I think all forms of gambling should be legalized in Nebraska, for multiple reasons. Nebraska is losing millions of dollars because people are travelling to nearby states to gamble. Some forms of gambling are legal, some are not. What is the difference? People should be able to use their money however they choose,even if betting on something with an uncertain outcome. There are multiple different forms of gambling. Some of the legalized ones include, video bingo, slot machines, online poker with
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Alcohol Rough Draft “When I write about the destructive effects of alcohol on Indians I'm not reinforcing stereotypes, I'm writing autobiography.” Sherman Alexie. In The Lone Ranger and Tonto FistFight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie, examines the destructive effects alcohol has on the Spokane people. In his book, alcohol affects all Natives either personally or through their relationships with individuals struggling with alcohol. Many characters in the book are touched by alcohol because of destroyed
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Running Head: Online Game Addiction Perception of and Addiction to Online Games as a Function of Personality Traits Searle Huh University of Southern California and Nicholas David Bowman Michigan State University Online Publication Date: April 26, 2008 Journal of Media Psychology, V 13, No. 2, Spring, 2008 Abstract With the growing popularity of online video games, there have been anecdotal reports suggesting that these games are highly addictive, with some gamers spending
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I attended an alcoholics anonymous meeting in Whitefish Bay, WI with my classmate. We previously tried to attend a meeting in September, but were unfortunately turned away due to it being a closed meeting. The leader of the meeting was kind enough to let us know when the next open meeting would be, which was October 8th. I nervously returned to the church that night and didn’t know what to expect once we arrived, which caused some anxiety for me. We entered a cozy room and were greeted right
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Underage consumption of alcohol is an epidemic that has spread across the nation at an almost astronomical rate. The problem is increasing especially among teens in high school. It not only affects their health, but also their attitudes about such things as, school work, socializing with peers, and their personal lives at home. The problem only seems to be progressively growing worse and worse inside of the United States, and by the law of cause and effect, this is not only affecting today’s teens
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Crimson Shadow Laura Jones English 102-92 12 June 2010 Loving the Untamed Artist Norman Maclean was a well-established English professor at the University of Chicago for many years before writing an account of his life in the western Rocky Mountains during the early 1900’s titled A River Runs Through It. Maclean focuses much of this account on the experiences of his brother, Paul, and himself. These experiences further centralize around the brothers’ primitive pastime, fly fishing. The plot
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The Internet is a social technology, but the effect it has on face to face relationships can potentially be very detrimental. Like any activity, the Internet takes up a person's time; the amount of time varies depending on the person's level of addiction. Often this time usage could be spent bettering face to face relationships. It is not uncommon for an Internet user to begin to replace their face to face relationships with those formed on the Internet. By doing this they often negatively affect
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Introduction: I visited The Centers of Marion County Mental Health, which is a facility that treats mental health patients as well as patients that need detoxification services. The facility has both in-patient and out-patient programs that counsel and treat both adults and children that deal with mental health diagnosis such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychosis, depression, and much more. The mission of the centers is to “offer a wide variety of behavioral health care services
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Addiction is a bad habit which leads to considerable negative side effects that are social, psychological and physical nature which causes the user to be dependent on the drugs rather than depending on themselves and their mental faculties. It involves the users having cravings and compulsive behaviours which indicates that they do not just want or need the commodity but crave it and the deprivation of this commodity causes a significant amount of withdrawal symptoms which affects the user physically
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While reading “Paradise” by A.L. Kennedy, several questions arise. The main character Hannah Luckraft, a 36 year old woman, is presented in a way that determines the reader’s opinion. She is supposed to be an alcohol addict for a long time. The reader has no other option than to believe that she is addicted to alcohol and that her actions and thoughts are influenced by alcohol indulgence. Therefore I would like to examine the arguments which enforce that assumption. What makes it difficult to differentiate
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