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I’ve been listening to a lot of Jon & Deek in the morning, and in the mid-afternoon, and early evening. Those two (or one?) have me flipping through channels, seeing if I can remember what station NPR or The Keg is on. All I could remember about a station was “the Eagle is classic rock,” and I spent many minutes at red lights flipping through the country music stations trying to be reunited with my old customary station, only to find myself listening to Will Ferrell screech “SAANNTTAA!” on…

In support of this research, “A more peaceful world if women in charge?” by Joseph Nye, states that a psychologist by the name of Steven Pinker, recently wrote a book about how the world would be more peaceful if women were in charge. Lastly “Shattering the Glass Ceiling for Women in Politics” written by Pamela O’Leary, and Shauna Shames, gives advice, on how to support women in politics. Pew Research Center states that “...women are in short supply at the top…

technology. Technology is apart of society 's everyday lives and some may argue that technology is good for teens and some say it is having a negative impact on teens. Ninety three percent of American teenagers have a computer or access to one (Pew Research Center, Mary Madden Pg. 1). Besides computers, technology also includes cell phones and television. Cell phones are a big distraction in classrooms and has caused many schools to ban cellphones in classrooms. Television causes teens to sit…

We are divided. As much as we strive to become one, there are puzzle pieces that will always come together to remind us that we are not. The gap between the upper-income brackets and the middle-income brackets are as far apart as ever. The Pew Research report shows us, “In 2013, the median wealth of the nation’s upper-income families ($639,400) was nearly seven times the median wealth of middle-income families ($96,500), the widest wealth gap seen in 30 years when the Federal Reserve began…

twenty-first century students. The Internet is helpful because it acts as a virtual library for research, enhances relationships between professors and students, and also provides services on how to study. Since the discovery of the Internet it has become increasingly easy to search for information on topics students are unaware of. Kristen Purcell, a writer for Pew Research Center, wrote an article “How Teens do Research in the Digital World,” claiming “Students access a greater depth and…

9/11 Changed The World: Many people were just heading to work, some even just waking up. Others doing things you would normally expect on average day such as 9/11. However this was before the unexpected struck the nation, literally. The world trade center also know as the twin towers, along with the pentagon were struck by passenger jets. Many people were in shock, as something like this had not happened to the United States in a long time. Eventually the twin towers fell killing many innocent…

Patten, Eileen. "How American parents balance work and family life when both work." Pew Research Center. N.p., 04 Nov. 2015. Web. 06 Mar. 2017. Eileen Patten is a research analyst at Pew Research since 2011. She is also working as a research assistant at University of Michigan’s Institute of Social Research. In this article, Patten describes the balance of work and family when both household parents work. In households with two full-time working parents, most parents said the chores and…

found and analyzed, a group of people had to perform the research needed, and that was by the “Pew Research Center staff” (Anderson 2016:18). The “quantitative fieldwork was conducted by the GfK Group (GfK, formerly Knowledge Networks). Specifically, the survey examined the attitudes of teens ages 13 to 17 years old, as well as those of their parents, toward technology” (Anderson 2016:18). Also, to emphasize on the research that the center (as well as Monica…

Out of 100 people, 35% of the participants strongly approved with embryonic stem cell research. 25% approved of the research and experimentation of embryonic stem cells. 20% of the participants in the study were neutral towards embryonic stem cell research. 6% disapproved and 6% strongly disapproved of the research on embryonic stem cells. Overall, 60% of the population approved of the research, and only 12% disapproved. This general information is further broken down and analyzed to show…

alpha of 0.05, which means that it does not have a significant statistical difference between these three social networking sites. Further analysis also found out that “social media takes up more time than it is worth”, “the Internet helps me to find research to do my academic papers” and also “I would rather use the campus Library and their staff than the Internet” it is possible to conclude that there are no significant difference between what the American students answered and the…