I would like to start this week's blog about narrowing down my topic. Gambling is a very broad topic. My topic is gambling, and I am thinking of ways to narrow it. There have been articles in the newspaper recently about the pros and cons of gambling and casinos. I have been researching the topic for the last few weeks and I have found a lot of information about the topic. I found some articles that gave two different points of view from two attorneys on gambling. Most of these articles address points about gambling. There are articles that are against gambling and there are also articles that have evidence to support gambling. I have used the library's website to search for articles on ebscohost and I have found some articles that have researched the effects that gambling had on communities. I have been looking for more articles for my research paper and the rhetorical analysis. I have been looking through my sources to pick the two sources that I would like to do my rhetorical analysis. The areas that I am going to include in my rhetorical analysis are going to be audience, purpose, research methods, and author credibility. The audience of my paper would be my classmates and also people who are interested in learning more about the topic of gambling. This would include many people including gamblers, people opposed to gambling, and people who have problems with gambling. The audience would include people who enjoy gambling and also enjoy reading about the pros and cons of gambling. Many of the articles in the Journal Gazette that I have read on the topic usually oppose gambling in the Fort Wayne area. These articles are interesting to read. I am going to continue my research on my topic and also begin to write the paper.

After writing the three i-search papers, I chose the topic of gambling. I chose this topic because I think that it is an interesting and controversial topic in many places. There are pros and cons to having casinos in cities.Casinos create jobs and also creates additional revenue for the cities and states that allow casinos. Some people oppose to having casino in their cities because they believe that gambling will lead to an increase in crime. There are many different forms of gambling. There is gambling that takes place on the internet. There is a casino in Anderson, Indiana. The name of this casino is Hoosier Park. Hoosier Park casino has a race track. They call a casino with a race track a racino. In Fort Wayne, there is an off-track betting parlor that is on Washington Center. When I think of the topic of gambling I think of the world series of poker. Texas hold em' is the type of poker that is played. The world series of poker is televised on ESPN. The winner of the 2008 world series of poker won over nine million dollars. There was a bill that was purposed to move 500 slot machines to Fort Wayne. The slot machines would include games such as black jack and roulette without live dealers. Mayor Tom Henry has stated that he is open to the idea of Fort Wayne having a casino. This bill died Thursday after failing to receive a hearing by a key legislative deadline. The mayor said that it wouldn't be a problem if the issue had to wait until next year. There was an article written about the bill in the journal gazette in this morning's paper. There are currently twelve casinos in Indiana. I found several articles about the pros and cons of gambling on Ebscohost. These articles were very helpful.