Case Study: Stanley As A Victim Of Discrimination

The case of Palm Beach County vs Mr. Bryce Zimpfer Mr. Bryce Zimpfer is a 53 years old employee of Palm Beach County, he has been with this employer for 16 years. Mr. Zimpfer is alleging that his employer is in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act 1967 (ADEA). The legal definition of discrimination is an employment decision making or working conditions that are unfairly advantageous (or disadvantageous) to a member or members of one protected group compared to members of another protected group. A position of Employee Relation Manager became available in the Palm Beach County Human Resources Department.

Why do you believe these actions were discriminatory? The first case file with EECO by Tanya Conde girl friend of Samuel Varriano Maintenance #3 who was fired from Pitt University .The defendent 's in case Robert Godzik, William Franicola supervisor and Pitt University was dismissed . Now Robert Godzik and Pitt University have confidence themselves this isn 't a hostile work environment .With

Many black and Latino residents in Los Angeles faced significant discrimination by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) during the 1950’s and 60’s. They received heavy criticism from members of the black community on the accounts of police brutality and unnecessary violence. Blacks did not feel safe in the vicinity of the police force, usually used to detain them, rather than protect them from violence. A quote from Malcolm X explains the situation well: "You’ve got some Gestapo tactics being practiced by the police department in this country against 20 million black people, second class citizens, day in and day out – not only down South but up North.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s of America, discrimination based on race, gender, and ethnicity in immigrants groups like Native American, Chinese, Irish, and African American is justified through personal and social beliefs, customs, and culture in the growing social structure for a bigger and better America. Native White Americans feared beliefs, customs, and cultures of the Native American, Chinese, Irish, and African American related to lack of understanding and communication problems. The lack of understanding and communication efforts add fire to an already discriminated social structure creating conflict rather than resolving issues. The culture of Irish was typically very poor, unskilled, and illiterate driven to America by

The court determined that the plaintiff did not show enough direct or circumstantial evidence to survive a motion of summary judgment on her reverse discrimination claims, which in turn are based on the analysis used in Title VII cases. The court finds that the plaintiff’s claim of race discrimination under the Elliot- Larson Act must fail as well. The plaintiff failed to provide evidence that showed the court any act of illegal discrimination. The plaintiff used the universities affirmative action plan in her favor. The university agreed that their action plan does state the support of minorities, it had no barring on the plaintiffs outcome of the position she applied for.

One of my experiences resonated me about the film was with non-white privilege discrimination happened about three years ago. My family goes on a camping trip yearly as our family tradition. We reserved 6 campsites at Big Basin. We divided into two groups and designated two sites for cooking and gathering place. We went back and forth to all the campsites and spent time talking among adults while children were running around.

Reverse discrimination is unequal, preferential treatment against some people to advance the interest of others. This is an issue that has been around for years and will be for years to come. Whether it is two students applying for college or adults applying for a job interview reverse discrimination can play a part. The author James Rachels describes how in society reverse discrimination is constantly a factor. Giving preferential treatment to those who have been treated poorly in the past is a question James Rachels raises and defends in his writing.

As described in the text, institutional discrimination is caused from governmental policies and public institutions, which favor the more dominant groups but offer no support for the less dominant group. I believe that institutional discrimination is apparent in today 's society. The video provided, "Race the House we Live in," explains that individuals came from all over to enter into America (California Newsreel, 2010). This was referred to as a melting pot; however, policies favored white immigrants (California Newsreel, 2010). I think that institutionalized racism prevents our society from being the best it can be.

I think that discrimination is still prevalent in this world in the form of your race. Everyone who see’s a African American may have the instant reaction to them in the form of a stereotype. This particular stereotype is that you will think he’s a criminal. This is not true in most cases. Most of the time you will see a African American, and he would be a high ranked employe in a very powerful company.

African-Americans have always endured discrimination throughout history. In 1879 and 1880, a large number of Southern blacks traveled to Kansas pursuing freedom from violence, economic opportunity, political equality and access to education. Although these 40,000 to 60,000 individuals were courageous to reach Kansas many ended up as inexperienced laborers. In 1900, they possessed a smaller fraction of land than they had at the end of Reconstruction. Black males were prohibited from employments in offices such as clerks and from administrative positions in workshops and factories.

After a troublesome and torrid time, the black people or what so called slaves, were entering the 20th century with hope of not being discriminated after the slavery had been abolished in the late 19th century. The beginning of 20th century had overseen the stampede of worldwide immigrants to America as they seek for a better life. As for African-Americans, they were entering the phase where they found themselves almost identical with the past century despite the slavery being abolished. Though the abolishment of slavery was written in the 13th Amendment, some of the states still legalized it. They were still in the same position as they were before in some of the states in America.

Before we start, we should agree on one thing: America has issues with discrimination, ones that it must solve to distinguish itself as the free and liberal country it claims to be. Racism, sexism, homophobia, and more are not just problems as in, "these things should not exist, and we should stop them where they do" but rather as in, "these things do exist and we need to end them. Now. " We, as a free and just society, need to justify our claims to the title of “most progressive nation on earth”, the title we have built for ourselves, by challenging head on the moral issues that the rest of the world is unprepared to face. That title has engendered our obligation to eliminate the factors of discrimination that we would look upon other countries for harboring.

In this paragraph, I will know highlight some examples of discrimination in this particular film. Discrimination is the imbalanced treatment of a person or a group of people based off of their sex, religion, race, culture, etc. There are many different types of discrimination in this movie but for this assignment, I will focus more on race. An example of discrimination is when Sandra Bullock and her politician husband are walking down the sidewalk together. Sandra notices two black men walking towards her and she gets nervous, and clutches her husband’s arm.

American history is filled with many racism stories. Many times discrimination happens for no reason other than the color of a person’s skin. In August 1955, a fourteen year old African American boy named Emmett Till and his cousin Cursi took a trip to visit relatives in Mississippi. He had dealt with segregation in his hometown of Chicago, but nothing compared with the extreme hate crimes that occur in Mississippi. The way he died made many people changed the way they think of racial issues.

Effective leaders must learn to embrace conflict because it is an inexorable part of human interactions and without intervention, it seldom finds its own productive solutions (Myatt, 2012). The failure to address conflict early on will likely lead to workplace acrimony, disengagement and poor communication and cooperation (Myatt, 2012). The story of the conflict between Cindy and Dr. Jones is an excellent case to analyze the elements of conflict and conflict management.