Impaired Driving and Aggressive Driving Alcohol is a contributing factor in close to 50% of all driver fatalities on Canadian roads. Driving while under the influence of alcohol is the single largest criminal cause of death in Canada. Drinkers who drive not only risk their own lives but the lives of others on the roads and around them. All this can be avoided by one simple rule: If you drink‚ don’t drive! If people drive responsibly they will reduce the chances of conflicts on the road and help
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Driving under the influence may not seem like a big ordeal to teens but in reality it should be taken more cautiously. When being in control of a running vehicle‚ driving drunk can have an effect on your mental and physical ability. This is where the problem goes unnoticed because many teens now a days think that they have the capability to hold their liquor and proceed on driving. What teens need to realize is that receiving a driver’s license is a privilege that should not be taken advantage of
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Bann Teenage Driving This report is about teenage driving. We believe that illegalizing teen driving will reduce the amount of car crashes that happen. Teenage driving has had lots of causes and effects. More attention should be paid to the consequences that teenage driving has caused. We believe that a big part of car crashes have been caused by teens for numerous reason. The government should take action by stopping teenagers from driving. Most teenagers are very immature and irresponsible. It’s
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Privilege. Privilege is heard around social justice spaces‚ schools‚ family and even friends. So what is privilege? Privilege is having a special right‚ some sort of advantage that belongs to either a specific individual or group of specific people but not to others. These kind of advantages come from being a certain race‚ gender‚ religion‚ sexual orientation‚ class‚ etc. The privilege walk is an activity designed to help people understand the effects of societal privileges. This activity included
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for sober driving ultimately presenting arguments against impaired driving. Driving sober must be the only way a person gets behind the wheel no doubt that impairs drive is costly. There is no evident to support any arguments against sober driving‚ nonetheless‚ statistics have proven the implications of impaired driving. In 2008‚ more than 1.4 million individuals were detained for DUI‚ yet that figure speaks to under one percent of the self-detailed episodes of alcohol-impaired driving‚ as indicated
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White Privilege is the privilege that is given to white skin or light skin people. They do not earn it‚ it is given to them due to their skin tone. White privilege is unfair for people of color‚ this is unfair by Caucasians getting better treatment‚ and this has been going on for generations. The majority of the time a person of color has the chance to earn privilege‚ a white person comes in and takes the chance the person of color had. People of color are told‚ they are considered “equal”‚ yet
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Elderly Driving There has been an increase of accidents caused by elderly drivers over the course of many years. With such a dramatic increase‚ should elderly drivers have driving restrictions? I believe that after the age of 75‚ seniors should have to retake their drivers test or have restrictions‚ regardless of their driving record. There is support for some restrictions on elderly drivers based on evidence that older drivers are more involved in traffic accidents than any age group except
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Many people are debating what should be done about the driving age since more fatal car accidents are happening day by day. There are many pros and cons to each side and so far‚ most attempts to raise the driving age have failed. Society usually sees 18 as the age that young people become adults. Shouldn’t driving be one of the privileges and responsibilities of adulthood? The driving age should be raised to 18 because it reduces significantly the number of accidents and will benefit society as a
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Drunk Driving‚ Groups‚ Affects‚ Laws How much longer will it take to get rid of careless drunk drivers? Drunk driving has been a problem in the United States since the beginning of automobiles; however‚ it did not become an important social issue until the mid 1980’s. Drunk driving was defined as a problem located within individuals or groups. Drunk driving is illegal in every state. It is not only illegal‚ but unsafe to operate an automobile if you are under the influence of alcohol. When a person
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CGHS AP World Summer Work 2014 Directions • Go online to Broward Schools BEEP and access the AP World textbook. • Directions to BEEP • Go to http://beep.browardschools.com/ssoPortal/index.htm • Look for grades 9-‐12 • Click on Social Studies • Scroll down to Advanced Placement World History • Click
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