... have filled. Other people argue that the ratio of white to black students should stay disproportionate in academic institutions. The support for this lies in the lop-sided SAT scores, because, according to the SAT test results, "on average, black Americans are significantly less intelligent than whites" (Feagin, 244). Yasuchiro Nakasone, the former prime minister of Japan supports this ... belief by stating that "the United States is lower [in intelligence scores] because of a considerable number of blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans" (Feagin, 244). This statement reiterates the opposit...

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... circumstances was approximately sixty times greater than that of their white counterparts. Another interesting fact that was included in the study was the comparison of grade point averages and SAT scores. "The average grade point average for a rejected white student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1142. The average grade point average for an accepted African-American student was 3.66 with an ... SAT score of 1030." These statistics demonstrate the reverse discrimination against white college applicants due to affirmative action. After you graduate from college, you will be putting in you...

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... could concentrate more effort on children at an earlier age so that they are qualified to get into colleges. According to Stephen Thernstrom from Yale University, the average black student's SAT scores were 300 points below the average of those white and Asian students who were accepted into college. Students are many times accepted despite their ... scores, yet the college dropout rate for African Americans is 50% higher than that of the white race. Failing college will in no way help any child and this proves that ... unfair to one gender or race? In 1989 for example, colleges accep...

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... want to become nonselective, or if they want to choose their matriculates randomly from the pool of applications with scores over, say, 1000, who could object on grounds of principle?" (Thernstrom 340). Minorities SAT scores are sometimes changed to get them into a university and scores are not looked at as much on their applications. Think of it this way, a minority gets accepted to medical ... ...

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... , affirmative action IS discrimination, only in reverse. In colleges across the country, African-Americans and Hispanics are being admitted at the expense of Caucasians and Asians with higher standardized test scores and high school GPAs for the sake of diversity. This discrimination is unjust and uncalled for. A second idea against affirmative action is the idea of individualism, where the government has ... ' minorities with GPAs above 2.8 (a dismal B minus) or SATs over 830, well below the national average for all who took the test. Asians and whites, by contrast, needed a 3.8 GPA or a...

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... . Therefore now college admissions are based more on skin color than on skills and merit. The University of Michigan rates students on a scale that awards points for SAT scores, High school grades, and race. A perfect SAT score is worth 12 points, but being black gets you 20 points. Now tell me, is there anyone who can look at those numbers and say they ... : "Jared is a white boy who will graduate from a prestigious midwestern academy with a 3.9 grade point average. He took all the AP classes that the school offered, had a PSAT score of 1480, a SAT score of 1360 and an ACT score of thirt...

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... schools are currently recruiting students according to race and color. According to a critic on affirmative action, "A college board survey, described in Andrew Hacker's Two Nations, in 1992 the average combined SAT score for black students whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year was 854, which was twenty-five points lower than the average ... SAT for white students whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year." (Rosen, p.3) In effect, the solution by supporters of affirmative action is to lower the school's standards so that they ... an education is, he will not study as hard as s...

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... very best black applicants a range of scholarships and other monies, soak up a huge portion of the relatively few blacks who score in the top range of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The unprepared and under-qualified state of these students often has disasterous effects on the affirmative action beneficiaries. Their graduation rates are considerably lower than their white or asian counterparts ... admitted to UC berkely in 1985, all were admitted under affirmative action criteria rather than academic qualifications. Those students had an average SAT score of 952 compared to the nat...

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... . Selection among comparably qualified candidates is as follows: a minority student with an 1100 on their SAT's compared to a white student who scored a 1120 is hardly a significant amount. Predictions of the general population with scores comparable in this range will not be affected by such trivial differences in scores. The most radical form of affirmative action that should be addressed is selecting unqualified minority ... ...

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... itself. Euro-Americans are ultimately the victims of Affirmative Action when less qualified minorities are supposedly taking up space that the privileged white male should have with his perfect SAT and GPA scores. I feel that Affirmative Action should be implemented. However, I do agree that in some ways Affirmative Action is definitely not effective and some ways unfair. So with this in mind ... , then the fact that someone applying is black, Latino, Asian, or white should only be a small factor in the admission process. Race should only be a consideration when looking at test scores, G...

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... white students. By giving the minority students extra points, a less qualified student can take the spot of a more qualified white student who did better in high school and on their SAT's. The University of Michigan uses a point system where "being a minority earns you 20 points and writing an outstanding essay earns you only 1 point (Negative about )," so in essence, they are ... . Another case is where Alan Bakke was not admitted to the University of California at Davis because of a quota system the school used. He claimed his scores were higher than some of the minorities admitted sco...

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... the highly disputed war in Vietnam. On February 20, 1960 four black college freshmen from the Negro Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina quietly walked into a restaurant and sat down at the lunch counter. They were protesting the Jim Crow custom that blacks could be served while standing up but not while they were sitting at the lunch counter ... . The students quietly sat there politely asking for service until closing time. The next morning they showed up again accompanied by twenty five fellow students. By the next week their sit down had been ... kill Kin...

