This law or penalty was enacted to prevent drunken driving accidents among inexperienced young adults. ... In high school I was always the sober driver, and drove to some pretty weird places. ... Middle school kids drink, high school kids drink and college kids drink. ... In Europe, drinking is not a big deal to high school and college kids. ... Raising the driving age and lowering the drinking age would generate various problems. ...

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America's Horrific Teen Drivers In America, driving is the main source of transportation. ... American teenagers place driving, being the first major milestone in the transition into adulthood, on a pedestal. ... Teens are experts when it comes to cramming for a test without the information actually sinking in; this happens daily in schools across the country. ... This test contradicts the seriousness of driving with its simplicity. ... The significance of driving is contradicted by American society. ...

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The drinking age should remain 21 to prevent drunk driving and accidents involving drinking, other risky behaviors, for health and developmental purposes, to prevent even easier access to high schoolers, to keep some control on binge drinking, for maturity purposes, and the fact that drinking can be extremely dangerous. ... Primarily to prevent drinking and driving. ... More intoxicated driver's leads to more drunk driving accidents, and more fatalities as a result of drunk driving. ... The majority of drunk driving accidents involve younger drivers. ... Since a lot of 18 year olds are s...

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By the time most teens reach senior high school, nearly all will have faced a choice about whether or not to take a drink. ... Kids who are drinking regularly in high school seem to be fully aware of the penalties and laws against underage drinking, possession but don't care. They agree that driving while intoxicated is a key role in fatal car accidents, yet they still do it. ...

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I go to the movies, swim at home, tan in the sun, play school sports, get involved in clubs and activities, an am about to get my driving permit. ... I go to football games and cheer on my school. I have American friends, and I"m taking the most challenging classes at school. ...

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A long time ago people use to have to cook their food instead of just driving up to a window and getting a bag full of empty calories. The school lunches have changed also. ... If a child did not by a school lunch, then a parent prepared a lunch for their child. Now there are schools where pizza and French fries or pizza and potato chips are served everyday for lunch. ... Also a lot of elementary schools have taken away recess after lunch. ...

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You must be your own driving force in college to thrive. In high school, I worked extremely hard. My work ethics helped me so far with my success in school. ... My parents expected that I continue college after high school. ... College is changing my habits that I had in high school. ...

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My parents were overjoyed, and happy that they could find a place to settle, so my dad could start going to school. ... So, after some time, my dad started going to school. ... But, after my dad almost finishing his time at the university, his friend got jealous, and stopped driving him because my dad was going to get a better job than he will. ... A couple of years later, my dad went back to school, and is currently still in college now. ... That is really surprising because, through work, having a child, and a wife, he still was able to go to school. ...

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One such example that has had a profound effect on societies views is the organization known as MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). ... (NHTSA, Feb. 1997) Since then, the number of DWI (Driving While Intoxicated) arrests, youth suicides, crime, and marijuana use has gone down in drastic numbers. ... (The Drinking Age, pg. 1) It is the one drug that high school kids experiment with the most. ... It is estimated that over seventy percent of high school seniors have these "fake ids." ... Some high school kids even reported paying homeless people to go and buy it for them. ...

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They all rely on others to do their everyday work for them; such as cooking, cleaning,cosmetics, driving, and sometimes even raising their children. ... Your education determines your life and your future, and kids are obligated to go to school and learn, just because they have to do something. ...

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An exam that will determine which secondary school (High school) they will attend. ... Instead they are offered driving lessons, due to the theory that these low scoring students could never be successful in higher level classes anyway. ... This mentality is fostered throughout the five years at secondary school. ... These are traits that are taught by the parents and the school systems they attend. ... Family success tends to be rare, many never even graduating high school. ...

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An exam that will determine which secondary school (High school) they will attend. ... Instead they are offered driving lessons, due to the theory that these low scoring students could never be successful in higher level classes anyway. ... This mentality is fostered throughout the five years at secondary school. ... These are traits that are taught by the parents and the school systems they attend. ... Family success tends to be rare, many never even graduating high school. ...

