Gallup poll

Martin Luther King Jr. was shot when he was giving a speech. Now there always have and always will be people against the civil rights movement. But, on a poll taken by CBS some interesting statistics were shown. “8 in 10 Americans think the act has had a positive effect on the country and only 1% thinking it has been negative. Additionally, the poll also found that 60% of whites and 55% of blacks think that the state of race relations in America is good” (CBS, 2014, para. 2). During the 1960s…

Capital punishment has been around and legal since the eighteenth century. In 1608, Captain George Kendall’s death became the first recorded execution in the new colonies. However, within the recent years, capital punishment has grown to be an extremely controversial issue among citizens in the United States. The question of whether or not the death penalty should be abolished has been an extremely controversial subject for decades. It will continue to be a hotly debated topic for years to come…

The Accuracy of Postman’s Prediction As technology continues to advance in research and complexity, the fear of security increases with it. With recent reports of the NSA and big corporations spying on Americans and customers, one can believe that society is becoming Orwellian. Orwell’s society in 1984 depicts a society ruled by fear, through surveillance and torture. On the other hand, Huxley’s society in Brave New World is kept in line through happiness, entertainment, and the advancement of…

involving abortion; thus, Blackmun, as well as the other Justices, understood the importance of the abortion cases with regards to the development of rights for women and their physicians. By the 1972, one year before the ruling in Roe v. Wade, a Gallup poll revealed that a significant number of Americans…

sixty-day waiting period but did not prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Sexual orientation wasn’t added to the list of qualities protected against discrimination in the military until June of 2015. (Kime). According to a Gallup poll public acceptance of LGB individuals serving in the military had been increasing over time, of those polled 63% were in favor of allowing LGB individuals to openly serve in 2004, those favoring increased to 70% by 2010, and this increasing…

Hodges”, Marina Koren gives some statistics on same-sex marriage taken from Gallup Polls. The information states that since the Obergefell v. Hodges case, same-sex marriages have increased by 22 percent. Gallup polls have also suggested that there has been about 123,000 same-sex marriages since the ruling and estimates that 0.4 percent out of the 3.9 percent of all LGBT individuals have married…

the state of Florida where a margin of victory triggered a recount. After the recount finally closed, George W. Bush was soon declared the winner as he gained majority of the electoral votes with 271, making him the next president. However, further polls soon created mass amounts of controversial uproar towards the unfairness of the Electoral College system when it turned out…

extreme event. The policies that are mentioned in Target 13.2 may be measured by observing which countries implement new climate change legislation. Target 13.3 focuses on education and awareness of climate change which can be measured using global polls. The mobilization of funds that is required of Target 13.a may be measured by monitoring how much money developed…

of a god or any gods”. Atheists do not believe in god and, therefore, the words, “under god,” do not represent them. There is undoubtedly a significant portion of the United States that does not believe in god or gods. Pew and Gallup, two of the most distinguished polls in America, both came to the similar conclusion that, “about 10 percent of Americans say they do not believe in God,” and that, “this figure has slowly been creeping up over the…

people seem to disagree with this concept. In La Valle journal, he talks about the gun polls that were taken after the Sandy Hook incident. It is said that “the public support for stricter gun control has risen…and that there is little support for outright bans of any specific type of weapon such as handguns or “assault weapons” (Washington, 2012).” (2). Some of the polls outcomes from Gallup public opinion polls were that the public prefers stricter enforcement of existing gun laws over the…