accidents. Students suffer injuries under the influence of alcohol. Not does Drinking cause accidents but also assaults and rapes. Alcohol interferes with academic performance too. About half of college students report academic consequences from their drinking‚ including missing class‚ falling behind‚ doing poorly on exams or papers‚ and receiving lower grades overall. Alcohol consumption poses problems not only for the drinking students themselves but also for their friends and fellow students and for
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As technology has advanced over the years‚ children are exposed to the real world earlier and earlier. Growing up in the age violence is everywhere‚ it is hard to escape it. Violence is on the television‚ computer‚ and in video games. Does seeing all this violence have a negative effect on society? When asking this question one may get a wide range of answers. The truth is that it does have a negative effect. When all the young people of society are seeing day in and day out is killing and abuse
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something to drink. How many of you would prefer a glass of water out a fridge filled with soda‚ fruit juices‚ or beer? My guess is that probably no all of you prefer to drink water. I would choose water over the other options. I was not used to drinking water‚ but after I heard of the benefits that water has‚ I started to drink more water. For example when I’m thirsty instead of taking any kind of soda I prefer to drink water because it’s healthier for my health. Americans seem to carry bottled
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The Gilded Age was the best and worst time for people in the early 1900’s. It was the best of times because of the newly improved economic market. The growth of industrialized business opened up new job for citizens of all race and nationality‚ new innovations‚ and new problems for those who worked in the factories and warehouses. The new economic growth was a good sight in the eyes of the citizens of the United States. It not only created new jobs‚ but it brought in a new wave of people looking
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The Space Age February 2013‚ asteroid 2012 DA14 is plummeting towards Earth. My science class at Crestwood Junior High was chatting about this amazing phenomenon. Most of the class is just counting down the minutes until the bell rings. But I had just started my journey through the unknown‚ that is still going on today. Wanting to learn all I can about spacecrafts‚ planets‚ asteroids‚ and the many other things around us. From some of the first spacecrafts‚ all the way to cool technologies that
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The Viking age was a period of four hundred years (700 to 1100 AD) and was either part of the late Iron Age or Early Medieval Time. Back then there were no countries or huge kingdoms. The Scandinavian Peninsula was divided into a bunch of smaller kingdoms or realms‚ each with its own king or chief. There are three types of vikings. Merchants- History does not have much to say about merchants‚ but we knew they were trading iron and fur and were not alone and unarmed. As a matter of fact‚ they probably
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LEGALLY RAISING THE DRIVING AGE IN THE UNITED STATES TO 18 1 Legally Raising the Driving Age in the United States to 18 and Reducing the Teenage Driving Fatalities and Accidents LEGALLY RAISING THE DRIVING AGE IN THE UNITED STATES TO 18 2 Abstract This paper explains the reasoning of increasing the legal driving age in the United States to age 18. It gives insight into the statistics of driving fatalities among teens‚ allowing the teenage brain to
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The Age of Enlightenment occurred from about 1600-1800. It was a time where free thought and personal freedoms began. It was an attempt to break free and finally move forward. People were beginning to doubt God’s existence and believed that individuals could find truth for themselves. Europe would be forever changed from these ideas. This gave Europe a chance to flourish and open up to new ideas. This had a very big impact on the humanities. I am going to be discussing how music‚ art‚ literature
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of Utah) II. Thesis: Driving while using a cellphone has its risks. III. Relevance: Why should you care? This topic relates to you because ‘’it is the number one cause of crashes for people within the ages 18-25.’’ (University of Utah) IV. Credibility: I have conducted research for the past days. I have also had a personal experience. V. Brief review of main points: Today I will be talking about the use of cellphone while driving and the penalties this could have. TRANSITION:
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reason for the possession is to deliver it to a parent or legal guardian over the age of 21. Also Virginia’s law states that it is acceptable for a person under the age of 21 to consume alcoholic beverages in private establishments such as their own personal home or a family member’s home but not in public. Lastly‚ there is a new law that just recently passed July 1‚ 2011‚ that states that any under aged person caught drinking and driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.2 ( one
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