Essays Tagged: "Online gambling"

Internet Gambling.

he popularity of Internet gambling has skyrocketed over the past few years. Since the first virtual online casino started up in 1995, the industry has grown to over 450 gambling websites. In 1997, Int ... Internet gambling produced at least $200 million in business. Conservative estimates conclude that online gambling will bring in at least $3 billion of annual revenue by 2003. Gambling over the Inter ...

(10 pages) 236 0 4.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

This is a oral presentation about Excessive Gambling

EXCESSIVE GAMBLING in AustraliaGood morning/ afternoon Pastor xxx and fellow classmates. Today I would like to ... noon Pastor xxx and fellow classmates. Today I would like to talk to you about the topic- excessive gambling.During my talk, I will be covering the following areas:1.What is gambling?2.What is excessi ... overing the following areas:1.What is gambling?2.What is excessive gambling?3.Reasons for excessive gambling + statistics on excessive gambling in Australia.4.The problems of excessive gambling.5.How ...

(4 pages) 105 0 4.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Technology - Internet Gambling, Online Gambling

Online GamblingThere is a major issue to be dealt with, which is spreading with little regulatory ov ... y the young and the vulnerable. Internet gambling represents one of the fastest growing segments of online activity with more than seven hundred web sites now providing users the opportunity to wager ... ed by the Pew Internet and American Life Project concluded that $4.5 million Americans have gambled online and that 1 million gamble online everyday. Online gambling should be made completely illegal ...

(3 pages) 113 1 4.5 Dec/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Gambling Ban

evada. Today, there are only six states in which no form of legalized gambling exists. In addition, online gambling has also gained a lot of popularity. More than seven hundred web sites now provide u ... ted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project concluded that 4.5 million Americans have gambled online and that one million gamble online everyday. The capability of online gambling with its incre ...

(7 pages) 80 0 5.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Online Casinos

Online gambling should be made completely illegal or be more rigidly controlled because it promotes ... ance and experience symptoms of withdrawal when trying to abstain from gambling. With the option of online gambling, compulsive gamblers can easily gamble at home and are even more unlikely to control ... . While lives are destroyed due to the addictive effects of gambling, they also can be destroyed by online criminals.Online gambling presents a great potential for criminal abuse. Internet scammers lu ...

(4 pages) 59 0 5.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues