Quotas Essays

  • Are Illegal Police Quotas Still Affecting American Citizens?

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    Are Illegal Police Quotas Still Affecting American Citizens? Just this past summer, one of my good friends was driving through Harrisonburg on his way home from work, when he noticed the one thing all drivers dread, flashing blue lights closing in on him fast. While pulling to the side of the road, he realized there was not one, but two police cars behind him. He knew he had only been going five miles per hour over the speed limit, so he was worried as to why two police cars had just pulled

  • Affirmative Action Essay: Quotas for White Players in the NBA?

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    Is Affirmative Action Analogous to Setting Quotas for White Players in the NBA? The NBA analogy doesn't even apply because that is not how affirmative action even works. All affirmative action recipients must be qualified for their jobs. Besides, the fact that blacks overcome their social disadvantages to dominate in the NBA is no justification for keeping them disadvantaged. The argument that it's wrong to give whites an even greater advantage to make up for their lack of merit is irrelevant.

  • The Influence of OPEC

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    indicate, OPEC produces so much oil that they are in a position to exert considerable influence on petroleum supply levels and manipulate the price. The means by which OPEC exerts its influence is through setting production quotas. OPEC sets individual production quotas for each member country that serve as “production targets” to ensure the level of petroleum supplied by OPEC does not exceed the demand for petroleum. These “production targets” for each country add up to a “ceiling” that OPEC

  • Affirmative Action - Is it Fair?

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    male candidate, taking into consideration their background. In short, it tries to give minorities that have been at a disadvantage their whole life, an advantage they have never been open too All things considered, this does not happen. Instead, “quotas” are established and the discrimination that was once placed on the minorities now turns the other way. Let’s make up a hypothetical situation. You are sending in your first college application to Harvard. There is only one spot left open between

  • Oligopoly

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    industries supply a similar or identical product. These companies tend to maximize their profits by forming a cartel and acting like a monopoly. A cartel is an association of producers in a certain industry that agree to set common prices and output quotas to prevent competition. The larger the cartel, the more likely it will be that each member will increase output and cause the price of a good to be lower. The majority of time an oligopoly is used describe a world market; however, the term oligopoly

  • Sexism in Sports

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    was converted into a weapon to enforce gender quotas, therefore abolishing as many men’s college athletic teams as possible (Phyllis Schlafly, “Supreme Court wrestles with Title IX,” p. 2). Over the years the words of Title IX author, former U.S. Republican Edith Green, must have been forgotten when he stated that the law is “exceedingly explicit so that the establishment of quotas would be prohibited (Schlafly 2)”. It has become obvious that quotas are the standard in 2005. Scholarships, spending

  • Affirmative Action is Reverse Discrimination

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    reverse discrimination. Paul Craig Roberts and Larry Stratton, co-author of The New Color Line: How Quotas and Privileges Destroy Democracy, document the silent change of the 1964 Civil Rights Act from a statute forbidding preferences based on race and gender into a weapon to coerce employers to adopt and implement quotas. This change is not so silent today. Roberts and Stratton show that, "quotas are based on an intentional misreading of Title VII and are strictly illegal under the 1964 Civil Rights

  • Lean Manufacturing

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    new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force. 11. a. Eliminate work standards (quotas) on the factory floor. Substitute leadership. b. Eliminate management by objective. Eliminate management by numbers, numerical goals. Substitute leadership. 12. a. Remove barriers that rob the hourly worker of his right to pride of workmanship. The

  • Fishing Disaster

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    precautionary manner to protect dwindling fish stocks by substantially reducing catch quotas at the first signs of overfishing, the federal government delayed conservation action, choosing instead quite moderate reductions of the total allowable catch beginning in 1989. It wasn't until 1990, following several years of analysis and re-analysis of data from stock surveys (without simultaneously reducing catch quotas) that the Independent Review of the state of the Northern Cod stock concluded that the

  • Geography of India

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    religions but six major religions are Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jinism. Under a federal republic government and abiding by a “constitution that forbids the practice of 'untouchability,' and legislation has been used to reserve quotas for former untouchables (and also for tribal peoples) in the legislatures, in education, and in the public services, the caste system continues to be influential”(India Peace & Culture). The country has grown to the second most populous country in

