Essays on Affirmative Action

Each spring thousands of high school seniors are faced with deciding what will be their next step in life. They may ask themselves, should I go into the military, pick up a trade or enter the work force? A majority of them will ultimately decide…

In this paper I will present a defense against the main criticisms against affirmative action, with a focus on gender-based affirmative action. The first part of the paper will outline the brief history of affirmative action politices and their scope as corrective measures. The second…

Affirmative action programmes “do not create new jobs, but addresses how existing jobs should be distributed” , meaning transferring benefits from one group to another – hence the redistribution problem. While opponents of affirmative action such as Thomas Sowell believe that the damage done by…

Does affirmative action still have a future in the United States? As a student applies for colleges, for a ticket out of poverty and a step in the direction of a lifelong career, should they have to worry about the color of their skin? Should…

Affirmative Action As early as 1619, discrimination has been a major problem in the United States. From slavery, to segregation, to prejudice, African American’s have been handed the short hand of the stick in our supposed “land of the free”. The sins that our country…

Affirmative action is a government-run strategy of addressing racial inequalities in the workplace of University admissions by using quotas; for instance, a University may be required to accept a certain percentage of ethnic minority students. Such programmes were conceived in the 1960s after segregation in…