Drunk driving is the leading cause of death for people from the age of six to thirty-three years old (Curran, 1). One in three people will be involved in an alcohol-related crash in their lifetime (MADD, 1). Everyday thirty-six people in the United States die due to the crashes and approximately 700 more are injured in car crashes that involve alcohol-impaired drivers. This year, 10,839 people will die in drunk-driving crashes; one every fifty minutes (MADD, 1). “Cracking down on those who take drugs or drink and then drive is a year round commitment for Warwickshire and West Mercia.”- West Mercia Police.
Diana Scutt English 090- College Writing Skills Dr. Schillig 29 November 2011 Argument Essay Mean Girls Bullying is an epidemic that our schools face; everyone has been bullied in some type of form at one point in their lives. Personally I feel as if females get it the worst. Females are bullied with words; while boys are bullied with fists. The media portrays these models as thin, beautiful girls; this ultimately makes other girls who aren’t as thin feel as if they aren’t pretty. They’re cases where females are bullied to the point where they resort to drugs and alcohol to make the pain go away, drop out of school because they can’t face their tormentors, causing some type of physical harm to their bodies, and or even resort to taking their own lives.
Critical and Creative Thinking in Society Short Essays A public interest in which critical and or creative thought could have been used for a better outcome is the situation of 16 year old Jada from Houston Texas. Jada says she was attack at a friend’s home where she was invited from friends at her high school. Jada claims the teenage boys who were hosting the party gave her punch to drink. She believes it was spiked with a drug. The young girl claims she passed out at the party and had no idea about what happened until her classmates started sharing tweets, photos and videos on social media.
Social Policy Decisions Paper Patrize P. Stuart BSHS/355 January 27, 2014 Linda Sewerbridges Introduction Since 1982, there were numerous of deaths by traffic which involved many people driving while drunk. A mother took a stand, to do something about drinking and driving. When this mother took a stand, other mother supported her, and took a stand alongside her. She was determining to influence people, to stand with her to stop death due to drinking and driving, other mothers, that had loss children to drunk drivers, channeled their grieve into the fight, that began in the 1980’s. Children under the age of 21, are not allowed to have no alcohol in their system that sit behind the wheel of an automobile.
Some that has challenged me for the better and some for the worse. But overall it has advanced me into the woman I have become. This paper will give you a little insight from my childhood, to my adulthood, and give you the chance to learn more about Akeya Davis. Bad experiences I have encounter in my life as a child was my parents being separated. At the age of five years old my parents were drug addicts and always fighting and arguing so they never could agree to be together for me.
At home her mother would always be very distant and would constantly talk about her past as a teenager and how popularity is very important which would get even worse later in the book to the point where she totally isolates herself from people and gets sent to an institution. Geri started to drink more and stopped talking to her two best and only friends Carolyn and BJ to join another group of friends who were “cooler” and would always drink and throw partys. Geri eventually became an alcoholic and would be drinking every single day which was a choice of hers. Nobody forced Geri to drink and after everytime a terrible event would happen she would always promise herself she’d never do it again but then when she felt low she would just start small and go back up. The point of this is that the events such as her families situation could have been solved if she had put effort into it but instead she began drinking which was her choice and she had total control over
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P2 Jane is 24 and has recently lost both her parents in a car accident and has turned to drugs as a coping mechanism. Because of her drug habit Jane is facing losing her job and her boyfriend of 4 years has also suggested they break up. People we love can die at any stage in our life and it is always hard to deal with the pain of losing a loved one, however the pain is even greater when we lose them at a young age or if we lose them unexpectedly. Death affects every person differently and people have different ways of coping with the death of people they love. When Jane lost her parents she will have gone through the transition of life with them to life without them and it will have been very sudden for her as they died accidentally.
I think she has weary eyes because all she seems to be doing is crying and she has a dry throat because she is smoking cocaine which makes her get the effect of having a dry throat. I really feel for this girl. I think that she must have lost her family and friends down the road of her addiction. She must’ve pushed them away for her to have nobody. All the men she sleeps with don’t think anything good of her and I think they just see her as some prostitute who has no