Gallup poll

An eye-opening Gallup poll released late last year showed that 56% of respondents said they’d feel safer if more Americans could get permits to carry concealed carry. Alaina Gonville, a bouncer in Detroit who was shot by robbers says, “It’s not just the idea of if I conceal…

It’s Your Choice: Healthy or Unhealthy? America is not just only the country with the most gyms, but it is also the country with the highest obesity rates. Approximately 78.6 million American adults and 12.7 million children and adolescents are obese. Over the past several years, overweight, obesity and unhealthy eating habits have increased gradually and now poses a major health problem. A person who is overweight has a body mass index or commonly known as BMI, of 25 to 30. In addition, for…

leaders, they are teachers, and they provide therapeutic nurse-client relationships. Therefore, it should be of no surprise, that the nursing profession is rated the top trusted profession for honesty and ethical standards according to a recent poll conducted by Gallup (Newpart, 2012, para. 1). Nursing like many other professional organizations have standards of practice in which to guide their decisions, and provide a framework for the resolution of issues. However, with the growing complexity…

In the United States, tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death. Approximately 480,000 deaths result from the use of this drug annually. The most common tobacco related death occurs by smoking the substance, usually found in the form of cigarettes. The second occurs by merely being exposed to its second hand smoke (“Fast Facts”). The average NFL football stadium can be filled five times over by the people whose lives will be lost because of this drug. The third leading preventable…

Arab American History Arab Americans encompass people from 22 nations of North Africa and the Middle East. Southeastern Michigan accounts for one of the largest concentrations of Arabs outside the Middle East. It can be difficult to trace when some Arab Americans actually arrived in the US due to inaccuracy of census records as they do not have a classification for Arab heritage and people identify themselves differently (100 Questions and Answers About Arab Americans). Zammouri is known…

We have covered many different ways of characterizing personality in class, including: authoritarian/libertarian personality, Lakoff’s parenting styles, Myers-Briggs, and the Dark Triad. But which of these four is most valuable and useful to political science? Lakoff’s parenting styles seem to be the best and most valuable option for political science. As mentioned in lectures, Lakoff’s Parenting Styles are supposed to reveal the hidden moral values people hold which ultimately correlate to…

One of the most controversial subjects in the State of Florida right now, is the support of Charter Schools which provides greater parents’ choices on curriculum, class sizes, optional classes and close involvement of parents/teachers association for a common goal. Chartering is the process of granting a charter to a group of teachers and parents to offer public education with public dollars (Junger p.13). History Since the publication in 1983 of “Nation at Risk” report by The National…

United States of America consists of the most diverse and complex societies in the world, with equally extensive legal system. Its legal system is ostensibly different from other countries, for its peculiarity, and in that reason, US legal system is heavily critiqued, commended, and condemned both at home and abroad. Seemingly, the Constrained Court View versus the Dynamic Court view is the most prevalent debate surrounding American judiciary system. This controversy is a deep-rooted argument…

The United States, during the years 1920-1945, was not merely divided by race, religion, and social class, but also, it was divided by “racially gendered roles and expectations.” During this time, there were many fluctuations in gender related views. At one point, women were gaining a small taste of “independence” in the 1920’s, but hidden gender discrimination quickly masked their independence during the time of the Great Depression and World War II. An excerpt from Modern Woman: The Lost…

The purpose of this paper is to exploregive the reader an educated perspective on how racism is perceived so that the reader may understand the difference between implicit and explicit racism and discrimination, and how both are equally offensive. Throughout American history, African Americans have been mistreated physically, legally, and emotionally. In 1619, a Dutch ship brought the first 20 Africans to the shores of Jamestown, Virginia. In the following years of the 17th century,…