What is the major difference between the figures in the background of the painting and the figures in the foreground? What is the effect of this difference?

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

cultural/diplomatic relations. most medieval japanese   culture has chinese origins. writing, architecture etc.

north atlantic treaty organization.