Soble, Whitney2008-05-092008-05-092007https://hdl.handle.net/10161/580Paper submitted for Writing 20 (Spring 2007) and published in Deliberations, 2007-2008Las Vegas is under siege. Even as the city in the desert flourishes, its longstanding critics are determined to deride it as a constructed reality that indefensibly purges history and culture from its sterile landscape.en-UShttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Las VegasAuthenticityCourse paper