Surveying

The focus of my field research was to attempt to discover people’s opinions of the NSA mass data collection programs. There are various surveys showing opinions on the Internet, but none specifically focusing on the area where I lived. So, I decided to create my own survey. Based on the general topic, I decided that most people would have a negative opinion, as America was founded on principles of freedom from government intrusion. As for my choice of a survey, I decided on it because a survey…

One way trigonometry is used is navigation. In the twenty-first century it is used as a Global Positioning System (GPS). The second use of trigonometry is surveying. Triangulation has been used for surveying since the sixteenth century. How it works, the surveyor marks two positions and measures the distance between them. Angles are measured between each of these two positions and a third landmark. These measurements are typically…

At Cape Catastrophe the expedition suffered the loss of the ship's boat and its eight sailors, including Flinders' close associate, John Thistle. Dramatic moments occurred while passing through the Great Barrier Reef, in the Gulf of Carpentaria during hostilities with aborigines, and at the inspection of the ship's deteriorating hull in the North. After reprovisioning at Timor, an increasing number of crew developed dysentry, and with a mounting death toll and a heavy heart, Flinders was forced…

and an amateur astronomer when he first laid eyes upon Uranus. Herschel does not credit his discovery to chance, rather it was a result of his diligent studies of the heavens that allowed him to discover the planet. At the time Herschel had been surveying the skies at night trying discover all the double stars, he was using his home made telescope which was the first of it's kind and was a lot more powerful in comparison with the telescopes of other astronomers of his time. The fact that his…

plotting a 400 acre parcel of land and was well on his way to a promising career. He was subsequently able to purchase land in the Shenandoah Valley, the first of his many land acquisitions in western Virginia. For the next four years Washington worked surveying land in Western Virginia and for…

students to become developed role models. However, when the media portrays leaders unequally, how are students supposed to resist this bias? It is easy to succumb to stereotypes when your environment characterizes them as being the “normal”. After surveying 20…

Our universe is fading according to a recent study done by GAMA (Galaxy and mass assembly). After surveying light from as far back as two billion years the survey found that the light in our universe is fading and will have gone black in 100 billion years. This is due to two main factors. Fewer stars (the universe's light bulbs) are being made and our universe is expanding. “More stars are dying then being born” we know this because after looking 2 billion years into the past we have seen a…

Figure 6. A. Species classification for the area of study. B. Percentage based on the relative frequencies of each class for the area of study. These 14 species are distributed differentely across the area of study, with some species dominating specific areas while others are distributed scattered around the site (Figure 7). Figure 7. Species distribution across the area of study. One hundred and fifty two of the trees surveyed were dead (7.1%), with 81 of those (53.29%) situated in the…

opportunity I would focus my research on the difference between how people react with the opposite sex in a dyad situation, then in a large group setting and go in-depth to find why or why not that behavior changes. I would utilize field research and surveying to get general data then based on those results go deeper with focus groups and personal in-depth interviews. After all these findings it is important for myself and anyone that preforms research pertaining to any subject that they write…

Among the 671 women aged 20 84 years with no history of major depressive disorder initially and who were therefore qualified for analysis in this surveying group study, 51 developed major depressive disorders and 620 remained major depressive disorder-free during follow-ups. Statistics In the case control study, participants were selected as cases (people with major depressive disorder) or controls…