Persuasive Essay Against Lower Drinking Age Some people think that the drinking age should be lowered to 18. I personally don’t think it’s a good idea. Alcohol is a depressant meaning it slows down brain function. Most people don’t know that alcohol is a drug just like methamptamine and marijuana the only difference is that alcohol is legal in the U.S. for anyone 21 and over. Each year‚ approximately 5‚000 people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking. This includes 1‚900 car
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the question has become "should 16-year-olds be allowed to vote?" Of course the general consensus of youth is for this option‚ yet a surprising amount of adults are supporting the movement as well. However‚ there are still those who seriously doubt a 16-year-old’s ability to maturely handle voting. While politicians are still debating the topic‚ it is obvious that both sides of this subject have very logical arguments. In order to understand why lowering the voting age would even be considered
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Voting vs. Not Voting Everyday individuals complain about how society is getting worse and blame everybody else for America’s downfall. Most of the things that people complain about are issues that can be easily solved because they can gain control over the situation‚ yet they sit back and do nothing to help. However the issue with this is that people are not obligated to vote‚ therefore they cannot do something they do not want to do. It attacks their rights’ but they also have the right to vote
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The United States of America has been one of the lowest Presidential voting participation countries in the world and many people could argue the different reasons for this. Honestly many of those reasons would probably be correct. Some people may argue that its because not enough people are allowed to vote and that they should drop the voting age to 16 instead of 18. Others also may argue that it is because there arent many different variations and options to vote from. I believe that both these
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Should CEOs be on the Board? By direction of the board‚ a foundation’s top executive staff person (titled CEO for this discussion) manages all aspects of the organization. CEOs typically oversee the foundation’s money‚ time and human resources and act as a liaison between the board and staff. Rather than keeping the CEO in a strictly managerial position‚ some boards award them a role in governance as well‚ offering the CEO full membership—and in some cases‚ voting rights—on the board. CEOs who sit
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Some may believe that voting age is not the only reason as to why the teenagers are not paying attention to the politics and there is no evidence that lowering the voting age would increase political participation. They believe that there are major reasons as to why the political participation has declined rather that the issue of the voting age. While the view is probably wrong when they claim that there is no evidence to prove the connection between voting age and political participation‚ it is
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Mandatory voting is an infringement on free speech and should never be law in America. The First Amendment states that all voices and opinions can be expressed even if that opinion is not one. Therefore‚ the forcing of a vote is unconstitutional and should not be voted into law in America. Perspective 2‚ which I have chosen‚ is the most realistic and democratic choice as laid out in our founding documents. It is every man’s choice to participate in the government or leave it to his countrymen. The
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07 Application of Biometrics in Mobile Voting Donovan Gentles1‚ Suresh Sankaranarayanan 2‚ 3 1Mona Institute of Applied Sciences‚ University of WestIndies‚ Jamaica dongen02@gmail.com 2Computing & Information Systems‚ Institut Teknologi Brunei‚ Brunei 3Department of Computing‚ University of WestIndies‚ Jamaica pessuresh@hotmail.com Abstract — Voting process in today’s era is behind its time in respect of the usage of modern ICT. The voting process is being seen mostly as a manual
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Voting helps shape your community! I voted yesterday to have my tax dollars help support the local science museum here. Earlier this year‚ I participated in a petition campaign to put our local government’s spending to a vote. They were passing a indebt to my grandchildren to pay for this year’s renovations of the government office buildings downtown without giving us a say in it. We got enough signatures to allow for a vote and We The People of my little city voted it down. To make changes
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There are things in the world that can be changed‚ and just because you aren’t of voting age doesn’t mean you can’t change them. King Tut became the Pharaoh of Egypt at the ripe old age of nine years old. My point being‚ he probably wasn’t very prepared or as prepared as he may have been if he waited until her were thirty‚ but he still did it. You see more often than not politics‚ or the world for that matter‚ doesn’t wait for you to change but‚ for you to change it. If you want to make a difference
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