Writing Homework Help

UCF Affirmative Action Creates More Racial Injustice Discussion

 

I will attach the required clips or information on each area which will be to get you thinking about the topic. Some of these will be positive; others negative. It will be your responsibility to find an additional website, clip, or source, research the topic, and write a full 1 page paper about each topic using what you found as well as the required clips or PowerPoints that was sent to you on the topics. Try to expand your beliefs by being open-minded to the subject. (I have provided the required material… please find an additional website, clip, or source for each topic.) 1 page on each topic = 5 pages total.

1. Affirmative Action – By definition, affirmative action is “an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination” according to dictionary.com.

Watch the following Youtube clips:

Youtube clip

Affirmative Action “Creates More Racial Injustice”

https://youtu.be/TquKLF0sT54

Youtube clip

Commentators spar over Affirmative Action

https://youtu.be/LBLkmQIf0Hg

2. Disabilities – By definition, Disabilities are long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder [a person’s] full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.

Three Youtube videos for this category.

Youtube:  ABC’s “The View” discusses the R-word

Watch the panel of ABC’s “The View” discuss society’s use of the word retard.  

Youtube:  Soeren Palumbo’s R-word Speech

This is the original speech that Soeren Palumbo gave as a senior at an assembly at Fremd High School in Illinois.

Youtube:  F.A.T. City Understanding Learning Disabilities   How Difficult Can This Be?

3. Politics – By definition, Politics are the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.

Youtube Clip

Youtube: Political Ideology: Crash Course Government and Politics #35 

4. Reverse Discrimination – By definition, Reverse discrimination is unfair treatment of the members of what may be considered the majority group in a workplace based on their gender, race, national origin, religion or other protected characteristic.

“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie )

TED talk clip

http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html

May we always be open to all sides of a story.

5. Cognitive Differences/How we Learn – (2 Power points are attached)

Website

https://medium.com/s/story/the-trick-to-thinking-clearer-and-better-4a61c54114fa