On Wednesday June 11‚ 2008 at 3:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time)‚ the Prime Minister of Canada‚ the Right Honourable Stephen Harper‚ made a Statement of Apology to former students of Indian Residential Schools‚ on behalf of the Government of Canada. Prime Minister Harper offers full apology on behalf of Canadians for the Indian Residential Schools system11 June 2008Ottawa‚ OntarioStatement of Apology PLEASE CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY The treatment of children in Indian Residential Schools is a sad
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Allen‚ L. Robert. Past Due: The American Quest for Reparations‚ The Black Scholar (Summer 1998) The Economist‚ “Slavery and the Law: Time and Punishment”‚ The Economist Newspaper Ltd‚ April 14 2002 Is now the Time for Reparations for African Americans? Since the first day Africans were kidnapped from their lands‚ to the whips that tore across their flesh‚ to the African Americans facing economic hardship. African Americans have been subject to these hardships by one factor; the white man. Their
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Affirmative action is a controversial topic topic‚ especially in American society. Affirmative action is an active effort to improve the employment or education opportunities of members of minority groups and women. It also means a similar effort to promote the rights of other disadvantaged persons. In America‚ affirmative action is for a disadvantaged group to have equal opportunities‚ regardless of: race‚ religion/creed‚ sex‚ national origin‚ and disability (OFCCP). Many surround the words affirmative
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Presidents and Affirmative Action In 1965‚ President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order #11246 at Howard University that required federal contractors to undertake affirmative action to increase the number of minorities that they employ. He wanted to ensure that minorities were recruited to have real opportunities to be hired and then eventually get a promotion. In 1969‚ the Department of Labor exposed widespread racial discrimination of the Construction Department so President Richard M
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defend your answer. “Affirmative action has outlived its usefulness and should now be abolished.” Dictionary.com refers to the term affirmative action as “a policy or programme designed to counter discrimination against minority groups and women in areas such as employment and education.” Affirmative action is a much debated policy‚ in employment as well as in education‚ in the Supreme Court as well as on the street. Although much of the reasoning behind affirmative action is good‚ it goes wrong
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Running Head: IS AFFIRMATION ACTION ETHICAL? Is Affirmation Action Ethical? Mehlia Adkins Baker College of Allen Park Cultural Diversity Seth Persky Is Affirmation Action Ethical? Introduction Nowadays‚ the confrontational subject of affirmative action is rising and becoming a controversial issue. This study will explore and analyze the controversy over an ethical affirmative action perspective‚ and examine the social policy behind this basic premise that every individual should receive
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Affirmative Action Affirmative action is a phrase used to describe attempts to redress past discrimination by giving groups that have been discriminated against an advantage in allocating opportunities‚ such as jobs and admittance to colleges and universities. When affirmative action was first established over fifty years ago‚ the intended beneficiaries were African-Americans‚ but since that time‚ it has been used to help other groups that have experienced discrimination‚ such as women‚ Native Americans
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stanford.edu/entries/affirmative-action/ Affirmative Action First published Fri Dec 28‚ 2001; substantive revision Wed Apr 1‚ 2009 owned exclusively by above web source “Affirmative action” means positive steps taken to increase the representation of women and minorities in areas of employment‚ education‚ and business from which they have been historically excluded. When those steps involve preferential selection—selection on the basis of race‚ gender‚ or ethnicity—affirmative action generates intense
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HRM Incident 2: So‚ What’s Affirmative Action? Introduction: Affirmative action program is an action of how Supreme Company would select employment based on race‚ gender‚ or ethnicity by granting preferences to minorities especially women. To ensure that all groups/races are adequately represented within the existing employment. To ensure that all works had nearly equal representation as to do away injustice. It must be well and properly comprehended before putting it into application. Adequate
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Part A: Questions on Affirmative Action What is Affirmative Action? Affirmative action can be defined by the set of public policies and initiatives designed to help eliminate past and present discrimination based on race‚ color‚ religion‚ sex or national origin (Sykes 2009). The focus of such policies and initiatives range from employment and education to public contracting and health programs (Wikipedia 2009). These affirmative actions policies have been established in response to decades of
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