Should We Raise The Driving Age To 18? Imagine yourself as a sixteen year-old. You just got your driver’s license‚ and are going to go cruising with your friends to celebrate. However‚ at about ten o’clock‚ your attention isn’t on the road‚ and you crash into another vehicle. Two of your friends die on scene‚ and your other friend is seriously injured. For thousands of teens each year‚ this is a reality. Sixteen year-old drivers are three times more likely to crash than seventeen year old’s
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PW 3 - ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY Managing stress during exams: Effective methods of promoting a congenial environment for test-takers In Judy Churchill’s (2002) article: "Coping with Exam stress - the demystification and relaxation process”‚ it is argued that students dealing with exam stress has become a thorny issue leading to under-performance. This problem is the result of certain factors‚ such as the lack of familiarity with the exam’s format and fatigue‚ both of which may be avoided if students
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voting age to 16 instead of 18. Others also may argue that it is because there arent many different variations and options to vote from. I believe that both these arguments have their pros and cons to them. So many teenagers under the age of 18 and many adults too argue that the government should drop the voting age to 16 instead of 18. They say that this would instantly improve the voting participation percentages. I do not fully agree with this because the percentage of people who are 18 and older
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1 LTCA Argumentative Essay April 16‚ 2013 Why our country should have universal healthcare? In America there are so many people who live without healthcare. President Obama has tried hard to change that known fact by introducing and passing his new Obama Care Act. It is very important for people to have proper healthcare coverage‚ medical care‚ affordable medications‚ and for all healthcare services to be available to everyone‚ whether they are poor‚ middle class or rich. For most
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Underage drinking is one of the biggest problems facing America today. Teens who abuse alcohol often turn to a life of crime‚ or suffer mental or physical breakdowns. In many cases the teen may even die from attempt suicide or car accident. In Montgomery Country two teenager was killed in a car accident‚ after leaving a party drunk and driving over the speed limits. Knowing that they were underage‚ if the father who hosted the party had never let the teens drink‚ then the two death could have been
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Should alcohol drinking age be decreased of increased? In my opinion it should be decreased because if we are classified as an adult and we are allowed to get married and etc. Why are we not allowed to drink. Lowering the drinking age would teach kids how to be more responsible at a younger age. If kids are just cut off from things‚ they are just going to find a way around it anyway. Kids just need to learn to do things in moderation. Because unfortunate‚ adults aren’t responsible with
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president of a beer company in a state that sets the legal drinking age at 21. Your boss asks you to organize a lobbying effort to have the drinking age reduced to 18. What would you do? A. I would do research and report my findings to my boss. Although it might seem like a good idea to do so -higher sales‚ and therefore higher revenue and profit- lowering the drinking age would be a losing battle. States can lower the drinking age back down to 18 or 19 but the amount of federal highway funds they’d
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Argumentative Essay The legalization of marijuana is a current growing issue in British Columbia (BC). Marijuana‚ which comes from the cannabis sativa (or hemp) plant‚ has been used for ten thousand years and will continue to be used for a very long time. People smoke it‚ with a pipe or water pipe‚ or in loosely rolled cigarettes called “joints”. It is also brewed with tea and mixed with cakes and brownies. Marijuana is so popular with the public that it has developed many aliases‚ such as
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English 102: Argumentative Essay (Essay #1) May 14th 2012 outline I. Introduction: 1. Background: Nowadays‚ Television is an unavoidable part of modern culture. It plays an important role in our life. We always depend on television for news‚ entertainment‚ education‚ weather‚ sports‚ and even music‚ since the advent of Music Television. 2. Thesis statement: Television has both advantages and disadvantages‚ and I think the advantages far outweigh the disadvantage. II
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Binge drinking is a modern epithet for drinking alcoholic beverages with an intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time. Binge drinking is out of control in many college town campuses. The actual act of drinking alcohol is not necessarily the big issue here; it is the way people are drinking it whether they are legally old enough or not. The issue is binge drinking of college students mostly or anyone really. Drinking alcohol can have many consequences
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