online gambling. I would like to look at the issue with an Act Utilitarianism perspective, and try to figure out if the good outweighs the bad, or vice versa. Casinos bring in massive amounts of income for states through taxes and tourism. Last year, New Jersey made $2.87 billion dollars from casino revenue, with $8.4 million being made in a five week period from online gambling [1]. This is money that allows the state to invest into their citizens, with free schooling and cheaper healthcare options
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are wanting a Flag change with the New Zealand Flag, however there are many residents of the NZ community who aren’t at all wanting this Flag change to happen. We could stop all of this chaos by sending out a survey to all New Zealand residents, this survey may contain many questions that all NZ people have in mind, (here are two questions that this survey may contain), ‘Do you want the NZ Flag to change?’ to ‘What would the new Flag look like? 2. If the New Zealand government decided to change
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The settlements of New England and Chesapeake, though both settled by the English, differ greatly from one another. One of the main differences between the two regions was the reason they were settled, their different beliefs in religion and politics, and their different environments were also factors that affected the way they were developed. While New England was mostly founded for an escape from religious persecution, the settlement of the Chesapeake colonies was part of a plan to find gold
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Text: “So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter” (2 Thessalonians 2:15, ESV). Key Thought: Even with all the grand and glorious promises for the future, we have to deal with daily challenges and struggles in the church. The Thessalonian church was no exception. hurches are a lot like plants. If a plant does not grow, it will die. In other words, change is wired into the way plants were designed by God. Similarly
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5000 copies of the New Testament. Since over 5000 copies are present, that makes for a very reliable source for people to know that these documents are for real. It is hard evidence so therefore, highly reliable. To guarantee that the scriptures are of the Word of God, they share qualities of inspiration such as: guidance, personality, words, and results (Inspiration: Guaranteeing the Word of Scripture, pg., 59-72). In assuring the authenticity of the text, the lower criticism deals with text containing
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Final Paper: Leadership & Katrina PART 1 A) Learning about the different leadership models in this class has taught me about how to be a better leader. It has also made me see leadership skills in myself that I wasn’t fully aware of and made them come to the surface and develop. I learned that leadership doesn’t fit into one thought process; there are many models and many ways to exhibit and act on leadership. I learned why I do what I do when we decided on what we value. I knew what I valued
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Enron, Hurricane Katrina Examples of Leadership Gone Wrong Poor crisis leadership was on display after Hurricane Katrina and during the financial crisis The New Orleans masses who huddled in the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina, the Enron retirees who lost their life savings, and the laid-off workers buried under the economic ruin of financial companies all live with a simple truth. Just as spectacularly as great leadership can spark success, failed leadership can bring down cities, businesses
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of wars in Europe which resulted in many people not wanting to suffer from tyranny and oppression anymore; hence, they intended to leave their mother countries to a new place without war and more freedom –America. What’s more, those who meant to move to American would not have religious and ethnic persecution anymore; everyone in the new country was immigrant and everyone was newly born there, which meant there wasn’t an aristocracy or any poor at first. These were the reason
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Crisis Communication Critique Paper Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 25, 2005. It was a category 2 tropical typhoon that devastated vast parts of the city. The canals that were in New Orleans were not built to withstand the typhoon. This typhoon caused canal breaches and pumping-station failures. This caused a great deal of flooding of about 80 percent of the areas in New Orleans. Hurricane Katina caused a great deal of damage and displacement of many residents. There was
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generation from the Post War European baby boom causes many political, economic and cultural challenges that the New Lefts were left to solve. Some of those being the issue of not enough space for college students, not having a proper say in the government, and major political issue of the time, the issues of capitalism verses communism. These was just some of the motivations that the New Left were motivated to challenge. In the late 1960s to the 1970s the youth felt ignored and alienated, they craved
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