...this community-building information is the newspaper. Benedict Anderson, Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government and Asian Studies at Cornell University first created the term “imagined community”. Originally, the phrase was mostly used when referring to nationalism, but now it can be used to describe any group of people who share a common passion or interest. There are several different types of information that newspapers distribute; therefore, there are many kinds of imagined communities that they have created in the past and have the potential to construct in the future. By definition according to Anderson, a nation is “an imagined political community”—a widespread consciousness shared by its members who may never come into contact with one another. Consequently, the first way newspapers built an imagined community was by sparking the emergence of a national identity amongst American citizens. Alexander Ziegler conducts a study on the involvement of newspapers in the development of an American national identity in which he states: “The hypothesis of this study is that colonial newspapers, the primary media for mass communication, must show some evidence of the emergence of American national identity.” Furthermore, waking up each morning and knowing that everyone else was reading about the same news that they were gave many Americans a sense of belonging in their communities. Anderson uses the example of the daily ritual...
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...Attitude Survey PSY/475 February 4, 2013 Deborah Ford Purpose of Survey * The topic of gun control laws has been a major topic in the beginning of 2013. On December 14th 2012, 28 people died in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Newton, Connecticut (Technology Wire, 2012). The shooting brought a gun control debate among the United States citizens and the government. The government is focusing on stricter gun laws and possibly limiting the number of bullets in magazines. This survey is to determine the general opinion on gun control laws in the Ajax Company IT department. The employees verbally discussed the topic in the office and different opinions stated about the debate. This survey focuses on four questions that eight employees were anonymously administered. * Design issues in Creating the Survey * The IT department employees at Ajax wanted to remain anonymous during the survey. The group discussed several options on how they could answer survey questions. E-mail was a way that the Ajax employees could remain anonymous with their coworkers, but not to the administer of the survey. Paper and pencil was an idea, however, the employees still did not feel comfortable they would remain anonymous. One employee mentioned that her handwriting was very unique and identifiable, and did not feel comfortable with this method. Because of the small size of the office and the survey administrator included as one of the eight employees, a strictly anonymous survey had...
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...Unit 3 – Survey Sample Size Marietta Bloise American InterContinental University Abstract What you’re going to view are three different groups which took polls. You are going to see how many people were contacted. How did the pollsters contact people for the polls? They are going to use the information for real estate, what group of people each political party will need to reach out to for the midterm elections. How generations have changed with thoughts toward marriage, religion, and etc. then the dangerous habits in America. Introduction Entertainment Survey “The Ipsos poll conducted Nov. 29-30, 2012. The survey is a nationally representative sample of via Ipsos’ U.S. online omnibus. With a sample of this size, the results are considered accurate within +3.1 percentage points 19 times out of 20, of what they would have been had the entire population of adults in the United States been polled”. (Cast of "Honey Boo Boo" Tops List of Worst Neighbors in 2012; Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton Named Most Desirable Celebrity Neighbors for 2013: Most Americans Do Not Want a Celebrity Neighbor, According to 6th Annual Zillow Celebrity Neighbor Survey PR Newswire [New York] 27 Dec 2012.) Basically the survey is stating no one wants to be neighbors of realty TV show Honey Boo Boo. “Forty five percent of adults do not want to live by celebrities, compared to last year survey which was 42%”. The most desirable...
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...that happened at the Umpqua Community College outside of Roseburg, OR on Oct. 1. I live in the same town. Our town has come together in support of the students and staff of this college. Politicians of both parties have proposed different solutions to combat criminal usage of guns and the president has weighed whether or not to require gun dealers to initiate background checks on every sale. In addition, I have compiled for Phase 5 the results of my nonscientific survey and analyzed them below. I have also added for Phase 5 ethical considerations for my survey and a listing of the sample population I sent the survey to. I will also include a discussion about the measurement strategy I used for this project. The Topic What I am asking friends and family about in a survey is whether or not they think the government should be imposing gun control on the country or something else. Many people in government have bandied about several ideas. I don’t think any of my friends and family is in favor of gun control, but the survey should tell me more. The problem statement In this country, we have what seems to be the haves and have nots. That is, people on one side are well fed and the people on the other side of the equation are living from hand to mouth all the time. Some of these people take things into their own hands and take out their bad...
