...similar problems which comes from gambling habits. The lack of control towards emotions which results in the loss of happiness, not even a dab of harmony in the people's lives. Yet. the bad habits of gambling is a very addictive activity. I would like to talk about the lurking evil of gambling which is present around us, which most people assume that this way would be an easier road that leads to a luxurious lifestyle. Therefore, they pursue this supposed opportunity, but end up being chased by loan sharks, facing bankruptcy or even black listed from financial institutes. Religious wise, there is a debate going on over whether the motivation to gamble is positive or negative. Common view between educated individuals is that gambling is negative, but there are others who argue that the motivation is positive, that people take gambling as a hobby and it is usually a harmless diversion. Sadly, in reality people enjoys it as they continue to gamble. Despite knowing that indulging in it will "blow a hole in your wallet". Activities like these are in truth, practices which will increase unecessary risks in life and decreases the brighter chances in life considering that the people who accepted the risk are unaware of the danger imposed on them. It is not surprising that gambling would become a popular leisure activity because there are certain evil religions that do encourage people to gamble. However, there are religions that prohibit gambling as a leisure activity. For example...
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...Hi Peeps, Today's Quote "Double your good efforts by now gambling on evil ways to fix your problems, but have faith in God and His Revenge of Eternity!" ~ Jon Barnes Gambling Gambling is a game of addiction for fools, but trust is faith in action towards God, which is the only sure bet that you can ever place. People play games and tricks all of the time, while God does not. He cannot, since He already knows the outcomes and results of everything. Man's ways are full of double talk, double minded, fork tongued foolishness, full of double trouble and evil gambling. Placement Placing your life and the lives of your family into your own hands with your limited time, talent, abilities, and understanding is not a wise risk you should want...
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...Top O’ Hill Terrace by Vickie Bryant and Camille Hess. Although the tale of this transformation seems unbelievable, it is nevertheless encouraging and inspiring. One of the most amazing parts of the story is how this piece of property was radically transformed. Originally, Beulah Adams Marshall purchased this land and built a house for a tearoom along the Bankhead Highway. This Top O’ Hill Terrace tearoom became quite famous, not only for the tea and the home-cooked meals, but also because it was positioned on an attractive tree-covered hill overlooking Arlington and Fort Worth. However, the innocent tearoom would soon see a dramatic transformation as Fred Browning considered it for a nice gambling location....
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...The commercial vices are gambling, prostitution, and drugs. The appeals of the commercial vices are so strong and widespread that attempts to prohibit them in western countries have always failed. The evils of these vices are threefold: Those who practice them suffer, the criminals who sell them prosper, and the enforcement organizations are expensive, unsuccessful, and often corrupt. Two commercial vices have been accepted as unstoppable, but there evils have been minimized by legalization and regulation. These are the particular drug, alcohol, and gambling. Ethyl alcohol, the drug in beer, whiskey, and wine does more harm is causing accidents, overdose deaths, job failures, broken homes, and violence than all other drugs combined. The United States attempted to prohibit alcohol and failed. The Mafia made its money by bootlegging alcohol. The gangsters of the twenties and thiries were in the alcohol business just as the drug peddlers of today are in the drug business. Both settled trade disputes with gun fire. When alcohol prohibition was repealed and sale by licensed dealers was instituted, the Mafia went out of the liquor business and the revenue agents assigned to stop the illegal business went out of business too. The quality of regulated liquor became assured and taxed, not high enough to motivate bootlegging, became a source of public revenue. Consumption of legal alcohol became only slightly greater than the consumption of illegal...
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...The Effect of Gambling on Local and State Economies. Name. Institution. The Effect of Gambling on Local and State Economies. Gambling is the act of staking money, possessions or other items to place a bet on an outcome whose result is unknown. It happens in the form of games that casinos offer such as blackjack and roulette, sports betting, slot machines and the lottery (Bigdeal.org.uk, n.d.). Gambling dates back to Ancient China (2300 B.C) where evidence of the dice was found (Crapsonline.org, n.d.). The act has been marred with negative connotations but has started to get acceptance as people warm up to the idea of legalizing gambling (Ipsos, 2010). Gambling has a place among the factors that affect state and local economies. Gambling has contributed to the economies through the creation of jobs. Individuals are appointed to work in casinos as cleaners and constructors, administrate online betting websites and manage gambling firms among others. Wells (2014) says that a report commissioned by the American Gaming Association placed the direct jobs created at 570,000. The employment opportunities bring about economic growth in the state and local economies. Wells (2014) also reveals that the taxes paid amount to 38 billion dollars. The taxes paid by the gambling firms and casinos allow the state and national governments to undertake projects that develop the economy. Therefore, gambling plays a part in economic growth. On the other hand, gambling negates the need for...
