Why We Shouldn’t Imprison Drunk Drivers on first Offence In the State of Idaho you are charged with some kind of penalty on the first offence when caught driving under the influence. Some are major and some are minor. The law states you will serve time in jail for 2 days to 6 months depending on the circumstance. These laws are not helping. They need to be changed. In 2008 there were 11‚850 arrests for a DUI. But according to MADD “Alcohol use in past month among persons aged 12 to 20: 42‚000”
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Drivers between the ages of 18 and 25 are notoriously bad drivers having the highest number of accidents of any age group. However‚ I suggest that the reason that this age group has such a high rate of accidents is not because of a lack of maturity and because young drivers have “a point to prove”‚ but rather due to lack of experience on the road and thus I propose that the minimum age at which a person should be allowed to receive their learners licence should be lowered to 16 to allow for young
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Driving intoxicated impacts thousands of peoples lifes every year. Driving drunk costs the United States 132 billion dollars a year. It costs on average per United States citizen 500 dollars a year. Drinking and driving can be preventable. Almost every 90 seconds a person is injured by a drunk driving accident. You can even prevent it today. High Schoolers today that use alcohol or other substances are 5 times more likely to drop out of highschool. Children who start drinking young
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Drinking and driving Almost every day 30 people in the U.S die because of drunk driving. This amounts to one death every 48 minutes. Driving under the influence of alcohol was associated with age in 2010‚ the rate was highest among people aged 21 to 25 (23.4 percent). An estimated 5.8 percent of 16 or 17 year olds and 15.1 percent of 18 to 20 year olds reported driving under the influence of alcohol in the past year. Beyond age 25‚ these rates showed a general decline with increasing age. One
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Should kids get their drivers license at 15? Kids who learn young know how to drive better than older adults. Younger kids have better eye sight plus better reflexes when it comes to adults. There isn’t no difference between 15 and 16. It gives the kids a year early to learn how to drive. Every state should allow 15 year olds to get their permit. Some states already allow 15 year olds to drive. Parents should allow their kids to get their permit and license at 15 years of age. Beginner drivers should
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Kendrick Owens May 20‚ 2013 Topic: Drunk Driving Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to inform audience of the dangers of drunk driving Central Idea: Drunk driving is a reflection of poor judgment that impairs thought processes and moral behavior and could result in fatalities. How many of you have ever heard of the acronym DUI? If you haven’t‚ DUI stands for driving under the influence. It means that an individual has gotten behind the wheel of the car while having
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Believe I Made it Home” “Should she be driving right now?” I heard come from the back seat of my car‚ as me and some friends were on our way home from a concert. I only had a few drinks‚ I was fine‚ I remember thinking. I didn’t know my life was about to change in a way I never would have expected. When I arrived home and walked into my house that night‚ I heard my little sister yell from the couch “did you get the call?” She told me that my grandpa was hit by a drunk driver and was taken to Hennepin
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phrase “crimes are statutory offenses”? The meaning of the phrase "crimes are statutory offenses" is that in order for the government to convict a defendant of a crime‚ the government must (1) demonstrate that the suspect acts disobey a criminal statute; (2) prove a reasonable doubt that the suspect committed the acts; and (3) prove that the suspect had the capacity to form a criminal intent (Mallory et al.‚ 2015‚ pg. 135). Since the definition of statutory offenses means "the wrong punishable under
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Jessica Compton Composition II Mrs. Govia July 17‚ 2013 Imprisoned in Marriage “I’m wife; I’ve finished that” by Emily Dickinson can be comparable to The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman. Both literatures are written from a feminist prospective and have to do with patriarchal societies. Both pieces of literature were written during patriarchal time periods. Just like in The Yellow Wallpaper‚ in the poem “I’m wife”‚ the woman is submissive to her husband‚ and is unable to be herself‚ but
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Drinking and Driving Drunk driving is considered a serious crime in every state. It is wrong‚ irresponsible and wastes many lives. People who abuse alcohol hurt everyone around them‚ endanger public safety‚ and create chaos on the nation’s highways. There is nothing positive that can come out of drunk driving‚ so why do people do it? It is society’s job to punish these people and try to take control of this “out of control” issue. America doesn’t want to watch quietly as hundreds of people are killed
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