Like every popular topic‚ driving while under the influence of alcohol is surrounded by myths. With the help of the Internet and popular media‚ unsubstantiated beliefs about drunk driving can spread further and appear more credible. Unfortunately‚ these myths also perpetuate the thousands of alcohol related deaths on our nation’s highways each year. Here are four of the more common myths: You Can Drive While Intoxicated by Going Slower The idea behind this one is that if your reflexes are slower
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1. A critique on the available community resources related to unwanted pregnancy Critique on availability of community resources (30) • Provide a brief account of unwanted pregnancy and the educational talk/seminar conducted • Clearly identify the available community resources related to the selected client /women’s group from a variety of sources • Comprehensive analysis‚ synthesis and evaluate the availability of identified community resources (consider issues for client‚ family‚ society
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Radicalesbians – The Woman-Identified Woman In their paper “The Woman-Identified Woman” (1970)‚ the collective Radicalesbians‚ much like Wittig will do in the following decade‚ focuses on the marginalized sexual standpoint of ‘women’ and ‘lesbian’ that emerge from the intersection of the personal and the political circa late 1960’s/early 1970’s. It is the agenda of the political environment of the day‚ Radicalesbians argue‚ that the former is policed in part by weaponizing the latter as a stigmatizing
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“Mm-hmm‚” Katie cocked her MAC-11 and kept her eyes straight ahead to the van. As I neared the van again‚ the man loaded another drum magazine into his RPK‚ cocked the action and resumed firing at us. A civilian car swerved in front of us in an evasive maneuver‚ and I tried to get around it but clipped its left rear corner‚ and it spun out on the side of the road. “Shit!” I looked back at the car which had screeched to a halt then turned my attention back to the van. The man in the back fired some
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as a result of drunk driving crashes. (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 2011.) II. Central Thesis Drunk driving is an epidemic that continues to have severe and life threatening consequences for those involved‚ if we simply take a few steps against drunk driving we can help decrease this epidemic. III. Body A. Need: Drunk driving occurs everyday‚ and many lives are taken because of one person choice. 1. Every 52 minutes on average‚ someone is killed in a drunk driving crash
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Drunk driving has been a huge phenomenon in the United States and has taken lives of innocent people. Laws have been becoming stricter on this manner by raising fines and also jail time. This is to make people second guess themselves before putting themselves behind the wheel and putting innocent lives at risk. This doesn’t have an affect on everyone‚ but it does on some. Typically people from the ages 16-24 are the more common people to drive drunk. Now there are not many pros to drunk driving‚
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Eliminating Drunk Drivers Drunk drivers are responsible for a large portion of alcohol-related crashes‚ injuries and fatalities. It is essential to identify people who are at risk of driving drunk to remove them from a situation that could cause harm to themselves or others. Offering treatment and altering the negative behavior can help these people be rehabilitated so they will not drive drunk (Hanson‚ 2012). About half of the alcohol-related accident-related fatalities involved people driving
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Each day‚ people drive drunk more than 300‚000 times‚ but only about 3200 are arrested (Federal Bureau of Investigation‚ 2014). Could people only imagine to what extent drunk driving is irresponsible and destructive nowadays. According to the president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) organization‚ which was created to fight with this phenomena‚ “drunk driving continues to be the most frequently committed violent crime” (Hamilton‚ 2000). Indeed‚ it is a real crime‚ which has to be punished
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Drunk driving can be very deadly. Yet many people drive while under the influence everyday. Drivers who are drunk are blamed for the loss of as many as twentyfive thousand lives in highway crashes each year and hundreds of thousands of severe injurys. It is thought that drunk drivers have a long history of doing this and many prior arrests. In addition‚ most of those killed are just innocent victims whose behavior did not contribute to their deaths. These last two statements are both false. On
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Drunk driving is one of the most dangerous activities you can partake in because it can not only deprive you of life and happiness‚ it can also affect others in huge ways. According to the information given in the lesson‚ alcohol can start affecting you in a major way after as few as twenty minutes. These effects include slower reaction times and impaired judgement which can be extremely dangerous because you are not aware of the risks you are taking and how your actions affect others. You can be
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