Leaving Las Vegas

Dance with the devil The rain dripped, drop by drop hitting the concrete driveway of a trailer park home in the middle of Las Vegas. Inside laid Darnall flat on his bed dreaming of making millions, being the world's greatest hustler, and sniffin coke. This is the story of Darnell, a young man who had infinite possibilities but became a product of the ghetto. Darnell never knew his father and his mother was never around, she put the pipe down to show her son she was strong when darnell was ten,…

Shah, a king-like figure in charge of Iran. In the eyes of the US, the Shah was a positive input on the Iranians lives, but to the Iranian natives, they greatly disliked the Shah. He was very westernized and Tehran even began to transform into a Las Vegas like city. He also conformed to whatever the US wanted him to do, which the Iranians did not like. They also felt that the Shah was not like them, as he did not conform to traditional Muslim ideals and also lived much more rich than most of the…

Very few organizations had the influence and had the control over America’s underworld like the Chicago Outfit. The Outfit was a group of gangsters that were ruthless and they were willing to take any means necessary to get what they wanted. They took over a city and took advantage of a federal law that greatly benefited organized crime. The most famous of all mafia kingpins, Alphonse Gabriel “Al” Capone, controlled the Outfit and had a major hand in making it one of the most powerful…

escaping the corruption of their old world in search of the promise of a new world, they traveled east to west. Now America itself is corrupted, so the characters in The Great Gatsby travel west to east – in search of wealth and sophistication – leaving the moral values and stability of the west behind.”(qtd. in. Smiljanic) East egg is based on materialism and position alone with its western counterpart representing the deteriorating values of the American dream. Nick Carraway, who lives in West…

Leaving no genre unexplored, the casino has put its Ladbrokes backing and Playtech work partnership to maximum use. There are literally hundreds of different games to play on site, as they have looked to provide players a literal one-stop-shop as far as casino…

It’s around 10 O’clock at night and you are doing your patrol. The only light outside are the light illuminating the parking lot. You notice shadows moving along the edge of the lot. You walk around the corner to shortly hear later the sound of breaking glass. You run to see a broken window but no people. You have a choice to make. You can either radio the other guards to alert them of the intruder or you can run and find the intruder yourself. What do you do? Security guards are the people who…

When asked about legalization, Bud Selig, the former commissioner of Major League Baseball, posed a weak rebuttal by citing Arnold Rothstein as a reason against legalization. Selig’s ideology is flawed in several ways. First of all, sports gambling has always been illegal in America, for all intents and purposes. Therefore, when Selig mentioned Rothstein it was a poor example because sports betting wasn’t legal when he fixed the World Series. Furthermore, it was easier to pull off such a caper…

“Social Con Artist Created From Fear” Picture life as a stage. The stage is divides into two parts, the front and the back. On the front stage one “perform” and display themselves to the audience in the way they see fit. One has control over what is shown to their audience and what is seen of themselves. While on the backstage one plans their “performance” and decides what their audience will see. Backstage, one is concealed from the audience, and therefore free to express themselves in any way…

and watches develop into adulthood through the tutorial inside the heavily fortified and xenophobic underground shelter known as Vault 101. Vault 101 lets no one in or out of the vault, until one day the player’s father escapes and chases after him leaving all they have known and facing the dangers of the wasteland alone, gaining the title “the Lone Wanderer” from a local radio host. The Lone Wanderer eventually finds their father and his life’s work “Project Purity” where he is close to…

Does Gun Control Reduce Crime? Gun control law has been one the most argued topic in the past decade in United States. Crime is widely viewed as a major issue for every society, government always tried to find solution in order to reduce the crime and violent rates. That is why gun control law and gun ownership has been argued intensively. However there has been a question, did gun control law reduce crime rate? In my opinion: No, because if people want to kill, they will find weapons to…