City council notices that teens are getting into more trouble than usual lately so they decide its time to take action. However‚ the plain they’ve come up with isn’t very realistic. They’ve proposed the adoption of a 10:00pm curfew on weekdays and midnight on weekends. This may sound like a good idea to many council members as a way to cut down on juvenile crime‚ however how is just a curfew going to stop them if they clearly don’t care about rules‚ also‚ many teens now work late on weekdays and
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In my small town‚ the councils are proposing a curfew that all kids are to be home by 10pm. I’m a kid myself and I know for a fact that I want to be out of my house way later than 10. I guess there are reasons why we should have this but I’m going to disagree with them. Here is reasons why we shouldn’t have curfews. Kids my age normally are out till like midnight because that’s what we’re used to and that’s normal for us. They are also deciding this because they think it will prevent us from
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In my opinion I believe that teens should not have curfews for three reasons. My first reason that I believe teens should not have curfews is because of projects. Projects are very important to students because the project may consume a lot of time to work on. Sometimes teens only get a few days to work on the project and may be due soon. Projects are worth a lot of points and a main part of your grade so u need as much time to work on it. Teachers are very strict with the way your project turns
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of your city is trying to decide if a 7:00 p.m. curfew for those under age 16 is needed. What do you think? What are the advantages/disadvantages? Youth curfews are widely used in the USA to keep children off the street at late. How many people you know‚ who go outside after 7 pm? A lot of people go outside after 7 pm. The curfew is a great law for under age 16 years old children. A 7 pm curfew is a wonderful idea. The main reason of curfews is usually lowering the crime percent. Curfews also have
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When it comes to teens having curfews‚ it does help keep them out of trouble. Parents don’t like setting a curfew for their teens‚ but it is sometimes enforced. Curfews where set in the 19th century when America’s cities swelled with millions of unsupervised teens. Like laws mandating school attendance and banning child labor‚ the argument went‚ curfews would improve individual lives even as they protected the social order (Zimmerman). Curfews are to help protect the teens from getting in trouble
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Youth curfews are popular. In poll after poll‚ Americans support laws that restrict teenagers’ activities during certain hours of the day and night. Youth curfews are also logical. If youngsters are getting into trouble‚ it makes sense to get them off the streets. There’s only one problem with youth curfews: They don’t work. And we shouldn’t kid ourselves that they do. Yet that’s what we’re doing in Philadelphia‚ where Mayor Nutter recently extended a 9 p.m. curfew on Friday and Saturday nights
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responsibilities‚ I will obey the curfew law and make sure that I am off the city streets after 10:00 p.m. on a school night unless I am accompanied by one of my parents. The law was established for the common good of all citizens. Therefore‚ it is my civic responsibility to follow the law. Also‚ it is my personal responsibility to do the right thing. I have to behave in a manner that is civil to all and follow my moral principles of obeying authority. If I do not adhere to the curfew law‚ I know that I will
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in the population. According to the definition provided by the United Nations‚ megacities are cities with populations of over 10 million (UNFPA‚ 12). Based on this definition‚ it is expected that the number of megacities in the world will be mostly located in the developing world. However‚ the definition of megacities based on the population size is arbitrary given that the population in any given city changes with context and time. In the ancient times‚ for example‚ Rome‚ which has a population
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Curfews Imagine you couldn’t sleep one night or you are bored and you want to go on a jog or go for a walk‚ on a warm summer night or to even get some air after a long night or day. Unfortunately in Fort Madison and other cities all around we have curfew of a time of 12 so we aren’t able to do those things we would like to do without being pulled over by a cop or getting in trouble even when its minor things we are doing such as simple run on a cool summer night. For several reasons‚ cities shouldn’t
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