Gallup poll

In a poll performed by Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup (poll was performed on a body of undergraduate students) it was seen that 63% of the public was accepting over the requirement of high school students taking a standardized test to graduate, while 36% were opposed to the idea (Magee…

changed but other parts of the law have been added throughout the years to benefit the animals a little more. Even with these laws, more than 100 million animals are killed each year in U.S. laboratories alone (Animal Experiments Overview, para 1). Gallup polls have found more than 40 percent of U.S. adults oppose the use of animals in research (Animal Experiments Overview, para 2). So why test animals for research? Sometimes what is tested on animals, does not even have the same effect of…

The United States is thought to be the melting pot country where racism and discrimination are no longer an issue and equality spreads its wings across the nation. However, that is not the reality. In recent years, race has become a predominant issue that has been a cause of many people losing their lives. However, many people argue that race has nothing to do with the way African Americans and Hispanics are being treated blame the culture for the consequences minorities, specifically African…

Who exactly owns the guns and do they feel safer owning them? The Gallup poll conducted a study in October 2014 and found that the majority of gun owners were white, Republican men living in the south. The people least likely to own a gun were nonwhite, Democratic living in the East. The same demographics hold true for those…

(Gallup. N.d). As part of the United States democratic system and after years of deliberation, and activism the subject was placed before the Supreme court who ruled 5-4 in favour of making same-sex marriage a law. (Liptak. 2015). When Tony Abbott, the Prime…

A Dream Still Remembered Per the Howard Gottieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. On the 15 January 1929 Martin Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta Georgia. He entered Morehouse College at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1948. In 1954 he accepted a job at the Dexter Avenue Baptist church in Montgomery Alabama, during his sermons he would often encourage his congregation to get involved in community and social matters, speaking about the importance in voting. In 1955 Martin Luther…

moral obligation to be an environmentalist due to their spiritual beliefs. Pagans also would hold each other accountable for being environmentally conscious because it was such a widespread part of their spiritual practices. When compared to the Gallup Poll, a survey indicative of opinions held by the general public, there were many notable differences between the opinion of the general population, and Pagan opinion, in both attitudes respondents claimed to have, and actions they took towards…

amount of time shows a great amount of improvement for women’s status during this time, thanks to many laws drafted and passed by the U.S Government. Married women in the workforce were looked down upon during the post-Depression era. A poll conducted by George Gallup in 1936 asked if married women should work while their…

During the summer of 1969 the Berkeley Barb, a newspaper based out of Berkeley California wrote, “Homosexuals took to the streets in New York City last weekend and joined the revolution.” On June 28, 1969, a gay bar in New York City called the Stonewall Inn was raided by police officers setting off a global revolution. Within a day, riots spread across the city, eventually starting a nationwide movement of political activism and pride. Although the fight for gay rights had been going on for…

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality worldwide and it is an increasing public health burden in many countries ( Fuster, Kelly & Vedanthan, 2011). In 2012, the World Health Organisation reported that about 17.5 million of people died from CVD due to behavioural risk factors such as cigarette smoking, inappropriate diet and physical inactivity. CVD is a complex chronic condition and the patient with CVD require a long term care in their everyday life situations including…