that most of the dangers you steer your teenagers away from during the day are out at night? Most parents give their teens a reasonable curfew to abide by while some let their teens ride around until one in the morning. Curfews set for teens by the cities and towns help to keep them safe and out of any danger they could run into during the late hours. Setting curfews can help keep teenagers off the roads late at night‚ especially when it comes to new drivers. Someone could be leaving a party under the
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have you ever had a curfew? Having to be home at a certain time before you get in trouble with either your parents or even the law. This is very annoying because some teens have a reason to be out late and don’t cause trouble. Not only do we as teens get in trouble but‚ “There is also parental responsibility in the curfew laws. Parents can be held responsible if their children are caught out after curfew.”(Pima County Sheriff Department) The government shouldn’t enforce teen curfews because sometimes
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Curfew Having the time of your life with your best friends‚ it’s just past dusk when suddenly you hear sirens. You’re not sure what you did wrong‚ yet the cops still pulled up to you and your friends‚ and now you’re in trouble. Apparently this thing called “curfew” is why the cops are taking you back to the station. Curfew started in the 1990’s when cities with rising crime rate with teen. Most curfew hours are in the evening and night. Curfew is a law that limits the hours that teenagers under
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Should teens have a curfew? Many people say that "teen years" are supposed to be the time of our lives‚ have fun‚ do stupid things. However‚ some teens have a little too much fun and seem to do reckless things. Setting a curfew for a teen will keep a teen out of trouble legally. Teens should have a curfew because it is for their safety as well as setting boundaries. Especially during the schoolyear because they still need a decent amount of sleep at night. During
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Citywide Curfew Yes the citywide curfew should be changed for various reasons. I think that there shouldn’t be a curfew on weekends. There would be less crime and there would be fewer teens in juvenile. Logically there shouldn’t be a curfew on weekends because if there wasn’t the police wouldn’t be so worried about teenagers under 17. The curfew van wouldn’t be picking people up at all. The parents should be able to raise their children or child how they please‚ and of they allow their child to
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Curfew is and always will be a problem for teenagers. When you tell a teen what to do they go totally against your word. Most teenagers feel that they need liberty and need to enjoy their lives. Recently‚ the city council is considering a curfew that will make it illegal for all jersey city teens to be out on the streets after 10pm. Freedom means a lot to teenagers and if that gets taken away‚ they will be practically left with nothing. The curfew law can effect adolescents negatively because many
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punishments? “Age is not an accomplishment‚ and youth is not a sin” (Robert Heinlein). When a curfew is established the effected people‚ who are the teenagers‚ are not asked for their vote or opinion‚ they are not being allowed to exercise their freedom of speech. Although some people believe that there should be a law made for children to be home at a certain hour‚ government should not be allowed to mandate curfews for children and teenagers‚ more teen crimes have been committed during the day rather
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Professor Richard Wakefield English 103 October 6‚ 2012 Elements of Language in the poem “Curfew” The author of the poem “Curfew” uses two elements of language‚ symbols and images. A “symbol” in Michael Meyers book “Poetry‚” is defined as a person‚ an object‚ an image‚ a word‚ or an event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance (153). Michael Meyers defines “image” as a word‚ phrase‚ or figure of speech that addresses the senses
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Students under the age of seventeen have a curfew of 10 pm Sunday through Thursday and 12 am on Friday and Saturday. The curfew ensures that all students should have no business in a public place or out on the streets late at night. There are obviously some valid reasons why this is enforced and I am completely in favor of this decision. Many dangerous kinds of people come out late at night to see if they can get kids into some kind of trouble. Kids get kidnapped‚ raped and killed out in the open
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In my small town‚ the councils are proposing a curfew that all kids are to be home by 10pm. I’m a kid myself and I know for a fact that I want to be out of my house way later than 10. I guess there are reasons why we should have this but I’m going to disagree with them. Here is reasons why we shouldn’t have curfews. Kids my age normally are out till like midnight because that’s what we’re used to and that’s normal for us. They are also deciding this because they think it will prevent us from
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