Shortterm shelters, supporting homeless Women Veterans with children, and caring for Homeless Veterans across the country. Everyone, thank you for joining us today to discuss the coronavirus pandemic response. The impact of economic and Health Care Services on Homeless Veterans in america. Know thatryone to this forum is airing live. It is an historic moment. I want to thank both republicans and democrats alike for making this possible. The majority and minority working in a bipartisan way. Entirely first, live, virtual bipartisan forum for the United States congress. It is the first one ever. Both sides, congratulations, everybody, for making this possible. Covid19 has changed everything. Every american is affected. And americas veterans are not immune. In fact, veterans are facing unique challenges right now due to the Global Pandemic. But the challenges created by covid19 wont go away overnight. And in the wake of this pandemic, new challenges will emerge, and their impact could bec
Director of internet ethics, alex damas, the director of the stanford internet observatory and the director of journalism and media ethics at Markkula Center. This evening is copresented with the Markkula Center for applied ethics. Dss event is part of kqu series on common ground. It is an initiative ream people together for civil discourse, featuring journalists hosting provocative conversations about politics, policy, art, culture, science and technology. Reckoning with the disagreement among us about how to face the future of economic, culture and environmental uncertainty. This series asks what are our shared responsibilities to the common good . Next in the series if you have an open calendar is this tuesday at 7 00 p. M. , at the San Francisco exploratory them we will look at how to overcome the polarization. On to tonights topic. Democracy is under attack worldwide. Populism is on the rise. Disinformations tool number one and social media is the platform of choice. What can we d
Responding to this crisis. We will get through this and we will come out stronger than ever before. Thank you, madam president. Madam president , were back for our second week in the senate after spending some time working remotely to help flatten the coronavirus curve. Were getting used to the temporary new normal, social distancing during hearings, floor votes, and meetings. Masks, a lot of Conference Calls and skype calls, instead of inperson meeting. Lots of hand washing and Hand Sanitizer and as many staff working remotely as possible. Were committed to doing the essential work of the American People and theyre depending on us to do it in the safest way possible. Responding to the coronavirus continues to be at the top of the agenda. Last week we held a number of coronavirus related hearings, including a hearing on coronavirus testing, and a hearing on an impact the pandemic has had on the airline industry. When people think about what the senate does, they tend to think about vot
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Forward or even in the middle of the essay. The way i distinguish contextualization from making connections is contextualization means it is either within or next to the time period. Making connections, you are making a jump, maybe 20, 50, 1 00 years. I wouldnt go much farther. So it is not directed connected directly connected to the time period. Guest so a good example of that, with what we have been talking about with reconstruction is that, contextualization might take into account the situation for africanamericans in the United States immediately prior to the civil war, maybe in the 1850s or the 1840s. And a complexity point might be at the end of the essay, to look forward to well after reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, as an attempt to redress many of the problems that came out of reconstruction in that failed revolution. Host lets go to will, who is calling from buffalo, new york. Will, do you have a question for our distinguished teachers here