Essays on Gallup

Internet Assignment – Locating Public Opinion Polls

Assignment #3: Public Opinion Polls The Gallup Organization What question did the pollster ask? “Based on what you have heard or read, how would you rate Donald Trump’s inauguration speech? Would you rate it as excellent, good, just okay, poor or terrible?” .

When was the poll conducted?

Give the percentage breakdowns for the response to the question you wrote above. Excellent 29% Good 24% Just okay 22% Poor 6% Terrible 14% Describe the poll’s methodology: Telephone interviews were conducted on January 20, 2017 using a random sample of 508 people over eighteen years of age living in the United States. The margin ...

“If it has ‘science’ in its name, it ain’t (Minnick).” Those words were said to this writer by the smartest person he ever knew personally, a man with PhDs in Mathematics and Physics, a true scientist. He went on to explain that science, if it is science, can be reduced to mathematics and then can predict. “Science can generate electricity or flatten cities,” he said. The problem, of course, is that whenever one deals with the “soft sciences,” political science or economics (the dismal science) or sociology or history or any of the disciplines that are housed in ...

My path to determining a research question on the subject of gun control and gun violence has largely been led by my preliminary research into the subject. As discussed in Week 1, the research I have come across indicates that there is a gulf between the perception of gun violence in this country and the attitudes toward gun control measures. While statistics from the National Institute of Justice (2011) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (2016) show gun violence as a slowly declining, but still rampant, rate, and VPC (2016) statistics showing the disproportionate effect it has on black ...

The issue of gun control is a very intriguing and complex one, as the question regarding how to address the Second Amendment of the United States divides many Americans along political and ideological backgrounds. There is a stark divide between the facts collected on gun control and people’s opinions on whether those statistics are accurate, and if they reflect their own experiences and beliefs on gun usage in this country. The National Institute of Justice cites 467,321 victims of gun-related crimes in 2011, with guns used in 68% of murders and 21% of aggravated assaults across the ...

MANAGEMENT

Today, the world of sports has an immense number of fans following with subsequent industrial growth. According to Schlesinger (2016), the American population was recorded more than 320 million and Jones (2015) claimed that more than 60% of American population is a diehard fan of sports. Among innumerable sports, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has 17.7 million viewers; the Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series has 14.9 million viewers, and the National Football League (NFL) Super Bowl had record-breaking 108.7 million viewers throughout United States of America (USA; Thompson, 2014). Surprisingly, more than half a million viewers of each ...

The argument on whether the phenomenon of global warming is natural or human induced is a matter of considerable debate amongst scientists. While some scientists say that this is human induced, others feel this is a natural process leading one to understand that there is not much consensus on this subject. The article under consideration examines the views of various scientists on their positions in this argument by analyzing responses on this subject through a survey, and ends up proving that there is indeed a consensus on the topic (that human activity is responsible for global warming). This essay ...

I LIKE IKE BY DWIGHT EISENHOWER

Introduction

The ‘I Like Ike’ cartoon ad that was used by Dwight Eisenhower was one of the first campaign advertisements to be done on television. The advertisement was made for Dwight’s presidential campaign in the 1952 elections. Ike was President Dwight’s nickname. The ad was very instrumental in drumming and garnering support for the former army general as it helped him become the 34th president of the United States of America. The ad was written by one Irving Berlin and was produced by Roy Disney. Initially, the animation had appeared in one ...

Contaminated water is a menace that contributes to the deaths of several people year in year out (“Hand Washing Facilities in Schools”). It leads to severe illnesses such as diarrhea and cholera especially among toddlers and school going children. Following this fact, the residents of the town of Crestwood, Illinois came up with a project that would enhance hand sanitation, especially in public schools. The objective of the specific project was to ensure that by the end of six months, they had provided each school with water dispensers which supplied clean water for washing hands, alongside other necessities such ...

