COVID 19: On January 9, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that a deadly coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan, China. By March 11, WHO declared that we were in a global pandemic (COVID-19), it’s first such designation since declaring H1N1 influenza a pandemic in 2009 (Salo, 2020). At the early stages of the pandemic all around the world restaurants, stores and other public spaces started closing their doors. WHO issued advice to all countries on how to detect, test and manage potential cases, based on what was known about the virus at the time.
As the pandemic wore on, however, there was less and less common ground. The biggest takeaway from US public opinion in the first year of the coronavirus outbreak was an increasingly partisan response to dealing with COVID 19. Democrats and Republicans disagreed over everything from eating out in restaurants to reopening schools and how to conduct the upcoming presidential election. While majorities in both parties anticipated the economic problems hurtling toward the nation, Democrats and Republicans differed sharply over whether the virus was a major threat to the health of the US population.
While another area of disagreement was on the Trump presidency. The partisan divide continued on variety of government-imposed measures such as wearing masks, restricting international travel to the US, canceling sports and entertainment events, closing K-12 schools, asking people to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people and halting indoor dining at restaurants. Amidst the pandemic was the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers which spurred a wave of riots against systemic racism towards African Americans. The environment was further amplified with COVID presenting safety concerns for the upcoming presidential election. Undeniably Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter movement became a backdrop to the upcoming presidential election.
COVID-19 and election 2020 dominated legislative agendas on voting and elections as the pandemic compelled states to create differing ways for voters to cast ballots safely. States passed a variety of efforts such as creating safety protocols at polling places, allowing and/or expanding vote by mail, absentee or curbside voting. Yet despite the variety of newly created electoral processes a poll found that Americans were divided, yet again along partisanship, in their confidence that their vote would be counted accurately.
Our Constitutional Certification Process
Our US Constitution outlines our certification process. A day whtch provided yet another turn of events when the capital riots broke out On the same date, set by the Constitution for Congress to formally count the electoral votes Trump supporters gathered for the “Save America” rally where attendees heard speeches from Trump. Before the speeches were over, a mob of protesters marched on Congress and stormed the building at the moments when Congress was in session, meeting to certify the Electoral College vote count. While several buildings in the US Capitol complex were evacuated, protesters broke past security to enter the US Capitol building. All buildings in the Capitol complex were subsequently locked down.
This prompt has described a variety of issues that we discussed during our semester and our collaboration (the pandemic and its global and economic effects, growing partisanship, racial injustice, the election process, the certification process and investigations and impeachment). Your paper is to take two of these issues from this essay and discuss it for your short 5/8-page paper using the APA format and making sure it is non-partisan (in other words a balanced perspective).2020 was a historic year with several issues not seen before. We had and still do have a deadly world-wide pandemic, a global movement for racial justice, a US presidential election, the proceeding riots at the capital and the first president in US history to be impeached twice with a current ongoing charges and investigations along with increased partisanship in our country.
COVID 19: On January 9, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that a deadly coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan, China. By March 11, WHO declared that we were in a global pandemic (COVID-19), it’s first such designation since declaring H1N1 influenza a pandemic in 2009 (Salo, 2020). At the early stages of the pandemic all around the world restaurants, stores and other public spaces started closing their doors. WHO issued advice to all countries on how to detect, test and manage potential cases, based on what was known about the virus at the time.
As the pandemic wore on, however, there was less and less common ground. The biggest takeaway from US public opinion in the first year of the coronavirus outbreak was an increasingly partisan response to dealing with COVID 19. Democrats and Republicans disagreed over everything from eating out in restaurants to reopening schools and how to conduct the upcoming presidential election. While majorities in both parties anticipated the economic problems hurtling toward the nation, Democrats and Republicans differed sharply over whether the virus was a major threat to the health of the US population.
While another area of disagreement was on the Trump presidency. The partisan divide continued on variety of government-imposed measures such as wearing masks, restricting international travel to the US, canceling sports and entertainment events, closing K-12 schools, asking people to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people and halting indoor dining at restaurants. Amidst the pandemic was the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers which spurred a wave of riots against systemic racism towards African Americans. The environment was further amplified with COVID presenting safety concerns for the upcoming presidential election. Undeniably Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter movement became a backdrop to the upcoming presidential election.
