How big of an advantage do minority students really have in gaining admission to Ivy League universities?
Q. How big of an advantage do underrepresented minorities actually have in gaining admission to top universities? Would a minority student with lower test scores and a lower GPA actually gain admission over a white student with a 4.0 GPA and top test scores?
Asked by Greta - Sun Sep 7 20:56:31 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. BIG ONE! We are nothing compared to them! We are just numbers and that IS IT! You just made me extremely depressed! I think about this all of the time...people with money get the best in life...we get leftovers!
Answered by The ugly fruit freak - Sun Sep 7 21:06:20 2008

Are liberals the vocal Minority that will push their agenda forward without regard to the Majority?
Q. A recent Gallup poll shows that 40% of people in the USA consider themselves conservatives, 37% consider themselves moderates and only 20% consider themselves liberals. But it seems like the liberals are winning and having everything go their way. Are they the vocal minority that will push their agenda through without regard to the rest of the country?
Asked by Buffalo soldier - Mon Oct 26 16:29:14 2009 - - 21 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Minority, or the Majority push their agendas forward with out regard for either.
Answered by DontStealTheGovHatesCompetition - Mon Oct 26 16:32:48 2009

How do you start a minority owned business? Do you need a consultant?
Q. I'd like to start a minority owned business. Is it the right path to hire a consultant to help with all of the applications? Or does the SBA help you for free? Thanks!
Asked by ld476 - Wed Apr 5 12:37:03 2006 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. A minority owned business is just like any other business, except that it is majority-owned by a minority. Like any other businesses, a consultant is not required but the business owner can opt to use one if deemed necessary. Many businesses have started and thrived well even without consultants. If you need help, the following can help you, just check for the location nearest you: score minority Business Development Agency (a very good resource for you)
Answered by imisidro - Wed Apr 5 12:45:53 2006

What is the importance of minority and feminist art?
Q. Discuss the importance of minority and feminist art? Did it informan or activate social change or was it a reflect on the change?
Asked by brwnis1 - Thu Apr 17 20:47:25 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. This is an odd question, and obviously a homework one, but in any case, any form of art serves both purposes. Art is a reflection of society and how the artist sees society. The images can create a sense of urgency that can help spur change, or it can reflect society as these changes happen.
Answered by Liberty or Death - Thu Apr 17 21:38:52 2008

What is the difference between a minority and a majority government?
Q. This is not homework but where I live right now, Canada, there is an election undergoing for the Prime Minister (President) and they are throwing around words such as Majority and Minority and they need 155 and right now they have 70, what does it mean?
Asked by Scott - Tue Oct 14 21:57:01 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. A majority government has one regime, party, or ethnicity capable of controlling over 50% of votes on legislation. Whereas A minority government there are enough political divisions that no one group can pass most legislation.
Answered by LilLiE - Wed Oct 15 16:42:48 2008

What happened to the majority and minority groups during the bosnia genocide?
Q. I can't seem to find this simple little thing.. "What happened to the majority and minority groups during the bosnia genocide?"
Asked by Robert - Thu Nov 19 00:08:03 2009 - - 1 Answers - 6 Comments

A. First of all, there was no genocide in Bosnia. The only ruled case was the Srebrenica event in which the Serbs took their revenge to the point of war crime over captured soldiers and male civilians, but that equates why they went for revenge upon Dutch UN controlled Srebrenica in first place - because prior to that the Muslim military battalion under Naser Oric was hiding in the UN safe haven of Srebrenica and jumping around into Serb villages, killing civilians, captured soldiers, etc. Oric publicly said that they were to leave no prisoners. A separate issue is why you were made to think that it was a genocide. Why you concluded that after watching CNN, etc. In Bosnia the minority groups (gypsies, etc.) are irrelevant. They were no… [cont.]
Answered by aeiou_i - Thu Nov 19 00:54:07 2009

How can I claim minority status so liberals will love me?
Q. I noticed that libs love gays, even white males, because they are a "minority." I am a Southern Baptist white male who is extremely straight. How can I be a minority so I can have been oppressed too? I want to tell libs how my people have struggled, and continue to struggle just so I can see the look on their faces! Can you help me?
Asked by Matthew - Tue Jan 12 15:13:01 2010 - - 10 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Just go down to one of the ACORN offices and fo a fee they will tell you how to cheat your way into that level of status. They were caught red handed on film and Maobama still loves them and wants to offer them funding through health care reform. They are the experts.
Answered by Pragmatic1 - Fri Jan 15 03:05:52 2010

