Las Vegas: Sin City or Family Resorts? To most people, Las Vegas is synonymous with gambling and glitter; a slightly, pleasingly sinful fairyland for adults where they can watch the most entertaining performers and biggest names in show business in between bouts and playing games of chance that e...

Las Vegas is famous for its casinos, gambling, elaborately decorated hotels, the strip, wealth of imagery, and known as the premiere entertainment destination in the world. Within all this abundance of wealth, poverty exists. After exploring demographics of poverty in Las Vegas from the year 1970 to...

Introduction Today, Las Vegas is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States and its citizens enjoy a good standard of living, with top-notch schools, a world-class university and many amenities that are never seen by the millions of tourists that continue to flock to this gambling reso...

Two approaches have been used to control pollution? Government mandates and market incentives. Suggest how market incentives might be used to deal with a pollution problem in Las Vegas. I find this topic to be very interesting, not only because it concerns all of us living in Las Vegas, but be...

Two approaches have been used to control pollution? Government mandates and market incentives. Suggest how market incentives might be used to deal with a pollution problem in Las Vegas. I find this topic to be very interesting, not only because it concerns all of us living in Las Vegas, but beca...

Gambling has existed in human history for thousands of years. In the old western movies, it's often seen that people were playing poker together. Many people consider gambling exciting and pleasurable. On the other hand, although many gambling cities like Las Vegas or Macao prosper because of g...

Las Vegas city lights are the oasis of the Nevada desert. For miles there is nothing. The roads are pitch black and the only sign of existence are the headlights on the other side of the road. Then the lights appear and draw everyone in. The line between morality and immorality is blurred, and th...

The Act of Prostitution The illegal act of prostitution is not enforced by every state in America. In Las Vegas, Nevada prostitution is illegal but frequently over looked by the law enforcers. "Why bite the hand that feeds," stated...

Wendy slides into a nice pair of slacks, and a long sleeved button down blouse. She carefully applies her make up and curls her hair. She does not portray a prostitute, but instead, a high class businesswoman. She kisses her daughters goodbye and tells them to keep the doors locked. She is a typical...

Rap Not Rest in Peace (12/01/98) In this day in age rap has changed in so many more ways then one. From its start in the 80s on the East Coast, to its explosion and transformation on the West Coast. Today RAP has earned itself a first name, and as you all may know its gangster RAP. Gangster Rap...

Smoking Freedoms at StakeIn the essay Smoking freedoms at stake, the author Joelle Babula argues that Nevada's local government should be allowed to enforce tabacco laws stricter than the state. Babula believes that the community should have the right to decide where they want to be smokefree. He ...

Research homework-Summary and Analysis Assignments #2Smoking Freedoms at StakeIn the essay Smoking freedoms at stake, the author Joelle Babula argues that Nevada's local government should be allowed to enforce tabacco laws stricter than the state. Babula believes that the community should have the ...

A Day at the RacetrackEarly in the morning, my alarm clock went off. Normally, I do not like to even hear this awful noise. I usually do not want to get up. But that morning was different; I was excited and I actually sprang out of bed. I have been never like that, because I am usually not a morning...

Gambling Casinos: A Plague on SocietyGamblers no longer need to trek to Las Vegas or Atlantic City to find the action they so badly crave. It is available today in their own hometowns. Legalized gambling is one of the fastest growing industries in the United States. Gambling's tremendous populari...

Groom Lake, Dreamland, and Area 51 are all names describing different portions of a top-secret military base securely hidden in central Nevada. When the name "Area 51" is spoken, extraterrestrial life, atomic bombs, and stealthy aircraft are all things that come to mind. The real quest...

Medical Marijuana The U.S. Supreme Court may turn Nevada's plan to have sick patients use marijuana into a ruling Monday. They provided no legal leeway for medicinal use of the drug. Assemblywoman Chris Giunchigliani, a Democrat from Las Vegas, who sponsored Nevada's medical marijuana bill, sa...

Groom Lake, better known as Area 51, is only two-hour drive north from Las Vegas at the foot of Groom Mountains. The name "Area 51" supposedly came from an old map on the Nevada Test site. Lying on 144 square miles of a dried up lakebed in the Great Basin Desert, the area looks like nothing more th...

Some believe that gambling is a financial issue or weakness of one's mind, gambling is far more intimate than that. Gambling problems have been noted to be a pathological issue that affects one not only financially, but emotionally as well. In fact, the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) (2...

What is prostitution? Prostitution is the After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereo...

What role does the government have in legalizing or not legalizing gambling? State lotteries date back to Colonial America. In that time lotteries were used to pave streets and to fund other public work. However, in the 1870's, gambling scandals involving bribery of state and federal officials ...

The construction of Hoover Dam is considered to be one of America's finestengineering achievements. However the dam that rose from the floor of Black Canyonwas not only a structural accomplishment, it was a proposition firmly rooted inpracticalities. The necessity of such a dam had been obvious fo...

INTRODUCTION The Hoover Dam, built over sixty years ago, still stands today as one of the world's most outstanding engineering achievements. It has successfully tamed the wild Colorado River by spanning from the Nevada wall to the Arizona wall. As soon as approval was given to begin work ...