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Fair Equality of Opportunity: Reconceiving Affirmative Action through a Rawlsian Lens
This paper examines common and past applications of affirmative action, including arguments for and against the application; presents John Rawls’ theory of justice, and proposes a framework using Rawls’ theory for future applications of affirmative action. The proposal relieves heavily on the principle of fair equality of opportunity, both as an indicator for when using affirmative action is appropriate as well as a tool to help identify the people that affirmative action programs should target. Using this framework, the public education system is identified as a sector of society that fails to provide fair equality of opportunity for all citizens, and an example of how the Rawlsian conception of affirmative action should be used in practice to help address the inequalities and help restore equality of opportunity within the public education system is given. Objections to affirmative action, both in general and more specifically tailored to the model proposed in this paper, are raised and responded to. This paper comes to the conclusion that affirmative action programs, when targeted towards individuals who are denied fair equality of opportunity and have low rates of social mobility, will help create a more just society
Return of Marriages in the town of East Livermore during the year ending March 31, 1867
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Record of Marriages in the town of East Livermore during the year ending April 1, 1873
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Record of Marriages in the town of East Livermore during the year ending March 31, 1872
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Record of Births and Deaths registered in the town of East Livermore during the year ending March 31, 1873
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Record of Deaths in the town of East Livermore during the year ending March 31, 1866
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Sexual harassment on public transit and the influence of perceptions of safety on travel behavior
Sexual harassment on public transit remains an understudied and misunderstood issue within the transit planning profession. Conventional approaches to modeling travel behavior and mode choice which focus on travel time and destination, and which take a "gender-blind" approach fail to address the extent to which risk of sexual harassment and assault on public transit may influence women's travel behavior. This report examines women's perceptions of safety while using public transit, and argues that by better understanding how fear of sexual harassment influences travel behavior, planners can more effectively address women's transit needs.Community and Regional Plannin
Marriages in East Livermore during the year ending March 31, 1869
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Return of Births in the town of East Livermore during the year ending March 31, 1869
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Record of Marriages in the town of East Livermore during the year ending March 31, 1871
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