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Love and Break ups
Love and Break-ups
The topic Love and Break up relate to two movies, one which is a romantic comedy film titled’ When Harry Met Sally’ and the other titled ‘Divorce His, Divorce Hers’ about a couple who went through divorce after 18 years of marriage. The topic is relevant as it relate to life involving love and relationship and break-ups, for instance Harry and Sally have several break-ups before they later get married. Similarly, in the second movie, the couple have their divorce after being married for 18 years, which is a permanent break up. In the two movies, there is a lot of love at first, but problems involving fidelity cause disagreements. In the first movie, the character reunites a number of times, and later they get married and live a happy life.
In the first movie, ‘When Harry Met Sally’ the key actors Harry and Sally meet and become friends and have several chance encounters in the New York City for more than 11 years. Each time they meet, they express love for each other and renew their friendship. Their marriages with other partners end in break-up which contributes to their uniting and moving on with their friendship. The movie gives a story of the lives of two young people in love, Harry, and Sally, who first meets at college. The two grow together and are involved in friendship liking each other and sometimes disliking one another. Harry tells Sally “I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts.” Harry and Sally have a romantic relationship, which takes more than 11 years before they realize that they needed to live together. The movie has a lot of dialogues and the music is captivating and brings out the scenes with great magnificent. The intention of the two is having a relationship without having sex till they marry as they feel that it will ruin their relationship. Unfortunately they engage in sex, which ruins their friendship leading to a break up although they later reunite. In the Divorce his, Divorce hers, the couple Martin and Jane, dissolve their marriage after living together for 18 years. The film gives the story of separation from a two points of view, one from the husband and the other from the wife. According to the wife, Jane, the crumbled marriage has a terrible and scary effect on their children. The separation of the couple after 18 years is a terrible blow to the couple who find it difficult to move on and has a negative impact on the children.
In the movie Harry meets Sally; there are scenes that are fascinating to the viewers especially the orgasm scene played in the restaurant, which is quite funny. The movie gives a real life situation and reminds people of their everyday lives in a funny way. The dinner scene is quite interesting as Harry dominates most of the conversation as she explains how men do not realize when a woman is faking orgasm. The story gives the differences between women and men and their effect on relationships. The differences also affect commitment and sex as portrayed by the break up when the two had sex by chance. The movie shows the challenges young people undergo in relationships especially if they do not want to have sex before marriage and the relationship takes several years. The discussion between the two friends, as they travel together from Chicago to New York is on the effect of sex on relationships, “Will sex ruin a perfect relationship between a man and a woman”?. The two had no answer to their disturbing question even after 11 years of love and friendship, and could not realize that they were meant for each other. There are no dull scenes in the movie as the writer Rob Reiner makes the story lively by having lively actors full of humor and intelligence. The story gives the live stages that men and women go through to develop their relationship to maturity and later a happy marriage. The comedy is full of Romance as shown by the different relationships in the story although there are many break-ups. The love between Bruno and Carrie that led to marriage makes the story lively, as it does not take too long as compared to that of Harry and Sally. Another interesting scene is the instance when Harry and Sally try to help each other to mend their past relationships. Harry goes ahead and introduces Sally to Jess while Sally introduces him to Marie though the relationships do not work. Instead, Marie and Jess starts a relationship and marries leaving Harry and Sally lonely. The two decide to try to renew their relationship and see whether it will work.
In another scene, Sally gets sad when she learns that her ex-boyfriend is marrying and gets overwhelmed. Harry comforts her although he does not really care about the marriage but ho to have Sally as his friend. The embrace, kiss, and sleep together, a factor that leads to disagreements between the two, as Harry wants independence while Sally is interested in intimacy. Sally tells Harry “You look like a normal person but actually you are the angel of death” to show her disgust for Harry’s character.
