Essays on Affirmative Action

                                                           Grutter v. Bollinger                         The ruling of the Supreme Court regarding Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) invites rigorous debate as to whether or not the majority opinion in the case, which concluded that   “factoring race into the admissions decisions of the University of Michigan Law School was compatible with the Constitution” (Pollak, 2005), in fact,…

Affirmative action works. There are thousands of examples of situations where people of color, white women, and working class women and men of all races who were previously excluded from jobs or educational opportunities, or were denied opportunities once admitted, have gained access through affirmative action. When these policies received executive branch and judicial support,…

The concept of inherent inferiority among certain groups of humans has been present since ancient times. In 1789, this idea was termed “race,” which is a zoological term referring to a subset of a species with distinct physical characteristics compared to other subsets (Tivnan 181). Although slavery has largely been eliminated worldwide, the belief in…

After the United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, itbecame apparent that certain business traditions, such as seniority status andaptitude tests, prevented total equality in employment. Then President, LyndonB. Johnson, decided something needed to be done to remedy these flaws. OnSeptember 24, 1965, he issued Executive Order #11246 at Howard University thatrequired…

            Affirmative action has been a topic of heated debate. The main point of debate is whether affirmative action is still a policy that is needed in the current setting. Those lobbying against affirmative action also claim that the policy is unconstitutional. They argue that affirmative action does not guarantee equal rights to all which…

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of it’s creed: “ We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. ” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King stated this in his famous “I have a Dream” speech in Washington,…

Affirmative Action is a very broad topic and narrowing it down to the specifics is very hard to do. There are so many key and vital things to talk about in a paper about this subject that it is easy to stray away from one specific topic. The process of writing this and then re-writing…

Affirmative Action efforts were started in 1964 to end the long history o overlooking qualified people of color and women from higher education. Affirmativ Action sets standards for a business or office of admissions, so that a white man does no have the upper-hand over an equally or greater educated minority. The initial way th…

Introduction: In the very beginning of this nation’s history, Americans were under the power of England’s monarchy. The Americans were able to overthrow the shackles of bondage and created a Constitution that declares its steadfast belief in the ideals of freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. But immediately after the Declaration of Independence and…

Critique of ADA and Affirmative Action April Phillips University of Phoenix Critique of ADA and Affirmative Action For years, big companies have set rules for which employees had to follow in order to maintain their jobs. Discrimination for language barrier, race, color, age, disability and more was nothing easy to fight against; until The Americans…