The legal drinking age has been a controversial topic for the past few decades. Many may argue that the drinking age should be lowered to 18 since you are already treated and considered like an adult by that age. Others may argue to raise the drinking age to 25 to prevent more accidents that are harming innocent citizens. Thinking that the older you get the more mature you are. And others just say to keep the legal drinking age at 21 since this system has been working fine for the time being. What
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1.Is old age a positive or negative for you? Growing old is a positive for me. Growing old shows that you have over come life’s obstacles. It shows a sense of strength. 2.Has old age made you look at life different? It never made me look at life different but it help me understand what life means. 3.If you could had been any age your entire life‚ what would it be? I would be somewhere around my early 30’s. I still felt alive but at the same time I lived long enough to learn from
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AGE DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE Harold had been with the company going on forty-five years. There was no doubt that his contributions over the past few decades helped the once intimate business flourish into an international corporation. As his sixty-fifth birthday rolled around‚ Harold was greeted with a staff party and a mandatory retirement notice that was effective two weeks from that date. Harold was stunned‚ inasmuch as he had no intentions whatsoever to leave his position with the company;
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Towards the end of the Middle Ages‚ many European nation-states were making gains to become more unified. However‚ the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Plague made doing so increasingly difficult. Much of Europe was still recovering economically and France and England’s military was astonishingly weakened. Despite the turmoil in Northern Europe‚ the Italian Renaissance brought about changes in political and social thinking which may have‚ in turn‚ precipitated much of Northern Europe into its growth
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to establish a new law that teen can get their licenses when they turn 18 when they are more responsible instead of 16. The 16 year old driving age should stay the same instead of trying to increase the age because it can teach teens more about responsibility‚ gives teens more freedom‚ and they can just increase the practice driving hours instead of the age. The less teens rely on their parents or guardians the more responsibility they gain for themselves. Teens rely on their parents to take them
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sticks out among many folks out in the world today. Does age have a bearing on whether or not to enter a relationship? Some feel that you will eventually fall in love with someone half your age but the thing is how can you tell? And is that a deciding factor in getting in a relationship? Many are opposed to this as they feel the gap could cause a great deal of issues within the relationship itself. There are many different opinions about whether age factors play a huge role in a relationship. Some people
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the Drinking Age to 18 in the United States While it may seem to some‚ drinking at age eighteen is frowned upon. It is actually true that many people between the ages of 18 and 20 drink alcohol illegally without any sense of guilt. On July 17‚ 1984‚ a law was established in the United States that impacted a large number of America’s youth. The indicated law was the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. Legal drinking ages were originally determined by each state. Many states kept the age at twenty one
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Minimum Drinking Age According to the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine‚ in 2010 underage drinkers from ages 15-20 were responsible for 48.8% of alcohol purchases. The minimum legal drinking age(MLDA) in the United States was 18 years old until 1984‚ when all fifty states raised their legal drinking age to 21 or older. The drinking age should be lowered from 21 years old to 18 years old because at that age one legally becomes an adult‚ it would reduce the amount of unsafe drinking
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The Age of Revolutions is often a term used for a period of time‚ usually between 1760 -1848. Although the term encompasses many revolutions across the globe‚ it isn’t very often that these events are examined as a whole; compared and contrasted to show the similarities‚ differences‚ and even some potential catalytic properties between them. The book The Age of Revolutions in Global Context‚ c. 1760-1840‚ put together and edited by David Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam‚ is a book of essays collaborated
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Lowering the Voting Age Do you wish that we would get a teen’s input on world events sometimes? What about getting them to vote? It’s their world too‚ shouldn’t they get to show what they want for our country? I mean they are still getting educated at school about world events. I believe that they should lower the voting age to 13. First of all‚ most of the teens in school are mature enough to truthfully vote who should be president. Evidence shows that when you vote at a younger age you are more likely
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