makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.” -Abraham Lincoln The banning of alcohol only made people want to buy more of it‚ and break the law. Although most people agree that the banning alcohol was a good thing‚ some also think that it was a bad thing. It is a very debatable topic. Prohibition removed a significant source of tax revenue and greatly increased government spending. Although the consumption of alcohol decreased in the beginning of the ban‚ it greatly increased within just a couple
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The video “Bust” documented the America during the era of the Great Depression up until World War II. The Great Depression occurred due to the stock market crash. A year after the stock market crash‚ the banking crisis happened because people were concern about not being able to withdraw their money from the banks. Because of this‚ multiple banks had to close down‚ up to a point where 28 states were left bankless (Bust). In order to overcome this economic downturn‚ the “New Deal” was made by the
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there? Once i turned 18 i got into gambling and started pursuing the “so called easy money”. After about 2 months of gambling i had pretty decent luck and made 2‚000 off 20 dollars. One night me and my family went gambling‚ I really at the time didn’t know much about poker but they introduced me to it that night which changed my life. That night off of 100 dollars i turned it into 18‚000 dollars and that’s what set my miniature career off. After about a year of gambling the adrenaline slowly dissipated
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& Sri Lanka ... 07 Singapore Economy ... 09 Singapore National Statistics ... 11 Impact on economy & employment In Sri Lanka ... 13 Introduction This assignment is done on Globalization and the good and the bad effect it brings to the economy and the employment in Sri Lanka. Main Date Source used was Wikipedia to gain the data of GDP‚ GDP per capita rates‚ unemployment rate‚ import & export rates etc. Defining of the terms economy‚ employment in the formal
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The bad news message that I have chosen to analyze‚ is a message of the salary reduction sent from a director of the human resources department to a staff from the division of language studies in a university. There is only one main idea in the whole letter; it is to inform the audience‚ who is the staff from the division of language studies‚ that there will be a deduction in her university salary. The letter is written in a direct approach‚ which means from the letter the main idea can be straightly
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Television is Bad for Children By the time children reach school‚ they have spent one-third of their waking hours in front of the television. The enormous influence of TV is just beginning to be realized‚ we have found out that most of the effects are bad. Far too much of a child’s time is wasted. I think television is bad for children.They should rarely be allowed to watch it. When children watch a lot of television‚ they don’t get a lot of of physical exercise. They just sit and watch all day
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Through the article‚ “Why Stereotypes are bad even when they’re ‘good’”‚ Oliver Burkeman sheds light on the fact that good stereotypes‚ meaning stereotypes regarding appealing traits‚ can also be harmful. He illustrated this through a study by the Duke University‚ which stated that good stereotypes
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gOf all the Muslim rulers who ruled vast territories of India from 712 to 1857 C.E.‚ probably no one generates as much controversy as Aurangzeb. He has been hailed as anyone from a “Saintly or Pauper Emperor” to one who “tried hard to convert Hindus into Muslims.” Depending on one’s religious rearing‚ one will favor one view over the other. For example‚ most Hindus castigate Aurangzeb as a religious Muslim‚ who was anti-Hindu‚ who taxed them‚ who tried to convert them‚ who discriminated them away
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then I find a poaching paragraph and slowly that good happy feeling sank into a dark scary feeling as the truth comes out‚ what is going on‚ what is happening to our animals in the world. What is poaching? What makes this bad? It is not what makes it bad it is why it’s bad. It is bad because it is illegal‚ it is illegal because it is killing innocent animals‚ it is animal cruelty. Poaching is not only illegal but is cruel to animals‚ but is only illegal in government bought land‚ land owned by the government
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Is TV bad for your children? Is TV actually bad for your child to watch? Americans watch TV up to seven hours a day that can affect our “social lives‚ ways of learning and entertaining ourselves‚ family relations‚ and lifestyles.” Kids spend more time watching TV then going out and doing anything productive or active. Do our children learn from TV or is it better to read a book? What kinds of violence are we letting our kids watch? What if they get influenced by it? These are all questions we
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