The Real World: Las Vegas

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    With 59 dead and 527 injured, the Las Vegas shooting earlier this month was one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history. With no immediately apparent motive, it begs the question in people as to what might possess a person to go out and commit such a heinous crime. Indeed, the question has dogged the American populace ever since the “invention” of the modern mass shooting, and even before, attached to other senseless violent atrocities. Human brains are wired to look for causality in

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    The United States has grown as a whole and everyone has came together in the tragic times of the previous events that have had a large impact on our country. We continue to learn from every event that occurs in our country. Along with the Las Vegas Shooting there are so many more cases like this but considered Homegrown Terrorism. Peter Bergen explains how President Bush in his end of his last term, and President Obama in his first term, early years in office explored the domestic terrorism

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    Which Danny wants to steal back for himself. On the side note Danny Ocean wants to rob these Las Vegas vaults is because their owned by Terry Benedict who is married to Danny's former wife Tess. Then Danny ocean and Rusty Ryan hire nine men to do this job a card dealer Frank, pickpocket Linus, con artist Saul, British bomb man Basher, computer techies

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    will be discussing is the recent Las Vegas massacre shooting that took place on October 2nd, 2017. During an outdoor country music festival, gun shots were fired down from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Beach Hotel. This incident has left 59 people dead and over 500 people injured. The shooter, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, had 19 rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammo. News from this incident immediately spread all over the world which left everyone praying for Vegas and supporting anyone affected

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    Casino hotels, which account for most of the mainstream of industry revenue, have mostly become larger in markets like Las Vegas, much producing an annual income of about $500 million,. Weaknesses Corporations have enormous capital funds in spaces and gaming gear and typically ensure a significant quantity of debt. Gambling companies usually apply over

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    I sit here at my career center feeling the tension of having to pull more weight than the guy next to me and all I have thoughts of is its time to cash in my flex days and get away. If I have to hear one more conversation about real tree apparel I will surely go insane. I needed a fix for this never- ending case of the Mondays, I quickly turn my attention to the brigade of travel sites all designed to allure me with last- minute deals, cheap getaways. I normally resist the temptation to engage in

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    ideas and believes. Alienation is known as losing your persona and becoming immune to a particular activity. For instance one can become alienated in their work environment, since it is a constant and daily routine, that you loose connection of the real world. In the other hand capitalism is described as a way in which money controls society. Therefore capitalism leads to the conclusion that such aspects in an individual’s life as lives and work in their societies are monitored. This paper will address

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    billion Atlantic City project and selling its Treasure Island Resort and Casino for approximately $775 million. The $7 billion CityCenter project budget quickly ballooned to over $9 billion and MGM had to be bailed out by its joint venture partner—Dubai World. To avoid negative credit/stock ratings and continue operations, MGM needed to generate cash; however, it was in too deep on a number of projects and had no choice but to stick it out and see them to completion. CityCenter opened in December 2009—unfortunately

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    Ocean's 11

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    Steven Soderbergh’s film Ocean’s 11, is a thrilling heist about eleven reckless men trying to rob three of Las Vegas’ wealthiest casinos in one night. Soderbergh remakes the 1960s rat pack version in a way that completely changes the storyline and many of the characters. He uses the glamour of Hollywood film making to contribute to the cleverness of the plans used by the thieves and the overall high speed feeling of the movie. In addition the cast selection creates emotional immediacy with the characters

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    city's in the world I have seen a lot of violence. I have heard of a lot of relatives and people I knew or my friends knew where either killed or was shot. There was a lot of violence even before they had the conceal to carry law, so being all for the second amendment would go against I believed in.  Growing up I never wanted to bare arms because I felt it should have been in the hands of the law to take care of criminals etc. and not kids or people themselves. Since moving to Las Vegas things are 100%

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