very important questions are raised like how harmful is drinking under the age of twenty-one? Is underage age drinking related to traffic accidents? How is this action affecting the brains of the minors? Is it hurting them? For this reason‚ the minimal drinking age was established to protect these younger people from all the many dangers. The minimal legal drinking age should be kept twenty-one because the legal drinking age has prevented many traffic or car related accidents in the past. Also‚
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Keep The Voting Age At 18 Recently‚ discussions have been made about proceding to lower the voting age from 18 to 16. I fully believe that the age should remain at 18‚ considering I myself happen to be 18 years of age and know for a fact that two years ago I was in no way capable of voting. We are better off keeping the statistics at 62% participating voters‚ then letting immature teenagers who want to be able to make adult decisions without adult responsibilties vote. Personally
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Problem-Cause-Solution Topic : “Putting the Brakes on Teenage Driving” General Purpose : To persuade Specific Purpose : To persuade my audience that the driving age should be raised to 18 years old. Central idea : The best way to prevent teenage auto accidents is to rise the age for full driving privileges to 18. INTRODUCTION I. On a cold November night‚ a Ford Explorer charged down a California highway
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voting age to 16 instead of 18. Others also may argue that it is because there arent many different variations and options to vote from. I believe that both these arguments have their pros and cons to them. So many teenagers under the age of 18 and many adults too argue that the government should drop the voting age to 16 instead of 18. They say that this would instantly improve the voting participation percentages. I do not fully agree with this because the percentage of people who are 18 and older
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Texting and Driving OutlineBarbara PoeComm. / 21810 -06-2014John BiroTexting and Driving OutlineIntroduction Hello my name is Barbara Poe‚ my goal today is to convince teens that texting and driving can be hazardous to their lives and everyone else on the roads they travel. I will be trying to persuade them not to text while driving by giving them scary statics. I will be asking teen drivers to take the pledge not to text and drive. Texting and driving is: A. Distractive driving – Taking your
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boyfriend‚ but you over sleep. You wake up all panicy‚ youre already an hour late. You don’t want them to think you stood them out so you don’t even bother changing your clothes or fixing your hair. So you jet off in a rush and head to the car. As you’re driving you decide to send them a text to let them know you didn’t forget and you’re on your way… little did you know you were on your way to the hospital‚ with a pit stop at the county jail. It turns out that in those 2 seconds where you were looking at
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SONNET 18 William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 is one of one hundred fifty four poems of fourteen lines written in Iambic Pentameter. These sonnets exclusively employ the rhyme scheme‚ which has come to be called the Shakespearean Sonnet. The sonnets are composed of an octet and sestet and typically progress through three quatrains to a concluding couplet. It also contains figurative language and different poetic devices used to create unique effects in his sonnets. Shakespeare’s sonnets consist of words
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James Keaton Lang English 1123 Persuasive Essay 4 January‚ 2012 Technology Turned Wrong In today’s society‚ people of all ages and genders are with their cell phones at all times. Whether it is while driving‚ walking down the aisle in a grocery store‚ or even in class‚ cell phones have become a part of everyday live. However‚ it is always a controversy in the classroom between teachers and students whether cell phone usage should be allowed in school. Students might enjoy using their cellular
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texting and driving is dangerous and whether or not it has affected you as of now‚ statistics show it could in the future. Did you know that texting while driving is now one of the most common distractions that take a driver’s eyes off the road today? Imagine if someone in your family‚ your mom‚ dad‚ or sibling were killed by a driver who was texting‚ how would you feel? Would you think‚ was that text really worth losing a life over? I am going to show you that texting while driving is never a
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Persuasive Essay By Katie O’Dell To my dear surprise it is legal in some states to get married at the age of 14‚ as long as there is parental and court approval. To me this is completely shocking! I myself have an 11 year old daughter and if she were to come to me at 14 years old and ask to get married I would say “NO” without any hesitation. In my opinion‚ 14 is not just too young to get married‚ it is too young to have a boyfriend for that matter. It apparently isn’t just the child’s fault
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