In the movie, Divorce his, Divorce Hers Jane and Martin divorce after living in marriage for 18 years bringing a lot of pain to the family. The movie set-up is in Rome as Martin comes back from Africa, where he represents a managerial firm. He keeps on remembering his troubled marriage to Jane and the effect of his absence due to the nature of his job. In the second part, his wife Jane dominates the scenes with family life experiences and the effect of their troubled marriage to their three children. In the movie, Martin is a businessperson married to Jane who does anything to get his attention. Her statements such as “if I slit my throat, would you pay attention to me?” portrays her appetite for attention from her husband. Jane is a beautiful woman but has a negative and nasty character especially when acting scenes involving anger. Jane asks Martin for a divorce and tells him to keep off her children a character that portrays her as a bad person. She is manipulative especially when she drags him from the airport. She also likes talking and likes expensive jewelry as portrayed by the pearl and diamond necklace that she wore. The scene that Martin tells his son that he did not want to spend time with him stood out in the movie. He argued that he had all the time to do whatever he wished without anybody’s disruption. Martin cheats on his wife and tells her that he could not stand her presence in bed a he would feel like a fool, “like a fool, a complete fool”. The way he puts emphasis on the statement shows how disgusted he was with his wife and was ready for divorce. The scene was humorous from the way he sipped his drink holding the glass with both hands and drunk like a thirsty hound. The scene involving Martin and the African head of state, Kaduna is quite interesting as he tries to impress him to make him improve their impending deal. Jane acts well in the scenes involving her and the children and in the case when she learns that, Carrie Nye is in a relationship with her husband. Her reaction when she learns of her husband’s infidelity and her demand for a divorce brings out her unique tough character.
Martin’s marriage faced many tests especially after his transfer to Africa resulting in infidelity, ill feelings, and many clashes. Jane has three children, who are quite annoying and in several occasions struggles with her son who has the habit of playing loud music. The couple spends a lot of time trying to think of what went wrong with their marriage and scenes show Martin always on transit carrying his briefcase. He is always traveling, a factor that possibly contributes to their break-up.
In conclusion the two movies represents life involving love, marriage, and separation. In the first movie, Harry meets Sally; the characters meet, love each other, but encounter several challenges leading to break-ups. Harry and ally feel that sex can ruin a relationship and want to avoid it until they get married. However, this does not happen as they sleep together, an act that makes them separate for a while. They later discover that they love each other and get married to begin a happy life together. In the movie, Divorce His, Divorce Hers, the key characters, Martin, and Jane have a strained marriage because of Martin’s nature of work and Jane’s nagging character. She is a woman who likes attention and disturbs her husband with her continuous questions. Their marriage lasts 18 years when Jane asks her husband for a divorce but tells him never to see her children. Martin was having an affair with Nye, which made her wife furious leading to a hot argument and later divorce. Love, marriage, and separation are the main themes in the two stories as characters try to find happiness.
Lotz, Wolfgang, and Deborah Howard. Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600. New Haven Yale University Press, 1995. Print
Lotz, Wolfgang, and Deborah Howard. Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Print.
November 1
Introduction
Early renaissance architecture in Italy
Chapter 20
November 2
The classic revival
Gothic architecture abandonment in Italy and in its place classic models were occasioned was not obviously a local revolution. Evidently, the revolution was because of a reflective and universal intellectual faction, with roots traced to the middle ages. All these were manifested in Italy, as the conditions were extremely propitious. The spread was rapid in Europe with similar conditions witnesses in other countries, which seems to be prepared to embrace the concept.
November 4
ARTS RENAISSANCE
Conversely, classic Roman architecture has never lost Italian taste influence. Gothic art, which is already experiencing a decline in the West, was never embraced in Italy rather than a borrowed garb with clothing architectural conceptions preferred to Gothic. The antique monuments abounded on each hand seemed present in artist models and Florentines associated with the early fifteenth century. The civilization represented a human culture, which was ideal. The situation resulted to churches losing their hold on culture with the increased penetration of the new culture in private luxury as well as public display.
November 6
EARLY BEGINNINGS
The 13th century saw the pulpits of Niccolo Pisano in Sienna together with Pisa reveal the fact the master’s direct recourse associated with antique monuments for motivation. There was frequent appearance of classic forms in the fourteenth centaury as evident in the followers of frescoes of Giotto and Gothic buildings architectural details. This was evident in Florence that was considered Italy artistic capital. There had never been a community permeated with love for beauty and endowed with the ability to recognize it since Pericles days.
November 8
PERIODS
There are four classic styles that emanated from Renaissance, the first one being the early renaissance (1420–90).It was characterized by freedom of attractive detail, recommended by Roman prototypes. The composition entailed great variety and authenticity. The second one was high renaissance (1490–1550). The period saw classic details being copied with rising fidelity evident in orders appearing in approximately all compositions. At the same time, the decoration seemed to lack grace and autonomy. The third style was Baroco (1550–1600), which was a classic formality period, exemplified by the usage of colossal orders, scanty direction and engaged columns. The last one was Later Baroque and was marked by invention of poverty as portrayed in their composition .The predominate factor was vulgar sham and decoration display. Broken pediments characterized the style with vast scrolls, florid stucco-work in addition to complete ignorance of architectural propriety considered universal.
