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    Legalizing Gambling

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    Gambling can cause serious consequences. It could change your life in a great way or your life could go downhill in seconds. Gambling can also help an economy, but it can also bring great danger in other ways that it is used. Legalized gambling is played at your own risk of losing your money but there can be consequences of illegal gambling. There are many pluses and minuses to gambling and that is why gambling is one of the most controversial topics. People have gone back and forth trying to keep

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    Gambling In The NBA

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    Throughout the years of professional sports, gambling and wagering as been right beside the game. The people can retraces gambling and sports from the Olympia days to now in the 21st century. Society has played huge rolls in professional sports by helping it broadcast around the world on primetime and bring the sport to life by making it part of the community. Cities become known for their athletic team and when people bring up Los Angeles they tend to think of large populations, tall buildings,

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    Gambling Addiction Walking into the flashing lights, the happy people and seeing people win; are all the start of a bad beginning. Gamblers have a different mindset them some and they need help most of the time. The worse thing for a person just starting out is to see people win because they believe they are going to do the same thing and even more. That is almost never how it turns out; it usually starts with betting small, but gamblers always raise their bets over time even if they are winning

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    Legalizing Gambling

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    Gambling, or gaming is negatively perceived due to the unfortunate side effects that can develop, such as gambling addictions, impulse spending, and psychological problems from the addiction. From the statistics gathered in the 2013 American Gaming Association, gambling revenue as of 2013 is at 81 billion, 30 billion from native American casinos alone. Directly employing 570,000 people, with job impacts of 1.7 million including 200,000 government jobs. With over 38 billion in taxes paid, those taxes

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    Is Gambling Ethical

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    Gambling In today’s world, there are many different ways to gamble such as casinos, state lotteries, pull tabs, bingo, sporting events, and the internet, just to name a few. Although the popularity of this activity remains strong in America, there are individuals and groups that continue to scrutinize and attack this industry. People strongly opposed to gambling would like to see it policed by the federal government or outlawed completely; they are wrong. There are several positive aspects of gambling

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    Gambling In The Bible

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    “Gambling” violates God’s desires for us to be good stewards and to treat others with love and respect. This lesson not only examines the history of “gambling”, including its recent spike in acceptance and popularity but it also clears up the misunderstandings that people “use” in support of gambling. In addition, this lesson also shows that gambling violates clear Biblical principles, and as a result of this, no Christian should ever be involved in gambling of any kind. Having said that, and even

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    Gambling In America

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    There has been a strong demand for gambling in American, long before this country declared its independence. Playing cards were first introduced to the Native Americans by Spanish conquistadores and they subsequently made their own cards from tree bark. Likewise, card and dice games were popular among the settlers, but horse racing was arguably the most prominent form of gambling in the colonies. The first American race track was built in Long Island, NY in 1665 and many more emerged throughout

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    Gambling Addiction

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    It is hard to help someone who does not know they have a problem, and this is just another reason why gambling is so hard to stop once it starts. Gambling is occasionally described as a “hidden illness” since there are no obvious signs like there are for someone who does drugs. Because it is the hidden illness, gamblers typically deny and attempt to hide their gambling (Robinson, 2016). So there are no signs that a person walking down the street is an intense gambler and he or she will actually go

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    Gambling Essay

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    scene, individuals view gambling as a relaxing and entertaining past time. However, we recently encountered an article by Pathlights entitled “The Case Against Gambling”. Apparently what we thought was a fun night out, is causing otherwise good citizens to perish under the gambling

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    Sport Gambling

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    four states, sports wagering, or gambling, is an extremely lucrative industry. Despite bringing in nearly $500 billion dollars, sport gambling has an extremely negative effect on the perception and reliability of sport. There have been several scandals and instances involving players and officials that were caused by sport gambling. Congress passed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) to prohibit states from licensing sport-related gambling. PASPA places this restriction

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