Lower the Drinking Age Everyone knows that it is illegal to consume alcohol under the age of 21. Why is 21 the "magical" age that makes a person intelligent and mature enough to consume alcohol? Sure‚ some adults abuse alcohol and some teenagers would be perfectly able to drink responsibly‚ but why not 18 or 35 or 40? This seemingly random number‚ 21‚ is associated with adulthood‚ as if the day a person turns 21 they know everything and are mature. The drinking age should be lowered to
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Jason Martino Composition 1101/C28 Sept. 27‚ 2008 Professor Beard Choose Responsibility Lowering the drinking age to eighteen‚ mistake or a way to stop larger problems? I have found a website that‚ if you are for lowering the drinking‚ will clear a lot of these kinds of questions up. Choose Responsibility is a non-profit organization founded by President Emeritus John M. McCardell Jr. of Middlebury College‚ when McCardell was approached by the Robertson Foundation‚ a foundation interested in
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by multinational companies cost jobs and lower wages in Europe? [Date] Does outsourcing by multinational companies cost jobs and lower wages in Europe? ABSTRACT Outsourcing as a method of trade has been an increasing phenomenon throughout the last decade particularly by multinational companies of developed countries such as Europe to outsource their business operations to developing countries such as India‚ Bangladesh etc. However‚ this outsourcing by multinational companies raise a question
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Rough draft United States believes that at the age of 18 you are considered an adult and are responsible for your own actions. At the age of 18 you can move out of your parents homes‚ I and every other girl in this room can go have an abortion‚ at the age of 18 you can sign up for the military and legally kill people and even put your own life at risk to protect our country‚ we can vote on who we want the next president of our country to be‚ you can go to a car dealer ship and purchase a car
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Jessica Freedom American Intercontinental University Unit 1 Individual Project BUSN300 – Lower Division Capstone January 9‚ 2011 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to create an outline with three levels for a paper that is titled “Global Warming: Fact or Fiction” and support the points listed. Outline I. What is global warming? A. What causes global warming? 1. Global warming: fact or fiction. 2. Global warming effects on the human race. Global warming is when the earth
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Tax Avoidance in Silicon Valley‚ and How America’s Richest Company Pays a Lower Tax Rate than You Do” published by The Greenlining Institute‚ experts assert us that some of America’s most successful companies have been evading the paying of taxes and in some cases‚ they pay a lower tax rate than a middle class person. To explain matters a little further the article mentions‚ “The tax rate paid by Apple‚ the world’s most valuable company… fell from 24.8 percent in 2009 to 14.7 percent in 2010 and
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I was in the lower class the rules of the game were completely rigged yet‚ its how life works. Its not always fair. In the game of monopoly the strategy that will win every time is in the beginning rolling high numbers with the dice‚ and having enough money to be able to buy the property’s that you land on. Passing go also helps to but not‚ when you don’t make enough to pay for rent when you land on others properties. I realized shortly into the game that I was better off staying in jail because
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Is It Time to Lower the Drinking Age? Over 5000 deaths occur from alcohol-related actions each year (McCardell). Binge drinking‚ a major issue among underage drinkers‚ is defined as having at least 5 drinks on one occasion (Kiesbye 21). The US is one of just four countries with an age requirement of 21. Only Islamic countries have more restrictive drinking laws. (Kiesbye 26). The minimum age of 21 passed Congress in 1984 (Balko). Vermont fought the law concerning the minimum age all the way
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The Rebellions of Upper and Lower Canada The Rebellions of 1837 began after Papineau’s rights were denied by the governor to 92 resolutions of reform. Papineau had thought it was important that the people of Lower Canada should have a more suitable government‚ rather than the small oligarchy. After his rights were denied he led the Patriots against the Oligarchy gov’t. His attempt for reform through rebellion was unsuccessful however; it sparked the idea of rebellion of W. Mackenzie in Upper Canada
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Maxim Gorky’s “The Lower Depths” shows the struggle between classes. Unquestionably‚ its focus is on the lowest of the economically low class people being controlled by the bourgeoisie. It is also a representation of how cruel the society could be towards them and how‚ in turn‚ the people are affected by the society. Although the play talks of the story of low class people –the vagrant‚ the gambler‚ the ex-artist‚ the ex-aristocrat‚ the prostitute‚ and so many others‚ the thief’s character is
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