Should the drinking age be lowered like other countries have it such as in Germany, Canada, Mexico, etc? In other countries, drinking is not viewed as an activity as much as in the US. It is ingested as a compliment to a meal. A lot of American teenagers drink because it's like the forbidden fruit to them. If it was legal, there wouldn't be as much of an intrigue to just go out and get as drunk as possible or drunk at all. I'm 17 and I think alcohol behind the wheel takes too many lives away from teenagers. Most teenagers don't have the mental capacity to handle it. Not only that a lot of kids are too immature, and we would have a lot of dead teenagers before they even go to college.
Schools tell people not to drink at all. In reality, most kids drink at some point (not necessarily getting drunk) before they're twenty one, so they're wasting time because most people usually ignore them. Instead of saying, don't do it at all, school health programs should preach minority and limitation. Maybe then people would actually listen and the school would get what they want. These are my opinions on the drinking age. If you have an opinion please share them! (:
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Drinking age
Should the drinking age be lowered like other countries have it such as in Germany, Canada, Mexico, etc? In other countries, drinking is not viewed as an activity as much as in the US. It is ingested as a compliment to a meal. A lot of American teenagers drink because it's like the forbidden fruit to them. If it was legal, there wouldn't be as much of an intrigue to just go out and get as drunk as possible or drunk at all. I'm 17 and I think alcohol behind the wheel takes too many lives away from teenagers. Most teenagers don't have the mental capacity to handle it. Not only that a lot of kids are too immature, and we would have a lot of dead teenagers before they even go to college.
Schools tell people not to drink at all. In reality, most kids drink at some point (not necessarily getting drunk) before they're twenty one, so they're wasting time because most people usually ignore them. Instead of saying, don't do it at all, school health programs should preach minority and limitation. Maybe then people would actually listen and the school would get what they want. These are my opinions on the drinking age. If you have an opinion please share them! (:
Schools tell people not to drink at all. In reality, most kids drink at some point (not necessarily getting drunk) before they're twenty one, so they're wasting time because most people usually ignore them. Instead of saying, don't do it at all, school health programs should preach minority and limitation. Maybe then people would actually listen and the school would get what they want. These are my opinions on the drinking age. If you have an opinion please share them! (:
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
WIKI!
This past few weeks we have started a thing called “Wiki”. I am not going to lie when I heard this I was like ugg...really this is going to be so boring. Then when you told us we could pick out our own word’s I thought to myself I could make this fun. That’s when I decided to pick out the word that everyone should know about.
That’s when I decided to pick out the word blonde a word that is discriminated a lot in our society. As I said in my wiki Blondes have a reputation for being dumb, clumsy, forgetful, etc. I was even in a dictionary, and that point came up. That’s when I thought enough was enough. I am normally a person who does not express my thoughts nor feelings very well. Well In my wiki I have learned to express my feeling much better. I found it is much easier to do this when I find something I am very strong about. So now that we are getting more into the wiki I am very glad that we have done this project. I think it will help me as a writer in the end. Not only that the wiki is something I look forward to when coming into class.
That’s when I decided to pick out the word blonde a word that is discriminated a lot in our society. As I said in my wiki Blondes have a reputation for being dumb, clumsy, forgetful, etc. I was even in a dictionary, and that point came up. That’s when I thought enough was enough. I am normally a person who does not express my thoughts nor feelings very well. Well In my wiki I have learned to express my feeling much better. I found it is much easier to do this when I find something I am very strong about. So now that we are getting more into the wiki I am very glad that we have done this project. I think it will help me as a writer in the end. Not only that the wiki is something I look forward to when coming into class.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
ABORTION??
I’ve seen over the weeks a lot of people have been doing their opinions on abortion. So I figured I would put my opinion on here as well. I am strongly totally against abortion for these reasons specifically.
First of all most it is murder, unborn or not it is still a child. Refers to the term “Thou shall not kill”. Then if you took the responsibility to get pregnant, take the responsibility to carry the child, raise the baby yourself or place the child up for adoption. Also the procedure for having an abortion is very risky for some women, which may cause severe damage, making it impossible of having another child again, or even dying. Abortion doesn't make you not pregnant; it makes you a mother to a dead baby.
Now there are only two certain circumstances I think abortion is okay in my book. One case would be if the pregnancy is going to put the mother’s life in danger, or if the baby is going to die no matter what is done. Then the other would be if the women was raped or etc. No one should have to go through that horrible, traumatizing thing. No one should be forced to have a living reminder of their rape, and no child deserves to be the product of rape. These are my thoughts and views about it you can leave comments on what you think also.
First of all most it is murder, unborn or not it is still a child. Refers to the term “Thou shall not kill”. Then if you took the responsibility to get pregnant, take the responsibility to carry the child, raise the baby yourself or place the child up for adoption. Also the procedure for having an abortion is very risky for some women, which may cause severe damage, making it impossible of having another child again, or even dying. Abortion doesn't make you not pregnant; it makes you a mother to a dead baby.
Now there are only two certain circumstances I think abortion is okay in my book. One case would be if the pregnancy is going to put the mother’s life in danger, or if the baby is going to die no matter what is done. Then the other would be if the women was raped or etc. No one should have to go through that horrible, traumatizing thing. No one should be forced to have a living reminder of their rape, and no child deserves to be the product of rape. These are my thoughts and views about it you can leave comments on what you think also.
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