Introductory Remarks

At this point, it is no secret the American society shows a degree of tolerance lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered individuals never enjoyed in the 20th century. The question emerges of why it is that people have grown more tolerant towards and supportive of LGBT individuals. Media categories, such as television and films considered the carriers of culture, influence people’s perception, as does the culture itself shaping it. Thus, the way such phenomenon as same-sex relationships along with their participants are depicted in television and movies determines how tolerantly the society will perceive such people. The major research ...

Introduction

The usefulness of psychology stands above the common knowledge of people. It has wide application in business, particularly in marketing. The study of human psychology helps the business people to understand the emotional behavior of their clients, leading to improved capacity to influence customers’ decisions. Impulse buying is one of the essential psychological applications in the business (Bhakat 149). It results from emotional changes in the decisions of consumers that result in increased purchases than what was initially intended. According to Bhakat (149), having experience in buying is crucial to improving the quality of purchasing decisions. However, such experience ...

Introduction

Recent research on healthcare cost and quality shows that Americans remains more positive about their personal healthcare situations as compared to healthcare situation in the nation. This suggests that the general population in America responds negatively to the new healthcare laws partly as the majority have not faced any personal problems with their healthcare system (Americans' Views of Healthcare Quality, Cost, and Coverage, 2016). About seventy percent of Americans rate their personal healthcare good and are more positive about healthcare coverage after Barack Obama became president. There is a relatively high personal satisfaction with healthcare coverage. The satisfaction with ...

1 What is your vision for a new and improved healthcare environment and what needs to change for your vision to become a reality? As a healthcare professional my vision has always been to provide safe, effective and affordable health care services to the community. A number of players contribute to the health care system: the service providers, payers, suppliers of medicines and other inputs. Thus, the biggest challenge is to collaborate the different actions of the stakeholders in the healthcare system and to effectively execute once vision. It is not possible for a single dedicated person to achieve ...

Policy Positions Paper: Use of Medical Marijuana in Georgia

The use of marijuana (Cannabis sativa) can be traced back more than 5000 years ago related to medical, recreational, and spiritual reasons (Bostwick, 2012). The United States Pharmacopeia has included it since 1850’s, and until the 1930’s physicians provided prescriptions for it for a number of physical complaints (Narcanon International, 2016). In 1970, the United States Congress determined it had no valid therapeutic value and categorized it as a Schedule I illegal substance. However, a number of sources have stated that marijuana has no addictive properties (Samsha, 2016). The National Institute on Drug Abuse state this is ...

Nowadays the problem of animal slaughtering is becoming more and more pressing. More and more people around the world make a choice to become vegan and not to be a consumer of the industry that promotes cruelty. However, the demand for meat and products of animal origin is still very high. The rights of animals are not preserved to the extent they should be. People forget that animals are living beings and that they can feel pain and suffering just as humans do. If people do not want to give up food they should reduce their consumption of any ...

Attraction can be attributed to many different factors that are intertwined and it determines how we tend to choose our potential mates. We are all likely to look at different factors when judging an individual’s level of attractiveness and one of these factors is someone’s voice. The pitch of voice is closely related to one’s hormonal levels and therefore people use it as an indication of dominance, fertility, as well as attractiveness. Both men and women tend to judge someone as either attractive or not just by hearing the sound of their voice even without seeing ...

Annotated Bibliography

Bauerlein, Mark. The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking. New York: Jeremy Tarcher/Penguin, 2011. Print This book is directly related to the topic on online social networking because it discusses the different risks and advantages associated with the use of social media, according to the interpretation of different commentators. There are those who see these technological developments as innovative steps towards better education, information access and progress in humanity. However, there are people who are also concerned about the negative impact it has on our society. For example, these online ...

Introduction

The 2nd amendment is one of the most important parts of the American Constitution, which gives an individual right to bear arms. “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” (U.S. Const. amend. II) has raised many public debates about the controversy of the topic with trying to limit and even ban the right of the firearms from citizens. The 2nd amendment added to the Constitution on the December 15, 1791 has been questioned and seen different interpretations. The American ...

