Opinion

People’s opinions on a topic often skew the actual facts and details of the problem. People’s biased views and opinions are usually thwarted into our media and articles today, causing a perpetuation of misinformation amongst the readers. Abortion is a very controversial topic today and many media sources reveal bias of some form. Through different viewpoints on abortion(like religiously, socially, and scientifically) we see the background and reasoning behind each of their choices. Public…

A a high school graduate, going into college it could be assumed that courses would be more major specific and those courses would be the concentration of the finances. In the case of thousands of students attending LSU millions of dollars have been spent on pointless general education classes. In the reading titled “ Opinion:General Education requirements are unnecessary, hurt the economy”, Jay Cranford discusses the issues of general education requirements and how they affect the economy.…

Public opinion is a crucial part to any political campaign. Politicians need the public on their side, and they will often employ whatever tactics they can to ensure this support. Taking control of the news, and controlling what the public is informed is no exception. As television entered the homes of Americans nationwide, President Johnson deployed troops into Vietnam. For the first time during the Vietnam War, television made it possible for Americans to be transported to Vietnam all while in…

The War of Opinions In the beginning, it was all fine, there weren’t any arguments, everybody was just living their day like they usually do. Until one day, the slavery started to get worse and more people started to hate it. I was one of those people. It started to get worse and worse, until everybody that hated slaves just snapped. A war broke out on April, 12, 1861. It was between the North and South, The South believed that you should own slaves, so that you don't have to do any work. The…

Public Opinion Poll Essay A Gallup poll was conducted by the Gallup Daily tracking survey on a sample population of parents living in the US and Columbia district. The poll aimed at appraising the education sector in America. The poll showed America’s opinions concerning topics inclusive of the quality of K-12 education, common core state standards, online higher education sustainability, and standard of reverence for U.S teachers (Ogisi & Saad, 2014). Common Core State standard remains an…

Opinions are a delicate matter, and can change in seconds. One’s opinions rely much on personal experiences, both direct and indirect. They give us a perspective on an issue, and enable us choose one side over another. They are effective representations of one’s beliefs and perceptions. Opinions are generally created after many observations, and many factors can influence their creation. Despite all this, they can never be facts. Opinions are subjective, and will always have a large degree of…

May 201Crime Show Influence on Public Opinion There are many factors that affect the way the public views crime. Primetime crime television shows depict crime in a way that makes it easy for the public to misinterpret the message and disproportionally depict racial minorities as criminals and Whites as victims (Mastro, 2009). Crime shows underscore certain forms of criminal activity and whatever character plays the criminal, unfortunately, is what the public sees as true. Research on…

Question 3 a) Public opinion is as important as the goals of any public organization due to the influence it has on managers and their abilities to deliver. Public opinion can either be positive or negative, but the managers have control over what type of opinion he/she creates about his/ her organization in the eyes of the public. Public opinion may have formal or informal authority that allows it to exert such influence. Formally, a public manager would seek a public opinion through a poll or…

From Michael E. Huge, his article “Public Opinion” expresses how a socially acceptable ideas, or “Public Opinion”, sway scholars from looking in other directions in terms of fields. From the article, he says: “Bearing the dubious distinction of being one of the oldest, yet least understood, concepts in social science, public opinion continues to inspire and perplex scholars from communication and other fields”, which is the thesis for his essay. Starting Act one of The Crucible by Arthur…

a. An explanation of what the data reveals. The Retting et al. article conducted public opinion surveys to evaluate whether the respondents of Oxnard, California “favor, oppose, or don’t know” about the use of cameras to enforce against red light running, as a supplement to police efforts. In Table 7, the researchers examined the responses 6 weeks before, 6 weeks after, and 6 months after to evaluate the differences in responses over time. Additionally, the researchers surveyed two groups,…