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When I was living in Turkey, planning to go French High School. ... After all, that is done, we all went to school to take the exam, when I got there, there were lots of people at the school, I was scared and felt like falling down from Somewhere high. ... After that, we were just waiting for the result and waited almost an hour and checked the school's website. ... I didn't ask anything while my dad was driving, they probably didn't want us to know until everything got real. After a six hour driving, we got to capital and stayed all the time at my cousin's house. ...

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For example, my friend was in McDonald's parking lot and he was in the process of switching seats with his friend because he was exhausted of driving. ... The term "driving while black has been used to describe the practice of law enforcement officials to stop African-American drivers without probable cause" (Weatherspoon, 2004). ... In most public schools history books had no existence or great scholars presented to black children. ... It is a fact that the food that is processed like chicken, beef, and pork inside schools "have been made by a worker earning twenty cents a...

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Judgment of speed and time are impaired by this substance also making driving hard and more hazardous (parentingteens.com)." ... (Drug abuse resistance education) witch have been taught in both public and private schools. ... Teens spend more time at school then at home; therefore, they see more of what goes on at school than at hoe. ... It's no crime to have random drug tests at schools or at the work place. ...

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When we look back to the past, there is no doubt that African Americans faced the barrier of race, or color prejudice in the past; Chinese, and other Asian Americans were discriminated in the society, the workplace, the school, and the neighborhood. ... Letting children to meet age around them in other races in school is a good thing as they learn to get along with each other rather than just telling them all men are created equal repeatedly. ... Happiness can be from anything; either becoming rich enough to get all you want, getting good grade in school, being accepted by the society, hav...

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Class Creating America My Conversation with G. William Domhoff A) Domhoff believes that class is a pre-determined concept that involves class and power along with that of social relationships and lifestyle. In the economic sense there are relationships between two different people, such as...

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The film "Fight Club" [ CITATION Bra99 l 1033 ] shows the influence of consumer culture in America and how it destroys our individuality. It tells a tale about liberation from a corporate controlled society, with the narrator representing the ultimate consumer. Fight Club shows how we can distance o...

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In order to decipher what it means to be an American you have to look at the past and what has brought this freedom upon us. George Washington once said "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitution of government." Up until 1776 when the War en...

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Making alcohol legal would open up a large window to back up the Drink Responsibly Code by not forcing teenagers to drink and attempt to hide it by driving themselves. ... After high school all a student has to look forward to is a lifetime of dedication and work. ...

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(Pastor Jerry Falwell, Grace College Chapel Convocation, April, 2002) "You can't expect fifteen year olds to be good drivers because they are too young to exercise good judgment in the dangers of driving." ... If I don't, I won't stand a chance for medical school, and this is my last semester at the university." 4. ...

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Where is all the alcohol going? Many teens in America are experiencing unplanned pregnancies. Almost 50 percent of these pregnancies are caused by alcohol. Alcohol also causes nearly half of teen car accidents (Walsh 1). Throughout America the drug that is used the most among teens is alcohol (Soc...

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Baby boomers Our children are our future; our seniors are our foundation (Wissel L. 2000). Fifty five million Americans are age fifty five and older, according to the United States Census Bureau, of that number, thirty five million are age sixty five and older. By the year 2030, the sixty five...

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Wiggles schooled me on the what went on behind the scenes, that resulted in the evolution of the B-boy culture on both coasts. ... And he schooled us on poppin', we schooled him on breakin' in my Hallway, this was like 80 or 81. ... We schooled them on everything, and they was schooling us on the West coast sh*t. ...

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America's Other Government Religion has reappeared as a factor in American political and social arenas. "When does the instrument of religious freedom become a weapon of religious intolerance? Why do we so frequently read about some aspect of the unlawful wedding of politics and religion? ...

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