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Student Perspectives: One Year into the COVID-19 pandemic

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Student Perspectives: One Year into the COVID-19 pandemic

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The article Students Perspectives: One Year into the COVID-19 pandemic by Newsela staff and students the article states that 93 percent of american elementary, middle school, and high school students adapted to a new way to learn because of covid 19. It was stressful for the students to learn a different way to still be in school during this hard time it wasnt easy at all especially they had to do everything online. Doing online work may seem easy but it is not your eyes start to hurt because you wake up and start looking at a screen that is very bright. And when students went to a school they had time to get ready but most students now just wake up grab there computer and start there classes.But now that some schools open for once a week to go to the school most students dont even show up because they see no point in going. COVID-19 affected all of us because we didnt know what to do students are stressing out because its new to them and because some teachers leave to much homework more then what they gave when students went to school.

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Newsela | Student perspectives: One year into the COVID-19 pandemic

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A year into COVID-19, students share thoughts

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Student Lead U.S push for fuller Black History Education

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Student Lead U.S push for fuller Black History Education

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Ebele Azikiwe a middle school student in New Jersey wants more in depth black history in school. Upon her arrival to seventh grade she knew exactly what she would be taught in terms of black history.  As you know,  in the month of May in 2020, an unarmed black man by the name of George Floyd was murdered. In response to this Ebele wrote a letter to her principal asking for more than the same repetitive lesson. This letter was soon reached the superintendent and has truly caused an uproar. I believe that this article is truly amazing since it tackles and important issue and gives credit where it's due. This article will affect me and many others because it can eventually cause more diverse studies to take place in California. However, this article most likely won't matter in the next five years. I say this because everything that relates to black rights or history usually dissipates within a few months or less.

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Masks and gloves are saving lives — and causing pollution

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Masks and gloves are saving lives — and causing pollution

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COVID-19 has effected everyone all over the world. The reason being that it is a new virus and experts didn´t know much about the virus which make the virus spread tremendously. To prevent the virus to spread we use protective equipment that keeps us safe. For example, mask shields, gloves, and disposable mask. Its increasing pollution which is considered PPE pollution. What I think about the article is it very much is a problem because its affecting everyone in the world including the environment and animals. If everyone gets vaccinated it should make COVID-19 stop spreading which we would not need protective equipment and would stop the pollution. People can also try resuable equipment which would also make a huge difference.
This article should matter in 5 years because it needs to be spread all over the world for people can be aware and find solutions to stop the pollution.

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Masks and gloves are saving lives — and causing pollution

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Masks and gloves are saving lives — and causing pollution

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Personal protective equipment, also known as PPE; masks, gloves, face shields, etc may be safeguards from preventing the Covid, however it has caused a worldwide pollution problem. And I think it's unfortunate, it's not just affecting me, but it's effecting the environment and animals. Since some PPE hits the beaches and oceans, smaller animals get trapped in them or mistaken it as food. Nearly 1.6 billion masks were flooded in oceans in 2020, now currently in 2021, and it's still increasing. In the next five years, if there has been no movements, our environment will be more effective then it was before.
https://newsela.com/read/ppe-saves-lives-causes-pollution/id/2001019796/

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we have to care our self and family.

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Masks and gloves are saving lives — and causing pollution

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Masks and gloves are saving lives — and causing pollution

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I think this article is informative and talks about a issue that is being overlooked currently. I think this article will everyone because the amount of masks and gloves that are going into the oceans increases the amount of pollution we have. A outcome I would like to see is more people recycling and properly throwing away their mask and gloves. I think this will matter in 5 years because pollution in our oceans affects the ecosystem.

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Thursday the house of representatives passed a vote for Washington DC to become the 51 state of United States of America. Now the senates have to approve the vote. This change for the country is a waste of time because it's not necessary to add more states in this country. I do not see a good outcome in this change. This change will matter in the next 5 years because it's a change to the country.

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WASHINGTON -- A decades-long movement to reshape the American political map took a further step Thursday as the House of Representatives approved a bill to make the nation's capital the 51st state.

Approval came by a 216-208 vote along strict party lines. Republicans oppose the idea given that the new state would be overwhelmingly Democratic - and the proposal faces a far tougher road in the Senate, where even full Democratic support isn't guaranteed.

The legislation proposes creating a 51st state with one representative and two senators, while a tiny sliver of land including the White House, the U.S. Capitol and the National Mall would remain as a federal district. Instead of the District of Columbia, the new state would be known as Washington, Douglass Commonwealth - named after famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who lived in Washington from 1877 until his death in 1895.

An identical statehood bill passed the House in 2020, but died in the then-Republican-controlled Senate. Now, with the 2020 elections leaving Democrats controlling both chambers of Congress and the White House, Republican senators may resort to a filibuster to stymie the statehood bill.

The Senate is split 50/50 with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tie-breaker. But it takes 60 senators to break a concerted filibuster attempt. Senate Democrats could vote to tweak the filibuster rules and slip the statehood issue through a loophole - but that would require total unity and some moderate Democrats have expressed opposition to that strategy.

Perennial swing vote and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia had already publicly stated that he will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster. Manchin is also one of a handful of Democratic Senators who has not openly supported the D.C. statehood initiative.

For now, though, Democrats and statehood advocates are celebrating their House victory.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser tied the statehood issue to America's ongoing reckoning over police brutality and longstanding issues of racial injustice.

"This vote comes at a critical time when Americans nationwide are eager to deliver on the promise of liberty and justice for all," Bowser said in a statement. "For centuries, an incremental approach to equality in America has delayed this promise for too many. Now is the time for bold action."

Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer called the measure "flatly unconstitutional."