COVID-19 and election 2020 dominated legislative agendas on voting and elections as the pandemic compelled states to create differing ways for voters to cast ballots safely. States passed a variety of efforts such as creating safety protocols at polling places, allowing and/or expanding vote by mail, absentee or curbside voting. Yet despite the variety of newly created electoral processes a poll found that Americans were divided, yet again along partisanship, in their confidence that their vote would be counted accurately.
Our Constitutional Certification Process
Our US Constitution outlines our certification process. A day whtch provided yet another turn of events when the capital riots broke out On the same date, set by the Constitution for Congress to formally count the electoral votes Trump supporters gathered for the “Save America” rally where attendees heard speeches from Trump. Before the speeches were over, a mob of protesters marched on Congress and stormed the building at the moments when Congress was in session, meeting to certify the Electoral College vote count. While several buildings in the US Capitol complex were evacuated, protesters broke past security to enter the US Capitol building. All buildings in the Capitol complex were subsequently locked down.
This prompt has described a variety of issues that we discussed during our semester and our collaboration (the pandemic and its global and economic effects, growing partisanship, racial injustice, the election process, the certification process and investigations and impeachment). Your paper is to take two of these issues from this essay and discuss it for your short 5/8-page paper using the APA format and making sure it is non-partisan (in other words a balanced perspective).2020 was a historic year with several issues not seen before. We had and still do have a deadly world-wide pandemic, a global movement for racial justice, a US presidential election, the proceeding riots at the capital and the first president in US history to be impeached twice with a current ongoing charges and investigations along with increased partisanship in our country.
COVID 19: On January 9, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that a deadly coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan, China. By March 11, WHO declared that we were in a global pandemic (COVID-19), it’s first such designation since declaring H1N1 influenza a pandemic in 2009 (Salo, 2020). At the early stages of the pandemic all around the world restaurants, stores and other public spaces started closing their doors. WHO issued advice to all countries on how to detect, test and manage potential cases, based on what was known about the virus at the time.
As the pandemic wore on, however, there was less and less common ground. The biggest takeaway from US public opinion in the first year of the coronavirus outbreak was an increasingly partisan response to dealing with COVID 19. Democrats and Republicans disagreed over everything from eating out in restaurants to reopening schools and how to conduct the upcoming presidential election. While majorities in both parties anticipated the economic problems hurtling toward the nation, Democrats and Republicans differed sharply over whether the virus was a major threat to the health of the US population.
While another area of disagreement was on the Trump presidency. The partisan divide continued on variety of government-imposed measures such as wearing masks, restricting international travel to the US, canceling sports and entertainment events, closing K-12 schools, asking people to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people and halting indoor dining at restaurants. Amidst the pandemic was the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers which spurred a wave of riots against systemic racism towards African Americans. The environment was further amplified with COVID presenting safety concerns for the upcoming presidential election. Undeniably Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter movement became a backdrop to the upcoming presidential election.
COVID-19 and election 2020 dominated legislative agendas on voting and elections as the pandemic compelled states to create differing ways for voters to cast ballots safely. States passed a variety of efforts such as creating safety protocols at polling places, allowing and/or expanding vote by mail, absentee or curbside voting. Yet despite the variety of newly created electoral processes a poll found that Americans were divided, yet again along partisanship, in their confidence that their vote would be counted accurately.
Our Constitutional Certification Process
Our US Constitution outlines our certification process. A day whtch provided yet another turn of events when the capital riots broke out On the same date, set by the Constitution for Congress to formally count the electoral votes Trump supporters gathered for the “Save America” rally where attendees heard speeches from Trump. Before the speeches were over, a mob of protesters marched on Congress and stormed the building at the moments when Congress was in session, meeting to certify the Electoral College vote count. While several buildings in the US Capitol complex were evacuated, protesters broke past security to enter the US Capitol building. All buildings in the Capitol complex were subsequently locked down.