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...are required. The American War on Drugs has failed, with devastating consequences to societies and individuals. The consistent continued use of drugs and the increasing costs for controlling its usage is what makes this war a failure. More striking than the financial costs have been the broad societal implications: an attrition of civil liberties, a decreased ability to police violent crime, the inability to treat certain drugs as a health issue and denial of potentially effective medicine for patients. Introduction The United States has been through many great wars for many different causes, such as The American Revolutionary War, The American Civil War, The Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, The Vietnam War and the ongoing War on Drugs. The term “War on Drugs” was first used during President Richard Nixon’s 1971 term, when he officially declared the war. The War on Drugs” continues today, although drug use has been consistent throughout the forty three year period of the war. All drug use has remained steady despite the militarization of the drug war as the data below will demonstrate. The research focuses on the change of drug use rate, cost and racial disparity. Drug use According to the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an annual survey sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged twelve or older were current illicit drug users. The survey is the...
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...BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS PROJECT ON GALLUP INTRODUCTION Gallup, Inc. is a research-based, global performance-management consulting company. Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the company became famous for its public opinion polls, which were conducted in the United States and other countries. Gallup works with major businesses and organizations around the world. In 1988, four years after George Gallup died, Selection Research (SRI) purchased the company from its heirs. SRI wanted the Gallup name to use on its polls, which gave them more credibility and higher response rates. Today the poll is used to gain visibility. Some of Gallup's key practice areas are employee engagement, customer engagement, talent management, and well-being. Gallup has nearly 40 offices in more than 20 countries. World headquarters are in Washington, D.C. Operational headquarters are in Omaha, Nebraska. Gallup's current Chairman and CEO is Jim Clifton. Gallup delivers forward-thinking research, analytics, and advice to help leaders solve their most pressing problems. Combining more than 75 years of experience with its global reach, Gallup knows more about the attitudes and behaviors of the world's constituents, employees, and customers than any other organization. Gallup consultants help private and public sector organizations boost organic growth through measurement tools, strategic...
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...Research Paper for SOC 350 National University 25 November 2012 The Vietnamese Americans’ Successful Transition to the United States Group of Vietnamese immigrants started after 1975 to the United States started after the Vietnam War. Early immigrants were refugee boat people (refers to refugees, illegal immigrants or asylum seekers immigrate in numbers in small boat fleeing persecution or poverty). Forced to flee from their mother country and often drive into poor town neighborhoods, these newcomers have yet managed to establish tough communities in a short amount of time. More than sixty percent of Vietnamese Americans reside in the states of California, Texas, Washington , Florida and Virginia. (Rothenberg 205) As a fairly recent immigrant group, most Vietnamese Americans are either first- or second-generation Americans. They have the lowest division of people with more than one race between the major Asian American groups. As many as one million people who are five years and older speak Vietnamese at home, making it the seventh-most spoken language in the United States. As refugees, Vietnamese Americans have some of the top rates of naturalization in the 2006 American Community Survey, 72% of foreign-born Vietnamese are naturalized US citizens; this collective with the 36% who are born in the United States makes 82% of them United States citizen in total. Of those born outside the United States, 46.5% entered before 1990, 38.8% between...
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...established guidelines for the running and management of hospitals and health care facilities in the United States. According to its website (n.d.), JCAHO’s primary mission is, “To continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value.” Through its onsite surveys, JCAHO accredits approximately 20,000 healthcare programs and facilities each year nationwide. The groundwork for the establishment of JCAHO began in 1910 when Ernest Codman, M.D. recommended an “end result system of hospital standardization” (The Joint Commission, n.d.), a process in which patients were tracked to determine if the treatment they received while in the hospital was successful or not and thus could be used to treat similar cases. In 1913 the American College of Surgeons (ACS) was established and adopted Dr. Codman’s “end result” system and by 1918 it began inspecting hospitals. These initial surveys determined that only 89 of the 692 facilities it inspected at the time met the minimum standards set for healthcare organizations. This at a time when the first true standards manual was not even printed until 1926 and was only 18 pages long. It is not however until the early 1950s that many things come together to put into place the foundations for what is currently known as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospital...