Can I get a minority scholarship if I'm a caucasian student at a predominantly black university?
Q. I will be attending FAMU in Tallahassee, FL in the Fall of this year and I'm having some money troubles. A friend of mine told me that he had heard you could get a minority scholarship for being white if you are attending a school where the minority is the majority. It makes perfect sense, but is the scholarship relative to the university or the national average? I am actually half caucasian and half asian, but I don't think that helps me either way. Has anyone else gotten one of these or heard something similar?
Asked by amber - Mon Jan 25 06:27:19 2010 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Actually, I think it does help you to be half-Asian, at least, because Asians qualify as a national minority as well as minority at your specific school (I assume). You fall under the category of "HAPA", which represents Half-Asian-Pacific-Americ an (though it has varying abbreviations). Harvard has a HAPA group that supports people of mixed-Asian ancestry; You should look for Asian-American or HAPA clubs and groups in your city, state, or prospective school that either offer scholarships or know where to point you to find some. I almost got a Chinese-American Lion's Club scholarship once when I entered one of their drawing contests in middle school (but i only won the honorable mention). You can join this forum and ask other HAPAS… [cont.]
Answered by elainelm - Mon Jan 25 07:12:05 2010

What would have been the consequences of a minority government?
Q. If the Conservatives had not formed a coalition with the Lib-Dems and the Labour party and the Lib-Dems and the Nationalists had not been able to do the same, Then what would have happened. I am told that the Conservatives could have formed a minority government. What would this mean in practise? Are there any alternatives to a coalition government or a minorit government?
Asked by tuthutop - Fri May 14 03:26:45 2010 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Without enough Members of Parliament to vote on legislation to push through their policies, a minority government does not have the power to implement any Acts of Parliament. It is effectively toothless. Now that doesn't mean to say that they couldn't pass any Acts, just that they would need enough support from other parties to vote them through, and those parties may have other ideas about what amendments would need to be made to the Act before they would vote for it. Each Act could be held up for months whilst it was discussed, debated, analysed, rephrased, adjusted and amended before it could be resubmitted for a vote. It could become a completely different piece of legislation by the end, and the strong policies of the political… [cont.]
Answered by Heralda - Sat May 15 09:48:52 2010

How would my boyfriend go about getting a minority scholarship?
Q. He's 21 years old, and has never taken any college courses whatsoever. He's really looking into getting a minority scholarship at Florida A&M University, however we both don't know how to go about doing it. Does anybody have any suggestions, or know how?
Asked by Erika the VT - Thu Mar 6 20:39:23 2008 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments

A. E-mail your avatar to the admissions office and tell them there's more where that came from. Seriously, though, he should just apply to the university. Once he's admitted, he will be offered a scholarship (or a chance to apply for one) if he's eligible for one.
Answered by sictransitnihil67 - Thu Mar 6 20:51:17 2008

How much difference is the short story of Minority Report from the movie?
Q. Minority Rport starring Tom Criuse. The short story is shorter than the movie. How much difference it. What is the difference in the both.
Asked by Moe - Mon Oct 16 20:55:33 2006 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Hmmm, I did not know the movie was based uopon a short story. I thought it was an original screenplay.
Answered by prstlyone - Tue Oct 17 20:51:49 2006

Which under-qualified minority will be chosen to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stevens?
Q. I know the libs are already trying to fill his seat with a minority and/or person of dubious qualifications...The USA is a truly an ill country. God save us.
Asked by Sven Bgorti - Tue Apr 6 20:12:51 2010 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

What is a minority rationale in a brief casing?
Q. I am doing homework and I am having to do a brief casing. I picked the case Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc. I have completed the Facts, Issue, Ruling, and Analysis. I am just not sure what the Minority Rationale is. Thank you!
Asked by unknown - Sat Jun 30 19:22:29 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I have not studied law nor do I plan on doing so but I might be able to ease your research, with the links below FCC Rationale metrophones telecommunications, INC. ... has not explained its rationale in great detail, Telecommunications Act of ... offered any rationale as to why ... Metrophones current counsel, when urging this Court to grant certiorari Minority Rationale https://www.abanet.org/pu bliced/preview/briefs/pdf s/06-07/05-705_Petitioner Reply.pdf
Answered by LucySD - Sat Jun 30 20:25:19 2007

