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- 1511: Affirmative Action
- ... affirmative action to ensure the hiring of qualified blacks, women and other minorities in their work forces. The use of affirmative action was never limited to federal contractors. The legislative history of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 reveals that during the 1960’s, American blacks and other minorities were denied employment opportunities because of their race, color, sex, religion, and ... for illegal discrimination and to encourage employers to end discrimination. Title VII was substantially strengthened in the 1972 amendments signed by President Nixon. As Supreme Court holdings concluded, the legislative history to the 1972 amendments made clear that Congress approved of race, and gender conscious remedies that had been developed by the courts in enforcing the 1964 Act. How does the ... pro-equality” and others who are “anti-equality.” Both parties are advocates of the to their own ideals of equality. Now that I have given a brief overview of the history of affirmative action and explained how it is applied, I will discuss some of its positive aspects. As you already know affirmative action was implemented with the idea and ...
- 1512: Rights of Egyptian Women
- Rights of Egyptian Women Throughout written history, women have experienced status subservient to the men they lived with. Generally, most cultures known to modern historians followed a standard pattern of males assigned the role of protector and ... debate. London: Yale University Press, 1992. Lesko, Barbara S. Women's Earliest Records. Atlanta, GA: Scholar's Press, 1989. Piccione, Peter A. "The Status of Women in Ancient Egyptian Society" History of Ancient Egypt Page. http://www.library.nwu.edu/class/history/B94/B94women.html 16 Oct, 1996 Robins, Gay. Women in Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Publications, 1993. Tucker, Judith E. Arab Women: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers. Indianapolis: Indiana University ...
- 1513: A Jew In Germany or Occupied Europe:
- ... falling. We are falling. The ground. The sky. We are flying. We are going to the sky. We can see God. God. BIBLIOGRAPHY: IF THIS IS A MAN Primo Levi HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BBC Education video THE TRUCE Primo Levi DIARY Anne Frank HOLOCAUST Britannia Encyclopedia THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS History Map BRITAIN AND EUROPE 1848-1980 Martin Roberts EUROPEAN HISTORY 1815-1941 Jack Watson SHINDLER'S LIST Film by Steven Spielburg
- 1514: Charles Darwin And Richard Owen
- ... also one of the many that attended Owen's lectures. His death in 1892 was treasured with a bronze statue of him placed in the main hall of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. Darwin was born in 1809, he was considered as a man of having a lot of patience and humility. Unlike Owen, he grew up in a ... exemplified in the general acceptance by biologists of the secondary law, by evolution, of the origin of 'species'. As a rule, additions by summaries and monographs now published in natural history are in the terms of such 'law'. In this respect Charles Darwin stands to biology in the relation in which Copernicus stood to astronomy. The rejection of the origin of ... to the rejection of the fixity, centricity and supreme magnitude of our earth, i.e. to the substitution for the geocentric of the heliocentric hypothesis. The accelerated progress of natural history under the guidance of 'evolution' parallels that of astronomy under the guidance of heliocentricity. But the adoption of Darwin's hypothesis of the evolutional way of work is not ...
- 1515: Status of Women In Society
- ... current century. However, although the progress that has been achieved is relatively recent, the problem of women's proper place in society has been a topic of great debate throughout history. Many great thinkers, philosophers, and more recently, sociologists have explored this topic. The question being posed is, should women be naturally subordinate to men within the family and in society ... and discusses women's status in society. Aristotle saw women as mutilated or incomplete men, inferior to men in every possible way. This line of thought has enjoyed a long history, finally advocated by Freud and his followers throughout the twentieth century. Aristotle based his arguments on the pre-Socratic notion that women have lower body temperatures than men. At the ... of the revolutionary thinkers of the Enlightenment Era. Bibliography: Zeitlin, Irving M., 1997, Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theory. 6th ed. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Russell, Bertrand, 1972, A History of Western Philosophy. New York: Simon & Schuster Sanderson, Stephen K., 1995, Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Sciences. 3rd ed. New York: Harper Collins College Publishers Henslin, James M., 1995, ...