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... charged the demonstrators, who hurled bricks and bottles, and the police eventually had to begin firing revolvers. The strike was broken, "two people were dead, dozens more were injured, and scores were arrested- (Newman 136). The strikes were broken, and union membership "dropped off sharply."" The working class people were given more awareness; labour leaders were elected into different levels of ... air would rush out of balloon, so did the value' disappear from over inflated stocks- (Newman 153). Panic selling took control, however, there were few buyers as people rushed to convert ...

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... lesser human. Affirmative action allows each individual the right to be viewed the same, color blindness. All which is seen is their names and scores. Affirmative action allows the equal opportunity to succeed. The misconception that people get is the success is given, not true. The opportunity to ... this so called bad use of admissions is that the black students are earning more degrees. The black students, even though showing lower scores on test, are actually earning more degrees in their percentage of student body that the whites' percentage with higher grades. What is still ... o...

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... black people because of a few bad seeds? I think that's wrong; for example, how in the book the last shot; the author say the basketball player fail to achieve humble scores on sat's or that one of the player became homeless because he chose to play basketball or one man, tried to committee suicide because he could not play basketball any more. I think ... ...

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... areas of the country class ranking for college admittance will not promote fairness or equality to the students. The article gives academic information on the students including class rank, G.P.A., ACT & SAT scores, senior-year classes, A.P. courses completed, last book read, and then a comment from the student on their future college plans. Granesh, Earl G. "The Other Affirmative Action." Black Enterprise May. 2002 An ... ...

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... preferential treatment and insults anyone who is beneficiary of this practice" (Jenkins, 1999, 178). Affirmative action in educational facilities promotes a feeling a reverse discrimination in which whites and Asians with higher SAT scores and grades are denied an education at a prestigious school to fulfill a quota of minorities (Williams, 1997, 173). Affirmative action is not only disappointing in creating equality in schools, it also ... ...

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... fully control. Religion served as a second refuge. In the colonial period, African slaves usually clung to their native religions, and many slave owners were suspicious of others who sought to convert their slaves to Christianity, in part because they feared that converted slaves would have to be freed. During the decades following the American Revolution, however, Christianity was increasingly central to ... to the same denominations as white Southerners, the largest of which were the Baptists and Methodists. Some masters encouraged their slaves to come to the white church, where they ...

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... and guardian against inequality and fairness. This young man looks at the average statistics of minority students and sees that the test scores are incredibly low along with their GPA's. Then he views himself and realizes that his 1100 SAT score and 3.6 GPA has some type of meaning and "pull" in this college thing. He is also attending a predominantly white all-male ... ...

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... like reparations, and affirmative action. How does affirmative action really judge character on abilities in the work place, or for school? They won't always look at who has got higher SAT scores - the African American young man or the Caucasian. They won't care about the straight A's all through high school. The African American will be the one getting accepted, because they've ... ...

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... they were listening to the music, then they were listening to the movement. The birth of hip hop and grunge created the generation of rage and raw emotional anger. The Grunge movement changed the way children acted. Kurt Cobain was speaking to teenagers and made it okay to be pissed off. Then ... For example the Velvet Underground's most popular song is "heroin." The social effect on the nineties from grunge, hip hop, and alternative was a new raw kind of revolt and anger that made a generation of kids change into having a better idea of themselves and their emotions. Alternative, Grunge...

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... lose the case because a black man has never won a court battle against a white. Atticus never lost hope though, he continued to work and protect Tom no matter what. He even sat outside of the jail house to make sure that no one touched him. Atticus defended Tom because otherwise he would not be able to tell his children what to do ... Radley faced his fears of the out side world and saved the children by fighting off Mr. Ewell. This mystery man whom the children had thought ate squirrels and cats raw and killed children, turned out to be just a misunderstood guy who preferred to be insi...

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... have two applicants for an open position as a law professor. The first is a white, Harvard Law School graduate, has impressive board scores, served as an editor of the Law review, etc. The other is a black, Harvard Law graduate, average board scores, excellent people skills, and practiced law as the county defendant in an inner city. Under the traditional system of merit the ... non-traditional, but certainly valid qualifications to the table that he is as, or even more, qualified to train the lawyers of the future as his white counterpart. Should actual scores count as much as real wor...

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... . The only thing going against Cheryl Hopwood was that she was white. She was denied admission. Four minorities, including one black and three Mexican Americans, were easily admitted with lower scores and ratings. The University of Texas Law School was taken to court and proved that it simply did not take individual grades and merit into account, but it evidently lower ... of California Berkley School of Law admitted every black with a grade point average of 3.5 and Law School Admission Test of ninety or above, but only 42% of whites with equally scores were admitted. UCLA School of Medi...

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... is sentenced to ten years. Malcolm's atheistic rantings in prison gave him the nickname "Satan". All of his brother and sisters have converted to Islam and they want Malcolm to convert as well. He is encouraged to stop eating and pork and smoking. He declines. He is moved to a rehabilitation prison. His sister visits him and tells him of Muhammad's black ... the teachings killing his satan nickname. He then studies on Muhammad's teachings. Malcolm is transformed by what he reads. He was amazed at everything he read and he decided to convert to Islam. After Malcolm got out of jail, he wa...

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