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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The correct answer is A. Mr. Thompkins said "boys, can you rake the leaves, too?"
Answer:
where old coral reefs rose above the sea
Explanation:
A clause introduced by the relative adverb where has an adverbial function, in this case modifying the complement of the verb "are located" in the main sentence, which is a prepositional phrase working as an adverb: "in the north Pacific Ocean." Adverbs are by definition modifiers of verbs, adjectives or other adverbs.
The correct answers could be remote or far.
In order to finish this analogy, we first have to see what the relationship between the first pair of words is. Near and close mean the same, which means they are synonyms. So this information tells us that the second pair of words also has to have a synonymous relationship.
So in order to complete this, we need to find a synonym for the word distant. Some examples would include remote, far, detached, etc.
Near is to close as distant is to far or remote
Near is to close as distant is to far or remote
A synonym is a word that means exactly or nearly the same as another lexeme (word or phrase) in the same language. Words that are synonyms are said to be synonymous, and the state of being a synonym is called synonymy.
Whereas an antonym is a word that has the opposite meaning of another word. The first known use of the word antonym was in 1857.
Far means at, to, or by a great distance (used to indicate the extent to which one thing is distant from another). Also it means over a large expanse of space or time. The synonym of far is away, deep, distant, far-flung, far-off, faraway, remote, removed.
Whereas near means at or to a short distance away; nearby. Also it means a short time away in the future. The synonym of near is close, close-up, immediate, nearby, neighboring, next-door, nigh, proximate
Grade: 9
Subject: english
Chapter: synonym and antonym
Keywords: Near, far, distant, synonym, antonym
B) Mark wanted blueberry pie and vanilla ice cream.
C) As I expected, she showed up late.
D) Sue gave Jim a new racket, and he left for the tennis courts.
Answer:
Most of the early pioneers in psychology, such as Sigmund Freud, Erik Erison, and Jean Piaget, favored the organismic perspective on human development, which views development as occurring in specific stages.
Explanation:
Organismic theories in psychology consist of a group of holistic theories in the same discipline that put their emphasis on how individuals organize, unite, and integrate through the way they naturally grow and their developmental tendency. It can be said that these theories have been influenced by the Gestalt Principles.