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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Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Strong4Life campaign features a series of TV and print ads with statements made by overweight children. (Courtesy Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta) "Being fat takes the fun out of being a kid‚" read graphics of a TV ad in which a young girl tells of how she doesn’t like going to school because she’s bullied over her weight. It is part of a video and print campaign to combat childhood obesity in Georgia‚ which has one of the highest childhood obesity rates in
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Drunk Driving In 2012‚ 10‚322 people were killed and approximately 345‚000 were injured. Each crash‚ each death‚ each injury impacts not only the person in the crash‚ but family‚ friends‚ classmates‚ coworkers and more. Even those who have not been directly touched help pay the $132 billion yearly price tag of drunk driving. But together we can eliminate drunk driving. Americans take 233 billion trips in cars each year. Of those‚ about one out of every two thousand trips are taken
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Eating and drinking is assumed to be a simple activity of living and the skills involved in this everyday occurrence are often taken for granted. This essay will explore how eating and drinking is an important yet problematic health issue that requires medical attention. The purpose of this essay is to identify and demonstrate nursing skills and the nursing actions undertaken for eating and drinking. Fictional case studies will be used to display how the nurse can implement skills and actions according
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We hear in the news all the time about a teenager committing suicide. We probably don’t even think twice about why the person did it. Thoughts in our brain come to conclusions like‚ maybe he or she had a depression disorder or maybe somebody he or she loved died. It probably never crosses our minds that this particular teenager could have been bullied to death. Fifteen year-old Phoebe Prince‚ a freshman at South Hadley High School was bullied to death. According to New York Times‚ “The taunting started
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background‚ "Turn left in..."‚ and the iPhone dings and shows a text message. This is a common American driver morning work commute scenario. Today there is a greater amount of obstacles and tasks drivers are involved with while driving. There are three main causes of distracted driving which are multitasking‚ technology‚ and cell phones. According to Richard Pallardy in the article "The Age of the Automobile”‚ the automobile in America was introduced in 1908 with the model T from Ford. GM and Chrysler
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knowledge of why everything happens‚ and so much of what goes on in our lives is a mystery to us all. As we grow up‚ we learn more about what is happening and why it’s happening‚ but as a child‚ much of this cannot be explained. In Conroy’s memoir Stop Time‚ he documents his journey to adulthood‚ which is paved with moments of revelations when he begins to learn more about the world and how it works. Through his loss at the town yo-yo competition Conroy learns how to cope with the life he is dealt
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S5 Stop and Press The unthinkable has happen in the world’s history; life has been discovered on another planet. Yes! You heard me correctly new life has been discovered. Remember this day people‚ December 20th‚ 2100. I was given the opportunity to write an article on this extraordinary discovery that I made. I will be able to give anyone who is remotely interesting in this discovery all the hard facts on it. I discovered planet Neo in the year 2080. In the Year 2080 the condition to support
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Binge drinking‚ especially among the youth‚ has been on the rise in Singapore. explore some of the reasons why youths resort to binge drinking and the consequences. What is binge drinking? This happens when someone drinks excessive amounts of alcohol. To drink alcohol socially is one thing‚ For instance‚ at parties and at gatherings. Conversely‚ when alcohol is heavily consumed over a short period of time‚ also commonly known as‚ binge drinking‚ it brings about undesirable health effects to the
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are frequently as common at business lunches as they are at college frat parties. Underage drinking is a huge problem which everyone must face. Under age drinking not only has devastating effects on those who drink but also on our society. "Young people illegally consume almost 3.6 billion drinks annually which is 10 million drinks each day."(http://www.cspinet.org/booze/alcyouth.htm.) Underage drinking has serious social‚ health and economic consequences. It is a major factor in crime‚ violence
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