RJA #6c: Protopage

http://protopage.com/cmart178

RJA #6b: Search Strings

I did not receive any peer reviews on my search strings. However, I went ahead and revised some of them and added some news ones. They are as follows:

+affirmative+action+education

+affirmative+action-race

+affirmative+action+pros

+affirmative+action+cons

+affirmative+action+diversity

+affirmative+action+goals

+affirmative+action+retention

+affirmative+action+theory

+affirmative+action+goals

RJA #6a: Periodical Articles

Affirmative Action programs: Right in theory, Wrong in practice

Charles, Camille Z., et al. "Affirmative-Action Programs for Minority Students: Right in Theory, Wrong in Practice." Chronicle of Higher Education 55.29 (27 Mar. 2009): A29-A30. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 29 Sep. 2009 http://0-search.ebscohost.com.skyline.cudenver.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=37605197&site=ehost-live.

Taking Race into Account: Charting minority students towards Affirmative Action

Park, Julie. "Taking Race into Account: Charting Student Attitudes Towards Affirmative Action." Research in Higher Education 50.7 (Nov. 2009): 670-690. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 29 Sep. 2009 .
Vancouver/ICMJE

The declining significance of race in college admissions

GRODSKY, ERIC, and DEMETRA KALOGRIDES.. "The Declining Significance of Race in College Admissions Decisions." American Journal of Education 115.1 (Nov. 2008): 1-33. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 29 Sep. 2009 http://0-search.ebscohost.com.skyline.cudenver.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=34884394&site=ehost-live

RJA #5c: Search String Check

http://missylewis.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-4b-writing-search-strings.html#comment-form

http://eceng1020.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-4a-generating-key-works.html?showComment=1253568496294#c4905834793667066836

RJA #5b: Finding Books

I really like using the Auraria Library to find book, so most, if not all of the books I will use to research will be from Aurira Library. These are a few of the books that I am looking into checking out:

Garcia, Mildred. Affirmative action's testament of hope : strategies for a new era in higher education. Vol. 277. Albany: State of New York, 1997. Print.

Post, Robert, and Michael P. Rogin. Race and representation : affirmative action. New York: Zone Books, 1998. Print.

RJA #5a: Finding Reference Articles

I went to the Britannica Encyclopedia, and one of the keywords I typed was: Affirmative Action. This is the result that popped up.

"Affirmative Action." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 17 Sep. 2009 <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/7740/affirmative-action>.

I decided to search throught the Ebsco Host database and see if I could look for more in depth searches for Afffirmative Action. I came across this interesting article about Affirmative Action in Higher Education. Key words used here for this search were: Affirmative Action, Diversity, Political Attitudes, Politics, Race, and Students.

Park, Julie." Taking Race into Account: Charting Student Attitudes Towards Affirmative Action" 50.7(2009): p670-690. Ebsco Host. 17 September 2009. <http://0-web.ebscohost.com.skyline.cudenver.edu/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=102&sid=3ca4d502-ddeb-4699-b44d-0abadeb33e2f%40sessionmgr111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=43567123#db=aph&AN=43567123>

Peer's Journal #1

http://jalves1.blogspot.com/2009/09/research-journal-assignment-3c.html#comment-form

Peer's Journal#2

http://stinoeng.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-3c.html#comment-form

RJA# 4b: Writing Search Strings

Goals

+goals+affirmative action
-goals+affirmative action

Progression

+progression+affirmative action
-progression+affirmative action

Economic

+Economy+Affimative Action
-Economy+Affirmative Action

Education

+education-affirmative action
+edcuation+affirmative action

Disadvantage

-disadvantage+affirmative action
+advantages+affirmative action

Race

+ethnicity-affirmative action
+ethnicity+affirmative action

RJA #4a: Generating Keywords

Research question: Should Affirmative Action base their goals in trying to increase the progression of economically and educationally disadvantaged peoples rather than on the basis of race?

FO: goal, progressive, economic, education, disadvantage, disadvantages, races.

RE: aim, plot, project, scheme; desire, hope, wish; destination,mindset, achievement, money, mathematics, knowledge, wisdom, unlucky, underprivileged, ethnicity, coaching, conditioning, cultivation, preparation, readying; development, direction, guidance, nurturance, nurturing; edification, enlightenment, improvement

ST: aim, ambition, aspiration, design, dream, end, intent, intention, mark, meaning, object, objective, plan, pretension, purpose, target, thing, movement, frugality, husbandry, providence, scrimping, skimping, thrift, erudition, knowledge, learnedness, learning, scholarship, science

LOG: achieve, scoring, advancement, forward motion, thriftiness, teaching, learning, instruction, deprived, underprivledged, genetic.