  • Affirmative Action Helps Qualified Minorities

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    Affirmative Action Helps Qualified Minorities Affirmative action doesn't require a company to hire the local percentage of women and minorities, qualified or not. The program determines the percentage of qualified women and minorities available to a company, then sets flexible goals, to be reached in good faith. As a result, numerous studies show that minorities who land their jobs through affirmative action are not less qualified than their colleagues. Critics of affirmative action often

  • The Japanese Economy

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    leans towards market, it is like this because almost all business are run by private corporations or people and that is the market in the economy. And the reason that they are thriving and are so competitive is because of the trade tariffs and quotas that the government has in place. These regulations include heavy taxes on some products and denial on some others for example: the way Japan will only let certain foreign cars in to Japan and even then they are so heavily taxed that the average

  • Conflicting Visions

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    adamant in demanding that Congress not legislate higher minimum wages. Similarly, one group of advocates for greater employment opportunities might lobby Congress for higher tariffs and stricter quotas on foreign imports. Another group of people sharing the identical goal will fight against tariffs and quotas and lobby for fewer trade restrictions. How is it that people who share identical goals come to advocate polar opposite policies? One possible explanation is that they are dishonest and simply

  • Laissez-faire vs Government Intervention

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    in the agricultural sector of the economy. The government has three ways it can intervene and help its producers. These ways include price policies, direct payments, and input policies. Price policies have the largest effect on producers. Tariffs, quotas, and taxes are just a few examples of price policies. While these policies bring revenue into the government, in the end they hurt consumers. Each of these policies raise the prices of both imported and native goods. They are designed to help stabilize

  • Affirmative Action and Collective Responsibility

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    years. It stirs up feelings of racism that politicians are quick to publicly denounce but even quicker to exploit. There is, however, very little serious discussion about affirmative action underway; more often it is supplanted by buzzwords such as "quotas," "set-asides," and "reverse discrimination." A serious discussion of affirmative action must begin by addressing the question of collective responsibility. Affirmative action opponents firmly reject the notion of collective responsibility, claiming

  • Importance Of Gender Quotas

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    Gender quotas can be defined as affirmative action that helps to deal with obstacles for women to participate in politics just like men (Chen 2010, 13). Candidate quotas specify the minimum percentage of candidates for election, that must be women, and apply to party lists of candidates for election. Legal quotas are enshrined in the constitution, electoral laws or party laws which force parties to recruit women candidates by a certain percentage. Voluntary quotas are applied willingly without the

  • The Argument for and Against Gender Quotas

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    for and against gender quotas aimed at increasing the percentage of women in national parliaments. Consider the implications of your argument for different quota systems. The debate regarding gender identities in politics is today a protruding aspect in our society. Both the domestic and international gender roles and norms are central in the developments in the field of political science and International Relations. The inclusion of women into formal politics through quota systems is one of the

  • Quota Hiring Case Study

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    that strives to serve the public in an efficient and effective manner and further erode confidence in government. Due to the constraints included in Forest Service’s postings many otherwise qualified applicants are excluded (Reeves, 2006). Hiring by quota is unfair to applicants and can lead to dangerous conditions when positions are filled by temporary employees or remain vacant because ... ... middle of paper ... ...to accomplish diversity without compromising the merit system (U.S. Office of

  • The First Athenian Tribute Quota-List Analysis

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    The First Athenian Tribute Quota-List, 454/3, IG I3 259 was the first of the 15-20 total upright marble slabs, known as stalae in Athens. The erection of these tablets started in the year 454/3 BCE on the Acropolis of Athens. Recorded on each of these were offerings, in tribute to the gods and goddesses, known as the aparchai or first-fruit, collected by the Hellenotamiai. The tablet, started in 454/3 BCE, covered the first fifteen years of tribute, the second covered the next eight, and the remaining

  • 19th Century Women Rights

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    Many groups (e.g. industrial workers, farmers, women, good government advocates, journalists, immigrants, socialists) reacted against the concentration of economic and political power in fewer and fewer hands between 1865 and 1990. What did each of these groups want (i.e. agenda)? Looking at the records of presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as prior presidents, assess how each of these groups succeeded in achieving these aims from 1880 to 1920. Women