cellphones while driving may have served to deters drivers from using their phones as they drive‚ but increased number of causalities clearly demonstrates that there is still a lot more that needs to be done. One of the main reasons that make texting while driving very dangerous is that using traffic or on busy roads. The amount of time the one talks before reacting to a situation in most cases‚ determines whether one gets to continue living. As much as it is both dangerous to call and text while driving
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I text while driving. I try not to‚ but I do. And I know what you’re thinking. I get it. You think I’m careless. You think I’m reckless. You think I’m dangerous. You say I’m an accident waiting to happen; that I’ll probably get killed one day; that I might even kill you. I tell you now‚ I understand. But I don’t care. I have places to be‚ text messages to send. At times I’ve been brilliant‚ multitasking to perfection; typing ’Brobdingnagian’ while making a double lane change in Austin rush-hour
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Lowering Legal Drinking Age The minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) has been an ongoing debate over the years. Many states in the past have continuously lowered their MLDA to 18‚ 19‚ or 20. However‚ The National Minimum Legal Drinking Age Act of 1984 required that every states MLDA must be set to 21 years of age. Max Nelson stated that "Beer is the third most popular drink in the world‚ after water and tea" (“The Barbarians Beverage” 1)‚ the minimum legal drinking age is a very popular discussion
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HAVING CHILDREN WHILE YOUNG (pros and cons) One of the largest problems nowadays is having children while young. That problem includes teenage parents from fifteen to eighteen years old‚ who aren’t ready to bring up their children yet. However‚ having a children while young has both‚ advantages and disadvantages. Being a young parent does not have many advantages‚ but some of them are really good. For example‚ young parents are more mature than their peers because they’ve seen how hard life really
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health problems. Drinking alcohol causes a substantial amount of deaths every year. Approximately 88‚000 deaths and around 2.5 million million years of potential life are lost every year (Fact Sheets). One in ten people die every year‚ aged twenty to sixty‚
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Over 783 million people do not have access to safe water and one child dies every twenty-one seconds because of a water related illness (water.org n.pag). Imagine living in a village where clean water is rare and being healthy is lucky. In America we take clean water for granted everyday although there are millions of people in the world where having water is okay for them‚ whether or not it is clean. Imagine being put into one of those villages‚ most of the people are used to not having water and
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How does working while in high school affect high school students? There are many differing opinions both positive and negative regarding the effects of working on academic success. Working while in high school is a necessity for some in order to pursue higher education. It teaches responsibility and budgeting. However‚ on the flip side‚ there are many who would debate that teenagers in America who work during high school experience negative effects on their high school success such as‚ no social
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gastro-enteritis. Getting pure drinking water in cities and towns has now become a luxury. At most homes people are forced to either boil water to make it appropriate for drinking or they have to install water purifiers. While travelling or eating at restaurants buying packaged drinking water has become a necessity. This need has seen an explosion of companies marketing “safe drinking water” in bottles across the country. THE PACKAGED DRINKING WATER INDUSTRY- AN OVERVIEW India is
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is set 130 g per day for children. Pregnant mothers require around 175g whereas lactating mothers must consume 210g. Pregnant and lactating mothers need to include about twice more carbohydrates in their diet than young children. According to Food and Nutrition Board‚ both males and females should consume 130 g of carbohydrates daily. Proteins The recommended allowance for children 7 to 10 years is 36g because of their rapid growth. The pregnant woman should include an additional 30g
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Jerry Lopez ENG 68 Mushik 2/27/13 The Minimum Legal Drinking Age Underage drinking has been become a large issue in the recent decades‚ becoming a rising issues mainly among young college students. This debate of either lowering the drinking age or keeping it as it is has caught great attention‚ especially with academic superiors. In 2008‚ 100 college presidents called for a debate about bringing down the drinking age. In Shari Roan’s essay‚ “Tempest in a Bottle‚” agreed that “[their] experience
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