Taking positive steps to hire and promote people from groups previously discriminated against is called

What will be an ideal response?


affirmative action

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According to Bentham, an act is right if it:

A. produces pleasure. B. produces more pleasure than pain. C. maximizes the pleasure of the person acting. D. maximizes the pleasure of everyone affected by the act. E. None of the above

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Words such as "excessive," "fresh," and "normal" tend to be:

A) Emotive. B) Ambiguous. C) Vague. D) Factual. E) Extensional.

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Identify which fallacy has been committed. The needle exchange program is an obvious blunder. Any such program would require that workers know how to find illegal drug users. And the only way to do this is to interact with such criminals. And of course, anyone who knowingly interacts with criminals can't be trusted with running a government-funded program

a. Fallacy of Positioning b. Guilt by Association c. Appeal to Fear d. Straw Person Fallacy e. Appeal to Pity f. Abusive Ad Hominem g. Poisoning the Well

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Approaches to the question "What is real?" seem to start from two very different places,

A) ?science and common sense. B) ?physical science and biological science. C) ?science and religion. D) ?folk psychology and scientific psychology.

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