The creation of Election Day improved the election process for Americans
In order to vote in Tuesday's midterm elections, millions of Americans will have to accommodate their work schedules.
This may mean heading to the polls early in the morning, taking an extended lunch break, or traveling later in the evening in the hopes of arriving before the polls close. Many of them may be wondering why the US votes on Tuesdays of all days while they wait in line.
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Many of the millions of Americans voting in Tuesday’s midterm elections will have to do so while working around the demands of their jobs – hitting their polling places before work, taking an extra-long lunch break or going afterward and hoping to make it before the polls close. As they stand in line, many of them may wonder why it is that the United States votes on a Tuesday, of all days. (To be fair, more than 38 million Americans already have voted early in person, by mail or by absentee ballot, according to a tally maintained by University of Florida political scientist Michael McDonald.)
The first law designating Election Day as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November was passed back in 1845. At the time, every state except South Carolina was choosing its presidential electors by popular vote, and had considerable flexibility in deciding when to hold its elections. But as transportation and communications links between the states improved, concern grew that later-voting states could be influenced by the results in earlier-voting ones. (As the Congressional Globe wrote, paraphrasing one congressman’s remarks, “The object of this bill was to guard against frauds in the elections of President and Vice President, by declaring that they shall all be held on the same day.”)
But why November, and why on a Tuesday? As a State Department explainer from 2008 put it, back then the U.S. was a predominantly agrarian society. November made sense because it was after farmers were done with their harvest, but before hard winter weather that could make it difficult for them to get to town to vote. And since traveling by horse over unimproved roads could take a while, lawmakers wanted to avoid making their constituents travel to or from the polls on a Sunday (widely considered a day of rest and worship, not politicking).
The U.S. is one of only nine OECD nations that have weekday voting in the 21st century, however, America’s election schedule makes it an outlier among advanced industrial democracies. A Pew Research Center analysis finds that 27 of the 36 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development hold their national elections on the weekend, while two others (Israel and South Korea) hold elections on weekdays but make those days national holidays so economic hardship won’t be a barrier to electoral participation.
There have been repeated proposals in the U.S. over the years to either move Election Day to the weekend or make it a federal holiday, on the grounds that doing so would boost turnout. A recent Pew Research Center poll found bipartisan majority support for the idea: 71% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents and 59% of Republicans and GOP leaners said they would support making Election Day a national holiday. But while proposals to do that have periodically been introduced in Congress, none have gotten very far.
A handful of states give employees Election Day offElection Day is, however, a paid holiday in 13 states, at least for state employees (though Kentucky state workers only get the day off in presidential-election years); in New Mexico, state workers are allowed two hours of paid administrative leave to vote. Many states require employers to give their workers time off to vote; in some states, such as New York and California, workers can’t be docked any pay for taking time off to vote. And many employers, from outdoor clothing company Patagonia to restaurant chain Cava, have taken it upon themselves to give their workers paid time off to vote this year.
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Ringed with the azure world, he stands,
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls;
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Which type of figurative language is used in this description of the eagle: "He clasps the crag with crooked hands?"
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification
simile
Answer:
The answer is indeed option C) personification.
Explanation:
The sentence "He clasps the crag with crooked hands" employs a figure of speech called personification. Personification is when an author gives a non-human thing - an object, an idea, an animal - attributes or features of a human. In this case, the pronoun "he" is being used to refer to an animal even though the correct pronoun would be "it". Also, the author chooses to use the word "hands" - a human body part - to refer to the eagle's "claws".
The type of figurative language is used in this description of the eagle: "He clasps the crag with crooked hands?l is C. personification
The sentence "He clasps the crag with crooked hands" employs a figure of speech called personification. Personification is when an author gives a non-human thing - an object, an idea, an animal - attributes or features of a human.
In this case, the pronoun "he" is being used to refer to an animal even though the correct pronoun would be "it". Also, the author chooses to use the word "hands" - a human body part - to refer to the eagle's "claws".
The correct option is C.
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not persistent
both of these
none of these
Coleridge was different from Wordsworth in that he was not persistent.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, along with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads .
You interviewed Meagan Grandly, an expert on the Titanic, on February 17, 2012 by telephone. The interview lasted 45 minutes.
NOTE: The program will not allow you to use italics or underlining. For this exercise, you will ignore that punctuation.
B.) Is this structure generally allowed in standard grammar?
C.) How has the author tried to prove a point with this argument?
D.) Why did the author include these specific statistics and graph?
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