How did the minority groups' struggle for civil rights begin in the 1950s?
Q. How did the minority groups struggle for civil rights begin in the 1950s? Which event from this time do you think was most responsible for bringing public attention to the American Civil Rights Movement? Explain why you selected this event.
Asked by MissQueenBee - Sun Nov 23 19:52:58 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The Civil Rights Movement is sometimes defined as a struggle against racial segregation that began in 1955 when Rosa Parks, the "seamstress with tired feet," refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Alabama. Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court case that attacked the notion of "separate but equal," has also been identified as the catalyst for this extraordinary period of organized boycotts, student protests, and mass marches. These legendary events, however, did not cause the modern Civil Rights Movement, but were instead important moments in a campaign of direct action that began two decades before the first sit-in demonstration. From Shmoop History on Civil Rights Movement
Answered by augie6_1 - Tue Nov 25 14:44:16 2008

What other countries in the world, if any, have elected a minority to its highest office?
Q. I can't think of any. I know no country in Europe has. I think it is ironic because they all were very adamant that America needed to elect a minority.
Asked by Rocket P - Sat Nov 8 23:58:03 2008 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Elected minority heads of state Japanese President of Peru Alberto Fujimori Since women are considered a minority in the US and we have never had a female president I have listed some of them. Female elected heads of state First female Prime Minister and President In 1960 Sirivamo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first female elected Prime Minister and in 1974 Isabel Peron of Argentina became the first woman President - one woman had been Acting Head of Government and two women Acting Heads of State before that. Current female heads of state and government There are 192 members of the United Nations, 2 independent states outside, a few self-declared de-facto independent states and many self-ruling depencies. 23 have got… [cont.]
Answered by Sidney - Sun Nov 9 00:52:01 2008

What research papers study discrimination and stereotyping of majority groups by minority groups?
Q. Hi. I wanted to know the names of articles that study discrimination and stereotyping of majority groups by minority groups (or the usually stigmatized groups). I've been told that Susan Fiske wrote a great deal about this, but I cannot find a specific research article on the topic
Asked by Avalon - Thu May 6 22:57:58 2010 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. try for an abstract of her work on both majority and minority group ways of perceiving other groups.: Ethnic Identity Moderates Perceptions of Prejudice: Judgments of Personal Versus Group Discrimination and Subtle Versus Blatant Bias Don Operario and Susan T. Fiske I found it fairiy quickly by entering the terms 'susan fiske minority groups perceptions' in the search engine 'Google Scholar' there seem to be plenty of others that you could scroll through good luck ps you might need to have access to a college library/computer to access the complete articles pps as she is a social psychologist , and all her publications seem to be in various Soc Psy journals rather than in Sociology ones, you could also try the psychology… [cont.]
Answered by radish - Thu May 6 23:26:13 2010

Is the US one of the only countries to ever elect a minority president?
Q. I heard that the US is the only country to elect a minority leader. I know in some countries, the minorities rule (like South Africa under the apartheid when whites were the minority), but I think we're the only country that has elected one. Please note that by minority, I mean a person who is of the less-prevalent race in their country.
Asked by Chet A - Fri Jul 16 13:09:28 2010 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

Why are women considered a minority in America, even though they make up over half the population?
Q. Why are women considered a minority in America, even though they make up 51% of the population?? Is it because their brains are smaller, and therefore, they make up a minority of the brainpower in the country?
Asked by Feminists Stole My Teddy Bear - Fri Aug 14 09:46:52 2009 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Well my small brain can answer this. There are several different definitions of a minority one being A group having little power or representation relative to other groups within a society. Since there are few women in political office women would be a minority.
Answered by SassyLassie - Fri Aug 14 10:37:58 2009

What is the difference between a minority government and a coalition government?
Q. Correct me if I'm wrong. I minority government is a single party that does not have most of the votes of the nation. I coalition government is two or more parties joining together to form a majority. My answer is just a speculation, I do not know the specific facts.
Asked by play_festivity - Thu Jul 19 20:15:57 2007 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Why ask a question and then answer it yourself?
Answered by SgtMoto - Thu Jul 19 20:18:26 2007

What suggestions do you have for helping minority groups students improve their scores?
Q. From a college admissions officer's perspective, you notice that students who are members of minority groups systematically receive lower scores on standardized college entrance exams. What suggestions do you have for helping these students improve their scores?
Asked by Zola - Mon Jul 27 11:55:16 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. A suggestion: Provide the opportunity to participate in voluntary preparatory lectures which provide specific skill sets and strategies for improved scoring.
Answered by robertminidriver - Tue Jul 28 13:51:24 2009