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Affirmative Action - Term Papers

Affirmative Action

Papers are piling up on top of a desk. People are running around
trying to meet their deadlines. Assignments are being pushed back to later
dates. Phones are being answered, but put on hold for the next available
representatives. The president of the firm puts out a notice of hire. The
word is spread throughout the business community through the newspaper and
the internet. Resumes are received every business day. The board members
of the firm review hundreds of resumes that are received daily. They rate
the applications according to qualifications and experiences. The names
are disregarded at this point. A dozen of the applicants are chosen, and
notified to setup initial ...

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the affirmative action, they must
employ someone who is underrepresented. This type of situation happens
often. It is not the qualifications, but the color of the skin that
employers look for today. Affirmative action is a step backwards. We are
back to color and race differences. We are all Americans and should be
treated as so, not what ethnicity we are. Affirmative action should be
abolished solely because we do not want to make the same mistake our
society made in the past --- discriminate according to color. Two wrongs
do not make a right.
Many people say that we should keep affirmative action to render
fairness to the minorities because of the wrongs that was once put on to
them. This simply does not make sense. To compensate someone, a person
must have gone through an experience. People today did not go through such
discrimination, as their past ancestors. How can we punish someone for
what they had no control? Our white society today did not commit the
wrongs ...

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Added: 1/30/2006 08:48:18 PM
Category: Government
Type: Premium Paper
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