This prompt has described a variety of issues that we discussed during our semester and our collaboration (the pandemic and its global and economic effects, growing partisanship, racial injustice, the election process, the certification process and investigations and impeachment). Your paper is to take two of these issues from this essay and discuss it for your short 5/8-page paper using the APA format and making sure it is non-partisan (in other words a balanced perspective).2020 was a historic year with several issues not seen before. We had and still do have a deadly world-wide pandemic, a global movement for racial justice, a US presidential election, the proceeding riots at the capital and the first president in US history to be impeached twice with a current ongoing charges and investigations along with increased partisanship in our country.
COVID 19: On January 9, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that a deadly coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan, China. By March 11, WHO declared that we were in a global pandemic (COVID-19), it’s first such designation since declaring H1N1 influenza a pandemic in 2009 (Salo, 2020). At the early stages of the pandemic all around the world restaurants, stores and other public spaces started closing their doors. WHO issued advice to all countries on how to detect, test and manage potential cases, based on what was known about the virus at the time.
As the pandemic wore on, however, there was less and less common ground. The biggest takeaway from US public opinion in the first year of the coronavirus outbreak was an increasingly partisan response to dealing with COVID 19. Democrats and Republicans disagreed over everything from eating out in restaurants to reopening schools and how to conduct the upcoming presidential election. While majorities in both parties anticipated the economic problems hurtling toward the nation, Democrats and Republicans differed sharply over whether the virus was a major threat to the health of the US population.
While another area of disagreement was on the Trump presidency. The partisan divide continued on variety of government-imposed measures such as wearing masks, restricting international travel to the US, canceling sports and entertainment events, closing K-12 schools, asking people to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people and halting indoor dining at restaurants. Amidst the pandemic was the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers which spurred a wave of riots against systemic racism towards African Americans. The environment was further amplified with COVID presenting safety concerns for the upcoming presidential election. Undeniably Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter movement became a backdrop to the upcoming presidential election.
COVID-19 and election 2020 dominated legislative agendas on voting and elections as the pandemic compelled states to create differing ways for voters to cast ballots safely. States passed a variety of efforts such as creating safety protocols at polling places, allowing and/or expanding vote by mail, absentee or curbside voting. Yet despite the variety of newly created electoral processes a poll found that Americans were divided, yet again along partisanship, in their confidence that their vote would be counted accurately.
Our Constitutional Certification Process
Our US Constitution outlines our certification process. A day whtch provided yet another turn of events when the capital riots broke out On the same date, set by the Constitution for Congress to formally count the electoral votes Trump supporters gathered for the “Save America” rally where attendees heard speeches from Trump. Before the speeches were over, a mob of protesters marched on Congress and stormed the building at the moments when Congress was in session, meeting to certify the Electoral College vote count. While several buildings in the US Capitol complex were evacuated, protesters broke past security to enter the US Capitol building. All buildings in the Capitol complex were subsequently locked down.
This prompt has described a variety of issues that we discussed during our semester and our collaboration (the pandemic and its global and economic effects, growing partisanship, racial injustice, the election process, the certification process and investigations and impeachment). Your paper is to take two of these issues from this essay and discuss it for your short 5/8-page paper using the APA format and making sure it is non-partisan (in other words a balanced perspective).2020 was a historic year with several issues not seen before. We had and still do have a deadly world-wide pandemic, a global movement for racial justice, a US presidential election, the proceeding riots at the capital and the first president in US history to be impeached twice with a current ongoing charges and investigations along with increased partisanship in our country.
COVID 19: On January 9, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that a deadly coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan, China. By March 11, WHO declared that we were in a global pandemic (COVID-19), it’s first such designation since declaring H1N1 influenza a pandemic in 2009 (Salo, 2020). At the early stages of the pandemic all around the world restaurants, stores and other public spaces started closing their doors. WHO issued advice to all countries on how to detect, test and manage potential cases, based on what was known about the virus at the time.
As the pandemic wore on, however, there was less and less common ground. The biggest takeaway from US public opinion in the first year of the coronavirus outbreak was an increasingly partisan response to dealing with COVID 19. Democrats and Republicans disagreed over everything from eating out in restaurants to reopening schools and how to conduct the upcoming presidential election. While majorities in both parties anticipated the economic problems hurtling toward the nation, Democrats and Republicans differed sharply over whether the virus was a major threat to the health of the US population.
