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    Legalizing Gambling in Ohio 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

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    Gambling originates from the ancient Chinese society where two tenants would place their bets against their landlords and gamble in a form of poker. Now‚ any form of game that involves money betting is considered gambling‚ including 4D‚ Toto‚ Lottery Sweep and casino games. Due to the alluring amount of revenue casinos can bring to a nation‚ countries are known to set up casinos such as the Las Vegas “gambling city”‚ those in Genting of Malaysia and the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. These casinos

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    Gambling was declared illegal in 1892 when leaders worried the “get rich quick” method would destroy the Protestant work ethic. It remained a criminal offence for three-quarters of a century until‚ under pressure from Quebec to pay off its debts and raising money for the Montreal Summer Olympics‚ prime minister Pierre Trudeau legalized lotteries in 1969‚ as well as legalizing abortion‚ homosexuality and expanding gun control. Ontario’s government is hardly alone in its unabashed enthusiasm for gambling

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    Restriction of Gun Laws Having less guns on the streets should make people safer. Most people believe that would be a reasonable way to protect innocent people from being killed or hurt from someone with a gun. This argument would make perfect sense if everyone was a law abiding citizen. Unfortunately that is not the way the world is. Statistics show that areas that have stricter gun laws‚ actually have a higher rate of crime involving guns‚ whereas areas that have less gun laws have

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    strictly prohibited all the activities that are did not give any benefits or get the profits from a wrong or illegal ways. It also waste peoples’ time‚ energy‚ money and make others in trouble and difficulties. The activities are like riba‚ fraud‚ gambling‚ gharar‚ sell goods that are no use and others. All of the activities are against by Shariah but in our country‚ there are many cases of these activities. People do not take care about halal and haram of the things that they do. They just want money

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    Running Head: RESTRICTIONS ON GUN OWNERSHIP Are there any Legitimate Restrictions on Gun Ownership? Steve PHI103: Informal Logic The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution gives the citizens of America the right of the people to bear arms. This was adopted with the rest of the Bill of Rights. However‚ with this being said there are people that take this right to heart‚ and they feel they should be able to have any gun they want. There are guns that are specifically designed

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    Gambling was a favourite past time in the Elizabethan era. Anther word for gambling is gaming. Gambling is games that you bet money in the hope of winning more money back. These games ranged from board‚ card and dice games. Gaming/gambling were sometimes played in theatres such as the ones that Shakespeare’s plays were in. Other popular venues were gambling dens and houses. Although the stereotypical gambler is a poor man spending his wages‚ Queen Elizabeth I did like to play these sorts of

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    Restrictions Upon Women (Final Draft) In the article “Size 6: The Western Women’s Harem”‚ Fatema Mernissi talks about how Western beauty standards harm and embarrass the female population even so as the veil does the same in extremist nations‚ if forced by authorities. She explains how the Eastern countries do not have such a rigid standard of beauty and how men are simply not part of fashion‚ in contrary to the West where fashion is used by men to control what women wear. She does this by relating

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    because the regulatory burdens they impose will dramatically reduce the number and geographic distribution of medical facilities in the State where women can access safe abortion‚ while providing no benefit to abortion patients whatsoever. The restrictions create barriers to safe and legal abortion that unduly burden women’s right to access abortion services‚ in violation of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The admitting privileges requirement has been in effect

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    Public Administrator Restrictions Keith Folger Grantham University Abstract The discussion that public administrators should be restricted to only laid down rules in the discharge of their duties bears a great many implications. Whether or not they should have some amount of discretion in performance of their duties may vary greatly depending on the amount of oversight required for the particular level of administration.  Administrators working in the U.S. capitol may not be allowed the same

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