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    Legal drinking age should be lowered Introduction: Once a person turns 18 years old they are already considered an adult. Yes‚ it may sound bad saying that 18 years old should have the right to legally drink‚ but lets look at the facts; you can drive a car‚ vote in all elections‚ smoke cigarettes‚ serve on juries‚ be prosecuted as an adult‚ get married‚ have children‚ fight in a war‚ gamble‚ but not have a beer until your 21? Now‚ if young men and women under the age of 21 can legally get married

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    there to hold our hands‚ a place where young adults don’t ask to use the restroom they just do. As a high schooler I think young adults should be trusted to use the restroom when needed on our own. Although‚ the building administration has a policy that students cannot go to the bathroom during class‚ students should be aloud to make their own decisions regarding bathroom breaks because they need to learn time management‚ and need to be treated like an adult because we are now‚ and also it is a waste

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    Topic: Should adultery be considered a sin or a crime? Should it be punished by law or not? It is clear that adultery is a very bad thing in our society. It makes broken the domestic bliss and causes many social problems. Adultery is not only a sin but also a crime and it should be strictly punished by law. At first‚ adultery is sure of a sin‚ it offends the dignity of marriage which is unique‚ eternal and inseparable. In addition‚ adultery is also against the equal right between man and woman

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    Kochan 1 Dr. Paul Fogle What Makes A Person Successful 27 April 2011 Success Principles There are many different success principles that are used by people who are really successful everyday‚ in all aspects of a person’s life. People don’t just magically become successful. It takes years of ones life to learn all the success principles that there are. Then even longer to master and apply the principles to your life. This is when one will start seeing the results that they want. Jack Canfield

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    Legal Age to Drink: Should it be Changed? In this day and age with more sophisticated teens and young people abusing alcohol‚ the issue concerning whether or not teenagers should be able to drink at a younger age is an important topic. In the article “Perils of Prohibition” Elizabeth M. Whelan argues that alcohol should be legalized at the age of eighteen instead of twenty-one. She hopes to persuade readers‚ parents‚ and educators to support her proposal for the change by successful alcohol

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    2015  Should a Juvenile Be Tried as an Adult For a Violent Crime? Did you ever ponder that if a juvenile should be tried as an adult? In my opinion‚ I believe a juvenile should not be tried as an adult. For example‚ they can change themselves. Though‚ juveniles should not be tried as an adult since their brain isn’t fully developed yet so they can’t comprehend the consequences fully‚ in other words children are not mature enough to be adults. Also juveniles should not be tried as an adult since

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    many countries with a minimum drinking age of 18” (18 Interesting Pro…). So why does the United States keep the age that you can have libations at 21? There has been a debate going on whether the drinking age should be 21 or 18. People have brought up statistics on the amount of wrecks and the amount of money going back into the economy. So the United States needs to change the drinking age‚ the drinking age should be 18 because a person is legally an adult at 18‚ there’s less risky behaviors‚ and

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    What important skills should a person learn to be successful in the world today?” Nowadays‚ becoming a successful person is one of the first targets of humans . People succeed doesn’t depend on who are they - musician‚ president‚ businessman etc. It doesn’t depends only on having certain skills. Today ‚ various skills contribute to success. I think‚ that any person can become successful through learning from the mistakes‚ being able to take risk and having the persistence. In my opinion

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    juveniles should not be charged as adults‚ even if the crime they committed is considered a ´tragedy´ and is thought to be ´horrid´. But we should not try juveniles as adults for many reasons. Three of these reasons are that legally‚ they are not of adult age‚ their brains have not developed‚ and() First of all‚ articles from jjei.com say that it is not fair that society does not

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    American society believes that lowering the drinking age back to eighteen will lead to a domino affect of bad premonitions like rampant drinking binges‚ raving alcoholics‚ and more traffic accident deaths upon the entire nation. Realistic Alcohol Laws for Legal Youth (RALLY) is one of many major organizations dedicated to rectifying these faulty perspectives that Americans hold. Due to the irrelevance on the number of alcohol related car accidents in the 1970?s‚ the parents obligation to teach

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