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Lottery Cheat, Corrupt People
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Lottery Cheat, Corrupt People
Gambling is a business based on probability hence the participants can either loose or win. Human craving desire for acquiring more wealth in an easy and faster way has forced them to engage in gambling activities. However, people who mostly engage in these activities are those who do not have clear understanding of probabilities hence they are used by other people to meet their economic benefits. I concur with George Willis thesis that lottery cheat/corrupt people in the society. As revealed by George, the government has legalized betting in casinos and other forms of gambling in order to acquire revenue very easily. By legalizing gambling activities, the government has increased respect for them thus has attracted large number of people. It has increased public interests hence many people have switched to them as their main activities. Legalizing the activities creates new gamblers who are tempted to engage in illegal gambling. Engaging in illegal gambling activities amounts to breaking the law and the consequences are adverse. Illegal gambling offers better odds which are unacceptable in court of law. Noteworthy, American government has opted to legalize the lottery and other gambling activities on the rationale that they are victimless but a matter of moral indifference. The states authorities believe that individuals have the responsibility of making moral decisions for themselves. However, individuals engaging in legalized gambling are easily tempted to engage in illegal forms of gambling. Arguably, lottery cheats the larger population.
George argued that the government has legalized gambling in some cities in order to generate large amount of revenue. The government has legalized gambling activities in order to get revenue in a painless way. Generating income without working for it involves talking away the wealth of another person. However, this is not effective because it is severely regressive. This implies that revenue realized from taxation of these activities becomes lesser and lesser as the number of gambling activities legalized increases. This implies that the government is taking away resources from its citizens through taxation of gambling activities. The revenue generated from these activities do not have great impact ion the economy of the country. Revenues generated from gambling activities are often embezzled or mismanaged by those in higher offices. From the economic perspective, this amounts to robbing off citizen’s wealth, an issue which can be considered to constitute corruption.
In most cases, people from poor backgrounds participate in gambling activities in the pursuit of achieving the objectives of their lives. George asserted that gamblers are drawn disproportionately from the poor class as they are susceptible to the lure of gambling. People are cheated into risking the little they have in anticipation for massive wealth. This caused harm to both the participants and their dependants. By legalizing the gambling activities, the government is encouraging the public to engage in them, and they end up suffering economic loss. It is corruption because the losers from the poor financial backgrounds end up loosing their properties or monies hence leading a difficult life. Statistics revealed that between 1975 and 1977, a lot of resources were used to advertise lotteries which almost all the players are losers. The subjects are using their resources which end up into hands of other people without proper justification. Lotteries advertisement is apt among individuals who are ruined by the desire to achieve certain economic objectives without struggling. Due to economic tribulations, the lottery advertisements make some people susceptible to dreams of economic relief. In reality, this is unattainable. This encompasses undertaking risks in an attempt to achieve relief.
Lottery enables the winners to acquire unjustified wealth. Lottery blurs the difference between wealth earned in the appropriate means and the ill-gotten wealth.
Lottery reduces productivity of the participants, an issue that has negative effect on the whole society. Gambling is debased speculation and represents a lust for massive and abrupt wealth. By legitimizing the gambling activities, people are cheated into engaging in them in an attempt to acquire the massive wealth abruptly. However, the outcomes might contrast the expectation especially after losing. As such, the victims have been cheated and they end up losing their money to others. This is corruption because the winner acquires acquire wealth by taking away the wealth of another person.
People are driven by craving desire into engaging in such activities. People can acquire wealth justifiably through ennobling labor. People have to work hard in order to acquire wealth morally. Therefore, gambling based on speculation is not the moral worth in which individual acquires wealth in the society. In capitalist societies, people have acquired great deal of wealth in a speculative manner without sweating.
The government move to legitimize and institutionalizes lottery whets the public appetite hence many people will be attracted to them. This is delusion hence the participants are unlikely to achieve the relief of their tribulations as they expect. Instead, they are robbed off their little wealth. Therefore, lottery cheats and corrupts the public.
Medical And Mental Health Care
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Medical And Mental Health Care After being in solitary confinement for 112 days J.I mutilated himself by cutting his penis using a razor blade on September 5, 2019, in Broward County Jail. The prisoner had a preexisting mental illness condition from 2007 and was booked in jail in October 2017 and two months later he was put in a suicide watch after telling the staff that he suffered from both bipolar and schizophrenia disorders and that he intended to hurt himself. He was prescribed for some antidepressants and antipsychotics drugs that he often refused to take and also food, he also showed signs of mental crises before being placed in solitary where he had various public masturbatory episodes.
