Our country realized that it wasn’t the best idea for prohibition‚ and we then ratified the 21st amendment that repealed the 18th amendment. The 21st amendment has helped prevent car related tragedies in the 18-20 age group while they were under the influence. I believe the alcohol age should not change because of it reducing crashes‚ the fact that your brain is more developed and you understand your limits‚ and a change in New Zealand’s drinking to age 18 has spiked the percentage of alcohol related
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Drinking and Driving Drinking and driving can cause a lifetime of pain. When you get under the wheel while you are intoxicated not only are you putting yourself at risk‚ but also the lives of other innocent people are in danger. Everyone should have the right to drink but if you act irresponsibly‚ your right should be taken away. Each person is liable to suffer the consequences from endangering others. One who drives drunk not only should have their license taken away‚ they should have the right
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consequences‚ and engage in more harmful activities‚ specifically drunk driving. Although surveys have documented a decline in recent years‚ consumption rates remain highest from late teen years to the late twenties (Johnston1-3). Despite the long-term decline since 1982 in alcohol related traffic deaths‚ a 4 percent increase occurred between 1994 and 1995 among young adults age 21 and over (Hingson 4). As alcohol-impaired driving persists‚ legal and community initiatives intervene to help reduce the
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A Paper Brian Nguyen Austin Community College December 4‚ 2012 ENGL.1301 English Composition 1 Should people who are caught driving drunk lose their licenses for a year? I highly agree anyone who drives drunk and fails a sobriety test should lose their licenses for how much alcohol or illegal drugs the driver consumes. (Ballantyne) This should happen because 40% of accidents are caused by drunk drivers. (Ballantyne) This will make the roads safer and would teach the driver a lesson.
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3 minute youtube video exploring the consequences of using your mobile phone whilst driving. From there it has grown to tv commercials‚ advertisements and educational talks at schools. It’s main aim was and still is to decrease the number of individuals illegally using a mobile phone when driving. The campaign challenges the excuses drivers come up with to justify their illegal use of a mobile phone whilst driving. It delivers 2 main messages they are: “Theres no excuse‚ Get your hand off it” “You
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Paul Huynh CS305 November 27th‚ 2015 The Greater Good? When it comes to questions regarding morality‚ the line between what is right and what is wrong becomes very blurred. Determining what is right and what is wrong is already is answered differently from person to person. If people can not agree on what is the right thing to do‚ should we hand over such moral-conflicted matters to a machine? This may sound like like a quote from Blade runner or some other work of science fiction‚ but this question
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teenage drunk driving is still the number one cause of teen death. It has become the deadliest epidemic to plague our society today. With the widespread “Alcohol Awareness” programs‚ like D.A.R.E. and SADD‚ available in most public schools‚ most teens have been told not to drink and drive‚ yet teens are still taking the risk. In order to finally stop this unnecessary phenomenon‚ we must first understand its causes and effects. Caused by a number of psychological factors‚ teenage drunk driving leads to
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speeding is a threat to their safety when other drivers around them are speeding‚ most of them say they also speed while driving. There are many reasons why a person may speed‚ such as they are in a hurry‚ they are not paying attenection to driving‚ they don’t take the traffic laws sesiuly or they don’t think the laws of driving apply to them‚ they dont think how they are driving is danguores to them or anyone around them‚ or they think that they will not get caught. Speeding drivers are less likely
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amount of alcohol could impair the judgment that is required to safely operate an automobile. I learned that in some states‚ one Driver Under the Influence charge might result in serious consequences. I also learned that though the BAC limit of .08 for driving under the influence doesn’t mean that driving with a lesser BAC is still safe‚ buzz driving is drunk driving. A very interesting piece of information that I learned through this course that I did not previously know was parents who consume alcohol
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CELEBRITIES vs. CITIZENS Drunk driving is a serious crime that holds many offenses. Some of these offenses include license restrictions‚ fines‚ and mandatory attendance of “Alcoholics Anonymous” meetings‚ community service‚ or probation. Some jurisdictions even sentence drunk drivers to serve jail time. The justice system is very unfair when it comes to the sentencing of theses crimes when convicting celebrities compared to the average person. Paris Hilton‚ for example‚ committed her first DUI
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