Art and Science of Polling

Griffin Peek

5-7-14

Mrs. Lawson

History and science of polling

Figure 1- This is  a example of a poll on Gallup when president Obama was elected

            In the United States we are known as a country that everyone has the right to vote and a voice in the government. Polling was a way that associates of companies or people running political campaigns can see what most people want and what they support. Now a day’s polling is changing, it originally started in newspapers and in magazines for the people to see and then they can send in their vote or just so people will know whose representing what. Yet now new websites like soctrative and Gallup are having new ways that people can poll and learn about what is going on and who it doing what.

Figure 2- This is a Opinion poll of what people

 see as there political party

Through our centuries of knowledge of 

technology and our technology based age is now using something that we as humans in the twenty first century rely on, almost every day, the internet.

            Polling is much different than it was in the 19^th century. The way that interest groups want to see what the public knows or how they feel about a certain topic. Through this they would put articles in newspapers and magazines so that local audiences can show their preference and how they feel about the subject. A good example is in 1828, the supporters of Andrew Jackson had a poll and rallies and gatherings for Jackson’s supporters. This was put through newspapers. But the science of polling was introduced when manufactures start to put survey polls in the newspapers to see what people think of their product. But starting in the 20^th century opinion polls start to become popular, and in newspapers and magazines they become customary. But in the 21^st century opinion polls are now starting to advance with technology. 

Figure 4- Gallup is more of a political website but it

 contains polls and ideas in the country

             In the 21^st century we are the century of technology. Today people rely on the internet for almost anything and new websites such as Socrative and Gallup- make polling options very easy for the participant and the representative for the subject of the poll.

Figure 3- This is George Gallup, which 

Gallup. com is made after

Gallup is a website that is named after a man that was one of the first men to study the popular voting field. In 1936,  George Gallup and his employees correctly predicted Franklin Roosevelt’s win the presidential election.  The new polling technique that he used was called “sampling.” He did this by studying a small percentage of people, thus giving them a better generalization of who was going to win. Gallup was a pioneer in the polling industry and he helped it get to where it is to this day and thus a web site about him. 

Figure 5- This is the socrative logo

 which teachers are using to do online polling

 for students.

       

     Another way that people are polling in this century is a website called socrative, which is an online polling technique. A popular way that a group of people in the community is using it is teachers in the classroom. Teachers are soon realizing that to get students to be more corporate and when they use the internet, not the usual when the teacher asks the student to vote or how they feel about a subject. The answer is not answered until they look around the room to see what there piers are voting for so that they don’t seem like the odd one out of the class, but they are answering the surveys and the questions to how they feel. The teachers are realizing that when they incorporate technology into the process then everything becomes anonymous and the feedback is more honest and all around better data. This can apply to how polling is today. When you go to a online poll it’s always anonymous or when you go to vote they have separate spaces that each person can vote so that everyone has a honest say and that they can speak their voice.

            Polling has come a long way in the many centuries that this country has let its occupants vote for its government, and has a voice in the government. It first started form newspapers and magazines trying to get the word out, to websites that have polls on them, containing the voice of the political parties and manufactures that give you a chance to voicing your opinion. To me the idea of art and science of polling all started on how the representatives of political or manufactures can get the world of the people and what they want.

Works Cited

 ASCD. ASCD, n.d. Web. 2014. <http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar14/vol71/num06/Using-Polling-Technologies-to-Close-Feedback-Gaps.aspx>. This was one of the most helpful websites when it came to learning about polling today and helped me understand that with the technology savvy world that we live in today its easier for people of the younger age to get there opinion in rather than the older age group only. 

 The Bulletin. the bulletin, n.d. Web. 2014. <http://www.bendbulletin.com/news/1382389-151/the-art-and-science-of-the-opinion-poll>. This web site contains how politicians are starting to use other ways to express what they need to get across to the public. They are starting to use cell phones or the internet to get the word out to the people. 

 Gallup. Gallup inc., n.d. Web. 29 Apr. 2014. <http://www.gallup.com/poll/101872/How-does-Gallup-Polling-work.aspx>. Gallup is a website that has been in the political business for a long time is one of the sources that many people use to see what is going on in the government and which politicians is supporting which cause and also contains some opinion polls. 

