Kendrick Owens May 20‚ 2013 Topic: Drunk Driving Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to inform audience of the dangers of drunk driving Central Idea: Drunk driving is a reflection of poor judgment that impairs thought processes and moral behavior and could result in fatalities. How many of you have ever heard of the acronym DUI? If you haven’t‚ DUI stands for driving under the influence. It means that an individual has gotten behind the wheel of the car while having
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teenagers. Teen drivers are more dangerous and more likely to be involved in an accident‚ anyone can tell you that. If a teenager is such a dangerous driver‚ what can we do about it? More importantly‚ how do we make teenage drivers more aware? How do we change the way they see driving and decrease the amount of accidents teenagers are involved in and the cause of. Throughout this paper‚ I will be researching ways to answer this very difficult question. How do we make teen drivers more aware?
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vehicle going at a very fast speed on a busy road among other large heavy vehicles made me sweat. But‚ in order to be granted this passage into freedom‚ learning how to drive a car was something I had to do. So‚ already nine months late‚ two failed drivers tests‚ and many arguments and near death experiences
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Believe I Made it Home” “Should she be driving right now?” I heard come from the back seat of my car‚ as me and some friends were on our way home from a concert. I only had a few drinks‚ I was fine‚ I remember thinking. I didn’t know my life was about to change in a way I never would have expected. When I arrived home and walked into my house that night‚ I heard my little sister yell from the couch “did you get the call?” She told me that my grandpa was hit by a drunk driver and was taken to Hennepin
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Drunk Driving Penalty Every day 28 people die as a result of drunk driving crashes on average and 20% of Child Passenger Deaths are Due to Drunk Driving Crashes. Drunk driving is the 15th leading cause of death in the united states today 19 percent of those deaths belong to children between the ages 0 to 14. The drinking while intoxicated penalty should be increased because tons of deaths have been caused by DUI‚ many drunk drivers are repeat offenders‚ and with technology in the 21st century
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Sherylyn Taylor Composition Two Drunk Driving October 02‚ 2012 We as American can save more lives by not driving while under the influences. Setting a good example for our children in today’s world we need to be a good role model. Driving and drinking are not a good fit. DUI could possibly screw up your life and others. Now is losing your driver license and going to jail really worth it. Drunk driving has been a major problem among American people. Every single
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Drinking and Driving Drunk driving is considered a serious crime in every state. It is wrong‚ irresponsible and wastes many lives. People who abuse alcohol hurt everyone around them‚ endanger public safety‚ and create chaos on the nation’s highways. There is nothing positive that can come out of drunk driving‚ so why do people do it? It is society’s job to punish these people and try to take control of this “out of control” issue. America doesn’t want to watch quietly as hundreds of people are killed
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The central concept of my outside source‚ MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving)‚ is to teach the audience that they should think about their decision multiple times before taking action because once they make the big jump‚ an obstacle appears in their way and they become trapped. All different scenarios end up traveling towards them‚ not having a clue as to what just happened and how to come out of that problem. Whenever people are making certain choices and they are in doubt about the costs of
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Jessica Compton Composition II Mrs. Govia July 17‚ 2013 Imprisoned in Marriage “I’m wife; I’ve finished that” by Emily Dickinson can be comparable to The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman. Both literatures are written from a feminist prospective and have to do with patriarchal societies. Both pieces of literature were written during patriarchal time periods. Just like in The Yellow Wallpaper‚ in the poem “I’m wife”‚ the woman is submissive to her husband‚ and is unable to be herself‚ but
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When I picture a driver‚ in control of the vehicle and the road‚ I picture my dad on one of our long car trips. He always seemed sure of himself and the decision he was making on the road‚ even after hours in the car. We were always a family that would go on fantastic vacations with only our car‚ exploring every crook and nanny of the country. With my dad behind the wheel‚ we’ve traveled from the very northwest point‚ Cape Flattery‚ and all the way down to the most southeast‚ on Key West. He even
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