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...weakness of the scientific merit, the major limitations of the scientific merit, and finding the support of the hypotheses of the study. How to Apply Results and Conclusion of the Research Process Results in research are apart of the methodology process in research. Methodology is the process where data has already been collected, and the results from the study are discussed. Some researchers rely on the methodology method because it provides accurate results for any project. When it comes to aging Americans, some researchers feel that a flow plan may be more effective when it comes to valid research. According to University of Phoenix RESEARCH TECHNIQUES FOR THE HEALTH SCIENCES (2009), "Researchers who plan to use survey methodology should review existing health surveys to learn about good designs for small and large budgets and to become familiar with secondary analysis of health survey data sets. A flow plan is used to outline the design and subsequent implementation of a survey. It begins with...
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...2. According to the text, public opinion polls are surveys that are used to get the populations’ views on certain issues. They are the most useful to policymakers and political candidates by giving them an idea on the population feelings about specific issues. They can then use that information to determine what policies to make or agendas to make during campaigning. They are also used by journalists who use the data collected from the polls to support their ideas on certain topics. They are conducted by first determining the sample population to survey depending on the topic of the poll being administered. The pollster asks the sample a series of questions to determine their opinion on the issue being focused on. This can be done in person...
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... How has the government changed ever since terrorism attacks have occurred in the United States? The research articles have showed that the country has tightened up their policies, especially since 9/11. For example, Zakheim said “the White House--once known as the "people's house"--faces, no longer open to traffic. ID cards required everywhere. Airline passengers waiting patiently in line to take off their shoes, belts, jewelry--and to have their bags searched and perhaps their bodies as well”(2). Before 9/11 happened there were rules in the white house and everywhere else but the laws and rules weren’t as strict. In the U.S, the government usually doesn’t make a change in rules unless...
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...registering and object their ballot. Over the decades, Americans have vanished trace with the antiquity of voting. Voting for in determinations supports in providing underpinning on why society do not participate in voting. Analyses provide tangible influences with why societies do not vote with illustration clusters support. Discovery of behaviors will show the unabridged development with the existing system supports with the American community. The 2008 elections enquiry provides awareness with the diverse motives from highest to lowest. Giving some understanding on the origin of the unruly and outcome resolutions to battle these problems. Examination can transform that are currently in domicile and assuring voting contributions on the ability to speak on the issues and distresses. Observing at other countries for potential solutions to the problem can be one riposte for the United States voting delinquent. Using tads and shards can support with altering he existing classification that does not work. Without transformation, the voting contribution will endure to diminish. The history behind the voting in America helps wonder why this pass civil liberty has fallen to many Americans waist side in today’s world. As America was still an assortment of British colonies, voting was extremely restricted. the only properly owning white men were able to vote which left out women, poor white men, slaves and free black, native Americans and in some cities, Jews and even Catholics. It stewed...
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...“Religion and race differences have remained major sources of conflict since our nation’s founding” ( ix). This statement is true, and I think that in America that we love black vs white and religion vs religion. It’s the American way, I don’t think that I can’t see America any other way. Even though we all go to work, church, bank, restaurants and others together. There was a survey that was done by Pew research center that about “70%of Americans that “Angels and Demons are active in the world”(p.141). The thing that surprises me is that the people that don’t even claim to be affiliated or part with any particular religion. “These results show that Americans across a wide range of religious walks of life believe that paranormal entities or...
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...is a question, burning in every American’s heart; Is the American Dream, the thing many died in hopes of, still alive today? Many would say no, that we are in recession and that no one is born in equal opportunities, but those people forget the fundamental principles behind the dream. The American Dream is the idea that everyone has the ability to have equal opportunity and lead successful lives, and that idea is still alive because we still have the same laws protecting our rights and the only thing that could rob us of the dream is our own attitudes towards it. The United States Constitution has gone through a few changes over the years, the addition and revision of the first ten amendments and other clarifications being examples. However, every U.S...
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...Moore effectively persuades his audience that our nation is filled with “Idiot People” through the use of statics, historical evidence, and surveys. His use of logic convinces us to believe that the poor political decisions and corporate funding affect our schooling system. He appeals to logic by giving us statistics about a survey he took at five prestigious American universities. The result he concludes is that 40% of the seniors at fifty five prestigious American universities did not know when the Civil War took place. He provides us with surveys in order to stun us and to show that even the most prestigious universities are filled with idiotic students. In addition, he implies historical evidence on the greed and lack of qualification of...
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