While another area of disagreement was on the Trump presidency. The partisan divide continued on variety of government-imposed measures such as wearing masks, restricting international travel to the US, canceling sports and entertainment events, closing K-12 schools, asking people to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people and halting indoor dining at restaurants. Amidst the pandemic was the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers which spurred a wave of riots against systemic racism towards African Americans. The environment was further amplified with COVID presenting safety concerns for the upcoming presidential election. Undeniably Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter movement became a backdrop to the upcoming presidential election.
COVID-19 and election 2020 dominated legislative agendas on voting and elections as the pandemic compelled states to create differing ways for voters to cast ballots safely. States passed a variety of efforts such as creating safety protocols at polling places, allowing and/or expanding vote by mail, absentee or curbside voting. Yet despite the variety of newly created electoral processes a poll found that Americans were divided, yet again along partisanship, in their confidence that their vote would be counted accurately.
Our Constitutional Certification Process
Our US Constitution outlines our certification process. A day whtch provided yet another turn of events when the capital riots broke out On the same date, set by the Constitution for Congress to formally count the electoral votes Trump supporters gathered for the “Save America” rally where attendees heard speeches from Trump. Before the speeches were over, a mob of protesters marched on Congress and stormed the building at the moments when Congress was in session, meeting to certify the Electoral College vote count. While several buildings in the US Capitol complex were evacuated, protesters broke past security to enter the US Capitol building. All buildings in the Capitol complex were subsequently locked down.
This prompt has described a variety of issues that we discussed during our semester and our collaboration (the pandemic and its global and economic effects, growing partisanship, racial injustice, the election process, the certification process and investigations and impeachment). Your paper is to take two of these issues from this essay and discuss it for your short 5/8-page paper using the APA format and making sure it is non-partisan (in other words a balanced perspective).2020 was a historic year with several issues not seen before. We had and still do have a deadly world-wide pandemic, a global movement for racial justice, a US presidential election, the proceeding riots at the capital and the first president in US history to be impeached twice with a current ongoing charges and investigations along with increased partisanship in our country.
COVID 19: On January 9, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that a deadly coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan, China. By March 11, WHO declared that we were in a global pandemic (COVID-19), it’s first such designation since declaring H1N1 influenza a pandemic in 2009 (Salo, 2020). At the early stages of the pandemic all around the world restaurants, stores and other public spaces started closing their doors. WHO issued advice to all countries on how to detect, test and manage potential cases, based on what was known about the virus at the time.
As the pandemic wore on, however, there was less and less common ground. The biggest takeaway from US public opinion in the first year of the coronavirus outbreak was an increasingly partisan response to dealing with COVID 19. Democrats and Republicans disagreed over everything from eating out in restaurants to reopening schools and how to conduct the upcoming presidential election. While majorities in both parties anticipated the economic problems hurtling toward the nation, Democrats and Republicans differed sharply over whether the virus was a major threat to the health of the US population.
While another area of disagreement was on the Trump presidency. The partisan divide continued on variety of government-imposed measures such as wearing masks, restricting international travel to the US, canceling sports and entertainment events, closing K-12 schools, asking people to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people and halting indoor dining at restaurants. Amidst the pandemic was the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers which spurred a wave of riots against systemic racism towards African Americans. The environment was further amplified with COVID presenting safety concerns for the upcoming presidential election. Undeniably Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter movement became a backdrop to the upcoming presidential election.
COVID-19 and election 2020 dominated legislative agendas on voting and elections as the pandemic compelled states to create differing ways for voters to cast ballots safely. States passed a variety of efforts such as creating safety protocols at polling places, allowing and/or expanding vote by mail, absentee or curbside voting. Yet despite the variety of newly created electoral processes a poll found that Americans were divided, yet again along partisanship, in their confidence that their vote would be counted accurately.