November 10
CONSTRUCTION AND DETAIL
The Renaissance architect occupied themselves mostly with form rather than construction, and hardly ever experienced constructive challenges. Even though, the new architecture started with the gigantic cathedral dome in Florence with culmination of an astonishing St. Peter church in Rome. It mainly was a palaces and villas architecture decorative display façades. Constructive challenges were reduced to lowest terms with constructive framework concealed and not highlighted by the decorative design apparel. The early Renaissance masterpieces were buildings of small dimensions like gates, fountains chapels, and tombs.
November 12
Florence early renaissance
The year 1417 saw a public competition conducted for the completion Florence Cathedral by a dome over the huge octagon, which was 143 feet in relation to diameter. A sculptor called Filippo Brunelleschi and an architect (1377–1446) together with Donatello began their journey to Rome with an aim of studying of ancient art masterworks. Their demonstrations of weaknesses in all the proposed solutions buy the competitors permitted them undertake the huge task. The plan had an octagonal dome found in two shells liked by other eight major in addition to sixteen minor ribs crowned at the top by a lantern. The original conception, went beyond the Moslem art was made an external feature terminating light forms and with the upward lantern movement carried out between 1420 and 1464. Even with no wise Roman forms imitation, it remained classic in spirit, vastness and line simplicity. All these were made possible by Brunelleschi Roman design study as well as construction.
November 14
Other Churches
Brunelleschi’s designs also were constructed in Pazzi Chapel found in Sta. A charming Greek design called Croce cross covered a dome at an intersection, and paved way for vestibule with an opulently decorated vault as evident with the two grand churches such as S. Lorenzo and S. Spirito. The two of them were reproduced to measure the Pisa Cathedral plan and had a three aisled transepts in addition to nave with a dome crossing over. On the other hand, the side aisles had domical vaults coverings with the centre aisles having plaster ceilings and flat wooden. The column details, arches, as well as moldings were imitations of Roman models with the result being something new. Deliberately, Brunelleschi revived Byzantine, which is different from Roman conceptions in relation to planning or structural design associated with domical church. At the same time, the attire, which he dressed them, seemed Roman in detail. Another dominant design of grand beauty associated with Old Sacristy was S. Lorenzo.
November 16
Courtyards; arcades
The palaces were constructed around interior courts, with the walls resting on columnar arcades evident in P. Riccardi. The arcades origin might be found in arcaded cloisters linked to churches, which were medieval monastic and suggest classic models. An example of such a scenario was of St. Paul and St. John Lateran in Rome. It is evident that Brunelleschi not only come up with columnar arcades to a number of cloisters in addition to palace courts, but used them efficiently as exterior elements in Loggia S. Paolo and Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence. The main drawback in the light arcades remained their incapability to endure vaulting thrust over the space, which was behind them, and the subsequent recourse of iron tie-rods while using vaults. Conversely, the Italians, nevertheless, cared less about the disfigurement.
November 17
Minor Works
The new style details developed quite rapidly in solely decorative works evident in monumental buildings. Altars, pulpits, mural monuments, ciboria and tabernacles, afforded a range genius distinguished artists. Among the celebrated artists were Lucca della Robbia, Mino da Fiesole and Benedetto da Majano. The possession of a wonderful invention fertility multiplied their works in unexpected number s as well as variety not only in northern Italy but in Rome as well as Naples. The most celebrated examples of were a pulpit located in Sta. There was a terra-cotta fountain in the sacristy by Croce, Novella done by Della Robbias, Marsupini tomb found in Sta .The works of these characters were instrumental in making Renaissance first appearance in a new setting as the case in Naples, Lucca, Senna and Pisa.
November I HOUR EXAM
November JOURNAL DUE Chapter 20
November Final exam
Lottery in Urban Areas
Lottery in Urban Areas
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Abstract
Lottery gambling started long ago even before the introduction of money trade. In the years 1920s, dance halls, night clubs and theatres of Chicago’s side Ghetto were the main centers for entertainment. Policy gambling became the order of the day where most blacks involved in illegal gambling. Lotteries have no strengths besides helping the government keep poor, poor and the rich, rich.
Objective: To determine the main factors that contributed to the fall of the NC Education Lottery Policy and came up with recommendations towards ensuring full implementation of the policy.