 Pearson. Pearson Education, n.d. Web. 2010. <http://wps.ablongman.com/long_sobel_pto_1/40/10417/2666796.cw/content/index.html>. The history of popular polls and how polling started in America. this was one of the most helpful sources when it came to my research of the history and some back ground of polling in early america. 

People, Politics, and Policy. Glenview: Pearson Education, 2011. Print. Vol. 15 of Governemtn in America. This was my only book source but it gave me a new look into the way that polling was done and gave me a new knowledge on phone polling. 

 SAIM. society ofr industrial art and mathematics, n.d. Web. 2014. <http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=270>. This was my way to learn about election polling and how it works. With the various techniques that you can poll and why groups do different techniques. 

1930's Essay

Griffin Peek

4-22-14

Mrs. Lawson

Depression Essay

                                                

                During the 1930’s the American people faced a tragic disruption in the economy – “The Great Depression” - putting many people on the streets with no jobs or means to earn a living. The movie “Cinderella Man” depicts the struggles of people living in the Depression though the life of a boxer named Jim Braddock. While he was earning a living boxing he lost his license at Madison Square Garden because of a broken hand. All of the hard times that Jim faces are very accurate to the things that people had to go through during the Depression.

When Jim lost his job as a boxer he already was struggling to support his family. He had sold most of the possessions in his house and moved into a small apartment. Just like many Americans, this was the beginning of people selling things so they could get by. Soon after Braddock moves, he loses his job due to his inability not to work because of his broken hand. Many people during the Depression were desperate - living on the street, in boxes and going from dock to dock or warehouse to warehouse to see if they can find any type of work. Jim moves forward even with his broken hand so that he can feed his kids and not send them away. This was a traumatic choice for people living in large towns – one that the Braddocks had to choose. If they could send the kids away then they could work, earn a small living and try to start over again.

When Jim goes to the government aid office to help get financial assistance it was very shameful for him. Like most able bodied men he didn't want to ask the government for help but he needed it and could not afford to let his family suffer. Americans were very prideful and it was hard for people to ask for money. We get a short glance, at the suffrage of our country when we experience the story about the man whose wife’s teeth are falling out and he needs money to take care of her and he can’t find a job. This was a realization for people as they were literally on the streets starving. Aide stations were all around and when Jim finally asks for help he is able to turn his power back on and bring his kids home.

Life during the Depression was very hard on people. When Jim gets the chance to fight the world champion everyone believes that he is fighting for them because he too is “down in the dumps” and is their symbol of hope – their Cinderella story. The Depression was harsh on Americans and people had to do things they never thought they would face in order to eat, live and protect their children even risk their life like Jim did in the fight of his life. This movie represents a man that kept on fighting in and around the ring just like he was fighting in and around life to survive. Jim Braddock did not give up just like many Americans did not give up during the Depression but fought for a stable economy and a better life. 

Poetry In WWI

WWI questions

1) WWI began in July 28, 1914 because of the assassination of the Arch Duke Ferdinand heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne

2) The US got involved when the Lusitania was suck by a German u-boat

3)

4) The War ended when the Allied Powers closed in on the Axis Powers and made then sign the treaty of Versailles as a peace treaty.

Postcard blog of sources

My Outside source - used this to use the distance and how long it took the sailors. I also used a picture from this.

Great White Fleet – History and Memorabilia

Naval History – Great White Fleet

Great White Fleet Information – Library of Congress

(Includes links to primary source articles about the Fleet)

Smithsonian – History of Postcards

Political Cartoons

Political Cartoons

This Political Cartoon is showing how the Americans when they fought the Guerrilla fighters in the Philippines they would shoot any of them over ten. In the American Civil war one man would die for every 10 wounded but during this war the Americans would kill 10 indigenous people for every one wounded.

Political cartoon 2- The big stick is relevant as Teddy Roosevelt and how he was one of the major leaders in the Philippine war. The Americans sent the navy in which Roosevelt was the assistant of the navy and when the head guy was in control Teddy sent the navy to the Caribbean and started the war.

History of the Police

In the late 1800’s between the early 1900’s the history of the police was almost nonexistent. Most people that lived in that time period believed that they were going to have to take the protection and investigation of the police in their own hands. Yet in the 1880’s the idea of the big city and leisure time in to the American society. In cities such as Los angles, Baltimore and Chicago, in all of these cities leisure would change the police business for good.