Introduction

The existence of Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community has been a commonplace issue for continuous national and international debate. This paper seeks to give an objective insight into the LGBT community with specific regard to the USA. The paper seeks to explain the kind of lives lived in the community and their interaction with the other members of the society as well as the legal system of the country. The paper will also highlight the kind of issues/ordeals the community members go through either due to their actions or the responses of the other citizens towards them. ...

Introduction: Gay Subculture in America

Subcultures can be defined as the individual domains which fall within the canopy of a giant culture. The American society has been marked with various subcultures defined by their ethnicity, habits, rituals, age-groups, etc. However, each of the subculture is truly American in spite of their individual preferences and choices of living life. Among these various cultures, the most controversial one has been the presence of the LGBT (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, and Transgender) community members. However, the term ‘Gay’ stands as the community identity for this entire subculture because a lot of upheavals have occurred in the American Socio-political ...

The most recent report of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that 78.6 million American adults are obese (2015), which comprises one-third of the adult population. It is not a secret that when adults are obese, which means they are way too heavy for their height, they are at risk of being mocked for their looks. However, when it comes to children, people find it cute and healthy when children are fat. However, being obese, no matter what age, is a medical condition that needs to be addressed because of its negative effects. These include hypertension, type 2 ...

Clayton Lockett was a 38-year-old murderer of a 19-year-old girl whom he shot twice and then buried while she was still alive (Connor, 2015). Following his conviction, he was sentenced to death in Oklahoma by lethal injection. Fifteen years later in April 2014, his execution was botched when inadequate drugs, an inability to find an adequate vein for instillation, and inappropriate administration into muscle tissue resulted in an agonizing and prolonged death. The public’s response to the news releases ignited again the debate over the use of the death penalty for punishment of the worst offenders in society. ...

Abstract

This paper describes polls and survey methods using the examples of three types of polls, namely entertainment survey, political survey and general survey. The paper will also briefly describe the business application of polls and surveys. In conclusion the paper will present a small-scale survey devised by the author to showcase understanding of the subject.

Introduction

This paper presents a lecture on that describes how entertainment polls or surveys are conducted. For the purposes of this paper I have chosen the article from PR Newswire dated 4th April 2016 which describes a consumer survey conducted by E-Score that determined who ...

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Anxiety and depression 3 Stress 4 Sleep quality 5 Conclusion 7

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Smartphone Addiction Introduction The utilization of smartphones has become indispensable to the daily life of many people, as they have quickly evolved from the first mobile phones, used only to make phone calls, to devices with broad functionalities including instant messaging, video calls, internet browsers and access to numerous applications developed to check e-mails, join social media platforms, play games, read e-books, edit documents, among many countless other purposes. According to Statista (2016), over two billion people worldwide are smartphone users, and surveys conducted in the United States ...

Introduction

The contemporary issue of obesity is worldwide causing not just health, but also economic and social problems. It is becoming ever more concerning issue, since the trend of the obesity rate in the recent past has increased. There has been various researches made so far that examined the issue, but the majority was focused on the health effect that can greatly impact individual and future quality of life or economic issues where every year, more is spend in trying to diminish the rates, but they are focusing on curative not so much in the preventive. The obesity can be ...

Islamophobia

Conclusion and Recommendations10 Work Cited .11 Islamophobia

Introduction

Targeting a certain population or set of people in the world and stereotyping them and discriminating against them is not a new phenomenon as it has been around since a long time. People and nations that have been in power, always find a way to maintain their hegemony and keep their interests and benefits alive. In the same way, different people, creeds, nations and ethnicities have been discriminated against in light of the prejudices harbored by influential people. These can spread and affect the views of other people in the same way ...

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Health insurance coverage is a sensitive issue in the USA. A case in point is the recently enacted Obamacare in the USA. The law intended to widen coverage of health insurance to all American citizens including the vulnerable groups that are often disadvantaged in market-driven health insurance schemes. The reason that is always given for government provision of health insurance and health services is that the very poor cannot afford to pay market premiums for health insurance since they can barely meet their basic needs. Therefore, there is a need to subsidize health insurances and costs to those groups. ...