English Research Blog

Today I finished copy editing and read over the paper once again. i am pretty sure that there arent any mistakes in there in regards to grammar. The final essay will be turned in on monday.

Got the ole rough draft back today. It appears that most of the mistakes and such come with the transitions between thoughts. Ideas need to be more solid. Also the introduction needs to be worked on. There needs to be a few sources cited in the paper that I missed. I got a C which isn't bad, but overall the paper could use some improvement.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/connectwithkids/102704_cwk_poker.html

The front regions of a piece are those that are clearly seen, while the back regions are those that are hidden. These are the more interesting parts. These are the parts that Michael Moore uses to voice his opinion. In my topic, however, it doesn't seem that there are any back regions. Poker, gambling...what can be hidden about that? Well I consider the fact that many people gamble for a LIVING a very interesting back region of my topic. Not only that, but the internet as a new medium for this. people sitting at home all day making money just by sitting on their computer. interesting.

http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1804~2475983,00.html#


this article shows that middle school kids are getting into poker. it shows that parents would rather have their children playing a card game with their friends than playing a shoot 'em up video game.

http://wizardofodds.com/casinos/blacklist.html

this page 'blacklists' some online gaming sites becuz of payout or software issues. this site brings up more questions, like software issues, payouts, bonuses, etc

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/fo/20041018/bs_fo/4714d6c836337f2a568e9b89cd2faa58

just another article on the influence and popularity of poker

http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=2449866

in this article, a native american tribe is going to ask the state of Alabama if it can host poker tournys...it has a viewpoint of a man against poker

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/041020/3/1q4oi.html

In this article, it says that poker chips are going to be among the highest items of interest during this Christmas season. The WSOP final tourny, the last hour, had 2.5 million houses tuned in, which was ESPN's highest ever.

I just wanted to put something together to try and gather my thoughts and see where I am right now...

-Introduction
-Moneymaker's story
-how a person can go from rags to riches with online poker
-History of Poker
-Evolution from cards in a home to casinos to cyberspace
-Evolution of the game to a major ESPN tv event
-Legalities of Poker
-How do online sites operate and get around US laws
-what laws are there against online gambling
-Data
-How many people play online
-How does this effect people online
-college survey
-How much money is spent in this business
- " " brought in because of it
-How is this viewed by people-good or bad
-How does one live off of poker as a living

These are some of the things i am working on and looking into

http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/41623c0849da8?in_archive=1

I just read this article. Recently in my dorm, several people got in trouble for playing a money game of poker. But in this article, at the University of Pennsylvania, poker is funded by the school, has an online poker site sponser them, and the college sponsors a poker club. At IUP the stakes were probably just 5 dollars each, yet at UPenn, the stakes are usually 20-100. IUP police need more to do than just break up small poker games. In accordance with PA law, the game was played without fees, without cheating, and in a private place. Interesting

-upon putting the search 'ebay' into yahoo, several hits were 'get rich quick on ebay'
-the founder of ebay is now a billionaire

-several sites turned up 'get rich' when i typed 'poker' into the search
-chris moneymaker entered a 40 dollar poker tournament online, and through a series of tournament wins, won 2.5 million dollars at the WSOP

-one online poker site is free for college students, and the awards are paid in scholarship form

-the search 'get rich' turned out 52,400,000 hits

-the search 'work online' turned out 102,000,000 hits