At the age of 16 we get our license. With one simple test we get a card that says were allowed to drive. We get in an over 4‚000-pound object and move it around at 60 miles per hour. This causes around 8 teen deaths per day‚ making car accidents the leading cause of teen death. We get behind a wheel‚ we get distracted‚ we cause an accident‚ and just like that someone loses a child. At 18 we’re allowed to smoke. We put a different combination of 4‚000 chemicals in our bodies for no specific purpose
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Do you think the driving age should be raised? Here are some thing you need to know. The driving age should be raised. Some states allow 14 and 15 year old’s to get their permit. The drive age should be raised because teens need to be more responsible. Some parents don’t want their child to drive at 16. Also most teens can be a little careless at times. Teens need to be more responsible 18 is a better age to drive at because teens will be more mature. The reason 18 is better is because they will
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Minimum Driving Age Should Be Raised Teenage accident rates and mortality rates have increased dramatically over the years. Nothing that the parents do and law enforces will protect the teens all the time‚ especially from themselves. Teenagers do not realize the responsibility that comes with driving. They are often distracted with other things such as texting while driving. Most importantly‚ parents always worry about the safety of their kids on the road. Some people may say that the driving age should
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Persuasive Speech Outline General purpose: To persuade. Specific purpose: At the end of my speech my audience will identify 2 consequences of drinking and drunk driving‚ and also 2 safe ways you can avoid those consequences. Central Idea: Drunk driving is against the law and it causes harm to many people‚ but with the right precautions‚ many lives can be saved. Introduction Imagine receiving a call from a police officer telling you that there’s been a terrible accident due to a drunk driver
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Persuasive Speech I. Attention 1. You tube video clip‚ “Dedicated to Loved Ones Lost” 2. Every day in America‚ another 28 people die as a result of drunk driving crashes. (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 2011.) II. Central Thesis Drunk driving is an epidemic that continues to have severe and life threatening consequences for those involved‚ if we simply take a few steps against drunk driving we can help decrease this epidemic. III. Body A. Need: Drunk driving occurs everyday
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LEGALLY RAISING THE DRIVING AGE IN THE UNITED STATES TO 18 1 Legally Raising the Driving Age in the United States to 18 and Reducing the Teenage Driving Fatalities and Accidents LEGALLY RAISING THE DRIVING AGE IN THE UNITED STATES TO 18 2 Abstract This paper explains the reasoning of increasing the legal driving age in the United States to age 18. It gives insight into the statistics of driving fatalities among teens‚ allowing the teenage brain to
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Kosheff 11/20/2014 Public Speaking Topic: Drinking Age 18 or 21? Purpose: To persuade students to change their feelings about the current drinking age and the benefits of changing it to eighteen. Thesis: Underage drinking is to be expected. If an eighteen year old is old enough and mature enough to vote and serve the country in war‚ he or she should be able to drink. With proper upbringing and schooling on the subject‚ the drinking age should be changed to eighteen. I. Introduction A. Attention
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Ellis Driving for many teenagers is there first passage to freedom‚ nothing is more exciting to many teens than becoming the legal age to drive. In the United States‚ most states legal age limits are set somewhere between 15 to 17 yrs old‚ each state having there own licensing process often with some type of probationary period before teens can obtain a full license. Recently law makers in Florida‚ Georgia‚ Delaware‚ Illinois‚ and Massachusetts have debated raising the legal driving age. Many of
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Currently in the United States‚ you must be at least 21 years of age in order to purchase or consume alcohol. The subjects of drugs and alcohol have been long-standing controversial issues that have sparked debates for many years in the U.S. Because of the obvious dangers and long-term damage alcohol has been proven to do on the body one must wonder why it is legal to drink or produce alcohol in the first place. In some ways‚ alcohol and drugs have the same kind of effects on the body and cause similar
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Texting and driving is the leading cause of fatal accidents in teenages and adults between the ages of 16 to 25. Now you may believe that you yourself are not the problem‚ but other drivers around you may be. Our goal is to get people to realize that is is is affecting everyone on the road‚ even pedestrians. We believe that by improving our understanding of how mental and physical distractions impair drivers; we can work towards finding a universal solution to the problem at hand. We all know a friend
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