries. The Australian TCF industry is no exception t ...

(5 pages) 65 2 5.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

Elaboration of No. 7 on the I Hate New Zealand Top Ten, as requrested by Yankee842

get fined for going 1km over the speed limit ... I swear to god its true. The police have a certain quota they have to fill each day, so they pull you up for everything. You have to have your car regi ...

(1 pages) 211 12 4.2 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

The essay is about the pros and cons of various economic systems and the governments influence within them. The title can be stated as: To what extent should the government regulate the economy ?

plus would pay for programs and factories related to industrialization. He would put down a certain quota that the farmers needed to reach by a certain amount of time. However the farmers were not all ... rs were not allowed to take grain away from what they were growing for the state until they met the quota. This led to a massive famine of 1932-33 in the Ukraine in which millions died. At first the p ...

(6 pages) 185 1 4.6 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Marketing: Business Transactions Log ; Marketing Concepts

ontract with Paintball Junkie's the condition of selling their brand of products was that he sell a quota or minimum number of their product a week to maintain their business relationship as supplier ...

(22 pages) 329 1 4.5 Dec/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

"Immigration Act of 1924" Discusses racism in the government, how govt did not want anyone besides north-west europeans in the country. uses examples. good essay

or a better life, but ended up being turned away because the United States had already gotten their quota, which ended up to be a very small number. Congress passed the Exclusion Act of 1924 because t ...

(3 pages) 40 0 4.5 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

For English class- Was to make a proposal trying to persuade someone to make something for efficient

ggesting the change of commission reports. I work in the cellular business and putting up a certain quota of cellular service sales at the end of each month is demanded. There are three employees at m ...

(3 pages) 51 0 4.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

In what ways is game theory of use in analyzing the behaviour of firms in an oligopolistic market?

r the point chosen on the profit frontier, each member finds it profitable to produce more than the quota allotted to him and so has an incentive to cheat whether the other members cheat or not. The p ...

(7 pages) 225 1 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Is Discrimination the Answer?

ite males are being held back from great opportunities in order for colleges and business to meet a quota. As president I would ask the question, "Is discrimination in the present a resolution to disc ...

(1 pages) 31 1 2.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

American Isolationism. This essay has to deal with the role of America as an isolationist country during the 1920's and the 1930's.

me Americans believed that "a sickly Europe was indeed vomiting on America." In 1921, the Emergency Quota Act was passed, restricting European immigrants to a definite quota, which was set at three pe ... nited States in 1910. This was eventually replaced by the Immigration Act of 1924 which changed the quota to two percent, and the national-origins base was altered to 1890, rather than 1910. This plea ...

(2 pages) 48 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Factors that probably influenced Congress to pass the immigration act of 1924

tion to 3 per cent of the number of each nationality present in the country in 1910 but changed the quota to only 2 per cent in 1924.The immigration Act of 1924 established quotas for immigration base ...

(4 pages) 44 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

To what extent and why did the United States adopt an isolationist policy in the 1920's and 1930's?

ed laws to restrict foreigners from entering the country. The first of these laws was the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, which limited immigration for foreigners to 3% of each nationality living in the ... r foreigners to 3% of each nationality living in the United States in 1910. Three years later, this quota was reduced to 2%, and the national origins base was shifted to favor Northern Europeans. Even ...

(2 pages) 58 1 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Affirmative Action

Syndrome". In other words, they feel that the only reason that the minority was hired was to fill a quota and not because of their qualifications, this can cause much turmoil in the workplace and on t ... ates might be at least as well qualified. The courts permitted employment, promotion, and admission quotas to be used. This began a trend by universities and prominent employers around the country and ...

(4 pages) 61 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

A Small Consolation Battling against Diversity in Higher Education

may be put into positions despite their lack of knowledge (in effort to meet the unspoken "minority quota")HelpNon-Minority and Minority Students--Students can learn a lot from one another, but only i ... constitutional for the medical school of the University of California at Davis to establish a rigid quota system by reserving a certain number of places in each class for minorities." But, while the S ...

(6 pages) 88 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Effects of globalisation case study- china

n production decisions. Individuals could sell their surplus output in free markets after the state quota was met. This lead to dramatic increases in food production and incomes. Surplus income was in ...

(5 pages) 152 1 5.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

Define the three factors (political, sociological and institutional) which affect Australian Elections?

antage to major political parties. However, in proportional voting a candidate has to get a derived quota to be elected. This means that a small party or independent can get elected with as little as ...

(5 pages) 48 0 4.5 Aug/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Free Trade

that its freight has no extra charge from the importing country. It was shipped without a tariff or quota on it. It was simply traded to the importer like a basic everyday business transaction. It's l ...

(7 pages) 118 0 0.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Ciquita development

market in 1993 well and was not ready to change the company's international strategy regarding new quotas from EU, as it did other bananas exporter companies.As Chiquita was greatly dependent on Euro ... EU wanted to help.2.What the implications if Chiquita prevails and the EU is forced to reverse its quota regime? What are the implications if the EU refuses to change its quota policies?Under the "Lo ...

(4 pages) 41 0 3.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies