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Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday
1,806 words... ge coach for Denver, Colorado. Along the way, he stopped at Fort Griffin which, at the time, was the center of a flourishing cattle industry. Approximately two thousand hunters and cowboys annually visited Ft. Griffin. Their money and existence attracted gamblers and prostitutes alike, quickly giving Ft. Griffin the reputation as the craziest town in Texas. Docs stay was cut short when he was again arrested for gambling which was more than likely, a sign of showing a newcomer unwelcome ness ...
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John Wayne Gacy Father In Law
1,778 wordsJohn Wayne Gacy, Jr. was the second of three children. His older sister Joanne was born two years before him and two years later came his youngest sister Karen. All of the Gacy children were raised Catholic and all three attended Catholic schools where they lived on the northern side of Chicago. When Gacy was eleven years old he was playing by a swing set when he was hit in the head by one of the swings. The accident caused a blood clot in the brain. However, the blood clot was not discovered un...
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Legalized Gambling Excise Taxes
1,168 wordsThe squeeze is on. Demand for government to decrease it's reliance on sales, property, and income taxes as sources of revenue is continuing to rise, leaving policy makers scrambling for new, less painful sources of revenue. Also going up are the costs of providing public services, entitlement programs, and conducting the other various functions of government. This upward spiral requires that they simultaneously look for better, cheaper, and more effective spending strategies. It is no wonder tha...
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Las Vegas Million People
446 wordsI always love to go on vacation to different places. Some people prefer to stay at home or go to beach. However, I like to travel very much. When I travel I feel I learn a lot about cultures, traditions, customs and more. If you like to spend your vacation with freinds, you will probably go to Las Vegas or other entertaining places. The most unusual please that I have ever visited are Moscow, London and Las Vegas. First, I like to visit Moscow. Moscow is the capital of Russia. It is one of the l...
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Chelsea House Publishers Loathing In Las Vegas
2,986 words... you see that Alex is not content to have control over his own life but he must have authority over others. He beats his "drugs" into submission and makes himself once more dictator over his small dominion. A key to his behavior is found in his name. Alex is named after Alexander the Great, the famous general who conquered the world but took his greatest solace in intellectual pursuits such as philosophy, which he was trained in by Aristotle. The name Alex, means, depending on which source on...
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Las Vegas Casinos Oceans Eleven Time
467 wordsOceans Eleven, a showcase for the tough-guy shenanigans of that glitzy showbiz gang known as the Rat Pack -- Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. , Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, and, of course, Frank Sinatra. Booze flows and wisecracks fly when eleven army buddies are reunited; only this time they " re not trading war stories. They " re planning to rob five Las Vegas casinos of several million dollars -- assuming they can steer clear of the big-time racketeer who's gotten wind of their scheme (Video flick...
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Adult Stem Cells Stem Cell Research
1,351 wordsStem Cells: Could this be the technology to cure cancer? By: Ali Right Stem cells could be the greatest medical advance in history in the sense that most of our serious diseases can be cured. Stem cells have the potential to morph into other cell types in the body. Serving as a sort of repair system for the body, they can theoretically divide without limit to replenish other cells as long as the person is living. During mitosis, each new cell has the potential to either remain a stem cell or bec...
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Mother And Father Ed Sullivan
1,304 wordsIt was at last the young man's turn. Ms. Keisker went to the back of the studio to get everything setup and decided to stay back and listen to him sing. For his first number, he chose "My Happiness, " a popular song sung by the Ink spots, and for the his second number, "That's When your Heart Ache Begins. " On both songs he accompanied himself on guitar. While performing his first number Ms Keisker was very impressed and secretly recorded the last part of the first song and all of the second son...
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Freedom Of Speech Pentagon Papers
1,524 wordsSpeaking Freely Chapter 1 In this chapter Floyd Abrams discusses the Pentagon Papers Case that starts a series of trial narratives. In 1971 Nixon administration tried The York Times Co. (New York Times Co. v. United States case). The New York Times Co. was represented by the legal scholar Alexander Bickel and Floyd Abrams. Floyd Abrams recalls the events of that case when Attorney General John N. Mitchell used Section 793 of the Espionage Act to sue the newspapers for publication of stories rela...
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Loathing In Las Vegas Fear And Loathing In Las
970 wordsFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson The American Dream speaks of a promise of wealth, prosperity and a life that is well-lived. It is a long-standing ideal that ensures success in life as long as one is willing to work extremely hard in whatever way possible. The American dream is defined here as the motivating force for the millions of immigrants that flock to the Land of the Free because poverty has become so rampant and extensive in their countries that the only option that is v...
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State And Local Legalized Gambling
1,807 wordsMany factors have influenced the rising crime rate, some being, increasing use of drugs, increasing population, and decreasing morals. America must find ways to decrease the crime rate legally. One question often going hand in hand with decreasing crime rate is would legalized gambling decrease the crime rate? During the late 1980 s and early 1990 s slow economic growth, cuts in federal funding, and growing public needs forced state and local governments to seek additional sources of revenue. Mo...
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Hunter S Thompson Loathing In Las Vegas
1,961 wordsIn the late sixties a young journalist and free-lance novelist named Hunter S. Thompson (HST) emerged with a new, crazed and exaggerated brand of reporting. It was sooner or later referred to as? Gonzo? . HST? s own definition of gonzo has varied over the years, but he still maintains that a good gonzo journalist? needs the talent of a master journalist, the eye of an artist / photographer and the heavy balls of an actor? and that gonzo is a? style of reporting based on William Faulkner? s idea ...
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John Wayne Gacy Las Vegas
579 wordsThe Beginning Part I His parents, Mr. John Wayne Gacy sr. and Marion Elaine Robinson Gacy celebrated St. Patrick s Day, also they welcomed their first son into the world at Edgewater Hospital in 1942. John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was the second of three children. His older sister Joanne was born two years before him and two years and two years later came Karen who is the youngest sister. All of the children were raised to be Catholic and all three attended Catholic schools where they lived on the northe...
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Legalized Gambling Las Vegas
1,172 wordsHave you ever wagered on a game? If so you were gambling and should have been fined. Gambling should be legalized in the state of Florida. The lawmakers, who have decided that it is evil for you and me to gamble, have justified it as a means to scam billions from citizens in order to compensate for their mismanagement of tax money. First they waste what they collect in taxes and then recover the wasted billions with gambling scams to get more, much more. Adding insult to injury, they pass laws t...
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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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Dick And Perry Truman Capote
2,094 wordsIn Cold Blood is a novel written by Truman Capote in 1966. In Cold Blood is a true account of a multiple murder case that took place in Kansas in the 1950 s. The book outlines a brutal murder case, but it shows the story from many perspectives, not just that of the law. Capote introduces you to the Clutter family, a well known, very hard working and loyal family to the community. The town of Holcomb is a small farming town. There is not much excitement in the town, and that is the way the people...
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Organized Crime Rival Gang
1,340 wordsMafia and Organized Crime have wreaked havoc for many years upon society in an entirety and it has definitely corrupted government in a way too. Gang leaders and such have left families broken or in dismay with family members dead, crippled, wounded, or with shattered dreams and memories that can tear a person apart mentally. Organized crime is not extended to such crime and Mafia leaders such as Capone, but it can be even farther reached as to mention L. A. Gangs like Crips and Bloods that have...
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Emotional Responses Las Vegas
992 wordsMarrying Absurd and The Night the Bed Fell: More different than similar Although comedy and satire are similar literary styles, they sharply contrast in a few fundamental areas. These fundamental differences are clear in a comparison of the comedic short story The Night the Bed Fell, by James Thurber, and the satiric Marrying Absurd, by Joan Didion. Broadly defined, a comedy can be is a work depicting the uphill struggle and eventual success of a sympathetic hero; usually about ordinary people i...
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One Of The Biggest Organized Crime
1,362 wordsWhen most people think of the Mafia they think, murderers and gamblers. But in fact the Mafia is more than just a bunch of wise guys sitting around gambling. For years organized crime families have provided for many and brought wealth to their communities. In the early years of America, organized crime helped pave a way for many of the American cities to grow to what they are today. Most of the families provide for more than one hundred people per community. Organized crime has become a world of...
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Hundred Years Ago Excise Taxes
2,533 wordsASin Taxes Sin Taxes A Fiscal Temptation Gambling and Excise Taxes as Revenue Alternatives The squeeze is on. Demand for government to decrease its reliance on sales, property, and income taxes as sources of revenue is continuing to rise, leaving policy makers scrambling for new, less painful sources of revenue. Also going up are the costs of providing public services, entitlement programs, and conducting the other various functions of government. This upward spiral requires that they simultaneo...
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