Drinking and Driving Persuasive Essay Comm215 July 12‚ 2010 Drinking and Driving Each year numerous lives are lost due to careless and irrational driving. The disregard for safe driving has been a predicament to the United States of America for years. Many years Police have relied heavily on speed cameras‚ breathalyzer tests and heavy fines as a deterrent against unlawful drivers. Over the years fatality rates have increased‚ so the Department of Transportation and Highway Safety has
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Tiffany Kwong : Taking Sides‚ Unit 4 Response I’m answering question number2‚ as to why government agencies are getting more conservative regarding drinking during pregnancy. I personally believe the government wants to be stricter on the drinking-during-pregnancy matter because of the outcomes and effects towards the community. Pregnant mothers that drink during pregnancy are already at a small percentage of risk for a child with developmental-defects. The more at-risk children‚ the more attention
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Between these three interpretations of the "The Drinking Song"‚ there were many differences in the overall theme‚ along with the attitude of the characters within the performance. Throughout all of the performances‚ the goal of the main male character did not change; he was constantly attempting to gain the interest of the main female character. Though the attitude of the main male character did not change‚ it was seen that the attitude of the female character did. In the first piece‚ the female
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to him‚ so that he may get closer to his inebriating liquid. The first person the alcoholism affects would be his brother. Wick chooses to provide for Don financially and emotionally because he loves him. Yet despite Wick’s love and care‚ Don puts drinking before their relationship. In the scene shortly after Wick leaves for the theater‚ Don steals the rent money to buy more whiskey. He then avoids going on the weekend vacation his brother had planned just so he could stay home and drink. Wick makes
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Kevin Gable 8/30/10 Engl 1167 Communication Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a very interesting story that brings up a number of thought-provoking issues in a relatively short format. Among these are questions of race‚ identity‚ and stereotyping. The narrator of the story is a young woman named Dina who feels lonely and confused in her new surroundings. As a poor‚ African American female at Yale (which the narrator portrays as a rich‚ male‚ and subtlety racist institution) she has difficulty
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the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984‚ some states lowered the drinking age below 21 (mainly as a result of the lowered voting age). The Drinking Age Act was put into place as a result of a correlation between young drinking and motor vehicle fatalities. Under the provisions of the Act‚ any states with a minimum drinking age below 21 are subject to a 10% cut in highway funding from the federal government. The United States is one of only a few countries with a drinking age as high as 21; the
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Lowering the Minimum Legal Drinking Alcohol consumption is the third leading actual cause of death in the United States‚ a major contributing factor to unintentional injuries‚ the leading cause of death for young people‚ and it accounts for an estimated 75‚000 or more total deaths in the United States annually. There have been a lot of discussions about whether to keep the minimum legal drinking age at 21 or to lower the minimum legal drinking age to 18. The minimum legal drinking age in the United States
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people saying: “So what! I had 3 beers and I can drive now. I am OK!” Well‚ he or he is not. Alcohol makes reaction slower‚ and we know that every second matters if you drive a car at 60 mph Police and news reports are known as the best sources for drinking and driving papers. You can also study legislative acts and statistic information. It will be very helpful if you present up to date stats on number of car accidents involving DUI. As already said‚ police reports can serve as a very informative source
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Debate Outline Team 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
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Binge Drinking on College Campuses Alcohol on American campuses has become a serious issue. In 2001‚ the total number of alcohol related deaths on college campuses was over 1700‚ while in 1998 the total was just less than 1600‚ and the number of students who reported that they had driven while intoxicated rose from 2.3 million to 2.8 million (Hingson 260). This statistic includes all college students‚ ages 18-24. That means some of the people involved in these incidents were underage. 1 out
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