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...Assignment Essay, Gambling For a very long time gambling has been a topic that intrigues the mind and tempts the wild nature in every one of us. Whether it be playing cards at the casino, betting on the super bowl, or even buying a car, we all have gambled for one thing or another in our life. So what is it about gambling that makes it very secretly appealing to us? Is this a true addiction, and what might be the pros and cons towards gambling? These are some of the questions that I personally believe, need to be explored. History and Application of Gambling Where does it all truly begin? It is hard to decipher specifically when the first form of gambling was recorded however, what we do know is that the Bible contains references of gambling, one major one in particular was for the garment of Jesus during the Crucifixion. Fast forward through the centuries and many cultures that have had a run-in with gambling, and begin in our homeland of the United States. For as long as the United States has been around and leading into the present...
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...(IPV).There were 440 participants recruited from STI (sexually transmitted infection) Clinic from St. Petersburg, Russia to collect some information on health standing, alcohol use and hostility involving sexual partners. 47.0% were classified as abusing alcohol and 7.2% participants committed IPV who mostly drinks on the streets or in parks (BMC Public Health 2011). In a current issue, Pathological Gambling was classified as “Impulse-Control Disorder” section. This could relate to illegal acts which would be forgery, fraud, theft or embezzlement to finance gambling (Petry, 2010). According to Poulin (2006), gambling is an activity in which there a two potentialbenefits and harms to peoples for the general action towards gambling should reducing harm. Studies have constituted a relationship between gambling and suicide and suicide attempts. Logistic investigated relevant related to suicides with gamblers and debt due to gambling, to suicides with gamblers but no debt and non-gamblers. There were 233 (19.4%) suicides showed evidence of gambler prior to death; 110 of the 233 gambling suicides (47.2%) individuals who were indebted (Wong, Cheung, Conner, Conwell & Yip, 2010). Preventive Medicine (2008)...
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...accomplishing a goal, but rather achieving happiness. Money is a great desire for most people, but the rich can still be just as unsatisfied as the poor .This happens because the perspective of money is not depended entirely on wealth, it is also on the desire a person has for it. Someone can remain forever unsatisfied by money because of their view on it. Some people perceive money to be evil because of the way it controls a financial life-style, but it is merely just a tool from a rational perspective. Changing the perspective of money can change the outlook of life because it can help avoid selfish desires and make a person more financially stable (Klontz). If there was only one person in the world, and he was a billionaire, he couldn’t be considered “rich” because he wouldn’t have the “poor” to compare to. If rich and poor are measurements of wealth, they only exist due to comparison. This means that eliminating a view point based on comparison also has an effect on a person’s view of wealth. Gambling is the perfect example of the human’s dilemma. Many people are aware that gambling has a higher loss ratio when it comes to winning stakes. If people are aware that they are bound to lose, then why do they still do it? For this there are many reasons. Typically people who choose to gamble are financially unstable and desire a method to get-rich-quick (Masmasika). Statistically, gamblers are designed to lose because it has a win/loss pattern, and when a gambler wins,...
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...Andrew Jackson sent a letter to the congress about rotating goverment jobs on December 8, 1896. Andrew Jackson finds out that the National bank has been using the bank's money to use for gambling on February 1834. On December 7, 1829, Jackson wrote a letter to the congress about the indian removal act. On December 8, 1896, Andrew jackson’s letter to the congress on the rotating goverment jobs, says that highly perspicacious men are likely to qualify the goverment jobs. The limit of governing is up to 4 years. He says that jobs like this are made for the welfare of the people. He says that nobody has more rights than others to govern. I believe he only selected his friends on these jobs to agree with him on anything. For example if he didn't like a new law that was coming up, he could easily veto it. If the people that did like the law and voted against Jackson will be out numbered because jackson friends will obviously take his side. The people who went against jackson will most...
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...Symbolism in The Young Goodman Brown and The Rocking-Horse Winner The battle between good and evil is as old as Satan’s rebellion against God and his being cast from heaven with his fellow fallen angels that the Bible tells about in the Book of Revelation chapter 12, verses 7-12. Writers of fiction have been using this struggle for just about that long. The short stories The Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and D.H. Lawrence’s The Rocking-Horse Winner illustrate the battle between good and evil with elements of symbol and setting. Drawn from the author’s Puritan background1, The Young Goodman Brown begins as the protagonist is embarking from his New England village home in the last light of the day, on a journey in the night. Hawthorne gives the first hint of the darkness as the setting for evil in Goodman’s farewell admonition to his newlywed wife Faith, when he instructs her to say her prayers and go to bed at dusk, the time when the light is gone and darkness reigns. The atmosphere at the beginning is clean and pure. The wind has a gentle, innocent feel as it plays with the pink ribbon on Faith’s cap. As Goodman’s journey continues the setting becomes progressively darker, and increasingly evil, as he travels through the haunted forest. At the end of his trip the darkness is dispelled by light in a clearing. It is not the good light of the setting sun, it is lit with an evil illumination from the fires of Hell. The setting is very different in The Rocking-Horse Winner...