Why chose this policy: The policy formed the only concern by the U.S. government to cater for the well-being of African-Americans by ensuring they access quality education. The policy would also help more African-Americans engage in development programs and stop gambling
Methods used: The literature from past studies about the NC Education Policy and the relationship between blacks and the poor with gambling acted as the main source of information that helped come up with a methodological plan that allows total application of the policy.
Introduction to the issue being advocated
Lottery gambling started long ago even before the introduction of money trade. In the years 1920s, dance halls, night clubs and theatres of Chicago’s side Ghetto were the main centers for entertainment. The Chicago government with the help of black-politicians legalized lottery gambling for black people whose entrepreneurs had an important place in the states’ economy. People living in Chicago side ghetto took advantage of the situation and started operating lottery gambling without paying revenues to the government. The underground businesses took place upon realizing the illegal activities associated with gambling in the Chicago City. In the twentieth century, most blacks became involved in gambling in the North and South cities of Chicago. The high number of blacks living in ghettos who acted as customers for entertainers and gamblers led to the formation of local black political organization. Policy gambling later came into being in the 1920s, which formed a type of lottery. The gambling business became popular among the Blacks in America and expanded to cities like North Carolina and others major cities in U.S. (Mark, 2014).
The spread of lottery gambling to other cities introduced many problems that affected Africans-Americans involved in the business. The minority populations were the most affected by problems associated with gambling. Examples of such minority groups include the Black Americans, African-Americans, Asians, and Hispanics. African-Americans mostly experience gambling problems compared to any other minority group in United States. A study conducted by Steffensmeier and Ulmer in 2006 revealed that minorities have higher chances of acquiring psychiatric problems associated with gambling compared to white-Americans. In addition, minorities are likely to spend more time in lotteries compared to the white Americans (Steffensmeier, & Ulmer, 2006). In addition, the behavioral patterns related to addictive activities such as the use of drugs and problem gambling leads to impulsivity. Race/ethnicity forms one of the most potential variables that affect impulsivity and addictive disorders. Black ethnicity addicted to policy gambling in Ghettos experience much of these disorders. The cultural experiences of the blacks who lived in Chicago ghettos between 1920 and 1940 controlled their decision-making processes leading to high discounting (Andrade & Petry, 2014).
Upon realizing the challenges facing the black community because of gambling made the North Carolina government introduce a policy called NC Education Lottery in 2006. The policy aimed at supporting vital education programs such as reduced class sizes, starting prekindergarten academic program, construction of more schools, and offer scholarship for needy students from universities and colleges. The State believed that the lottery would play a significant role in funding for the education of the disadvantaged, especially the minorities. The following research article seeks to demonstrate how the policy affected urban Americans because it failed to fund NC’s schools. The policy succeeded during the first years of its implementation, which are 2007 to 2009. Later, the lottery failed to meet its demands, and the lottery’s gross meant for education program declined drastically. North Carolina State should come up with another policy different from the current education lottery policy that helps the African-Americans buried in gambling seek other forms of earning a living and start developing their communities.
Research priorities
Three priorities drive success of this research:
Developing research questions and getting solutions
Attracting the target group, and
Achieving the research objectives
What are your desired outcomes (what is your agenda)? Desired outcomes
The findings from this research article are expected to generate a new advanced policy that will completely cater for the education needs of the black people living in NC State. According to Barry (2011), lottery has affected the urban areas to a greater extent that most families suffer from lack of basic needs such as food, clothing and education. The expected changes in the education sector include increased in the amount of money available for NC schools system, more salaries for teachers, and access to quality education by children. On the other hand, the research expects the state to devise a different approach to getting rid of the negative effects caused by the lottery to the state.
The research is also expected to help the poor population living in urban areas of NC State understands the dangers posed by lottery gambling to individuals and their families. Most African-Americans are of poor backgrounds and suffer from psychiatric problems associated with addiction to gambling and lottery games (Griffiths, 2007, p. 14). In the end, the African-Americans and other poor people involved in lottery gambling should desist from spending their income buying lottery tickets but for other development projects such as education and investment. In addition, the recommendations from the research are expected to help the poor change their lifestyle and become rich in the future.
