any other age group. They also drink alot more heavily‚ they experience more negative consequences‚ and engage in more harmful activities‚ like drunk driving. Although surveys have documented a decline in recent years‚ consumption rates remain highest from late teen years to the late twenties. Despite the long-term decline since 1982 in alcohol related traffic deaths‚ a 4 percent increase occurred between 1994 and 1995 among young adults of the age 21 and over. As alcohol impaired driving persists
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Driving: A Teenager’s Necessity Have you ever questioned why young teens are allowed to drive‚ especially when they’re so reckless? Allowing teens to drive at such a young age is not all bad news. In many ways it benefits the teenager‚ the teenager’s parents‚ and people around them. Driving can be a privilege for all teenagers if they do it by the law. I think that the current driving age should not be raised‚ because it teaches teens responsibility‚ gets teens to places faster and easier
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Andrea N. Anderson J. Sodon ENG102-577 29 March 2015 Essay 3: The Education Debate Wouldn’t school be great if we could make our own schedules? Not just picking out classes from pre-selected schedules‚ actually doing everything when it’s convenient for us. That’s exactly how it works when taking online courses. Online education is a great option for individuals who can’t participate or don’t prefer to participate in classroom education. I’ve successfully done it myself. Online and classroom
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Distracted Driving in Tennessee Cellular devices have become a natural part of everyday life. People wake up check their texts‚ emails‚ Facebook‚ twitter and even the weather with the touch of a button. New generation smartphones are now constantly glued to every hand or head that passes by. The result of this obsession is the ongoing issue of distracted driving. This issue started when drivers would get constant phone calls while on the road causing them to lose focus on their surroundings. Now
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The Vaccination debate My Pros: I think that the MMR vaccine is very important in the way that it protects from Measles‚ Mumps and Rubella which are dangerous diseases and is injected in 2 doses‚ at 1 year old and 5 years old. In addition these are very easy to transmit as the common cold‚ nowadays measles mumps and rubella stays averagely about 1 week however 1 on 1000 cases will be fatal in the way that it may kills people depends on the immunity of the sufferer. In addition it seems that
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teens ages 15 through 20. The licensing process should be much more restricted. Teens should be sufficiently educated on the rules of the road and should be trained to respect traffic laws and learn to drive safely. Teens should also begin driving instruction at earlier ages in controlled areas. There is evidence that the longer a person drives the safer and less prone to accidents they are. Even though new teen drivers only make up 7% of people who drive they account for 14% of all driving fatalities
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Debate on euthanasia Introduction Today we will discuss the dilemma of euthanasia. Euthanasia also known as mercy killing is a way of painlessly terminating one’s life with the "humane" motive of ending his suffering. There are different types of euthanasia: voluntary‚ non-voluntary‚ active or passive. * Euthanasia is passive when it merely allows the death of the individual. * Euthanasia
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Drugs and Driving Injuries‚ especially from motor vehicle collisions‚ are the leading cause of death for individuals under age 44. The presence of alcohol is the factor most frequently associated with fatalities in vehicles‚ drownings‚ falls‚ and fire (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services‚ 1987). In the first report to Congress on traffic safety and alcohol (U.S. Department of Transportation‚ 1968)‚ it was concluded that more than 50 percent of fatal traffic collisions and 33 percent of
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their hands to create a law about guns. Many people agree to not being allowed to own guns at all but some people are upset at the law because they would like to own guns for their protection. After the Connecticut school massacre‚ a very intense debate on the gun law was talked about on how to keep guns away from criminals without taking the guns away from lawful gun owners to protect their selves and families. Many people been fighting for stricter gun laws for a while now and their wait is now
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DRINK DRIVING Part A. Driving under the influence (DUI)‚ commonly called "drunk driving‚" it refers to operating a motor vehicle while one’s blood alcohol content is above the legal limit. Alcohol really impairs your ability to react quickly‚ make good judgements‚ and drive as well as you might normally. Social and Environmental Influences are factors that can contribute to alcohol impaired driving which often comes from friends and the situations their friends helped to create. These influences
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