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revealed. On one return trip to the East, Siegel drove through the small town of Las Vegas, Nevada. Legend has it that Siegel suddenly had a vision of turning Las Vegas into a gambling mecca. Others said he had merely stopped there for a call of nature. According to popular myth, Bugsy envisioned building a large casino and hotel to which gamblers would flock. His vision was fueled by the fact that Nevada had legalized gambling in 1931. In Las Vegas, gambling was concentrated in downtown…

Peter Ediger was important to the Nevada test site because he was one of the founding committee members of the Pace e Bene which was a nonviolence service. His committee was in charge of fighting against the test site to try and stop the bombing going on. Ediger and three other people, Louis Vitale, Alain Richard, and Julia Occhiogrosso, started the committee in the mid-eighties and got groups of people together to shut down the Nevada test site. Ediger is a religious man, which many people were…

1) Although the United States constitution and the Nevada constitution cover similar content, they do have a number of differences. The internal forces such as foundation of western gold mines, conflicts from Mexico and Mormons as well as the external forces like President Lincoln granting statehood in order to win his election. When they did grant statehood they restricted Nevada to no slavery, no disclaim of federal land or taxation of federal land. The other differences are that Nevada’s…

27). Because the Nevada Constitution is more specific than the federal Constitution, Nevada judges experience difficulty in interpreting the state Constitution as broadly as federal judges, namely the Supreme Court, may tend to interpret the federal Constitution depending on the context of each case. For example, both the First Amendment to the US Constitution and Article I, Section IX of the Nevada Constitution enumerate the right to freedom of speech and…

Context The 2016 Nevada Senate race is one of the country 's most competitive races. Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, former Nevada Attorney General, and Republican Congressman Joe Heck are competing to replace the retiring Harry Reid. With both parties fighting to control Senate, this close race has attracted the attention of outside groups, including Freedom Partners Action Fund which created the anti-Cortez Masto ad “Driving Away Jobs.” The Ad The ad begins with a mother and her young…

Lamar Odom is definitely a walking miracle! After his infamous overdose at a Nevada Love Ranch back in October for taking alcohol, pills and cocaine, Khloe Kardashian's husband is one lucky human being to still be alive today. This tragic incident inspired Odom to help his fellow troubled athletes and decided to become a substance abuse counselor in the NBA. After surviving an almost fatal overdose, Lamar plans to change his ways and be a better version of himself. The 36-year-old former…

Dear Principal Dr. Anthony Davis, How are you doing today? I have a serious question to ask you. Would you please allow us to go on a field trip to Lava Beds National Monument. This trip would be amazingly exciting. Lava Beds National Monument is located in the state of California. California calls the monument their "best-kept secret." This is because not everyone knows about this beautiful sighting park. The park was formed when it was uncovered by lava and many active volcanoes were erupting.…

In places where it’s legal people would much rather go to a place where it is safer and regulated, rather than someone on the street who isn 't licensed. Quoted from Washington Times Article, Wade Lieseke, former Sheriff of Nye County, Nevada put it best, “In my county, I don 't have a prostitution problem because it 's legalized. Why would anyone go to a street hooker if they can go to a brothel where it 's regulated? They would have to be crazy.”. Legalizing prostitution would actually…

The national park, Death Valley is located in California and is 5,262 square miles. It’s a desert terrain that can have temperatures greater than 120 degrees fahrenheit in the summer. The highest temperature ever recorded was 134 degrees during 1913. The average rainfall is about 2 inches, which is much less than most deserts get in the summer time, hence why it’s called Death Valley. In the winter time, Death Valley has mild temperature in the day time and at night, the temperature can get to…

The legalization of prostitution in the United States would make the profession safer, more profitable and more socially acceptable for all parties involved. Often dubbed “the world’s oldest profession”, prostitution is nothing more than a manual labor job that has been wrongfully stigmatized by society as iniquitous. The stereotyping of prostitution, otherwise known as escorting, only perpetuates the risqué, unsafe, and shameful conditions of said act. Escorting in the United States is…