RJA #3c: Developing Research Question

1. Who- Who is involved in the creation of Affirmative Action?
Who are the people being discriminated by Affirmative Action?
Who are the people being aided by Affirmative Action?
Who wants to keep Affirmative Action in tact?
Who wants to abolish Affirmative Action?

What- What are the benefit's of Affirmative Action?
What are the disadvantages of Affirmative Action?
What is causing so much controversy about this issue?

When- When was this organization created?
When did the federal government recognize and enforce this policy?

Where- Where did some of the most vital decisions regarding Affirmative Action take place?

Why- Why should Affirmative Action be a mean by which to bring equality to education and
employment?
Why doesn't Affirmative Action base their goals in bringing about the progression of
economically and educationally disadvantaged peoples, rather than the issue of race?

Should- Should employers and educational institutions use the Affirmative Action approach
when deciding who to employee or admit to their entities?
Should students have a part in voicing their opinions about Affirmative Action?

Would- Would the removal of Affirmative Action benefit/unbenefit employers or educational
institutions?
Would diversity be an issue in the workplace?
Does diversity contribute to a more better society?
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2. How has Affirmative Action impacted a college/universty enrollment rate in terms of diversity?

How does it benefit minorities?

How is it hurting whites?

Has the retention rate of minority students increased?

Are there laws/individual people/groups that have tried to ban Affirmative Action?

Where there programs before the creation of Affirmative Action that helped minorities out?

What was the chance that a minority would be granted equality before the creation of Affirmative Action?
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3. I would like to address my paper to those both opposed to Affirmative Action and those supporters of Affirmative Action, and those people who are indifferent about the controversy. All audiences would be interested in learning about the benefits and disadvantages that occur in majority and minority groups. We can all learn about the decisions behind the admissions, employment choices that employers and colleges face. My purpose in writing this is so that I can be more aware of the types of programs that are available to minorities and how the effort in bringing about progression in more disadvantaged groups can also lead to discrimination in others. I would like to learn how their can be a chance of equality for all people's regardless of their ethnic background, and to learn why race is a factor that is involved in decision making in terms of education and employment.
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4. The colored text questions in # 1 are the ones that would fufill the purpose of writing my research paper.

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5. This is the question that most interests me: Should Affirmative Action base their goals in trying to increase the progression of economically and educationally disadvantaged peoples rather than on the basis of race?

RJA #3b: Narrowing Research Topic

I think that with a topic such as Affirmative Action, I would like to narrow my research rather than broaden it, because there are many ways in which the direction of this paper can go. I would like to discuss the controversy that the opposing audience has with promoting affirmative action in educational and employment affairs. Why they feel that it is another form of discrimination. I would also like to address the supporting argument in having opportunities available to the minority public of highly intellectual individuals who have felt the disadvantages of their couterparts. I think that learning about many sides of the controversy will lead me to better forming a thesis statement in which will lead my paper in the direction I choose to take it.

RJA #3a: Exploring Research Topic

I found it quite useful to use Debatepedia.com to find many opinions surrounding Affirmative Action. Some of the more interesting discussions I found on Debatepedia. are as follows:


Affirmative Action a good way to enhance social equality?

- Supporters of Affirmative Action believe that by enforcing Affirmative Action it will help level out equality among disadvantaged groups. They believe that is better for a minority student to graduate from a top university even if it means that their performance is low. According to the supporters, a student' success comes from graduating from a top university, and not their actual performance at the university. The argument continues by stating that intellectual African Americans who attend all blacks schools have a disadvantage among their counterparts (i.e. Asian, and White students), because black schools offer less Advanced Placement courses.

- The non-supporters of Affirmative Action believe that Affirmative Action actually causes discrimination amongst the majority and the minority. They believe the law should be "race-blind", it only adds to more prejudice from a group to another. Affirmative Action should not rely on the basis of race, rather shift its focus of those educationally and economically disadvantaged people. A minority person could have lived a life full of fruitful education and so for, while there exist disadvantaged Whites who did not have that same opportunity. They also argue that Affirmative Action will places students who are not on the same level with their peers enrolled in more rigorous course work.

President Obama's views on Affirmative Action

-President Obama believes that the issue of Affirmative Action should be lessened. It has not brought much racial progression, but has also not had a major impact on the admission of Whites seeking college admission or a job. He believes that on the basic of racial progressing, every race should be receiving the best education and nutrition and securing opportunities for all youth. That everyone should be treated fairly, and race should be rarely be taken into account.

Official site of Affirmative Action

- The American Association for Affirmation Action was created in 1974 as a national non-profit organization to produce affirmative action, diversity, and equal opportunity to increase the equality in education and employment. The purpose of affirmative action is to aid those successful peoples that are members of long time discrimination by opening doors to many educational, and employment opportunities. They believe that it is in the nation's best interest to keep affirmative action striving. By maintaining affirmative action it will guide the youth of this country to a better society of equality and fairness