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    It all begins with a push of a button. The process is simple. Pick one of the 196 000 pokie machines in Australia sat idle, awaiting their next victim. Insert some coins into a slot and press that green button. Mindlessly stare, wholly and completely fixated as those icons spin around and around. Powerless to those flashing lights, to that symphony of celebratory sound effects- which are more often than not, praising the loss of yoyr hard- earned money. Only to do it all over again. To 23 year old Joshua Jones this was routine. This was the norm. April 26, 2016. Joshua was a young high-flying accountant with the whole world at his fingertips. April 27. Dead. Suicide. After his gambling addiction spiralled out of control; the debts, the loans, feeding his dangerous habit, hit an all-consuming and gut wrenchingly shameful low. Thousands upon thousands of dollars thrown away on a 'harmless' bet. Losing all he loved because of one wretched game of chance. You may ask yourself how someone could get to this point? How could it have possibly started? Well as I said, it all begins with a push of a button. This is just one case, plucked from thousands of those whose lives have suffered at the hands of these lethal machines. The gateway that endorses the worst aspects of human addiction. Something so simple, so seemingly innocent, in reality presents a taunting killer. The motive? Profit. Around 400 suicides in Australia each year can be attributed to gambling addictions,…

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    ICE CUBE The person i chose was i is ICE CUBE because he is my inspiration and because he is the greatest rap singer practically started rapping of all time he was the one that started rapping.And i think he played really good roles in movies and is really funny. O'Shea Jackson was born on June 15, 1969 in Los Angeles, in the South Central area, the son of Doris, a hospital clerk and custodian, and Hosea Jackson, who worked as a groundskeeper at UCLA and a machinist.He has an elder…

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