Australians are stereotyped to be the fun, outgoing, friendly people who sit and watch their footy, surf and drink beer all day but Australians are certainly not that stereotype anymore. The new stereotype is Racist, in denial people who sit and watch there footy whilst yelling racial slurs. Recently the name ‘Adam Goodes’ has popped up in the Media quite a lot due to the racism backlash he has received. Adam Goodes has been playing footy since 1999 and has many achievements including 2x Brownlow medals, 2 AFL Premierships and Goodes even became Australian of the year in 2014. So, why should a worthy Australian receive such vicious vitriol?…
Some of the beneficial aspects of gambling are – Entertainment Charity Tourism Supporting community projects Employment Leisure Tax revenue Win money In Queensland, a gambling product is illegal unless it is regulated by one of the seven Gambling Acts. The Queensland responsible gambling strategy is used as the framework to develop and deliver responsible gambling initiatives. What is Problem Gambling?…
Tobacco is a very large industry in Canada, providing very large tax revenue for the Canadian government. This paper examines the two sides to the argument; should Tobacco be made illegal in Canada? Is smoking tobacco ruining the Canadian economy? Or should Canadians be given the freedom to chose, and current rulings upheld?…
The streets of Las Vegas Boulevard, which are littered with advertisements picturing naked girls willing to provide their services for a price, can be a scary place as someone takes a stroll. Drunk men stumble out of strip clubs and casinos, and girls in gaudy clothing and stilettos apply lipstick at their post. Nobody knows when someone lurking in the shadows might pop out with a knife to steal an unsuspecting person’s wallet. Or even worse, a friendly-looking stranger walking in the opposite direction could be waiting to come across the right person to drag into a dark alley, muffle their screams so that their cries for help blend into the noisy background of the streets, and do the unthinkable.…
I was born in Vietnam, which is located in the Eastern part of the Indochina peninsula, bordering China to the North, Laos and Cambodia to the West, the Eastern Sea to the East, and the Pacific to the South. My father moved from the North to the South after the officially unification of the North and South Vietnam in 1975. He met my mother, and they got married. My parents and most of my extended family aren’t big on gambling, so I personally never understood the appeal and thrill of gambling. A couple years ago, my parents had sent me to study abroad with the hope that I am able to have a better education in the United States. Once I started to go to college here, I have a broader perspective about the world I live in. However, I also experienced isolation, boredom, loneliness, stress and depression. Therefore, I tried to find an activity to feel included, and to relieve stresses of everyday life. Every weekend some friends and I had a poker night, and the locations changed as each of us take turns hosting the game. There were ten of us whom usually play and we all are Asian. I would say that I had a great time with the group. At that moment, gambling became a great way for me to get out, be around friends, and have fun. Gambling perhaps appeals to me because of its social aspects. Nevertheless, I have seen the damage gambling can cause when someone cannot control themselves. Beginning as a regular activity which is acceptable and entertaining, gambling addiction ends up being harmful to most players and causing unhealthy outcomes. But at worst, gambling destroys education, careers and relationships, and empty life savings.…
Throughout the course of Australian history cannabis has been being slowly decriminalized by the reduction of punishments to cannabis related offences. The 1978 NSW joint parliamentary committee upon drugs supported the decriminalization of cannabis by saying that personal use would no longer be a crime, however selling or trafficking cannabis would be a high offence and offenders would be given an expensive fine and possibly gaol time but the royal commission of inquiry for drugs opposed the proposition of decriminalizing cannabis which would contradict the UN Single Convention on narcotic drugs, a law that prevents the sale of narcotic drugs E.g. Opium, Heroin, Cannabis, Methamphetamine e.c.t, and the decriminalisation of cannabis could lead…
Just a decade ago gambling was limited to two cities in the United States, Las Vegas and Atlantic City. Today there are only two states that don't have some form of legalized gambling, such as lotteries or bingo. Since commercial casino gambling was legalized in Nevada in 1931, the public attitude toward gambling has shifted from prohibition to permissiveness. Pamela M. Prah discovered in 2004, that there are "11 states that have commercial casinos, six have riverboats or docked casinos, and 23 states have within their borders casinos that are owned and operated by American Indian tribes." There is no doubt that legalized gambling has "exploded in the region and around the country, from the internet and multistate…
