Answer: The main focus of the speech can crudely be boiled down to one theme—the relationship between duty and power. This is emphasized by Kennedy's strong use of juxtaposition in the first part of the speech.
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The correct answer is A) It struck down the use of strict racial quotas.
<em>The Regents v Bakke changed affirmative action policies in that it struck down the use of strict racial quotas.
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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke was a Supre Court case of October 12, 1977, and decided on June 26, 1978. Alan Bakke had been rejected twice by the University of California Medical School at Davis. The University reserved 16 places for “minorities.” But Bakke had better marks than the minorities students admitted. The Supreme Court agreed that the University’s use of racial quotas was against the Constitution and ordered the University to accept Bakke.
Because these Indians lived in the forests, they were called the Eastern Woodland Indians. Their food, shelter, clothing, weapons, and tools came from the forests around them. The Woodland Indians lived in wigwams and longhouses. The Iroquois, Cherokee, and Mound Builders were important Woodland tribes.
1. Yes. Unfortunately, the role that this privilege plays in society is often to encourage inequality among citizens and not to allow meritocracy to be exercised efficiently.
2. No. The USA promotes and foresees an unequal treatment among citizens, mainly regarding race, origin, social position and heredity of people, which ends up generating a strong social inequality.
3. The US government protects citizens' rights through laws and guidelines that must be followed across the country. However, often these laws only work in theory and people continue to have their rights unprotected, especially citizens who are members of a social minority.
4. No. When our government was created, there was a strong slave culture in the country, which affirmed that whites and blacks were different and should be treated in different ways, where whites were placed as superiors and deserving of all possible social privilege. Furthermore, at the beginning of our government, women were also considered inferior and lived under a system of domination to which men were not subjected.
5. This did not impact the decision of the creators of our government, since they were all white men and did not suffer from the lack of rights and privileges that women and blacks suffered.
