legal drinking age from the current age of 21 to 18. The move would defy a generation of federal law and public opinion in America which is strongly opposed to lowering the drinking age. In 1984‚ congress set the legal drinking age to 21 from 18‚ threatening to cut highway funding to states which did not comply‚ mostly to cut down on drunk driving deaths caused each year by drinking and driving. But advocates argue teenagers are going to drink anyway even if changed. Should the drinking age be lowered
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disagreed that the minimum driving age should be raised from 16 to 18. It should stay at 16. There are many advantages to driving at an age younger than 18. Various teenagers are unable to participate in extracurricular activities due to no available way to get to and from the activity‚ teens are able to get jobs and need a way of transportation without depending so much on their parents‚ and numerous high school graduates are younger than 18 or just turned 18. First of all‚ various upperclassmen
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Tiffany Gallt Ms. Wing English 12 15 December 2012 Voting Age: Should it be reduced? The very idea of America is freedom and opportunity for everybody. Amongst these is the most valued legal right within a democracy: the right to vote. However‚ an unfortunate reality is that the majority of the people ages 16-17 cannot ("Age and Sex Composition in the United States: 2011"). With the ever falling number of participants in political votes due to the event of the generation of the baby boomers dying
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driving and it sounded like "Crash" "beep" "beep" said the news reporter. That is the main reason why I think that you should have to be 18 years of age to be able to drive. I would like to cover three main reasons why I think it should be changed. As you get older you get more mature‚ cautious ‚ and responsible. These are my three reasons why you should change the of driving age to 18. Being mature can have a big picture to do with driving. Becoming mature takes a long time‚ so developing it is
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One in five arrested for a violent crime is seventeen years old or less‚ although kids ages five to seventeen represent only 15.5 percent of the population.”Juvenile Offenders are classified by most legal systems in Western nations as people who have not reached the age of majority‚ which is the legal definition for the threshold of adulthood.”The age that is considered as an adult in most of the U.S. is 18 years old.And some states the age considered for adults in the legal system is as young as
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trying to decide if a 7:00 p.m. curfew for those under age 16 is needed. What do you think? What are the advantages/disadvantages? Youth curfews are widely used in the USA to keep children off the street at late. How many people you know‚ who go outside after 7 pm? A lot of people go outside after 7 pm. The curfew is a great law for under age 16 years old children. A 7 pm curfew is a wonderful idea. The main reason of curfews is usually lowering the crime percent. Curfews also have an important role
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If children are not vaccinated against polio‚ it would leave to more susceptible to infection with the polio virus. Measles is one of the most infectious diseases in the world. From the years 1997-2000‚ measles were brought here into the United States by international visitors. Those persons that were not immunized were most likely to get measles if they were exposed to the virus. Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease and infants and CHILDHOOD VACCINATIONS 3 young children are at
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the appropriate age children should start to participate in competitive sports. A subject like this is puzzling because there are many issues that must be addressed‚ because it is controversial. <br><br>Some American parents push their children too far‚ too young. The average American child usually will start to participate actively in competitive sports between the ages of six and twelve and can be unhealthy to a child’s development (CWG 131). The question at what age a child should start‚ has a different
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Should kids be able to dropout of school before age 18? People can’t get nearly nice enough jobs if they drop out of school because they won’t have enough knowledge to get a nice job. Someone has seen people what have dropped out and they don’t have any money and have to live of their parents and can’t get anything nice like they wanted as a kid and have to get everything from their parents and can’t have any freedom as if they lived by themselves. Students should be required to stay in school graduating
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Running Header: Rape: Who is the real Victims of Rape Crimes? Who is the Real Victims of Rape Crimes? Kha’Lashia Ketchum Axia Colleges of University of Phoenix Com/125 Katrina Everhart Rape: Who is the Real Victim? Rape is one of the world’s most unsolved crimes. All across the world women are being victimized by rape crimes. Throughout all cultural background‚ you will found women have been raped. Whether it is someone‚ they are acquainted with or someone they really do not know. There
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