Powerball

As humans we have several capacities that other species in the animal kingdom do not have. Our brain can reason and process information like no other animals can do, in fact we are capable to judge and make our own conclusions. Unfortunately, not every thought that crosses our minds is accurate; this has led to stablish parameters between what is reliable and what is not. Over the past decades, scientists have avoided to spread information that is not proven. They have used the scientific method…

disadvantages to Privatizing Lotteries. States such as Illinois, Indiana and New Jersey have all privatized their state lotteries. The funds that come from lotteries go towards no particular purpose. For example, the 21 states that participate in Powerball along with the District of Columbia will garner at least $114 million from the $380 million in tickets bought for a jackpot of $295 million. Iowa uses the money for their general fund; Colorado uses these funds for environmental purposes and…

When some Powerball ticket jackpots are over half a billion dollars, people do not use their intuitive logic and realize that their odds of winning are minuscule. Similarly, the fantasy sports leagues can turn an average football fan into a millionaire simply by “drafting”…

Persuasive Lotteries Research Paper Working all day can be stressful; for many, engaging in the lottery is believed to reveal these pressures and change their lives for the better. Although this may seem true, the lottery will change lives for the worst. Lotteries are a form of gambling: purchasing a ticket in hopes of winning a fortune. Lotteries act as a hypnotizing game that lures innocent people to waste their time, throw away their money, and destroy their lives. To begin with,…

I was anxiously awaiting the drawing of the lottery, only two hours left. Pacing my house and hoping that I would finally win. Little beads of sweat fell dont my forehead as the clock ticked on. I sat on the couch thinking how ridiculous it was to think that I would ever win considering there is 1 in 292,201,338 chance. A notebook sat to my left with everything I had planned for the money written down, if only I could win. 9:59 the clock read. The nerves were starting to get the best of me as i…

Thomas Nagel’s contribution in the field of philosophy is about moral luck. The ideas this researcher presents in his article explains the nature of a human being and how every action he or she effects determines different consequences that can occur in their lives and personalities. In this paper, the principles provided by Nagel will be explained and the same theory will be compared to Kantian judgment. These two thinking approaches will also be considered based on several scenarios and…

Jayden Henery sat in his old, rickety, plastic green chair doing his math homework. “What is the meaning of this stupid crap,” Jayden screamed. He heard a bark of a dog outside and stared out his bedroom window looking out at the night sky of San Diego, thinking why he can’t be grown up right this instant, because then he can run away from this stupid nightmare. Then Jayden looked back at his desk and down on his family picture, at least when he had an actual family, he looked at himself with…

A visual distraction is anything that takes your eyes off the road. While driving we are constantly being side tracked by signs and advertisements we see all over the place from the newest restaurants opening, to the $100 billion Powerball billboards on the highway, the last thing you need to be doing is trying to reply to a text while paying attention to all of these catchy signs. Cognitive distractors are anything that takes your mind off the road like engaging in a conversation via text or…

The Powerball anticipation ended on January 13th, 2016 with three winners to split a record $1.6 billion jackpot. If I were the winner of even a portion of that amount, I would definitely devote my portion to my family, but most importantly to the career that has allowed me to make a difference in many students’ lives. I would want to change the world similar to Bill Gates by spending more than $220 million on the Common Core education standards (Elkind, P. pg. 50). Our education system has been…

The two assessments that were administered to the client were the Gambler Addiction Index (GAI) and the Coping Response Inventory Adult Form (CRI). The purpose of the GAI is to measure the severity and intensity of an individual’s gambling addiction. In addition to, the assessment measures the strong impulses an individual has to gamble and the harmful consequences of gambling. The rationale of selecting this assessment for the client, Alan, was because in the previous session, Alan mentioned an…