Rush St. bridge

Leisure was known to be time for relaxation and time to take a break from work.  Life in the big city was hectic and unlike small towns where everyone knows everyone, the city life is more unanimous and it is vibrant where you can get away with many things without people knowing that the crime was you.  In the city of los angles the policing occupation was not a popular job at the begging of the century. The city had over 100,000 people and there were only less than 70 officers to account for the whole city. The cities political system was corrupt because of this; the mayor had a lot of control over the poli^th century there was a man named Charles E. Sebastian who was the new police chief. He made the rule that there had to be at least 200 sworn officers in the department at one time. During this time the LAPD went through a tough change with many new influenced such as the automobile (the flying squad). The flying squad was known for this because they drove around in supped up cars to help put down violent riots. The LAPD had one of the largest amount of officers on duty yet they still have one of the highest kill rate of officers, over 2% of sworn officers are killed in action each year.

ce department and its staff. Yet in the begging of the 19

Baltimore police headquaters

The Baltimore Police Department was much different than the Los Angeles Police Department in the turn of the Century. The Baltimore PD was more modern that the Los Angeles, they started to innovate much sooner than any of the three Departments. In 1885 they created box system. This would help with communications between officers on the street to the “station house” this would be better for the city because when a violent uprising would occur they could radio It in quicker. On October 25, 1885 the first patrol wagon went out and soon after that the harbor patrol was established. The city started to have many new ideas and divisions

go out such as; in 1903 the traffic division was developed.  In 1913 a police academy was established, in 1920 the board of Police commissioners was creating electing General Charles D Gather as the first commissioner. And finally in 1915 the, motorcycle unit w
as developed. The Baltimore PD had a very tough area to protect including 78.3 square miles of land and 7.7 miles of water ways that they had to protect adding up to a total of 83 miles that was in there jurisdiction. The Baltimore PD was not the largest but it was one of the most innovative. 

police exam 

1915 motorcycle cop

The Chicago police was one of the most welcoming police departments in the nation. In the year 1877 the first black officer was sworn into the force and soon after in 1885 the first woman entered the force. They were known as “policewomen” and there main purpose was to work with women and children in the field because they were known to be more gentle and caring. The wealthy subdivisions of Chicago were very afraid of all the violent protests so they set up a private police services. This was a eye opener to the Chicago PD so then they started to ramp up the officers to join the force. The force was not known to be the best in the area with a reputation that the officers would be lounging in saloons and streets. But in 1904 Captain Alexander Pipers made a investigation about the officers which ramped them up to be one of the largest police departments in the nation with a whopping 3,314 employees in 1907 averaging 30 arrests per officer. In 1910 the officers of the Chicago PD start to have formal training and the average patrol hours a week were 63. This new work ethic created a masculine environment which still is in effect to this day. But starting in the 1920’s the new Prohibition started to bring federal agents to the city.

1887 wagon patrol 

A federal agent. When most people think about a federal agent they think of the FBI the biggest federal agency, created in 1908 or the CIA well before the Secret service  started to protect the president in 1894 they were a special group of agents who were detective tracking down The Klu Klux Klan, train and bank Robbers, and also alcohol smugglers. They were a small and deadly group who had to be tacitly prepared for anything. The influence of the federal and private police was a huge influence before the rise of the police in big city’s at the turn of the century. They were hired by wealthy businessmen or neighborhoods for protection. Yet there was still one thing that gave the private police such a good name. “The railroads were a major employer of private security agents, especially because the railroads covered such a vast expanse of rural area” (Stephenson 21) 

The police in the turn of the century was a huge impact on the life of the people in big cities. The anonymousness of the bug city attracted the criminals but the police responded coming up with bigger and better things, innovating and creating machines that can keep up with the outlaws. 

·         LAPD –I used this to find out the differences in the Los Angeles Police Department.

·          Baltimore police department –This gave me a lot of information about the changes in the police department and also gave many dates to go off of and all of the modernization that Chicago went through.

·         Chicago Police Department – I found this web site which gave me many ideas that I could use to compare the Chicago police department to all of the other departments that I picked.

·         Wages- I found this in which it gave me a idea of the wages and retirement options that the officers had in the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s.

·         American History -  I used this to use some of the reasons that the police started to rise in this time.

·          Policing in America-  I found many things in this book nut mostly found about the federal police but mostly focused on the secret service before they started the protection of the president.