In J.I case there were a few violations against him, one it is mandatory that a prisoner experiencing his mental condition is required to be assessed before and after he is from isolation, this did not happen for J.I case. In addition, during the solitary days, he was not assessed despite the red flags that his mental illness was deteriorating before his placement in solitary. While it is also stated that anyone with mental illness is not supposed to be put in solitary J.1 who had bipolar and schizophrenia was still subjected to the treatment and just as the scenario it turned out to be more harmful.
Women in Prison
Tammy Jackson was one unfortunate woman after she delivered in her jail cell alone, this was after she had experienced contractions from 3 am and it took hours before the correctional officers to reach a doctor who only came back the following day at 10 am. Tammy had been isolated and incarcerated without any medical care during this period of giving birth yet a few months before she was arrested she had been admitted to a psychiatric facility involuntarily. However, the saddest thing was that Jackson was not in jail because he had been convicted of any crime but as a pretrial detainee who had was being held for medical monitoring.
They are various rights of Jackson that were neglected one is that she was denied care yet she was pregnant, the correctional officers not only delayed in informing the doctor but the doctor only came the following day finding the patient had already delivered. In addition, despite the staff being aware of the detainee’s mental condition she was still denied the psychiatry care and only received it after the was admitted to hospital. The climax of it is that she was not a convict but only a detainee when this happened which bears the question of how the convicts themselves are treated.
From the above scenarios and the accusation, we hear every day about the experiences of prisoners in the prisons it is clear that in there the convict’s rights are not respected if not denied. Some efforts are being done like the bill that was passed that is aimed to ensure that the family connection is still intact by ensuring the convicts are held near home and that the visiting hours are increased. However, despite this being passed what matters is that the officers in the jails who are supposed to not only protect the prisoners but also address issues regard them as evil and hence treat them as punishment yet the prisons are supposed to rehabilitate criminals. There is much that needs to be done and the focus should not be on the bills but on the jails where the staff should not only be enlightened on their roles but also on the jail’s role which is to rehabilitate and not punish.
Medical and Economic importance of Bacteria
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Medical and Economic importance of Bacteria
Bacteria consist of a wide range of microorganisms that show exciting differences based on their nutrition, morphology, habitat, and reproduction. Bacteria play a role in our day-to-day lives, such as assistance in digesting food. However, the majority of individuals link bacteria as disease and death-causing mediums and associate them with dirt. As a result, a question arises, ‘’should bacteria be considered friend or foe to humans?’’ In my opinion, bacteria are beneficial to our daily ways of life; for example, they assist in the nitrogen cycle in leguminous crops, applied in biotechnology in gene cloning, and used to decompose organic matter.
Firstly, bacteria help in nitrogen fixation in legumes. Document D (Nitrogen cycle) gives details about the role bacteria undertake in converting nitrogen from the air into nitrates and ammonia. These nutrients are essential in crops as they are easily absorbed by roots and transformed into nucleic acids and amino acids. The absorption of nitrogen by the rhizobium bacteria present in the roots also assists crops in growing in nitrogen-deficient soils. The nitrogen introduced into the food chain is later absorbed by human beings through digestion and ingestion as they consume food from these crops. Benefits go two both ways as crops and humans gain.
Secondly, bacteria are used in genetic-engineering procedures. Document F (Uses in Biotechnology) explains how bacteria are used in biotechnology in the gene cloning when genes are copied and expressed from giver organisms. They are used as cloning vectors in the transfer of a given specific gene into the bacterial cell plasmids using restriction enzymes. The restriction enzymes bind both vector and chromosomal DNA to the inverted palindrome, thereby dividing the DNA and producing sticky ends. DNA ligase combines both the sticky ends of both DNAs forming a recombinant DNA. Proteins produced from this recombinant technology profit most people as they are used to produce medicines, synthetic vaccines, and substances such as insulin used by individuals with diabetes. Thus, the application of bacteria in the biotechnology industry acts as a benefit to human health and the economy by reducing production costs.
Lastly, bacteria act as decomposers as they break down organic matter into carbon dioxide and other nutrients such as nitrogen. Document E (Decomposition) shows the procedures under which decomposition takes place. Fats, cellulose, and proteins are first turned into soluble compounds, then into organic acids, and lastly, forming methane, water, and carbon dioxide. The process of decomposition is essential since it releases excess nutrients into the soil, enhancing plant growth. Absence of this process, some of the nutrients taken up by plants would remain intact in leaves and other tissues resulting in insufficient nutrients in the soil. They ensure that nutrients are recycled. Also, many grounds would remain covered by wood and dead leaves forever. Thus they help in maintaining the ecosystem and ensure it is clean. Also, plants use carbon from carbon dioxide and water released from decomposition to process their food. Therefore, decomposition, as a process caused by bacteria, is of advantage to humans and plants. Bacteria have a positive impact on the lives of individuals.