"It won't withstand judicial scrutiny, but it will cause massive confusion for years as it's reviewed by the courts," Comer said in a statement. "Democrats are pushing D.C. statehood to pack the U.S. Senate with two progressive senators so they can end the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, enact the Green New Deal, and create the socialist utopia the Squad dreams about."

The bill received strong support from the White House, which has called Washington's current status "an affront to the democratic values on which our Nation was founded."
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During Thursday floor debate, a succession of Republican representatives decried it as a cynical and unconstitutional power-grab. The country's founding fathers, "never wanted D.C. to be a state and then specifically framed the constitution to say so," said Georgia Republican Rep. Jody Hice.

But Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerald Connolly pointed out that Kentucky was once a part of Virginia, and was carved out as a state by Congress.

Connolly argued that the federal district was a theoretical concept when first conceived, not a community with a higher population than two U.S. states.

"When the constitution was written, this place didn't exist," he said. "When people say this is not about race and partisanship, you can be sure it's about race and partisanship."

During a March hearing by the House oversight committee, GOP representatives claimed D.C. was unfit for statehood and proposed a variety of alternatives that included absolving Washingtonians from federal taxes and "retroceding" most of D.C. back into Maryland.

Opponents also contend that Congress lacks the authority to change D.C.'s status, despite every state other than the original 13 being admitted to the union via congressional vote.

Zack Smith, a legal fellow at the Heritage Institute, a conservative think tank, said the measure becoming law would unleash a wave of lawsuits.

"You're basically looking at a lot of litigation," Smith told The Associated Press. "Every legislative act of this new state would be called into question. ... Things would be in a state of flux for years."

D.C. has long chafed under its relationship with Congress, which has the power to essentially veto or alter any local laws. Its population is larger than that of Wyoming or Vermont and its estimated 712,000 residents pay federal taxes, vote for president and serve in the armed forces, but they have no voting representation in Congress.

The limitations of D.C.'s reality were put in stark relief last summer during a series of protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and against general police brutality. After a night of widespread vandalism, President Donald Trump usurped D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's authority and called in a massive multiagency federal force to downtown. The law enforcement forces cleared peaceful protesters from a public street so Trump could pose for a photo outside a church.

Ravi Perry, head of Howard University's political science department, said the events of last summer were a crucial turning point for the perception of the D.C. statehood push, intertwining the issue with the country's ascendant racial justice movement. As recently as 2018, nationwide polls had shown the majority of Americans to be lukewarm at best on the topic, but those poll numbers changed dramatically in the past two years, he said.

"People have started to see D.C. statehood as the racial justice issue that it is," said Perry, who is also on the board of the pro-statehood group D.C. Vote. "There's been a major sea change, and a lot of that has been motivated by Trumpism."

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Washington DC statehood vote passes House as Senate fight looms in effort to make district 51st state

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WASHINGTON -- A decades-long movement to reshape the American political map took a further step Thursday as the House of Representatives approved a bill to make the nation's capital the 51st state. Approval came by a 216-208 vote along strict party lines.

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"Pfizer says their COVID-19 Vaccine is looking 90% effective"

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"Pfizer says their COVID-19 Vaccine is looking 90% effective"

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This article explains how Pfizer is among some of the leading companies for the COVID-19 Vaccine by being 90% effective on defending people from catching COVID-19. I think the article is helpful for those who are considering getting the vaccine now that basically everyone is eligible. This affects me because when I got my first dose earlier this month I got Pfizer and the side effects weren't so bad. A possible outcome from all this is that everyone in the United States will be vaccinated and everything will slowly start to go back to normal. This article will still matter in the next five years because its adding additional information of the vaccines that helped us all get back to the way it was before COVID-19 was even a thing.

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Newsela | Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine is looking 90 percent effective

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"Masks and gloves are saving lives — and causing pollution"

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"Masks and gloves are saving lives — and causing pollution"

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic there was a rise in the use of disposable masks, gloves, and face coverings. These items have become everyday essentials to keep ourselves and others safe. But according to the article they also have a negative impact on the environment. These items are being repeatedly disposed of incorrectly and are polluting our Earth. We should all be aware of environmental issues such as the pollution that is filling our air and oceans. We should start taking into account how we dispose of masks and gloves. As of now we don’t know when exactly the pandemic will end, so if this careless behavior keeps up five years from now our Earth will be incredibly polluted with our trash.

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Newsela - Masks and gloves are saving lives — and causing pollution

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Properly disposing of your mask is critical to keeping waste out of the oceans.

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Now, those who are 16 and up are able to get the vaccine. I think this article is informational on where the vaccine is available around the United States. This will affect me by giving me the opportunity to get the vaccine. It will also help the slow beginning of going back to "normal". A possible outcome would be possibly going back to how we were before the pandemic. In the next 5 years, we have many opportunities and chances to be COVID free, but everyone has to do their part for this to happen.

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Everyone in United States aged 16 years and above is now eligible for COVID-19 vaccination, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday.

People aged 16 years and above who have underlying medical conditions that increase the risk of serious, life-threatening complications from COVID-19, should be among those offered the vaccine first, according to the U.S. health agency's latest recommendations.

Majority of U.S. states have already expanded their COVID-19 vaccine rollouts to people from this age group. Alaska was the first state to lower statewide eligibility to age 16 and was followed by states including Georgia, Texas and California.

Earlier in April, U.S. President Joe Biden had directed states to widen the vaccine eligibility to people aged 18 or above by April 19. No COVID-19 vaccine is authorized yet for those under 16, although testing is underway.

More than half of U.S. adults have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, according to CDC.

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U.S. CDC expands COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to 16 and older

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Everyone in United States aged 16 years and above is now eligible for COVID-19 vaccination, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday. People aged 16 years and above who have underlying medical conditions that increase the risk of serious, life-threatening complications from COVID-19, should be among those offered the vaccine first, according to the U.S.