Driving Age Epidemic State legislature has considered raising the minimum driving age from 16 to 18. Doing this would cause many issues with teens throughout Virginia. The driving age should remain the same because most 16-year-olds have jobs and need transportation‚ it teaches responsibility at a younger age‚ and lets teens experience more of the world at a younger age. Around the age of 16 most teens are considering getting jobs. When these teens accomplish their goal‚ they realize that they’re
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at you with the fresh upbeat 2014 winter Olympic news. Shannon: Today we will be focusing on hockey legend Sidney Crosby‚ who secured Canada’s record fourteenth gold medal of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics when he scored the golden goal. Nazlie: The Team Canada roster has been released for the upcoming Olympic Games and it has been revealed that Crosby will represent Canada on the men’s ice hockey team in Sochi this February. This will be his second Winter Olympics that he has participated
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Kendrick Owens May 20‚ 2013 Topic: Drunk Driving Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to inform audience of the dangers of drunk driving Central Idea: Drunk driving is a reflection of poor judgment that impairs thought processes and moral behavior and could result in fatalities. How many of you have ever heard of the acronym DUI? If you haven’t‚ DUI stands for driving under the influence. It means that an individual has gotten behind the wheel of the car while having
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Impaired driving affects both teens and adults‚ but it affects adults a lot more than it does teens. “ There is approximately one death every 53 minutes from driving impaired. Everyday in the united states 28 people die from driving while impaired.” (intoxalock.com). The problem our group came up with was how teens are better than adults while being impaired. The hypothesis we had was when teens are impaired they will be able to react to things better than adults. The experiment we had to do was
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Many people are against teen driving laws in America‚ but just as many are for the laws as opposed. Many teenagers always dream of driving a car‚ on the open road experiencing the freedom that comes along with your license. It is apparent that many teenagers are usually inexperienced when it comes to getting behind the wheel. Due to the fact to qualify for a License in some states all you need is sixty hours behind the wheel with a parent and fifteen hours in a driving class. Finally‚ after a defined
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Thesis Statement: In this research paper‚ six points about teens and driving include I the laws‚ II cell phones‚ III parents‚ IV facts‚ V physical and demands‚ and VI statistics. First‚ if a teenager wants a driver’s license‚ they need to know the laws. The first step is to fill out a license application with your firs‚ last name‚ and date. The laws says non-citizens cannot (“Obtaining a Learner’s Permit” 1). The article states‚ “With the passage of SB 226 (Joshua’s law) by the 2005 Georgia general
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for Texting While Driving DeVry UniversityAnnotated Bibliography for Texting While Driving So many people are affected by the actions of those‚ when it comes to texting while driving‚ from kids‚ sisters and brothers to aunts‚ uncles and others who suffer in in result. Ttexting while driving impairs the driver’s abilities‚ because of this‚ many people has died from innocent adults to innocent children. People text while in school zones‚ and even use the internet while driving‚ to navigate to
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The appropriate age for a teenager to obtain a driving permit is 16 years old‚ however I believe it should be raised to 17 since there is a high rate of teenagers causing accidents. There might be some exceptions why they should keep it at 16 but due to the high rate of teen crashes they should raise the age to 17. Statistics have shown that teenagers have a higher chance of accidents. Teenagers from the ages of 15 to 17 are more likely to cause a car crash for many reasons. While teenagers go out
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Youth and Driving Don’t Always Mix Safely A) The text is written by Dennis Thompson‚ he says that teens usually think that they are experienced drivers‚ but all the facts point in the different direction. Young people between 15 and 24 years old represent 14% of the United States population but the male account for 30% of the vehicle injuries and 28% among the females. About 4.500 teens between 16 to 19 years old died in 2008 died of injuries in crashes. The same year about 400.000 teenagers
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Self-Driving cars have been tested to see if they can work properly in the world. These cars can change this world that we live in today. It can be good but it can also be bad. This is a topic many people are interested in because they want to know how the cars work and how they can change the future. There are pros about the self-driving cars but then again there are cons to them as well. There is a lot of pros for self-driving cars. Self-driving cars can drop you off from where you are and then
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