the Drinking Age Many teenage deaths in the United States are caused in some way by the influence of alcohol; however‚ many people still believe that the legal drinking age should be reduced to eighteen. This issue has been going on for years‚ but the law has not been changed since the change to twenty-one in 1980. States have become stricter about preventing under-age drinking‚ but teenagers have no problem getting alcohol. There are many arguments in favor of changing the drinking age back to eighteen
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Everyone has a choice what they do with it is up to them. Sharon G. Flake wrote the book You Don’t Even Know Me which is a very intense and emotional book. This book speaks of topics one would not hear regularly. Many parents and the reader wonder why would they let a teenager read this book. She wrote this for young adults because she probably experienced this or saw many of her friends go through these kinds of problems. According to research by State Farm‚ every twenty-eight seconds a youth drops
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Do Americans take certain things for Granted? This topic is important to many people around the U.S. In many different ways‚ and I only had to pick three - Clean water‚ Freedom of religion‚ and Education. A note that you could put aside for yourself is that people in other countries do not have is that Examples that I listed above‚ and much much more. These three topics are the main things that the world is struggling with‚ 10 of the most struggling countries with hunger - Burundi‚ Eritrea‚ Comoros
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Communicating in the Cyber Age The technology age brings new ways to interact with each other in every part of life. Communication is just one part of life that has dramatically changed in this new age. People are now able to communicate to more people‚ on more personal levels‚ and with a lot more ease. Communicating with cyber technology has its benefits as well as its downfalls. While being able to communicate to many people there is the risk of sharing too much. That risk has caused many
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Don’t Feed the Bears Is our government really helping people‚ or just feeding bears? This is an excellent question that went well with this paper. This question also goes right along with our country’s economic state‚ which is what this writer‚ Timothy Burns‚ is writing on. In his paper he starts off with a story about his life and he uses an example of feeding bears to connect to what our government is doing in our economy. Even though Timothy starts with a story of his life he still has the
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The Dark Ages Beginning in the 5th century‚ knighthood was introduced as a way of honor‚ chivalry‚ and courage. Men from all over Europe desired to become knights to bring fame and fortune to themselves and their families. To become a knight was to be granted an honorable title by someone of high power‚ to give allegiance to the Monarch or country. Becoming a knight was a very long and tedious process. It starts at the young age of 7 and does not end until being knighted at 21 years. At 7 years
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Dark Ages or Middle Ages?Were the Dark Ages really dark? As we look back to this era of time‚ we will go intodepth on how and why people think they were. Personally‚ I don’t believe the Middle Agesshould be called the Dark Ages. Yes society slowed down and things calmed down‚ but therewere still some pretty amazing things that happened during this period of time. The Middle Agesshould not be called the Dark Ages and here are a few reasons why.One of the major parts that that stood out to me was the
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longer working hours‚ less traditional work weeks‚ and the tendency to become “workaholics”. By doing so many of the boomer generation are now in upper level management of most companies and businesses As the Baby Boomers draw close to retirement age new challenges will arise in the work place. Who will take their place? Is the next generation of workers ready for the challenge? Do they have the same ideals and principles of the outgoing workers? Management is tasked with making this transition
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anything they owned or valued. It was a time where men dominated women and they were left out of all decisions. “The average farmer’s wife is one of the most patient and overworked women of the time” (Hartman). However‚ women’s efforts during the 1800’s were effective in challenging traditional social‚ economical‚ and political attitudes about their role in society. Many of the problems women went through had lead to the beginning of women’s suffrage and the forming of many different movements. There
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Romaunt of the Rose: It’s a lengthy allegorical poem written in octosyllabic couplets and based upon Le Romaunt de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung. According to critics‚ not the entire poem‚ but the first part of it may be written by Chaucer. In this dream poem the narrator enters the Garden of Mirth‚ where he sees various allegorized figures and falls in love with a rosebud. Part A and B describe the instructions of the god of love to the dreamer. Part C is a fragment and satirizes
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