Description of the policy
The NC State discovered that per capital sales of lottery tickets were very high because of the large number of people buying tickets daily. North Carolina (NC) Policy Watch recorded 106 million dollars as the average amount of revenue collected daily from lottery sales (Fitzsimon, 2014). The NC education policy to support major education programs in NC State. The policy act came up with a 9-member Lottery commission who managed all aspects of the education lottery. The policy demanded that 100 percent of NC Lottery net go straight to benefit the education sector in the State. The lottery funds collected would be used to pay teachers (K-3 grade), finance colleges, and pre-kindergarten children less than four years old. The policy aimed at ensuring a percentage of money collected through sale of lottery in North Carolina contributes to the improvement of the education sector. The introduction of the new NC Education Lottery helped improve the education system in the African-Americans societies (Ovaska, 2014).
Reason for choosing project option, policy and how it relates to your area ofconcentration
What are the justifications?
The fact that lottery have no strengths other than helping the government keep the poor, poor and the rich, rich justifies the selection for this project. People from different races show varying values of problems and pathological gambling (PPG). Minorities living in urban areas of U.S. require a better research on behaviors, problems and other psychological disorders associated with gambling. North Carolina State was selected for this research because it is the youngest lottery system in U.S. Lottery forms one of the most important sources of government revenues in many countries and states. Gambling also stands as a cause of high level of poverty experienced by African-Americans living in U.S. despite it being a source of income. African-Americans spent most of their time in lottery gambling games where they lose thousands buying lottery tickets. The problem not only affects U.S. citizens but people across the globe (Kalischuk, Nowatzki, Cardwell, Klein, & Solowoniuk, 2006).
By government legalizing gambling, it helps the poor community stay in poverty dens as they spend more on lottery waiting to win more cash. Despite the fact that the business earns country high revenues, it causes significant economic costs to the poor. State lotteries act as a simple way of raising taxes by the federal government, but evidence shows that only the poor and disadvantaged suffer from legalized gambling. Most lottery ticket sellers claim that seventy percent of those buying tickets are black, Hispanic, or poor. In addition, the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that the poor and blacks spend more of their income in lottery compared to the rich (Mark, 2014).
Why the policy was chosen?
The NC Education Lottery that failed acts as a case study because it was the best policy in United States that catered for the improvement of the education sector. Failure of the policy to fulfill its objectives demonstrated how the State caters only for the rich and leaves the poor to suffer in poverty. In addition, it hurts discovering how most African American families suffer in poverty, and their children missing out from education because of gambling. Why should a person fail to provide for his family and yet get the money for gambling? Why do people who spend money in lottery use change from the unnecessary spending behavior and provide for their family needs? In addition, the fact that most people in the African-American community lack basic education on building strong foundations for their families like their fellow White Americans contributed to the selection of the policy.
The NC education lottery policy would ensure that all the money spent for the lottery finds its way to the families and children receive education through lottery sales. In addition, the presence of gambling and lottery games has made African Americas more illiterate and underdeveloped compared to white Americans. The issue created more questions than answers for people who sympathize with those families left without food while their parents giveaway money to the rich in casinos and lotteries. The selection of the project followed an argument that the white Americans use minority groups, especially African-Americans, for their monetary gains. Research shows that white Americans take advantage of the minorities in American states because the minorities experience delayed response to psychological issues such as determining the winning numbers in a lottery (Kalischuk, Nowatzki, Cardwell, Klein, & Solowoniuk, 2006).
The target group and their response towards the policy
The most targeted group on this research article is the African-Americana leaving in urban areas of American States, more specifically North Carolina State. The group formed the respondent because it is the most affected by lottery gambling activities in U.S. Policy gambling is a type of lottery with the policy coordinated by a syndicate. The policy allows gamblers place their money on more than one numbers that they hoped would appear among the draw of twelve numbers between 1 and 78. The blacks mostly engage in this game, but most of them end up losing thousands of cash to bettors and went home with nothing to feed their families. Targeting this group and making them understand the dangers posed by lottery gambling would help them change their lifestyle and develop their community. The black community in the United States demonstrates a slow respond to the issue of gambling. Many African-Americans still believe gambling will double their money, and one day become rich. Making the community realized the dangers they engage into while gambling forms the hardest task (Jens, & Mark, 2013).
Relationship of the policy to the area of specialization
Social workers mind about the well-being of people in the community. Education forms one of the basic requirements in every society. A well-educated community lives a happy lifestyle free from poverty and other life challenges that affect normal people. The policy aimed at ensuring more funds get into the education sector and help poor communities in NC access quality education services. Specialization in social work helps improve the setting of urban areas through ensuring communities stay in crime free areas, and take advantage of every opportunity to strengthen their foundations. Life in urban areas is expensive and difficult especially for people who earn low incomes. The policy must be adjusted and executed to meet its goals and help African-Americans access education.
