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Sources for Persuasive Essay Body Paragraph Activity
TOPICS Getting Paid for Good Grades Legal Driving Age Cell Phones in School School Day Length Music Piracy
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Paragraph with additions Paragraph 1 – the teen brain
The first reason that the driving age should increase to 18 years of age is the lack of adolescent emotional and social maturity. According to Ted Gregory’s article “Should 16-year-olds drive?” in the Chicago Tribune, the average teenager’s brain is susceptible because of its place in development. To explain further, Gregory notes, “Fifteen- and 16-year-olds have the logical reasoning of an adult, experts say. But their young minds' social and emotional development remains relatively immature and voraciously seeks sensual arousal, novelty and risk.” Because of this, teenagers are prone to distraction and peer pressure. Another factor is that the front portion of the brain—which includes control of impulses, judgment and decision- making, and the coordination of multi-tasking—matures deep into the 20s, research shows, also cited in Gregory’s article. This proves that although a teenager may be mature in other ways, his/her lack of emotional and social maturity has a huge impact on his/her driving abilities.
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Paragraph 2 – it will decrease teen mortality rate from vehicular homicide
Another reason why the driving age should increase is to decrease the rate of teenage vehicular homicide. According to Governors Highway Safety Association institute President Adrian Lund, “We're still losing a lot of teens on the road each year.” The institute’s study notes that motor vehicle crashes kill more than 5,000 teenagers every year. Research shows that 15% of accident deaths on the road involve someone between the ages of 17-20, as noted in Darren Hirst’s article “Is 17 too young to drive?” If the legal driving age increased, the number of teenage deaths would be affected in a positive way by saving lives that would otherwise be lost to vehicular homicide.
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Paragraph 3 – Use of the “graduate license scheme”
The last defense to increasing the legal driving age would be the use of a new system called the “Graduate License Scheme”. This would in effect rise the age before a full license can be required by a year, making the minimum driving age 18. Darren Hirst’s article introduces this new system by explaining that, “This scheme would involve learners having to have their L plates on a car for a year before they can receive their full license which would force them to gain a years experience of driving with an experienced driver no matter what their age.” Taking lessons and having more experience would certainly give teenagers more time to mature socially and emotionally, it would also make driving safer for teenagers because of the supervised time spent on the road. Therefore, use of a Graduate License Scheme would benefits young drivers as well as the increase in the legal age to 18.
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Getting Paid for Good Grades
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LEGAL Driving age s/indepth/upfront/debate/index.asp?article= d0508 to-Drive?&id= nworld/chi-teen-driving- study_09sep09,0, story ves/5302-OPINION-Is-16-too-young-to- drive.html
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Cell phones in school telephones/school/51264.html -phone-bans-school-pros-cons/ phones-in-school html /Should-Cell-Phones-Be-Allowed-In- Schools.htm
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School day length cons-four_day-school-week.html e/0,9171, ,00.html news-article/schools-new-math-the-four-day- week/ research/educ/school-calendar-four-day- school-week-overview.aspx
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Music piracy http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02241/e ffects.htm
Of-Illegal-Music-Downloading-On html analysis-does-online-piracy-actually-hurt-the- economy /07/Pros-cons-of-music-protection- studied/UPI /
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Sources for Persuasive Essay Body Paragraph Activity
TOPICS Cloning Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell Same Sex Marriage Standardized Testing Banning Fast Food Restaurants
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Sources for Cloning hp?id=282. al:Search?search=cloning&go=Go online.at/biology/cloning/cloning- reproduction.htm actions/proconmain.html
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Source for Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell Policy
s_in_the_US_military should-congress-repeal-dont-ask-dont-tell-/nQcx9/ s_in_the_US_military#Military_opinion:_Where_do_ members_of_the_US_military_stand.3F DADT was repealed in 2011
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Source for Same Sex Marriages
pubpol.pl?searchtext=GayMarriage&Type=LTR &Resource=DB&Website=GOVTINFO e:_Gay_marriage marriages.htm marriage/articles/2004/03/12/the_debate_o n_gay_marriage_pro_and_con/?page=full
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Source for Standardized Testing
ent:_Standardized_tests_poorly_measure_rea l_student_learning e:_Exams e/high-stakes-testing-pros-cons/ ndardized-Testing.htm
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Source for Banning Fast Food (or Junk Food)
activity-food-addiction-similar-addictions- study/story?id= d_facts_in_brief.aspx e:_Junk_food_advertising_ban milies/obesity_in_children_and_teens Of-Junk-Food&id=927106
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Regulating students’ participation in sports/clubs
php/152603/295/Budgeting/Accounting/52/E xtracurricular_Activities_in_Student_Life%3A _Pros_and_Cons urricular-school-activities/ 5H17/rhollrah/cof.html how-extracurricular-sports-have-a-positive- influence-on-children/
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