Brittaney Weeams Mr. Dutro-Adkins 4TH Hour English November 27‚ 2012 Curfews?? Do they really work? “Yes” What is a Curfew?? Curfew is an order specifying a time after which certain regulation apply. In other words an order made by the government or your family to be home at a certain time. Many cities have imposed curfew over the past years and in most of those cities the curfews has reduced several crimes. Curfews are used to discipline and to keep young teens off the streets and out
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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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YOUTH CURFEWS: PROTECTION OR PUNISHMENT Student Name CultureWorks Course: OC1 Writing Instructor: Matt Devlin Date: April 21‚ 2011 Youth Curfews: Protection or Punishment Should teens have a night curfew? Over the past several years‚ in order to reduce juvenile crime and protect teenagers’ security‚ youth curfews are widely used in the United States. More than 300 towns have passed the local curfew laws which provide local police and authority the power to order young people under
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instating a youth curfew would be an effective way to take care of both these tasks. Whether believed or not‚ currently 146 out of 200 large cities such as Chicago‚ Illinois and Phoenix‚ Arizona now enforce teen curfews. Supporters of teen-curfew laws such as President Clinton‚ Congress members and many law-enforcement officials believe that they are "effective crime fighting tools". Declining crime rates in these 146 cities solidly back up supporters and are proof that teen-curfews would be a positive
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have to be forced to be inside their houses by 7 o’clock P.M.! I think it should be up to your parents to give you a curfew or not. Having a curfew isn’t fun. Children from ages 16 and under should not have a curfew. For example‚ on November 2‚ 2007 a child who was concerned for his constitutional rights‚ has anonymously filed suit against the city of Rochester to have the curfew law over turned. This is what happens when stuff isn’t fair.
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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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City council notices that teens are getting into more trouble than usual lately so they decide its time to take action. However‚ the plain they’ve come up with isn’t very realistic. They’ve proposed the adoption of a 10:00pm curfew on weekdays and midnight on weekends. This may sound like a good idea to many council members as a way to cut down on juvenile crime‚ however how is just a curfew going to stop them if they clearly don’t care about rules‚ also‚ many teens now work late on weekdays and
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Second‚ family structure is constructed in a different matter all due to the lifestyles that a character might have. To illustrate‚ in the novel A Tale of Two Cities the relationship that Doctor Manette and Lucie had‚ was a very close and loving relationship that did not have any type of roles. In the text‚ A Tale of Two Cities‚ it states‚ “‘You Lucie? It is out of the consolation and restoration you have brought to me‚ that these remembrances arise‚ and pass between us and the moon on the last
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Topic: Should there be a Curfew for youths to age 16 years old in the State of Georgia Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to enforce the curfew law. Central Idea: to get law makers‚ law enforcement‚ and parents to enforce the curfew law. Should there be a Curfew for youths to 16 years old in the State of Georgia? Yes there should be a curfew in the State of Georgia for youths to 16 years old. According to 1007 juvenile crime statistics‚ 1700 juveniles were involved in 1400 murders
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When it comes to teens having curfews‚ it does help keep them out of trouble. Parents don’t like setting a curfew for their teens‚ but it is sometimes enforced. Curfews where set in the 19th century when America’s cities swelled with millions of unsupervised teens. Like laws mandating school attendance and banning child labor‚ the argument went‚ curfews would improve individual lives even as they protected the social order (Zimmerman). Curfews are to help protect the teens from getting in trouble
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