not the voting age of 18 should be lowered or maintained‚ in my opinion‚ it should be maintained. To begin my position on the issue I will start by referencing the first passage‚ Keeping the Voting Age at 18. In this passage it argues that lowering the voting age to 16 will decrease the percentage of participation. I personally find that to be a good reason because around the age of 16 a person is typically still in school and not too worried about voting. The stereotypical teenager is lazy
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Improving Employee Productivity As you may already know‚ improving the employee productivity is one of the most important goals in any business. But‚ in spite of this‚ a lot of human resources professionals do not consider this field very relevant. Even though most of the human resources professionals do admit that their job is all about establishing schedules and rules concerning people management‚ only a few of them succeeds in bonding all these connections‚ in order to be able to increase
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Telecommuting Increases Productivity Telecommuting‚ also known as work-from-home‚ is a common practice among many business firms. In many articles‚ authors claim that telecommuting makes noticeable contribution to companies‚ increasing productivity by around 15%-50%. However‚ to some CEOs‚ telecommuting is not an attractive option. They think that most people exaggerate the significance of telecommuting because they worry about losing direct control over the employees. Actually‚ telecommuting can
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Karen Salcedo Salcedo 1 Mrs. Amsden Per. 3 Government March 20‚ 2014 Lowering the Drinking Age? The current legal drinking age In California is 21‚ although there are many who oppose the age. I have been studying the topic for the past month‚ to where now I feel I have enough evidence to support my answer. In my government class I have learned the many ways that certain principles can apply to certain ideas. A constitutional principles that I saw was evident while
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In developed countries‚ virtually all economic production is done by companies; if there were no businesses‚ we would have virtually no goods or services. Business is hugely important in a country’s economy because it is the main economic engine for the country. Businesses are a very important part of the circular flow of any market economy. They buy resources from households in the resource market and sell to households in the product market. This makes them indispensable to the economy. Businesses
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in juries‚ get married‚ and enter into legal contracts at the age of eighteen‚ but not buy alcohol until they are twenty one years of age. Lowering the drinking age in the United States to eighteen will help young adults be more responsible‚ and in addition it would make colleges a safer environment and it would lower the amount of binge drinking. Lowering the drinking age to eighteen will help teenagers act more responsible. In the United States‚ the government considers a teenager to be an adult
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Lowering the Drinking Age “Nearly 10 million youths‚ ages 12 to 20‚ in this country report they have consumed alcohol in the past 30 days.” (“City Council”) Teens use alcohol for a numerous amount of reasons‚ ranging from celebration to stress to boredom and underage drinking has now become a hobby done behind closed doors. The legal limit today in the United states has been 21 since the 1984‚ requiring all states to raise the minimum age for purchase and possession of alcohol to 21‚ but
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Prescriptive: Lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 increases the risk of underage and binge drinking which results in deadly car accidents. Ages 18 and under are physically immature to handle alcohol. Enforcing the age 21 law reduces the risk of traffic crashes and it saves lives. By lowering the drinking age to 18 will trigger the urge of wanting to drink for younger teenagers. Therefore‚ the drinking age is ought to stay at 21. The 21 legal drinking age law forces young people to drink
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place‚ it has become one of the most widely studied laws in history. While there are many arguments and new bills being created to reduce this age‚ especially among college universities‚ all have failed to become law. Over half of adults agree that lowering the drinking age would increase binge drinking among teens‚ and 72% believe that it would make alcohol more accessible to kids as well. Over 50 scientific studies have found that the 21-law saves lives. (Dean-Mooney 1) There is just not
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18-year-olds the right to vote. Today‚ nearly twenty-five years later‚ the question has become "should 16-year-olds be allowed to vote?" It was not difficult at all to sit down and come up with pretty good reasons on why we do not see the problem with lowering the voting age. I mean why not? Teens start working at around the age of 15‚ which means they pay taxes‚ right? At the age of 16‚ a teen is able to drop out of school or become emancipated so shouldn’t they be eligible to vote? A 16 year old is eligible
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