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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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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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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Suppose you are driving down the expressway. ... For instance, creating regulations that would keep such advertisements certain distances away from schools, parks or locations wherever children are prevalent. And most importantly, alcohol awareness through the media, school programs, and warning labels must be brought about to educate people, especially adolescents, more effectively. ...

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It was rare to find a day for nearly a year when a person could not take a step outside without seeing their neighbors hanging the American flag or driving on the highway and seeing numerous cars with American flag bumper stickers, and even a few other cars supporting their own makeshift flagstaff raising tattered and worn flags from the excessive beating in the wind, but when this started to die down, these people did not stop being patriotic because September 11, 2001, altered everyone's perception of life in one form or another. ... While in school on the morning of September 11,...

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Individuals can face these roadblocks early on in life, possibly as early as elementary school, and all of these challenges make it difficult to reach identity and self-understanding. ... Instead, the line, "I sat all morning in the college sick bay/counting bells knelling classes to a close/at two o"clock our neighbors drove me home," suggests a feeling of impassiveness, almost annoyance that he has to leave his life at school to travel home to console his family. ... Instead of pursuing his identity and feeling like an independent adult at school, he is forced to come back to his family wher...

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Through an analysis of these two areas, we can gain a greater knowledge of the ideas and beliefs that provided the driving forces for Progressivism. ... It was the "class and status conflicts of the late nineteenth century that formed the driving forces that made men become reformers." ...

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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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"In 1996, local law enforcement agencies nationwide made an estimated 1,467,300 arrests for driving under the influence (DUI). ... An example of how drinking can promote serious crime would be an event that occurred several years ago when a few Bridge City High School students were at a party where they became intoxicated. ...

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Such violent and morally wrong information has even become part of mainstream culture; an action show with mortal conflict driving the plot is totally accepted without a second glance from both teens as well as adults (Leland 523-527). ... Littleton, Colorado was devastated when events in Columbine High School left twenty-three people wounded and fifteen people dead, including the two supposedly "unstable- gunmen, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. ... If controls or enforcements take place, such a novel will never reach the hands of students in school, despite however excellent the novel is. ...

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Thus, while the Abolishment of Slavery of the late 1800's and the Civil Rights Movement of the fifties and sixties may have diminished the impact that racism could play out in the open, these efforts have ultimately failed, to a great extent, in actually driving racism and discrimination to extinction because today, this toxic behavior is as prominent as it ever was. ... Many other improvements took place at this time as well; desegregation of public transportation, integrating schools, and legalizing interracial marriages. ...

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Journalists and jazz fans drew distinctions between bands that conveyed the hardest driving rhythmic qualities and extensive solo improvisations and those that conveyed less swing feeling and improvisation. ... The swing players, generally speaking, were more schooled then their predecessors. ...

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Television is the most popular type of mass communication and a vital source from which most Americans receive information, writes John Seel, a proud member of World Journalism Institute and the headmaster at The Cambridge School of Dallas (19). ... Brendan Maguire, researcher of the topic "religions in commercials" documents some of the commercials he has found during research " the first commercial (Buick) depicts a family driving up to a church; the second commercial (Kellogg cereal) portrays a minister eating breakfast with her father and then performing her first marriage; and the third c...

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As a result, immigration contributes to an already-existing surplus of low-skilled workers, increasing job competition and driving down wages and conditions to the detriment of American workers. ... For example, a construction team is looking to hire a worker, a citizen who went to college and got proper training is applying, along with an illegal with no school training. ...

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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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