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whether the act of single game betting should be legalized, and there are several parties that are speaking out regarding this matter. Two of the main parties that have played a major role in this issue are Adam Silver, the NBA Commissioner, and the state of New Jersey. The outcome of this issue will have a heavy impact on the sports industry and the gaming industry. In 2014, Adam Silver came out to the public to discuss his views on sports betting, and why he feels that legalization of single…

people from the past abuses felt as a colony under King George III. In order to protect the American people’s rights and to ensure that the government didn’t make decisions at the disinterest of the masses, the Constitutional framers spilt the Unites States federal government into three separate branches, the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive, and instituted a governmental policy of checks and balances. Within the system of checks and balances, no branch of the government could make a…

According to Radcliffe, et al (2004), development control is referred to as the process by which a community or society represented by locally elected councils control changes in the use and appearance of the environment. Almost all countries have developed systems to assist control land development process and Malawi is not an exception. Nevertheless, the efficiency of the systems differ from one country to another depending on the maturity of the institutional structures and the general…

and students succeed through various career positions such as, working as a Legislative Analyst with The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which fights for the rights of union workers and their families by lobbying the California State Legislature on behalf of workers interest; in higher education as a Pre-Collegiate Advisor with California State University, Sacramento - Office of University Outreach, which seeks to help students improve academically in order to gain…

Known for its booming automotive industry during the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit, Michigan was a city in forefront of most people’s minds when you talked about Michigan or the Midwest, due to the triple-threat of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. Living and working in Detroit for one of these big automotive companies was that generation’s “American Dream.” However, from 1973 to 1974, there was a gasoline crisis that caused General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler to take a financial hit which also…

Preservation of the Earth’s land became a developing idea throughout the 1800s. The thought of upholding the natural beauty and resources of the land was sparked through the establishment of Yellowstone National Park within the American West. These new desires had a lasting impact upon the humans and the environment one lived in. In order to achieve these ideas, many barriers had to be overcome to create a system of protecting land and establishing National Parks. Yellowstone National Park was…

employment discrimination, education discrimination, and unjust treatment by individuals in society. After the civil rights movement of the 1960’s, the concept of equality for all individuals under the law and in society had come into fruition in the United States, however, there was a different problem with nothing stopping its growth – drug use and abuse. As David Presti mentions in his lectures about drug regulating, the growing…

a long history prior to it’s entry into the United States. Indigenous Americans inhabited California for thousands of years before permanent European settlements occurred in the 1600s. California was occupied and claimed by Spain and Mexico throughout the 1600s to the late 1800s, contributing to California’s culture and history, before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo concluded the United State’s war with Mexico and ceded California to the Unites States. In 1849 a constitutional convention was…

In the coming weeks I will be conducting research on the topic of access to reproductive justice movements and services by Latina immigrants in the United States. The following sources are two papers I have recently utilized as I begin this process and collect information on this particularly salient topic. Gomez, M. M. (2015). Intersections at the border: immigration enforcement, reproductive oppression, and the policing of Latina bodies in the Rio Grande Valley. Columbia Journal Of Gender…

Globalisation – Weighing benefits and disadvantages Globalization is a dynamic process by which different societies, cultures and economies become interdependent and integrated. Globalization is not new, although it is hard to specify exactly when it started. Some argue that it began in the third millennium BC with the rise of trade links between Sumer and Indus Valley Civilization, while some believe that it has started as a consequence of the 15th century explorations made by mariners. In any…