Our Constitutional Certification Process
Our US Constitution outlines our certification process. A day whtch provided yet another turn of events when the capital riots broke out On the same date, set by the Constitution for Congress to formally count the electoral votes Trump supporters gathered for the “Save America” rally where attendees heard speeches from Trump. Before the speeches were over, a mob of protesters marched on Congress and stormed the building at the moments when Congress was in session, meeting to certify the Electoral College vote count. While several buildings in the US Capitol complex were evacuated, protesters broke past security to enter the US Capitol building. All buildings in the Capitol complex were subsequently locked down.
This prompt has described a variety of issues that we discussed during our semester and our collaboration (the pandemic and its global and economic effects, growing partisanship, racial injustice, the election process, the certification process and investigations and impeachment). Your paper is to take two of these issues from this essay and discuss it for your short 5/8-page paper using the APA format and making sure it is non-partisan (in other words a balanced perspective).2020 was a historic year with several issues not seen before. We had and still do have a deadly world-wide pandemic, a global movement for racial justice, a US presidential election, the proceeding riots at the capital and the first president in US history to be impeached twice with a current ongoing charges and investigations along with increased partisanship in our country.
COVID 19: On January 9, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that a deadly coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan, China. By March 11, WHO declared that we were in a global pandemic (COVID-19), it’s first such designation since declaring H1N1 influenza a pandemic in 2009 (Salo, 2020). At the early stages of the pandemic all around the world restaurants, stores and other public spaces started closing their doors. WHO issued advice to all countries on how to detect, test and manage potential cases, based on what was known about the virus at the time.
As the pandemic wore on, however, there was less and less common ground. The biggest takeaway from US public opinion in the first year of the coronavirus outbreak was an increasingly partisan response to dealing with COVID 19. Democrats and Republicans disagreed over everything from eating out in restaurants to reopening schools and how to conduct the upcoming presidential election. While majorities in both parties anticipated the economic problems hurtling toward the nation, Democrats and Republicans differed sharply over whether the virus was a major threat to the health of the US population.
While another area of disagreement was on the Trump presidency. The partisan divide continued on variety of government-imposed measures such as wearing masks, restricting international travel to the US, canceling sports and entertainment events, closing K-12 schools, asking people to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people and halting indoor dining at restaurants. Amidst the pandemic was the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers which spurred a wave of riots against systemic racism towards African Americans. The environment was further amplified with COVID presenting safety concerns for the upcoming presidential election. Undeniably Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter movement became a backdrop to the upcoming presidential election.
COVID-19 and election 2020 dominated legislative agendas on voting and elections as the pandemic compelled states to create differing ways for voters to cast ballots safely. States passed a variety of efforts such as creating safety protocols at polling places, allowing and/or expanding vote by mail, absentee or curbside voting. Yet despite the variety of newly created electoral processes a poll found that Americans were divided, yet again along partisanship, in their confidence that their vote would be counted accurately.
Our Constitutional Certification Process
Our US Constitution outlines our certification process. A day whtch provided yet another turn of events when the capital riots broke out On the same date, set by the Constitution for Congress to formally count the electoral votes Trump supporters gathered for the “Save America” rally where attendees heard speeches from Trump. Before the speeches were over, a mob of protesters marched on Congress and stormed the building at the moments when Congress was in session, meeting to certify the Electoral College vote count. While several buildings in the US Capitol complex were evacuated, protesters broke past security to enter the US Capitol building. All buildings in the Capitol complex were subsequently locked down.
This prompt has described a variety of issues that we discussed during our semester and our collaboration (the pandemic and its global and economic effects, growing partisanship, racial injustice, the election process, the certification process and investigations and impeachment). Your paper is to take two of these issues from this essay and discuss it for your short 5/8-page paper using the APA format and making sure it is non-partisan (in other words a balanced perspective).2020 was a historic year with several issues not seen before. We had and still do have a deadly world-wide pandemic, a global movement for racial justice, a US presidential election, the proceeding riots at the capital and the first president in US history to be impeached twice with a current ongoing charges and investigations along with increased partisanship in our country.
COVID 19: On January 9, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that a deadly coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan, China. By March 11, WHO declared that we were in a global pandemic (COVID-19), it’s first such designation since declaring H1N1 influenza a pandemic in 2009 (Salo, 2020). At the early stages of the pandemic all around the world restaurants, stores and other public spaces started closing their doors. WHO issued advice to all countries on how to detect, test and manage potential cases, based on what was known about the virus at the time.
