Should the legal driving age be lowered to 16? Outline: * Intro: Details-driving can be complicated -needs concentration
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why I believe you should be 18 to drive a car or a motor vehicle. Drivers under the age of 18 shouldn’t be driving. There are many reasons why the driving age should be raised. In 2009 drivers aged 15-24 were involved in 112 fatal traffic crashes. 755 were serious injury crashes. 15-23 year old drivers were at fault for 1.3 billion dollars. Teens are more likely to take risk with their friends looking on. Some teens have the emotional maturity of an adult twice his or her age. Drivers 15-24 who
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There are many beverages out there: sodas‚ juices and energy drinks‚ but one drink that adults need but usually don’t want is water. Most adults fall short of the suggested amount of water that they should drink. Adults should drink at least one half-gallon of water everyday. Water is needed for human survival and can help speed up the metabolism of the human body. Water is essential for the human body to process properly. According to water.usgs.gov‚ “in adult men‚ about 60% of their bodies are
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fact‚ one out of 10 children ages 12 and 13 uses alcohol at least once a month. In a single year‚ 522 children under age 14 were arrested for driving while intoxicated‚ (113 of them were under 10 years old). 70 percent of all teenagers drink alcohol. 60 percent of all teen deaths in car accidents are alcohol-related. To most people‚ these numbers are just statistics. And most teens never think of themselves as a statistic. It’s easier to picture other people as one‚ so what would happen if
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schools should offer only nutritious drinks such as milk‚ water‚ and natural fruit juice. On one hand‚ some parents do not give their children permission to consume sugary‚ unhealthy drinks‚ and it will not be fair to those students if everyone else gets to purchase these beverages. On the other hand‚ most parents allow their children to drink whatever they want‚ so schools cannot completely cut students off from soda‚ but it can limit their consumption by not selling non-nutritious drinks at school
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Dakota Vaughn Mrs. Kachurak Eng. 102-001 2-4-2013 Lower the Drinking Age: End America’s Addiction Although alcohol has been around for quite some time‚ it has recently begun to pose a problem in the past few decades‚ specifically in America. Terrible alcohol related incidences occur every day in America and can be so easily avoided if the proper laws and information are applied. Alcohol consumption‚ especially in the case of underage drinking‚ is one of the most crippling problems in the
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of driving for one’s child instead of letting them make their own decision to drive when 18. Motor vehicles are or should be considered a deadly weapon considering all the deaths a motor vehicle can have. According to The U.S. Department of Transportation‚ motor vehicle traffic crashes were the number one leading cause of death for young teens in 2010. The driving age should be raised to 18 because at the age of 16 the brain has not fully developed‚ young teens tend to be impulsive‚ and it would be
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2 Drinking Age: 21 or 18? Some of the most overlooked types of drugs are those that are legal. Specifically‚ alcohol is one of the most widely used drugs in the world‚ and yet‚ many people don’t think of this substance upon hearing the word “drug.” This drug contributes to significantly more deaths than some illegal drugs such as marijuana (which has not been reported to cause any deaths)‚ and yet alcohol is still legal. On the flipside‚ alcohol is outlawed for minors under the age of 21‚ while
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INTRODUCTION Alcohol may be the world’s oldest known drug. Fermented grain‚ fruit juice and honey have been used to make alcohol (ethyl alcohol or ethanol) for thousands of years. The production of products containing alcohol has become big business in today’s society and the consumption and abuse of alcohol has become a major public health problem. The effects of alcohol abuse range from a mild hang over to mass destruction‚ disease and deaths on a huge scale. Alcohol use in moderation has
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Drivers between the ages of 18 and 25 are notoriously bad drivers having the highest number of accidents of any age group. However‚ I suggest that the reason that this age group has such a high rate of accidents is not because of a lack of maturity and because young drivers have “a point to prove”‚ but rather due to lack of experience on the road and thus I propose that the minimum age at which a person should be allowed to receive their learners licence should be lowered to 16 to allow for young
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