The Prompt The 2020 Presidential Election was quite a nail-biter! Donald Trump and Joseph
Biden faced off in an unforgettable campaign. Nonetheless, behind all of the bluster of speeches,
events (virtual or in-person), photo-ops, and debates, the candidates stood for the principles of
their respective political parties.
During each presidential election, the Democratic and Republican Parties create what are known
as “party platforms.” Think of party platforms as their respective positions on important political
issues, policies, and goals for the country. In other words, it is their vision. The parties use the
platforms as a method of bringing their visions into focus so that voters have a sense of what the
parties stand for. The Democratic Party drafted a new platform for 2020, however, the
Republican Party was too afraid of Donald Trump to write a new one. For the first time in
American history, the party literally said, “we believe whatever he believes.” Yikes. Thus, the
2016 Platform will have to be your guide.
These party platforms rarely get any coverage because voters are so focused on the candidates.
It is your turn to analyze the arguments made by the Republican and Democratic Parties. You are
going beyond the ideology (“the what”) by focusing on visions (“the why”).
Your Task • Choose ONE policy issue from the list below
– If a policy issue is addressed in one of the party platforms but not the other, then you
must investigate the candidate’s other speeches for evidence of a position on the issue.
– Identify and describe each political party’s political ideology and position on the issue
(the “what”) In other words, what does the document state as their position?
– Explain how their vision of human nature, knowledge and reason, and social processes
impact their understanding of the assigned issue (the “why”)
– Further examine each political party’s position on the issue by looking at ONE
application that best applies: Equality, Power, Justice.
USE THESE WEBSITES2020 Democratic Party
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2020-democratic-party-platform
2016 Republican Party Platform
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2016-republican-party-platform
Policy Issues you can Use
COVID-19
Gun laws/rights
Health insurance
Defense spending/war
Social welfare/social
security/housing/etc.
Security/terrorism
Classical liberalism
Drugs/crime
Taxes Constitutions/law
Corporations
Women’s rights
Abortions
Pay equity
Climate change
Foreign aid
Infrastructure
Worker’s wages
Immigration/undocumented
immigration
Systemic racism
Race/ethnicity/inequality
LGTBQIA+
Public education/charter schools
Affirmative action
Economic stimulus
Families
Religious liberty/discrimination
Voting rights
Criminal justice/prison/police reform
Love in Poems
Verse love Robert Browning of verse “My keep going Duchess” depends on reality anecdote about the fifth Duke of Ferreira during the Renaissance time. He wedded a multi year old kid named Lucrezia and left her for a long time. She died at seventeen years old. In this section, the duke is searching for a second ex. Robert Browning was one of the extraordinary artists of the Victorian period. He composes sentimental verse and communicates love as a connection of this sonnet. The prosody of verse is an, a, b, b. This is a sensational monolog.
The pith of lesbian love, for example, Rich, Marvel, Campion’s affection verse, Adrian Ricci’s “21 Love Poem”, Andrew Marvel’s “To His Coy”, and the great love of men composing for ladies Explore verse. Special lady “And Thomas Campion” has a nursery all over. “Rickey’s sonnet centers around the part of” we “of affection. The sonnets of adoration composed by men are increasingly strict, while appreciating their subjects nearly, the idea of two incredible yet defective ladies face all restriction.
21 love verse and coasting sonnets experience various connections. Each talks an alternate love and discusses a sonnet that divides them. Sonnets of want as opposed to adore. Skimming verse is sexy, however is remembered for 21 love sonnets as physical love between two ladies. She communicates it as fragile and kind love, making this sonnet a physical demonstration of affection and energy, not only a craving. Her darling ‘s body pestered her for the rapture they spent together. The reason for skimming verse is the evening of enthusiasm that is encircled by the sympathy and love days as 21 love verse. Coasting verse shows that sex isn’t just a physical demonstration yet additionally a feeling. How these refrains are consolidated is special
These sonnets have likenesses, and the topic of adoration’s distress and triumph matches. Verse is a discussion among a couple, verse is about affection, the fundamental characters of the two sections are the equivalent. People lose their friends and family, yet in another way. One is dead and the other is battling. He should battle for his own nation. He follows the custom of the knight. Every sonnet has a plot to rhyme. In Suckling’s “The reason it was so pale and declining, most loved darling”, the plan of the refrain is (a b c b). In Lovelace’s “Lucasta to the war,” the jargon plot is (abdominal muscle stomach muscle).