The Pew Research Center, as reviewed for the UAPP 677 course stands as a central resource for anyone interested in numbers surrounding current public issues. The Pew website is full of numbers, facts, and information to inform any surfer of the trends of the day. Over the past week, I reviewed two articles from the site, one dealing directly with numbers of people using streaming videos every day a second about the belief of religious zeal of political candidates and its impact on elections.
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The first article I reviewed dealt directly with the numbers of people who, throughout a normal day use streaming video. The article, "Online Video", touches on trends in people using and gaining access to online videos. Here, I see a personal trend towards more and more people abandoning televisions all together. My apologies to Comcast and Verizon, but, the future is the internet. One can stream live feeds from news networks, comedy stations, and educational videos right from the internet. Why add another cable to the household and another dollar on a monthly statement?
Secondly, I looked at the "Religion in Campaign '08" Article. Apparently, times and numbers have changed in the past few years, showing now that religion is no longer as big a factor as it was only a short time period earlier. The two presidential candidates now who lead the democratic and republican parties' races respectively, Hillary Clinton and Rudy Guiliani, are both seen as having the lowest affiliation to political ties as well.
To me, a younger generation liberally viewed individual, religion does not stand in the way of someones ability or inability to accomplish their goals and tasks they set forth. Equally, I think our generation of young, budding professionals will in a short time see higher trends in apathy towards candidates based on race, sexual preference, or gender.
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