This article is another informative work on the dangers on distracted driving. This article‚ however‚ includes distractions from hands-free devices that allow one to have a phone conversation without holding a phone to his or her ear. A study showed that someone texting or having a conversation on a wireless headset drove as poorly as someone whose blood alcohol concentration was above the legal limits in Australia and Spain‚ where this was tested (0.5 grams per liter). The study also found that
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The Dangers of the Drinking Age In this article‚ Jeffrey A. Miron and Elina Tetelbaum argue against the belief that a drinking age of 21 years old saves lives and prevents students from drinking. Their argument is that raising the drinking age to 21 has had many unintended consequences. These consequences include: a rise in binge drinking and disrespect for the law. They use statistics to support their major points and counteract opposing views. “For the past 20 years‚ the United States has kept a Minimum Legal Drinking Age
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The Articles of Confederation held many problem that the people of the U.S. were angry about. With no Bill of Rights in the Articles of Confederation many people were angry that their rights were not protected by anything. Since the states had different currencies this also mde people in the U.S very angry because they could be rich in one state and in the other poor. As well as this making it so that the states couldn’t trade. Lastly the government couldn’t tax the people making the United States
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A summary of the story BAD GIRLS IN SCHOOL This story starts off with three girls going to Redeemer College a school for only girls‚ they have caused so much trouble for the time they have been attending the school and have given it a bad reputation. Ta Jeeka Brentford‚ Caledonia Nuttall and Katreena Melmac has made it their duty to disobey anyone who tries to tell them what is right but on a July afternoon a meeting is called to decide what to do with the three girls but the principal’s mind has
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The danger of cultivating a culture that measure success and achievement in school-aged children based on high-stakes test scores is the production of a society who care more about grades and scores than they do about the development of true mastery in any given area of academia. Standardized testing has been a part of the American school system since the mid 1800’s. The use of them skyrocketed after the No Child Left Behind Act went into place in 2002. The tests then became annually mandated in
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Article Outline – Why Bad Multiples Happen to Good Companies The article suggests that rather than focusing too much on having the highest multiples with regards to the companies’ performance‚ managers and executives will be better off focusing on the amount of value they create with regards to growth margins and capital productivity. One example of this was the US household-products manufacturer Church & Dwight‚ although the company’s growths on EBITA margins (+13.9% points compared to the
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What are schools doing for us? If nothing then what can we do to improve them? I think they aren’t doing anything. I have never really thought about this idea until I started research. I think that I am fairly smart‚ but it is more of after school rather than school itself. I was watching a TED TALK from Ken Robinson and he was talking about how schools kill creativity. He talks about how schools are good at making people who do their jobs successfully. He also says that those same people are
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Angela Crafton Robyn Miller‚ Instructor HUM/176 July 3‚ 2011 Keeping Old School Music Alive R&B crooners such as R. Kelly‚ Brian McKnight‚ and Raphael Saadiq are striving to keep “Old School Music” alive. There are so many different genres of music and they all represent different people‚ attitudes‚ places‚ times‚ ethnicities and ideas. Imagine what this world would be like without old school R & B artists like Marvin Gaye‚ The Temptations‚ Diana Ross‚ and everybody’s all time favorite
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game‚ is left as positive memory in their brain that can be easily shared information. However‚ the real question is‚ what do humans do with the bad experiences? Do they just store them in their memory bank and never talk about it‚ do they just forget about‚ or do they share the experience? I can’t speak for everybody but‚ I feel you should express your bad experiences‚ just like you would for your good ones. Now I’ll begin. In my lifetime I have always been able to grasp things and excel at them
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really effective. Parents‚ students‚ and administrators complain that there is to much cheating in their school. (Dorff‚ par 11) But then point at each other when their asked who should be reasonable for fixing the problem. But something has to change. (Dorff‚ par11) Cheating needs to be addressed as pare of a cultural problem as part. It is up to us to make it unacceptable not only in schools but also throughout society. (Dorff‚ par 12) That time-honored anti-cheating mantra‚ “you’re only hurting
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