As the pandemic wore on, however, there was less and less common ground. The biggest takeaway from US public opinion in the first year of the coronavirus outbreak was an increasingly partisan response to dealing with COVID 19. Democrats and Republicans disagreed over everything from eating out in restaurants to reopening schools and how to conduct the upcoming presidential election. While majorities in both parties anticipated the economic problems hurtling toward the nation, Democrats and Republicans differed sharply over whether the virus was a major threat to the health of the US population.
While another area of disagreement was on the Trump presidency. The partisan divide continued on variety of government-imposed measures such as wearing masks, restricting international travel to the US, canceling sports and entertainment events, closing K-12 schools, asking people to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people and halting indoor dining at restaurants. Amidst the pandemic was the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers which spurred a wave of riots against systemic racism towards African Americans. The environment was further amplified with COVID presenting safety concerns for the upcoming presidential election. Undeniably Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter movement became a backdrop to the upcoming presidential election.
COVID-19 and election 2020 dominated legislative agendas on voting and elections as the pandemic compelled states to create differing ways for voters to cast ballots safely. States passed a variety of efforts such as creating safety protocols at polling places, allowing and/or expanding vote by mail, absentee or curbside voting. Yet despite the variety of newly created electoral processes a poll found that Americans were divided, yet again along partisanship, in their confidence that their vote would be counted accurately.
Our Constitutional Certification Process
Our US Constitution outlines our certification process. A day whtch provided yet another turn of events when the capital riots broke out On the same date, set by the Constitution for Congress to formally count the electoral votes Trump supporters gathered for the “Save America” rally where attendees heard speeches from Trump. Before the speeches were over, a mob of protesters marched on Congress and stormed the building at the moments when Congress was in session, meeting to certify the Electoral College vote count. While several buildings in the US Capitol complex were evacuated, protesters broke past security to enter the US Capitol building. All buildings in the Capitol complex were subsequently locked down.
This prompt has described a variety of issues that we discussed during our semester and our collaboration (the pandemic and its global and economic effects, growing partisanship, racial injustice, the election process, the certification process and investigations and impeachment). Your paper is to take two of these issues from this essay and discuss it for your short 5/8-page paper using the APA format and making sure it is non-partisan (in other words a balanced perspective).2020 was a historic year with several issues not seen before. We had and still do have a deadly world-wide pandemic, a global movement for racial justice, a US presidential election, the proceeding riots at the capital and the first president in US history to be impeached twice with a current ongoing charges and investigations along with increased partisanship in our country.
COVID 19: On January 9, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that a deadly coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan, China. By March 11, WHO declared that we were in a global pandemic (COVID-19), it’s first such designation since declaring H1N1 influenza a pandemic in 2009 (Salo, 2020). At the early stages of the pandemic all around the world restaurants, stores and other public spaces started closing their doors. WHO issued advice to all countries on how to detect, test and manage potential cases, based on what was known about the virus at the time.
As the pandemic wore on, however, there was less and less common ground. The biggest takeaway from US public opinion in the first year of the coronavirus outbreak was an increasingly partisan response to dealing with COVID 19. Democrats and Republicans disagreed over everything from eating out in restaurants to reopening schools and how to conduct the upcoming presidential election. While majorities in both parties anticipated the economic problems hurtling toward the nation, Democrats and Republicans differed sharply over whether the virus was a major threat to the health of the US population.
While another area of disagreement was on the Trump presidency. The partisan divide continued on variety of government-imposed measures such as wearing masks, restricting international travel to the US, canceling sports and entertainment events, closing K-12 schools, asking people to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people and halting indoor dining at restaurants. Amidst the pandemic was the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers which spurred a wave of riots against systemic racism towards African Americans. The environment was further amplified with COVID presenting safety concerns for the upcoming presidential election. Undeniably Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter movement became a backdrop to the upcoming presidential election.
