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Dies ist ein zusammenfassendes Handout zu einer GFS über Las Vegas.
Handout GFS Las Vegas Overview: Las Vegas is located in the state of Nevada in the southwestern part of the US. Because of the Mojawe Desert surrounding Las Vegas the climate there is a typical desert climate with low precipitation and warm temperatures all the year long. The population of Las Vegas is increasing fast since the 50's. Also many inhabitants are not born in Nevada and 26% even outside of the US. Terms / Vocabulary: gambling - Glücksspiel hispanics - Spanish speaking people Spanish Trail - Old route from New Mexico to L.A. - special Christian group mormons dilapidated Sin City - heruntergekommen - "Sündenstadt" desalination plants - Entsalzungsanlagen History: In 1829 Raphael Rivera called the fertile area close to Lake Mead "Las Vegas" meaning "The meadows". After settlements of the Mormons and the US-Army most of the area was used by ranchers and some farmers. In 1903 Helen Stewart sold her ground to the Railroad Company which auctioned it to investors in 1905. Las Vegas was founded. After the legalization of gambling in 1931 and the building of the Hoover Dam some years later the first casinos opened and the village started growing. In the 60's and 70's Las Vegas became a symbol of freedom, happiness and gambling and also very attractive to the mafia. In the 80's the government could defeate big parts of them but...
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together with the mafia the money left city. In the 90's Las Vegas made a restart. Gigantic theme hotels opened and the old dilapidated city became the Entertainment-City we know today. Hotels, Casinos and Sights: With many square meters of casino space and their sights like the "Bellagio Fountains" or "The channels of the Venetian" most Las Vegas hotels combine these three all in one. Many modern hotels have an individual theme which the whole building shows. Almost every hotel is located along "The Strip", the biggest avenue of Las Vegas. And if you are bored of all these impressive hotels you can take a picture with the "Welcome to fabolous Las Vegas" sign or even go further away and visit Grand Canyon, Death Valley or the Spring Montains. Water supply and problems: Las Vegas and 20 million other people in southwestern US get their water from Lake Mead, a part of Colorado River near Las Vegas. Due to droughts, global warming, growing population and growing water consume Las Vegas and the whole region needs to find a way to secure water availability. One way is to educe water consume of the people and to lower global warming, another way are desalination plants. By now this technology has many disadvantages like high costs and energy consume but in a few years it might open the largest water source of our planet, the ocean.
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Handout GFS Las Vegas Overview: Las Vegas is located in the state of Nevada in the southwestern part of the US. Because of the Mojawe Desert surrounding Las Vegas the climate there is a typical desert climate with low precipitation and warm temperatures all the year long. The population of Las Vegas is increasing fast since the 50's. Also many inhabitants are not born in Nevada and 26% even outside of the US. Terms / Vocabulary: gambling - Glücksspiel hispanics - Spanish speaking people Spanish Trail - Old route from New Mexico to L.A. - special Christian group mormons dilapidated Sin City - heruntergekommen - "Sündenstadt" desalination plants - Entsalzungsanlagen History: In 1829 Raphael Rivera called the fertile area close to Lake Mead "Las Vegas" meaning "The meadows". After settlements of the Mormons and the US-Army most of the area was used by ranchers and some farmers. In 1903 Helen Stewart sold her ground to the Railroad Company which auctioned it to investors in 1905. Las Vegas was founded. After the legalization of gambling in 1931 and the building of the Hoover Dam some years later the first casinos opened and the village started growing. In the 60's and 70's Las Vegas became a symbol of freedom, happiness and gambling and also very attractive to the mafia. In the 80's the government could defeate big parts of them but...
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together with the mafia the money left city. In the 90's Las Vegas made a restart. Gigantic theme hotels opened and the old dilapidated city became the Entertainment-City we know today. Hotels, Casinos and Sights: With many square meters of casino space and their sights like the "Bellagio Fountains" or "The channels of the Venetian" most Las Vegas hotels combine these three all in one. Many modern hotels have an individual theme which the whole building shows. Almost every hotel is located along "The Strip", the biggest avenue of Las Vegas. And if you are bored of all these impressive hotels you can take a picture with the "Welcome to fabolous Las Vegas" sign or even go further away and visit Grand Canyon, Death Valley or the Spring Montains. Water supply and problems: Las Vegas and 20 million other people in southwestern US get their water from Lake Mead, a part of Colorado River near Las Vegas. Due to droughts, global warming, growing population and growing water consume Las Vegas and the whole region needs to find a way to secure water availability. One way is to educe water consume of the people and to lower global warming, another way are desalination plants. By now this technology has many disadvantages like high costs and energy consume but in a few years it might open the largest water source of our planet, the ocean.