tests because they had a “disparate and adverse impact on blacks.” Frank Ricci sued the city arguing the city violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and Tittle VII of the Civil Rights Act when they did not accept the three white candidates. He further argued‚ if the court ruled in favor of the city‚ than governments could discriminate against whites as much as they would like. The courts ruled in favor of Ricci stating‚ “the employer must have ‘strong basis in evidence‚’ that will
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was a ‘Ricci-year’: scholarly meetings in different places around the world‚ from Chicago (US)‚ over Macerata (Italy) to Taibei (Taiwan)‚ commemorated Matteo Ricci’s entry in China. It was exactly four hundred years since his arrival in the Portuguese settlement of Macao in 1582 and his entry into the mainland one year later. In 2001‚ there were new celebrations of Ricci‚ in Hong Kong and in Beijing‚ commemorating his definitive settling in Beijing in 1601. The year 2010 is again a ‘Ricci-year’‚
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that would ultimately reduce global climate changes others may follow in our footsteps. One specific example of the detrimental global climate changes is El Niño. I am unaware if you know the background behind this but El Niño is a naturally occurring event within the equatorial region‚ which causes changes in the global climate. Before‚ El Niño
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One must take careful consideration before acting‚ because the aftermath can lead to a chain of events whose consequences can be disastrous. Nino Ricci’s Lives of the Saints is an excellent example of how the consequences of a person’s actions can affect everyone around them‚ including themselves. First‚ Cristina makes several choices throughout the novel that not only reflect her thoughtlessness‚ but her inability to see that it affects people beyond herself. The repercussions of Cristina’s actions
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Description (Cristina) LIVES OF THE SAINTS ESSAY Teacher: Ms. Haasen Student: Olga Yaremchuk Subject: English University Prep The novel “Lives of the Saints” by Nino Ricci describes the protagonist Cristina who is also known as the daughter of the mayor. Throughout the novel‚ her husband is in Canada preparing for the immigration of the family. Due to the villagers’ belief in superstition‚ Cristina is treated as a
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El Niño & La Niña It should be recognized that the strong weather pattern called El-Nino-Southern Oscillation‚ or ENSO‚ is unfortunately an unavoidable occurrence. This weather formation is known as an essential process for maintaining long-term global climate stability throughout the year. El Nino and La Nina‚ two phenomenal and impacting events‚ generally occur in the ocean surface temperature across the central and eastern tropical Pacific. However these two weather extremes are two entirely
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graph. 19. El Niño computer model was the instrument that help scientist. The model was forecasting a cold ocean throughout the remainder of 1997. For more than a decade‚ this model had outperformed all others in predicting El Niños to come. 20. This gargantuan wedge of warm sea contains 20 or 30 times as much water as all the Great Lakes put together. 21. The wedge of seawater is less waters salty than normal seawater. The reason why is because it’s always raining over an El Niño‚ and the rainwater
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If you want to know the story of Octavia Nino Gryll‚ you’d better have buckled your seatbelts‚ because she’s a damaged one. Tavi grew up in a corrupted Orphanage for most of her sorry excuse for a life. Getting tired of the terrible and illegal treatment she had escaped the place with five other people when she had just turned 11. They fled the state as fast as they could by bus and landed in a Urban town filled with busybodies and business people to the brim. In that harsh month in the season of
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The Effects of Alienation and Loneliness in Lives of the Saints Loneliness is a state of mind that leaves people depressed and emotionally weak. The members of the Innocente family suffer from alienation through various social groups. In Nino Ricci’s Lives of the Saints‚ Cristina and grandfather (Cristina’s father) are alienated from the community (grandfather is isolated from the community)‚ and Vitto is alienated from his family. Alienation makes the lives of these characters lonely and depressing
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Ricci v. DeStefano Supreme Court of the United States 129 S. Ct. 2658; 174 L. Ed. 2d 490 (2009) April 22‚2009‚ Argued June 29‚ 2009‚ Decided This 2009 Supreme Court decision was a result of alleged racial discrimination with regard to internal promotions of nineteen New Haven‚ Connecticut firefighters. New Haven city officials invalidated test results when no Blacks scored high enough to meet the minimum score necessary to be eligible for promotion. Therefore‚ the White and Hispanic candidates
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