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...between choosing to allow the darkness to consume him or allow the little good in his to life to change his personality. “The unbearable tensions in Poe’s divided personality led him to perversely self-destructive behavior, to conflict with authority and sometimes to morbid despair (Meyers 59).” Although he was split between good and evil, Poe did not let either truly affect his life and his personality was stagnant evident in his gambling addiction. In college, Poe got into gambling debt, and he believed that he should pay his debts, however, Poe lack the sufficient funds and asked his adopted father John Allan to pay them for him. In this instance with John Allan both the negative and positive influences within his mind are revealed, negative in the way Poe gambled, but positive in the fact that he wanted to repay the debts he acquired. Although he was caught between good and evil, Poe neither stopped gambling nor paid his debts therefore he proves that he let neither the positive influences nor the negative influences change the way he lived his life (Silverman 1-2). Because of Poe’s emotional state, his mind was split between good and evil, and due to this fact he was unable to relate to other children and was alone. Poe was not only filled with, but he was also consumed by darkness, and he made it known to himself. He never let the darkness pull him away from his reality because he accepted it as part of his being (Dincer 222). This darkness comes from Poe’s search for...
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...Crimes and Their Cause in Shanghai Opium use was addictive and the addicts had to chip in more money for their continued leisure’s. Unfortunately, these addicts were too weakened to work, they had depleted most of their investments, and could not easily avoid the drug. This lead to development of mechanisms to acquire money to acquire the substance. These mechanisms were however through use of force and violence and eventually resulted to crime activities. Some of the crimes that popped up include: Human Trafficking for prostitution In the previous centuries prostitution was seen a lesser social evil compared to opium smoking. By the early 20th century gambling and Sex dens provided a better venue for opium consumption. In the Dreams Splendor...
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...charitable purposes and to be the pope’s special agent in dispensing or rewarding contributors with certain pardons as a remission for sins. He could visit churches, receive money in the pope’s name and dispense indulgences. The pardoner’s tale displayed how greed and avarice can only bring treachery and death, the money causes them to behave in ways that lead to their demise. In the prologue, the pardoner admits that he is a fraud and is motivated by greed and avarice and many sins that he himself displays. He preaches that money is the root of all evil but sells relics to others which is supposed to bring them great fortune; he also states that many of his sermons are the product of evil intentions. When asked to tell a tale he agrees only after he has food and wine to eat and drink. He begins his tale about a group of young people who spend most of their time drinking and partying excessively, he names gluttony, drunkenness, gambling and swearing as a few sins they commit. As they drink a coffin passes and they are told its one of their old friends who was killed by the hands of death; the three personified death and decided to search for him and slay him in order to avenge the death of their old buddy. On the search they passed an old man who searched for youth again, he said “death won’t even take him” when he said this the three demanded to be lead to where death resided, the old man told them death was under the oak tree in the groove, when the approached the tree death...
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...further foretell and capture the important elements of the story. Both Nathaniel Hawthorne in “Young Goodman Brown" and Shirley Jackson in “The Lottery’, use symbolism in these short stories. The stories both contain symbols describing evil. Hawthorne’s symbolism describes good versus evil, while Jackson's symbolism reflects the evil nature within society as a whole. The first two characters that Hawthorne introduces, Young Goodman Brown and his wife Faith, are both symbolic in their names. Brown's name symbolizes youth and good nature. Brown is a young man throughout the story, and his youth suggests that he has yet to be corrupted by the world and is still innocent. Hawthorne writes, "Faith, as the wife was aptly named, thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons on her cap, while she called to Goodman Brown" (Hawthorne 331). Faith’s name symbolizes the trust and virtue that is found within a good wife. It may also hint at the faith that Young Goodman Brown struggles to hang Haney 2 onto. As the story goes on, Goodman Brown meets his companion in the woods, he states, "Faith kept me back awhile" (Hawthorne 332). The use of his wife’s name here symbolizes his conscious not allowing him to welcome the evil of his “fellow-traveller” (Hawthorne 332). As he continues on his journey, he looks back at his wife and has a feeling of sadness as he is only able to see her pink ribbons...
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...nearly 75 percent wanted Rose in the Hall of Fame” and “an Internet site calling for Rose’s reinstatement generated more than 300,000 petitions in the first two days.” The possibility of reinstatement has been tossed around since the Rose was initially banned, but Commissioner Selig had seriously considered reinstatement in 2003 if Rose admitted to placing bets on his own team in the 1980s. Rose had denied betting on baseball up to that point, but after fourteen years of banishment he finally came clean and admitted to gambling in 2004. Although Rose did what the Commissioner of Baseball wanted to happen before reinstatement was granted, Rose was...
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