Betting

“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain, is about an old man named Simon Wheeler telling a story to Mark Twain about a man named Jim Smiley. Jim Smiley was a curious man who sought out to bet on anything from dog-fighting to betting on who could get from point A to B the fastest. Jim was a man that tried to get people to bet him and that’s what leads him to finding and training a frog to be the best jumper in the county. When he finds a stranger who is willing to bet…

The lottery is very simply a form of gambling in which participants bet a sum of money on a particular, uncertain, event occurring; which is, in this case, specific numbers being randomly picked. Although the lottery was, at one time, illegal in the United States it has since made it’s recovery upon being re-legalized in the name of the government making money without raising taxes. Since its revitalization per the United States government, the lottery is not only alive but also alive and well.…

Running Away from Home: Prejudice in the South The songs Alabama Blues by J. B. Lenoir (1965) and Good Kid by Kendrick Lamar (2012) both exemplify the rampant racial prejudice against black Americans that occurred in the southern states back in the 1960s and in the present, respectively. Alabama Blues is a blues song that tells the story of a man who blames the state of Alabama for all of his misfortunes, specifically the deaths of his sister and brother. Lenoir’s brother is murdered by police…

Legal and Ethical Dilemmas: The Media and Terrorism Considering the recent rise in terror attacks across the globe and the predominant effect this has on journalistic reporting, this essay will centre around legal and ethical dilemmas that arise when covering terrorism in the media. Brian Jenkins (1974) states that “Terrorist attacks are often carefully choreographed to attract the attention of the electronic media and the international press. Terrorism is aimed at the people watching, not at…

easily lose money if they did not have those types of social networking. Parents most of them won’t know where there kids are without social networking. Not only about finding people and managing business. People buy tickets to travel, sports tickets, betting tickets, and other type just through social networking. You can easily shop through internet and the valuable sites that would help you find what you want. Such as amazon.com and ebay.com, two of the must popular sites for shopping…

James Weldon Johnson’s brief novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, testifies to a success that would be nonexistent were it not for learning from the oppression he faces. As slavery ended, white supremacy rises. Many Blacks moved in significant numbers to urban centers in the North, namely New York’s Harlem. For the Blacks to feel secure, they lived together in groups, thus forming Black neighborhoods. Out of these towns and era came many art influencers, such as Langston Hughes, Jean…

Slavery and sports go all the way back to the start of time. Slavery started in 1619 when a Dutch ship brought over twenty slaves. This was the beginning of the long period that the United States had slaves. During this time, sports continued to develop into the games we know today. Slavery and sports started to become more important to society. Slaves and sporting events started to come together and the slave masters would host events to see which slave was the strongest and to brag to other…

Macau is a small city based at the mouth of the Pearl River Delta in southwest China, which is often called the “Las Vegas of the Orient” (Kong et al., 2015); for its 36 casinos that have contributed $44.1 billion in gaming revenue which is 7 times the annual gaming revenue income in Las Vegas (Greenwood et al., 2014). Consequently, the legalization of gambling in 1847, Macau has been the lead of the gambling industry in Asian casinos (Wan, 2012), it was not until 2001 that the government in…

way he knows how inside of his region of the world. That is what people were taught in that area and what they knew. Nobody was going to change them. A gambler also has to live by his society. Smiley was an exception. He could get away with betting on old sick people and not make it sound immoral. Other gamblers in different parts of the country had to know their boundaries and limits. They had to think to themselves if something was illegal or immoral. If it were illegal, they would go…

the victim with greed then reinforces it with taunts: " 'What year is the Cadillac?' the boy asked. 'Excuse. I not understand.' [Carlos] 'What year-how old is the Cadillac?' 'Ah! How old? Yes. It is last year. Quite new car. But I see you are not betting man. Americans never are' " (Dahl 60-61). Carlos starts by manipulating the greed in the sailor boy by saying that the Cadillac is quite new. Then, Carlos taunts the sailor boy by saying that he is afraid to accept the bet. In psychology, this…