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Educational Purposes Lottery Tickets
650 wordsThe Ohio Lottery and the Problems That It Produces In August 1974 the first ticket for the Buckeye 300 was sold. This was a big year for the state of Ohio. It marked the start of something that would grow into a resemblance of the garden of good and evil. Though lottery is a big moneymaker for the state, it is also a cause of a horrible addiction. Senator Ron Most first campaigned against the idea of the Lottery in Ohio. Its approval in Ohio was apparent; the State Issue 1 passed by more than a ...
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Compulsive Gamblers Legalized Gambling
2,085 wordsGambling is prominent in todays society. This can be seen especially through politics. Everywhere voters are electing people to office who are pro gambling. William Thompson of the University of Nevada (1994) describes politicians by stating, Its part of the American landscape, theyll trade morality for dollars (1). In North and South Carolina, for example, the last governor election showed that the people were for legal gambling by voting in governors who wanted a lottery. Now in the U. S. , 47...
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Compulsive Gamblers Lottery Tickets
1,345 wordsHow Does Gambling Effect Society? Its just another Saturday night in just about any common town in America. The family sits around the television discussing how much money the twenty tickets in their hands are going to make them. The jackpot is fourteen million. Before the numbers have been shown, the family discusses how to spend the money and how much better their lives are going to be after they win the money. Then finally, the moment of truth. The numbers come across the screen. The first on...
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Billion Dollar Industry Legalized Gambling
2,131 wordsLegalization of Gambling in Ohio The words Casinos and Gambling are often associated with gangsters, prostitution, murderers, and all the illegal operations one could think of. Those kinds of stereotypes are picked up in movies like Casino and the countless other gangster and casino related movies that are based in the 50 s, 60 s, and 70 s, but that was then and this is now. While there may be some vestigial ties between organized crime and casinos, gambling is now big business (Weissman 1). The...
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False Hopes Lottery Tickets
425 wordsNow that the Texas State Lottery has been in existence for some time, we are better able to understand if the Lottery is having a positive or negative effect on our state. Should we continue the Texas State Lottery or discontinue it? I believe we dont need the Texas Lottery, and we should end it. First of all, should not continue the Lottery because gambling leads to addiction and abuse. Once you start playing the Lottery, you could get lucky. If you were lucky, that could give you the tendency ...
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