"Nevada's legal sports books bring in about $2.3 billion in bets each year estimated to be a mere 1% of the total organized gambling on sports nationwide," (Hamburger, A1). ... History demonstrates that a ban on legal betting will not reduce the threat of point-shaving schemes. ... Analysts predict online bettors will lose $3 billion a year by 2002," (Schouten, 14B). ... When they tried to outlaw online gambling they found out that many of the online firms are outside the U.S.A. and therefore the U.S.A. government has no control over that (Schouten, 14B). Online gambling is affecting y...

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The Camp Harmony Exhibit page in the online archive of the University of Washington gives insight into how demeaning the camps were to the incarcerated internees during this time and how such civil rights were denied. ... Also evacuees were requested to voluntarily hand in Japanese books, pamphlets, literature, and other records deemed suspicious by Americans. Religious freedom was also denied: Shinto, a major religion for the Japanese, was banned from many of the camps (1-4). ... Low salaries were justified by the US government because the camps offered shelter, food and medical care fre...

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When is the Beginning of Personhood? During the past quarter century, abortion has joined race and war as one of the most contentious subjects of controversy in the United States. It discusses human interaction where ethics, emotions, and law collaborate. Many have contemplated upon the meaning of ...

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Throughout the history of the U.S. through countless administrations, Republican and Democrat, war has always been a last resort to violence, not a first response to political and democratic turmoil. Our current president has presented the nation with a new doctrine, justifying preemptive U.S. strikes against any regime that the administration fears is a threat to attack the U.S. or our allies, most currently aimed at Iraq. An American campaign of preemptive strikes to overthrow the Iraqi regime would be an unjust, aggressive, imperialist war and have potentially disastrous effects on ou...

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• Grade Level: High School