Should the voting age in UK be changed to 16? Countries such as Austria have implemented this change already. It is natural for changes to take place as they are a sign of progress‚ however some are dedicated to the opinion‚ that allowing young members of society to vote might destabilize the country‚ as young politically unaware people might be easily persuaded and their opinion swayed‚ that they are not motivated to conduct a research in order to have a good understanding and knowledge of their
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Did you also know that most abortion clinics use taxpayers dollars to help pay for abortion!The debate over whether or not abortion should be legal divides American in this day of age. Today’s society has differing opinions on this topic making it a huge debate. Abortion has changed many people’s lives . If one is going to take the time to have sex than one should take the time to take care of the child. Abortion is murder. They are taking the life of a human being and regarding it as
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Team Members: Proposition: Should the drinking age be lowered to age 18? Position: Con Central Contentions or Claims Narration: The MLDA affects you; it affects me‚ all of us. Imagine being invited to a party and feeling uncomfortable because those around you are drunk and disorderly. Imagine going to college and not being able to focus on your school work because campus partying is even more common than before; the only difference is that now it’s legal. That’s not something I see benefiting
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The problem is the people question why the drinking age is 21 and not 18 when can you buy tabaco legally at the age of 18 and you can’t buy alcohol at 18 too. I believe the drinking age should be 21 because teen’s brains are not done growing at the age of 18 and they could be damaged. My first reason is that when the law was moved to 21 the drunk driving dropped. My second reason is that when teens start drinking at such a young age they can have several health problems when they get older so by
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Isn’t driving to school such a wonderful privilege? Virginia is contemplating changing the minimum driving age to 18. I believe it is a terrible idea change the driving age. To start with‚ getting a driver’s license at 18 is a terrible idea because teenagers would be less responsible‚ more illegal driving‚ and more pressure would be put on teenagers parents. First off‚ teenagers would be less responsible because they wouldn’t have to take care of their car‚ won’t need a job for gas money‚ and
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Do teens usually wait till the age of eighteen to begin consuming alcohol? If eighteen years of age is the legal age for adulthood‚ why can’t it be the legal age to begin drinking? Is the government contradicting themselves? Over the years studies have shown that most teens do not wait until the age of twenty-one to begin drinking. Lowering the drinking age to eighteen would allow eighteen to twenty year-olds to drink alcohol in safe places with supervision. Keeping teens from drinking in unsafe
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Drinking Age: Change or Keep More than twenty one thousand lives have been saved with the drinking age being twenty one. For about 10 years in the early 1900’s‚ our country ratified the 18th amendment which banned the production and consumption of alcohol. This amendment led to extreme crime‚ violence‚ and even speakeasies. 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
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Abortion Should Be Legal THESIS When one engages in controversial topics ethically and culturally like abortion‚ one has found most people tend to latch on to a specific idea. One example would be those in favor of abortion being legal are unwilling to go beyond the fact that a woman has a right to her own body. Second example would be those that think abortion should be illegal would be unwilling to go beyond the thought that abortion is murder. People have so much confusion on this issue because
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Lowering The Legal Age Of Consent The law states that no person under the age of sixteen is capable of giving their consent to a sexual act. Yet there is still people at young agese being involved in sexual acts by their own choice. This makes people wonder if the age of consent should be lowered as at this age the acts are already being preformed if it is legal or not. There are countries such as Canada‚ Germany‚ Italy and other European countries that the legal oafe of consent to sexual acts
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Why Gay Marriage should be legalized Why is it okay for a criminal to get married but two completely innocent people of the same gender can’t? According to the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia‚ marriage is a basic human right and same-sex marriages should be treated equally. Just because you believe same sex marriage goes against your religion is not a fair argument because everyone has different beliefs. You ask why it should be legalized but I ask why should someone be able to chose who marries
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