Over the years, many people say marijuana shouldn't be legalized, which is wrong. The Canadian government needs to legalize the usage of marijuana. If the Canadian government will legalize marijuana, it's going to bring in a lot of money to our economy. Legalizing marijuana would reduce violence. Tobacco and alcohol are far more harmful than marijuana. Marijuana has always been misjudged as a deadly drug, but what people do not realize is that marijuana is not as bad as cigarettes, and can have its uses medical wise.…
2. Two things I hear people say is that online poker is more addictive than live poker, and kids are at risk.…
Tobacco laws and policies have changed in concerns to the use and promotion of products in NSW since 1995 in a lot of ways! The packaging of a cigarettes box was just the smoke brand, advertising at sporting events was allowed and you could smoke anywhere back then but now the look of the smoke box is being questioned by parliament, promoting smoking is not permitted by law and you can only smoke in a handful of public venues.…
Good morning/ good afternoon everyone my name is John and today I would like to talk to you about Chris. Chris was a 23 year old man, who up until about 5 years ago lived a totally normal life. He lived an average childhood in an average house. At the age of 18 he moved out of his home to live in an apartment with his friends. On his 19th birthday his friends took him out for some fun, and that’s when everything changed. They went to a casino, and for the first time since in his life, Chris made a bet, then a second, a third and a fourth. Each time, thinking about all those ads he saw on TV and read in the paper growing up. He thought “wouldn’t it be great if I won something”. Little did he reaslise how unrealistic that scenario would be…and why not? It looked like people seemed to win everyday. (PAUSE) Just over 5 years later Chris committed suicide. He was diagnosed with overwhelming depression due to an unpayable debt made by the gambling problem he developed all those years ago. You see, Chris grew up in an age where the advertising of gambling had no regulations. Tattersalls and Intralot were able to advertise the splendor of gambling and Chris kept thinking he would win big. Then THE NEXT TIME would fulfill all his wishes. Then it became THE NEXT TIME would solve all his problems. Then he though desperately that THE NEXT TIME would pay off all his debts. Or THE NEXT TIME, or the next. He could not stop thinking that he was going to win. And how could he? He was only ever shown that he couldn’t lose, that the next time he would win…but he didn’t. He never did.…
They care about the disadvantages because weak people cannot defend themselves from certain things. That's what the United States is about, protecting the weak from the strong. When people are addicted they fall victim to temptations and the government preys on these weaknesses. It encourages these addictions by offering small winnings and then players try to win bigger and bigger until they lose everything. Through operant conditioning, they learn to connect the lottery with winning and winning with satisfaction. The people who care about the advantages of the lottery care about the education system that they are a part of or are putting their children through. As parents and human beings we naturally want the best for ourselves and our kids. They care about their roads being paved so there are no potholes that total their car that will cost thousands of dollars in expenses. Also they care about the rights granted to us for being a citizen of the United States. We are granted the freedom to spend our money on whatever we desire within some legal guidelines. People need to realize that there are advantages and disadvantages of having a state & national lottery system in place. The evidence is clear and proves that both of these assumptions are accurate. Now the lottery and its system must be tweaked to accommodate the wants of the people, in order to help those who fall victim to…
Gay marriage should be legalised in Australia because everyone should have the same rights as other people, all should be equal. Equality is all about everyone having the same rights and freedom. In Today society if gay marriage is legalised, it would lead to gay’s having the same equal rights and freedom as a married couple. If gay marriage is legalised then there will be more kids adopted which means more kids will be loved. Some people believe that gay marriage should not be allowed, as the main reason is that the sacrament of marriage is between a man and a woman, not the same sexes. I strongly disagree with this viewpoint, as every human being should be able to have the right and freedom to marry any one they choose, although some people…
Cigarettes are the number one cause of death in the U.S. and yet they are still on the shelves. People know the damage tobacco does to the body, and yet they still continue to smoke, chew, and sniff it. Cigarettes and tobacco products needs to be criminalized. Smoking is the number one cause of cancer in the United States. About 50 million people smoke cigarettes in the United States.…
A case could be made for and against the lottery in terms of monetized utilitarianism. Besides, the lottery, which is state-owned, returns a percentage of the money taken from the players and redistributes it back to society. Thus, if there was no lottery, the players would still spend part of their income in another private gambling…