A typical session of Congress lasts, on average, 138 days for the House of Representatives and 162 days for the Senate.
The house works about 1 day out of 3. The Senate works about 54 days more than the house. The other days they are on vacation, working in committees, or in their offices. Sometimes they go home to talk to constituents.
First Question:
A lot of the prejudices that are commonplace in American society date back to the time of slavery.
Slavery was often justified as a way of helping African-descended people. The argument was that European-descended people were more civilized, culturally-advanced and technologically driven. This patronizing attitude can still be seen in interactions between people of different races in the US.
Lack of education and illiteracy also contributed to creating a stereotype of African Americans as being less intelligent than other groups and contributed to hiding the difference in opportunities between the two groups.
Second Question:
These prejudices prevail even after abolition for two main reasons. The first one is the fact that prejudices are learned through socialization. Therefore, a child that grows up with prejudiced parents is very likely to maintain those same prejudices.
The second reason is that prejudices often serve the same purpose that they served in the time of slavery, which is to hide patterns of oppression or justify difference in opportunities. It is a useful political tool and because of its convenience people can sometimes be reluctant to let them go.
The pre-deployment document that requires you to provide four personal authentication statements, full from and right side photographs, and fingerprints is the DD form 1833 personnel form.
The main things are Funions and Geography. Does this help any?
