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Title: Affirmative Action Should Be Eliminated
Words: 1877
Affirmative Action should be Eliminated
Society has come along way since the days of males playing the role of breadwinners, women as housewives, and blacks being shunned out of society. The road to knock down the barriers between men and women, minorities and "whites" has been slow and difficult, but successful. Most people believe that the cause of this success was due to affirmative action, which is a policy to encourage equal opportunity and to level the playing field of groups of people who have been and are discriminated against. The roots of affirmative action lie in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the United States and were adopted by Canada in the mid seventies. It was with the approval of the Human Rights Act of 1978 that affirmative action gained legitimacy and ...
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