advantage of students desired need for work. A large number of foreign students in this cash industry‚ where visa restrictions are broke‚ receive wages well below the legal entitlement‚ and laws on working conditions are ignored. Restaurants in Melbourne’s China Town and Chadstone shopping centre are paying wages below the legal minimum wage of $17.70 an hour. Chinese student Chiquita Yu is working at a restaurant in Chadstone shopping centre and is paid $10 an hour. “I work for 30 hours a week‚”
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The legal age of which an individual can purchase and consume alcohol in Manitoba is 18‚ this seems fitting as it is the year you legally become an adult. The age of an individual in no way determines when they are ready to consume alcohol. At the age of 18 a youth’s body and brain is still developing and alcohol is a great way to cause issues in the present or future with themselves or people around them. At the age of 21 a youth has had three extra years to develop their body and gain responsibility
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Should the legal drinking age be raised to 21? Drinking alcohol is one of the biggest problems facing the Australian community. The proportion of people at risk as a result of excessive drinking of alcohol is constantly increasing as 3200 people die and almost 81000 people admitted to hospital every year. People use alcohol for numerous reasons; peer pressure‚ celebration‚ anxiety‚ sadness‚ boredom‚ rebellion‚ insomnia‚ just to name a few. The legal drinking age is currently eighteen and should
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the drinking age should be 18 or 21. As you turn 18 you are considered a legal adult who gets to choose what they want to do except for deciding whether to drink or not. Lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 would decrease the number of minors people would get because 18 is an age closer to the age we are than 21 is causing children to wait to drink. I believe that whatever age you are you’re going to make bad choices whether or not if you’re 18‚ 21‚ or even 40. If lowering the drinking age changed
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the issue I have chosen is if we should raise the drinking age to 21. * Im against this issue because at the age of 18‚ you are allowed to vote‚ serve in the defence force‚ drive‚ make choices about sexual activity‚ live by yourself‚ be tried in courts as adults and receive benefits from the government. * Drinking should not be any different because it is less of a challenge to make than the above. * Raising the legal drinking age would only result in more of a problem‚ as people would
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Members: Proposition: Should the drinking age be lowered to age 18? Position: Con Central Contentions or Claims Narration: The MLDA affects you; it affects me‚ all of us. Imagine being invited to a party and feeling uncomfortable because those around you are drunk and disorderly. Imagine going to college and not being able to focus on your school work because campus partying is even more common than before; the only difference is that now it’s legal. That’s not something I see benefiting
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The Dangers of the Drinking Age In this article‚ Jeffrey A. Miron and Elina Tetelbaum argue against the belief that a drinking age of 21 years old saves lives and prevents students from drinking. Their argument is that raising the drinking age to 21 has had many unintended consequences. These consequences include: a rise in binge drinking and disrespect for the law. They use statistics to support their major points and counteract opposing views. “For the past 20 years‚ the United States has kept a Minimum Legal Drinking Age
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I. Fallacies A. What are Fallacies B. Bandwagon Fallacy C. Either – Or Fallacy A fallacy is an error in reasoning in which the evidence given for the conclusion does not provide the needed degree of support. Fallacies are defects that weaken the speaker’s arguments when trying to persuade an audience while speaking. By preparing yourself to look for fallacies in your own and others’ writing you can strengthen your ability to avoid using fallacies. There are two important things to know about
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usually wait till the age of eighteen to begin consuming alcohol? If eighteen years of age is the legal age for adulthood‚ why can’t it be the legal age to begin drinking? Is the government contradicting themselves? Over the years studies have shown that most teens do not wait until the age of twenty-one to begin drinking. Lowering the drinking age to eighteen would allow eighteen to twenty year-olds to drink alcohol in safe places with supervision. Keeping teens from drinking in unsafe environments
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the category of “people”. The legal drinking age is currently twenty-one‚ but illegally drinking age is as low as zero. Why? Is the main question asked. I can assure you the under age drinking age percentage would drop if the age is lowered. Few reasons for teens drinking are: peer pressure‚ enjoyment‚ etc. But the main reason for doing so is “breaking the law.” 87% of high school seniors have used alcohol. That means that a large quantity of teens under the age of seventeen to eighteen have used
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