A discussion of what occurred during the implementation of the project
The NC Education Lottery Act was expected to succeed and the government to collect taxes through lottery sales for improving the education sector. The plan did not meet its goals because of the various challenges faced during the implementation process. Firstly, the state legislature used funds contributed from lottery sales for other purposes other than the constitutionally proposed purpose of funding the education. Only 50 percent of the total amount collected from the lottery goes to education improvement while the policy proposed that 100 percent of the funds be set aside for education. The initial project demanded that 50 percent of the funds be set aside for class-size reduction in pre-kindergarten and early grades programs for poor children. Moreover, 40 percent would go to school construction. The remaining 10 percent was for supporting needy students in universities and colleges. The implementation process failed in the financial year 2011-2012 where the State budget-committee allocated different amounts of funds to the three main sectors. According to North Carolina Justice Center (2014), the budget allocated fewer funds for school construction even as the population grows exponentially and the need for new schools increases.
Secondly, Lottery officials allocated less money for funding NC’s schoolchildren, and the rest was allocated to awarding prizes. The profits generated from lottery sales would fund higher prizes leading to underdevelopment in education programs. The poor state of education because of the decline in the amount of profits received from lottery contributed to the fall of the project.
The identified allies and opponents
Some people opposed the implementation of the policy because of their personal gains. Contribution from the government played the most important role in ensuring the successful implementation of the policy. Gambling forms one of the main sources of revenue in U.S. This made the government reluctant in accepting the policy amendment because it would eventually reduce government revenues collected from sales of lottery tickets. The federal government receives a high amount of taxes from the sale of lottery tickets and revenues collected from licensing legal policy gambling. The federal government also acts as a monopolist provider in every state that houses a legalized lottery gambling (Kearney, 2005). The government failed in ensuring the funds meant for education did not go to other usages such as paying salaries for civil servants.
Moreover, the policy implementation process received opposition from the White Americans. The White-Americans did not like the idea of educating black Americans because they wanted to exploit and make them remain poor. Any decision that affects the majority groups in U.S. is highly politicized, and as the biggest opponents to such decision-making processes they totally oppose the decision. Out of the 47 states, about 34 funded and legalized gambling. The funds came from state governments, private companies, powerful politicians, and other white foundations (Abbott, Volberg, Bellringer, & Reith, 2004). Gambling is a game for the rich and most politicians owned casinos while others benefited from lottery ticket sales. The White community highly rejected the move to stop gambling and make black Americans more enlightened on the issues that promote development.
Self-analysis during the implementation of the project
Tailoring the information to meet the target group
Establishment of a concrete and sustainable self-analysis plan helps in the success of the project. Self-analysis plan helps in ensuring the project achieves its objectives and ends within the set time frame and budget. Most researchers in gambling research assume that all problems associated with gambling are robust and measurable because they exist in the community. The information presented to the target group will persuade them to engage in developmental projects such as education and investment and stop wasting time in gambling.
A close look at the history of gambling in the black community of Chicago initiated the need for writing this research article. The need for African-American people living in North Carolina to access education and promote development was one of the needs to introduce the policy. The target group should receive better education on how to use revenues collected from the White community to improve the education status of the poor black American community.
Likely arguments that the research should counter
Identification of research gaps provides an avenue for analyzing the likely arguments and how their mitigation approaches. The minority group had been for a long time sidelined in the United States because of their ethnicity, color, and race. The white Americans used lottery to exploit the minority African-Americans their money. Many previous studies concentrated on the psychological problems such as diseases and disorders associated with gambling problems among the black Americans. The study uses a different argument that encourages a policy for promoting education among the black community living in NC. The argument is supported by the fact that the previous policy enacted in 2006 failed because the target group never contributed to its implementation.
Conclusion
The black community undergoes a lot of suffering in the west. The discussion shows that the effort by the NC government to support the African-American community development through an education policy failed because of the lack of proper execution plans. The black American community should come out in large numbers and support the implementation of this policy in order to change their poor living standards and enjoy a wealthy lifestyle. In addition, the government should stop discriminating its citizens and give equal education opportunities for all, especially the minority groups. The above research article helps the African-American community gain more ideas on how to strengthen their foundations for the future benefit of their families.
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