COVID-19 and election 2020 dominated legislative agendas on voting and elections as the pandemic compelled states to create differing ways for voters to cast ballots safely. States passed a variety of efforts such as creating safety protocols at polling places, allowing and/or expanding vote by mail, absentee or curbside voting. Yet despite the variety of newly created electoral processes a poll found that Americans were divided, yet again along partisanship, in their confidence that their vote would be counted accurately.
Our Constitutional Certification Process
Our US Constitution outlines our certification process. A day whtch provided yet another turn of events when the capital riots broke out On the same date, set by the Constitution for Congress to formally count the electoral votes Trump supporters gathered for the “Save America” rally where attendees heard speeches from Trump. Before the speeches were over, a mob of protesters marched on Congress and stormed the building at the moments when Congress was in session, meeting to certify the Electoral College vote count. While several buildings in the US Capitol complex were evacuated, protesters broke past security to enter the US Capitol building. All buildings in the Capitol complex were subsequently locked down.
This prompt has described a variety of issues that we discussed during our semester and our collaboration (the pandemic and its global and economic effects, growing partisanship, racial injustice, the election process, the certification process and investigations and impeachment). Your paper is to take two of these issues from this essay and discuss it for your short 5/8-page paper using the APA format and making sure it is non-partisan (in other words a balanced perspective).2020 was a historic year with several issues not seen before. We had and still do have a deadly world-wide pandemic, a global movement for racial justice, a US presidential election, the proceeding riots at the capital and the first president in US history to be impeached twice with a current ongoing charges and investigations along with increased partisanship in our country.
COVID 19: On January 9, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that a deadly coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan, China. By March 11, WHO declared that we were in a global pandemic (COVID-19), it’s first such designation since declaring H1N1 influenza a pandemic in 2009 (Salo, 2020). At the early stages of the pandemic all around the world restaurants, stores and other public spaces started closing their doors. WHO issued advice to all countries on how to detect, test and manage potential cases, based on what was known about the virus at the time.
As the pandemic wore on, however, there was less and less common ground. The biggest takeaway from US public opinion in the first year of the coronavirus outbreak was an increasingly partisan response to dealing with COVID 19. Democrats and Republicans disagreed over everything from eating out in restaurants to reopening schools and how to conduct the upcoming presidential election. While majorities in both parties anticipated the economic problems hurtling toward the nation, Democrats and Republicans differed sharply over whether the virus was a major threat to the health of the US population.
While another area of disagreement was on the Trump presidency. The partisan divide continued on variety of government-imposed measures such as wearing masks, restricting international travel to the US, canceling sports and entertainment events, closing K-12 schools, asking people to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people and halting indoor dining at restaurants. Amidst the pandemic was the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers which spurred a wave of riots against systemic racism towards African Americans. The environment was further amplified with COVID presenting safety concerns for the upcoming presidential election. Undeniably Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter movement became a backdrop to the upcoming presidential election.
COVID-19 and election 2020 dominated legislative agendas on voting and elections as the pandemic compelled states to create differing ways for voters to cast ballots safely. States passed a variety of efforts such as creating safety protocols at polling places, allowing and/or expanding vote by mail, absentee or curbside voting. Yet despite the variety of newly created electoral processes a poll found that Americans were divided, yet again along partisanship, in their confidence that their vote would be counted accurately.
Our Constitutional Certification Process
Our US Constitution outlines our certification process. A day whtch provided yet another turn of events when the capital riots broke out On the same date, set by the Constitution for Congress to formally count the electoral votes Trump supporters gathered for the “Save America” rally where attendees heard speeches from Trump. Before the speeches were over, a mob of protesters marched on Congress and stormed the building at the moments when Congress was in session, meeting to certify the Electoral College vote count. While several buildings in the US Capitol complex were evacuated, protesters broke past security to enter the US Capitol building. All buildings in the Capitol complex were subsequently locked down.
This prompt has described a variety of issues that we discussed during our semester and our collaboration (the pandemic and its global and economic effects, growing partisanship, racial injustice, the election process, the certification process and investigations and impeachment). Your paper is to take two of these issues from this essay and discuss it for your short 5/8-page paper using the APA format and making sure it is non-partisan (in other words a balanced perspective).
