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Anti-Affirmative Action - Term Papers

Anti-Affirmative Action

"That student was accepted because of affirmative action policies."
With my first intake of the phrase, I realized that the student, whom I knew and
worked with so many times, the one with such a lack of motivational ability,
confidence, and ideas, was now occupying my chances towards a preferred school.
"Affirmative action", I soon found out, was used by President John F. Kennedy
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 Action is simply nothing more than a
quota of reverse discrimination.
Affirmative Action emphasizes prospective ...

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best pick from a limited group." Another article I found,
"Affirmative action: A Counter-Productive Policy" by Ernest Pasour also on the
W.W.W., is one example which reveals that Duke, a very famous and prestigious
university, adopted a resolution requiring each of it's department to hire at
least one new African-American for a faculty position the 1993 date. More
proofs of Affirmative Action in action is the admission practices at the
University of California Berkeley. In the same article by Pasour, it states
that while whites or Asian-Americans need at least a 3.7 grade point average
through high school to be in consideration for admission in Berkeley, most
minorities with much lower standards are automatically admitted. All the
preferential treatment may provide a basis for employers, employees, as well as
real applicable students to fight for an end to Affirmative Action.
The development of more racial tensions are yet another part of the
Affirmative Action policy. ...

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Added: 9/23/2005 02:01:10 PM
Category: Government
Type: Free Paper
Words: 592
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