Gallup poll

research center poll found that 51% of americans believe that it is better for women to stay at home while 76% of americans believe men are better off at work. This ideology and gap has affected women throughout history, with the Rosie the Riveter campaign, and more specifically the change in the gender stereotype of coding and technology…

These past few weeks in the First Year Odyssey class, “Is Less More? The Promise and Problems of Restricting the Work Hours and Schedule of Physicians”, we have been reading a handful of articles from different books about the importance of sleep and diseases related to lack of sleep. We analyzed the risks of injuries due to sleep deprivation while in residency programs and the journals of residents writing about their different experiences also. Following the readings, we have class discussions…

protect our own lives, families, and property. It feeds ours families by using a firearm to hunt for food. Hunting has become a popular sport for hundreds of years all over the world. Nearly 50,000 people apply and receive a hunting license each year. A poll was run in 2006 showing that nearly 80% of Americans support hunting. There are many addition laws that go with hunting, for example tags, poaching, spotlighting, and which gun you can use in that certain season of hunting. Hunting create a…

Obesity is a serious and increasing problem among children, adolescents, and adults. “Obesity is a rising problem in the United States. Obesity rates have more than doubled in adults and children since the 1970’s” (National Center for Health Statistics, 2009). Obesity is the result of fat accumulated over time due to the lack of a balanced diet and exercise. Many things play a factor in obesity in America such as the many fast food restaurants, poor diet and not exercising. Obesity is an…

Between the years of 1947 and 1991 the Soviet Union and the United States remained in a long period of tension known as The Cold War. This conflict unfolded in a series of intermediary wars such as the Space Race and Arms Race. The Cold War provoked profound changes in United States infrastructure and military, the education system and the overall atmosphere throughout society. In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed due to their economic failure and their approach to the Space Race. This marked the…

The question, Are guns laws too strict has been asked for many years. But now, according to new studies there 's a new question, Are gun laws strict enough? According to a recent poll taken by Gallup, 55% of the people they asked aren 't satisfied with gun laws the way they sit today and actually want stricter laws(Art Swift. . . up sharply). This should come as no surprise considering the increase in mass shootings across the united states each year. An article in the Wall Street Journal claims…

In recent years, there has been significant public debate regarding the status of health care in the United States and Idaho. Currently, and according to Leiyu Shi’s, “Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System,” one of the main characteristics of U.S. health care today revolve around the issue of no central governing agency from which health care could evolve as well as the lack of integration and coordination between public and private health care providers (Shi 10). Having spent the last 30…

The existence of the death penalty in society raises one essential question: has society established our justice systems out of a desire for rehabilitation, or out of a desire for the sole purpose of justice? Many people do not fear life in prison, as they may view it as a “getaway” rather than a form of punishment. Although death is another story, many people do fear that. The United States should use the death penalty because the use of it deters crime, it is cheaper than feeding an inmate…

Healthcare providers are generally a group of professionals which the public places a high level of trust upon. A recent Gallup poll asking how the public would rate the honesty and ethical standards of people in different job fields ranks nursing as the highest profession. 85 percent of people answered that they would rate the honesty and ethical standards of nurses as very high or high (Gallup.com, n.d.). This places nurses higher than other professions such as pharmacists, teachers, and even…

Trust in United States government is slowly deteriorating. Americans are losing faith due to many surfacing scandals over the years such as the Apple versus FBI, the 2012 Benghazi attack, and the Iraq prison abuse scandal. Another example is the JFK scandal. America as a whole is a trusting nation and citizens believe everything the government tells us even when evidence surfaces that does not support what they state. On countless occasions the United States government has lied to its citizens…