- 1516: Native Culture Prior to Contact with Europeans
- ... www.bmcc.org/Bimaadzwin/Traditions/dbowers.htm, no date. Careless, J.M.S. Canada: A Story of Challenge. Toronto, ON: The Macmillian Company of Canada Limited, 1963. Grant, W.L. History of Canada. Montreal, QB: Renouf Publishing Company, 1927. Herstein, H.H., L.J. Hughes, and R.C. Kirbyson. Challenge and Survival: The History of Canada. Scarborough, ON: Prentice-Hall of Canada Limited, 1970. Lanctota, Gustave. A History of Canada. Vancouver, BC: Irwin, and Company Limited, 1964.
- 1517: A Little Bit About Einstein
- ... began his formal education at a school in Ulm. Contrary to what you would think Albert hated formal schooling. He often did poorly in subjects such as Geography, Language, and History, but excelled in Mathematics and Science. He generally did his real studies at home where he concentrated on physics, mathematics, and philosophy. One year one of Einstein s teachers suggested ... of all time, he discovered theories no one else ever even thought of, and created a completely different way to look at the natural world. Bibliography http//:www.alp.org/history/einsteinearly1.htm http://www.groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/mathematicians/Einstein.html http://library.advanced.org/11924/einstieninfo.html Encyclopedia Britannica On Line World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia CD-ROM
- 1518: Things Fall Apart Things Fall
- ... can be drawn regarding possible outcomes of Umuofia. On page 179-180 of Things Fall Apart, Mr. Brown explains that his mission is from England, the "head of the church." History has shown us that governments tend to act as a business would. In other words, governments will always act in their self-interest. It is safe to assume that England ... have survived. Perhaps, there are ways of accessing the past in which the West is unaware. In Conclusion, I feel that I have gained a more accurate concept of the history of the church's involvement in the social and political transformation of Africa. More importantly though, I have seen the effects of greed and how it can infiltrate into nearly ... the true spirituality of African Christianity dissipated, that is the love for God was replaced by the love for the mission. This is crucial for an accurate understanding of African history because it allows us to take a glimpse into the general motive of the colonizing forces: to expand at all cost, even that of spirituality and identity.
- 1519: Existentialism in the Early 19th Century
- ... recognition of the pure contingency of the universe, and the word anguish is used for the recognition of the total freedom of choice that confronts the individual at every moment. History Existentialism as a distinct philosophical and literary movement belongs to the 19th and 20th centuries, but elements of existentialism can be found in the thought (and life) of Socrates, in ... existentialism, reacted against the systematic absolute idealism of the 19th-century German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, who claimed to have worked out a total rational understanding of humanity and history. Kierkegaard, on the contrary, stressed the ambiguity and absurdity of the human situation. The individual's response to this situation must be to live a totally committed life, and this ... existentialism is a form of humanism, and he strongly emphasized human freedom, choice, and responsibility. He eventually tried to reconcile these existentialist concepts with a Marxist analysis of society and history. Existentialism and Theology Although existentialist thought encompasses the uncompromising atheism of Nietzsche and Sartre and the agnosticism of Heidegger, its origin in the intensely religious philosophies of Pascal and ...
- 1520: Alfred Thayer Mahan
- ... s thougths. He said that whatever reservations one has about how Mahan analyzed the past, "his interpretation and ideas were most significant, throwing new light upon the course of European history." Kennedy goes on to fully acknowledge the role sea power played in the rise of the British Empire yet at the same time points out that "what was true from ... A far better historian than strategist, Mahan essentially told the story of approximately 200 years of British sea power in his most famous work The Influence of Sea Power upon History. Had his strategies come before the time of British naval domination where they were proved time and again, Mahan's role as a great naval strategist would have been more ... the navy to implement national policy have shaped modern naval philosophy and are undeniably genius ; Mahan could not get past the unavoidable fact that times indeed change. According to Kennedy: "history frequently does not repeat itself and that the shape of things to come may not always follow the pattern of the past." Had Mahan been more adept to this ...
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