Content Analysis #2

While reading newspaper articles and looking for more online information, I have concluded that USI and the Evansville's community is very directly effected by the national occurances. We are all encountering and dealing with the fact that the job loss rate is up to more than 50%, the highest it has ever been. Multiple people are being layed-off, not just business workers, but also the students of USI. Businesses are going out of business because the economy is just spiraling down. Mr. Obama says that he knows the economy will get better now that the stimulus package has been set into motion. Those occurances have also regretably made it possible for the stocks, automobile industry, and the housing markets to decline as well, all of which effect most the local community and the students of USI as well.

Content Analysis #1

As I was trying to understand and analyze just a broad aspect of USI, it's research and assessments on student's profiles, I came across some interesting information. For example, I had concluded that there are about 7,700 full-time students and roughly 2,300 are part-time. Of those full and part-time students, 60% are females, leaving 40% to be males. I would sought it out to be the other way around and that men were more popular rather than women.

However, I was not surprised to see that most of the population here at USI is under the age of 25, but to see that 23% are older than that? Wow... I never would have predicted those results.

What also included my interest was the fact that freshmen made up the majority, follwed by seniors, and sophomores and juniors tied for third. I would have assumed that freshmen would be the majority, as shown, but then it would have been followed by sophomores, then juniors, and finally seniors. My question is: Why does it skip around? I would have thought, as you got older, you would have been more susceptable to not continue, because it just keeps getting harder from then on. Those results startled me.

Political Compass

As I was taking the politcal compass test, most of the time I found myself as either agreeing or disagreeing. But, as for some of the questions, they really hit home and I found myself advocating my own views by either strongly agreeing or strongly disagreeing. Overall though, I found that I am Economic Left/Right: -3.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.10. What that means exactly is that I found myself in the authoritarian left quadrant which is that I think the government should closely regulate the economy and individual behavior. There should be better planning of the economy, strict careful overseeing of corporations and markets, and restriction on immoral behaviors. I think those are what make a strong, stable, and productive society.