Poll

This is shown by responses on polls differing depending on how the particular question is framed. There are some public opinion polls on views regarding the death penalty that consist of leading questions that are meant to influence the public’s responses. Stated in a journal article by Peffley and Hurwitz, as a whole… “people feel…

citizens has hit an all time low. (The Washington Post) The question that coincides with this fact is, does congress care what the people think? Some congressmen and women would simply say no, some would say yes, and some would say “it’s complicated.” A poll taken in March 2014 conducted by the Bipartisan Policy Center and USA today “showed Congress’ job approval rating at just 19 percent, while people gave their own representatives a 52 percent approval rating.” (Roll Call) There is a name for…

consumers believe that GMO foods should be labeled accordingly. Similar results are seen throughout several years and countless different polls, so why are GMO products still left unlabeled? A large reason that GMOs are protected from being exposed is the idea of "substantial equivalence" which came about in early 1996. The concept of substantial equivalence allowed permission to market and…

According to a poll of correctional officers in Florida prisons, about 12% (possibly higher) considered the lack of good employees to be the most important issue facing the system. For comparison, the highest value, or prison overcrowding, sits at around 14%. Unlike overcrowding…

Americans believe that racism is rising. CNN recently ran a poll asking “how big of a problem is racism in our society today?” . 40% of American believe that it is a huge problem right now. This goes to show that Americans are aware of the recent tragic incidents due to racism. “‘it always seemed like it was getting better, like our generation was going to be better than previous generations,’ says Aust, who participated in the CNN/KFF poll. ‘But the TV started telling us a different story, with…

On the center of the image, is a picture of a group of Black people being restrained to enter a room labeled “Polls” by some White men complaining as indicate the captions. The last item at the bottom of the image is a text that is titled “The Radical Platform- Negro Suffrage The Only Issue” which sums up the overall idea expressed in the…

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A dingy, unshaven old man is strapped to a gouney. Two long tubes extend from veins in his arms to a hole in the cement wall behind him. A man behind the cement wall pumps a saline solution through the tube, followed by sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide, and finally potassium chloride. An audience watches as the liquids are pumped through the tube, witnessing the man strapped to the gurney take his last breath. A cold-blooded killer dies (“Descriptions of Execution Methods”). Though lethal…

puzzled with how they should approach this issue. Should teachers teach Creationism or evolution? Should both be taught, and if so should they be taught as scientific theory or as a belief? A website called “Debate.org” holds polls for the public to vote on. One of their polls asks “Do Americans want Evolution taught in public schools?” 83% of those who voted say that evolution should be taught in public schools and want it to be…

Art, as Limitless as the Design Tattoos are a form of art. Tattoos are first and foremost an expression of one’s self, they always have a meaningful and deep emotional connection to the owner, also no two tattoos are the same, and they add character to a blank canvas (the body). This topic was chosen because tattoos in and of themselves are a controversial topic that many people feel very passionate about. All the forms of art are judged and have critics, however, as with any form of art,…