“Traffic deaths from drunken driving have fallen steadily, with those involving teenagers 16 to 19 declining by 39.1 percent from 1982 to 1990, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)”. (Clark, 1992). Even though drinking and driving is a crime thousands of teens continue to get behind the wheel and kill thousands of innocent people in alcohol related crashes every year. There are drunken accidents because teens don’t take drinking and driving seriously. Teens just want to feel the pleasure and they want to feel good but don’t think about the other people or even there selves that they can kill on the road.
Rachel Shumate Mrs. Doss English 10 12/5/12 Why People Should Not Drive Drunk Every year 1.5 million people get pulled over for DWI (Driving While Intoxicated). One third of those people are repeat offenders, who even though they got pulled over once, go out and drive drunk again because they have no serious punishments (Curran, 1). Drunk drivers should be imprisoned on the first offense because they are endangering the lives of the other people around them. People who are arrested for DWIs are commonly known repeat offenders. About 1.5 million people get arrested for DUI (Driving under the Influence) each year (DeMichele, 1).
There are several differences in the amount of crime that men and women do. Men are 15 times more likely to commit homicide than women are. By the age of 40, 9% of females had a criminal conviction as opposed to 32% of males. These statistics show that there is a definite distinction in the amount of crime that is committed by the genders. Women have always been thought of as the weaker sex and Sociologists such as Heidensohn argue that men see the need to protect women.
Depression and suicide Researchers estimate that at least 6 million men suffer from depression each year in the United States. While this number is larger in women, men are almost four times more likely to suffer the ultimate consequence of their depression: suicide. Even though women attempt more suicides each year, men are more successful, in part because the methods employed by men are more lethal. Sadly, the above statistics make
A Social Problem In America alone people take about two hundred and thirty three trips in cars each year, of all these, one out of two thousand of these trips are being taken by drunk or drugged individuals. Statistics show that one of three traffic tragedies involve drunk drivers. Approximately nine thousand eight hundred seventy eight people died in car crashes in the year 2011. Due to these high numbers it was determined that this was a social problem in which the whole nation should pay close attention
However, it took longer time to go to work since he just needed 40 minutes to drive to work but he needed more or less two hours to go to work by Caltrain. He complained about the inconvenience with his colleagues and he found that his colleagues also had the same problems. Some of his colleagues chose to pool car, which means people drive to work with other strangers who work nearby and share the gas price. And they said that as gas prices increased, their wages were not increased as fast as gas prices. As a result, the increasing of gas prices bring inconvenience to people’s lives.
Persuasive Essay Janelle Logemann College Writing Period 7 1-23-12 The United States Department of Transportation estimates that two thirds of fatalities are at least partially caused by aggressive driving. The speed limits should not be changed on the highways and interstates because the faster people are allowed to drive, the more reckless they may become. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety reviewed insurance claims, police reports, and newspapers from 16 cities revealing 10,037 incidents of aggressive driving between 1990 and 1996, resulting in 218 deaths and more than 12,610 injures. In Illinois approximately 32 percent of all fatal crashes are speed-related. As the number of vehicles operating at higher speeds on 65 mph interstates is increased it results in a chance of collisions due to increased speed variance and greater risk of fatality resulting from higher crash impact speeds.
While men are judged on purely skill in their respective sports, women are judged less on their actually skills but how they can be marketed which always comes down to sexualizing themselves. You can see this by looking at the top paid women athletes such as Maria Sharapova or Danica Patrick who all clearly play that role. When we look at sport contracts, and only contracts not sponsorships, the largest contract signed by a male was $275,000,000(Alex Rodriguez) compared to the largest contract by a female was only $25,000,000. The same holds true when we look at
(2008) determined a link between substance abuse in combat experience service members involved in prior wars related to heavy alcohol use. Their study showed that service members that had deployed to combat zones demonstrated higher levels of heavy drinking than the service members that did not deploy or that deployed to non combat areas. The results also demonstrated that although men demonstrated more binge drinking and problems related to alcohol abuse, more women reported heavy drinking throughout a weekly period. Brown, Bray, and Hartzell (2010) found similar results in their research. They specifically looked at the dependence symptoms, driving after drinking, and productivity losses broken down by male/female and officer/enlisted ranks.
One study for example claims that there is a gender gap and that it is worse for women who have achieved high levels of education. That is, not only does the study demonstrate that a gender gap exists, but also it claims that education does not help women. Authors note: “According to the 2005 survey, women’s wages are in general, notably lower than those of men. Moreover, the gender pay gap widens as educational attainment increases: Women with a high school education earn 81% of what men with an equivalent education avarage, while women’s pay decreases to 74% of men what men average when they both hold a degree; the gender pay gap declines even further, to 65%, at post-graduate level” (“Gender pay gap wider for better educated women,” 2007). This is one example and there is clearly evidence to back up the claim.