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Presidents And Affirmative Action
Number of Words: 400 / Number of Pages: 2
... to follow the affirmative action play into the Department of Labor. Before
Carter did this, each agency handled affirmative action in its own individual
way, some were not as consistant as other agencies were. He created the Office
of Federal Contract Compliance Program (OFCCP) in 1978 to ensure compliance with
the affirmative action policies.
Affirmative action began to go downhill when Ronald Reagan and later George Bush
came into office. Affirmative action lost some gains it had made and was mor or
less ignored by the Republicans in the White House and in Congress. Affirmative
action was silent ...
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What Is Marijuana?
Number of Words: 1619 / Number of Pages: 6
... psychologically rather than physically dependent on the drug. Those who urge the legalization of marijuana maintain the drug are entirely safe. The available data suggested, this is not so. Marijuana occasionally produces acute panic reactions or even transient psychoses. Furthermore, a person driving under the influence of marijuana is a danger to themselves and others. There is no established medical use for marijuana or any other cannabis preparation. In the United States, its use is a crime and the laws governing marijuana are similar to those regulating heroin. Many authorities now urge that the l ...
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Banning Books
Number of Words: 1264 / Number of Pages: 5
... The NAACP says that they want the book removed from required-reading lists, but they are not out to censor it (Campbell, par. 4). Large groups such as the NAACP are not the only people pushing for Huckleberry Finn's banning in America's schools. Small groups of parents have protested the book's status as required reading in their children's schools because of its language. Huckleberry Finn isn't the only book targeted by parents. Another frequently challenged book is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This book was handed out at an Irvine, California, middle school in 1992 with profane words such as “ ...
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Italian Mafia History
Number of Words: 1184 / Number of Pages: 5
... every sheep is part of our flock. Stay away from police and other government disciplinarians. In the 19th century the Mafia grew into a large criminal society. Creating the Mafia’s own forms of authority. The Mafia began to extort many people by handing out Black Hand notes, which been around since the 1700s. They hand out black notes to people requesting money in return for protection. The only people that these victims needed protection against were the same criminals who handed them these notes. Victims had to give the money up or else their families would be victims of violence, kidnapping, bomb ...
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Homlessness And Education
Number of Words: 810 / Number of Pages: 3
... 6 to 12 years. Testing was performed in a quiet place. There were 118 parents and 169 children involved in the study. The parents were asked questions pertaining to the how and why of homelessness. The homeless children were tested with questions from the RAND Course of Homelessness Study 3.9, a Behavior Checklist, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, the National Health Service, and the Woodcock-Johnson Language Proficiency Battery Assessment Test. The Peabody Vocabulary picture test was also used in the second study.
In the second study (Cognitive and Academic Functioning of Homeless Children com ...
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ADA
Number of Words: 1432 / Number of Pages: 6
... in a wheel chair, facially disfigured; however, the less apparent disabilities are hearing loss, mental illness, and Aids. In addition, successfully rehabilitated drug users or alcoholics are also protected (n.a. no author. gopher://trace.wisc.edu/00/ftp/PUB/TEXT/_INFO/HANDBOOK/FREG1.TXT.). Since 1990, there has been a sweeping forbiddance of discrimination against qualified disabled individuals in hiring, promotions, termination, job application procedures, compensation, and job training, and other terms of employment. A disabled individual is qualified if he or she can perform the essential function ...
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Capitalism-Communism
Number of Words: 437 / Number of Pages: 2
... to exploit the working class to benefit no one other than themselves. By forcing the working class to work at lower wages, the wealthy will benefit because their costs are minimized. However, while the wealthy continue to enjoy higher paychecks, the workers continue to watch their own paychecks diminish. Therefore, the gap between the rich and poor is only growing wider. Thus, we have class conflict. Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels rationalize a society in which each man works for the well being of the group instead of personal gain. The existence of the group is improved because of a group effort to ...
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Analysis Of Gangs
Number of Words: 1665 / Number of Pages: 7
... behavior are acquired, repeated, and changed by the same process as conforming behavior. It also addresses four major concepts of differential association, definitions, differential reinforcement, and imitation. It goes on to say that this process will more likely produce behavior that violates social and legal norms than conforming behavior when persons differentially associate with those who expose them to deviant patterns, when the deviant pattern is differently reinforced over conforming models. Marxist’s theory has capitalism the as the cause of crime. Marxist theory states that ownershi ...
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Accountability Of Our Government
Number of Words: 2892 / Number of Pages: 11
... ability to act without conscience or redress
and this does not represent a modern democracy. With any discussion which
focuses on responsibility within parliament, one can see the varying levels of
accountability and the difficulties which arise when attempting to describe
power, within the Canadian political system. Accountability in the public
service can be studied from two different perspectives. The civil servant who
represents the bureaucratic sector and the minister indicating the political
sphere. The issue of accountability raises several key questions and queries
for social scientist ...
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Communism
Number of Words: 900 / Number of Pages: 4
... people cannot even own their own private property. The methods of Communism
have been varied slightly by each different government. Stalin and Lenin were
the driving forces behind Russia's Socialist Workers party. Fidel Castro ran
the party in Cuba. Mao Tung ran the Chinese Workers party.
Democratic governments support basic rights and freedoms. People in the
United States can participate in government activities by voting and opposing
their views. People are protected under the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
These documents lay down the blueprint for freedom. As a man, women, or chil ...
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