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    Driving Under the Influence Essay

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    other adults figures, have a beer or a cocktail and get in the car. Thus, making it seem like it is acceptable to drink and drive. “One in three people will be involved in an alcohol-related crash in their lifetime” (MADD). Driving under the influence is measured by a person’s blood alcohol level (BAC). BAC is determined by the concentration of alcohol in the bloodstream. Individual counties and states have their own legal level on blood alcohol percentages that they measure a person’s

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    Jamilah Alfadhli ENG 110-01 November 13, 2015 Mass Media Influence in Shaping People’s Ideas about Society The most important goal for mass media is to make high revenues. To make this goal real and earn that money mass media maker or producer put effective working plans. These effective plans could be in all different kinds of any mass media. There are several effects of made mass media planning before it broadcasting a message to improve it economic. These effects are; effects of advertising

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    Driving Under the Influence (DUI), others allude to it as Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) and a little gathering of states called it Operating Under the Influence (OUI).”This criminal offense for the most part incorporates either driving affected by liquor to the degree it impedes your physical and mental personnel or driving while you have a blood liquor substance of .08 or more noteworthy

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    Driving under the influence of alcohol not only presents a danger to the driver, but also to every other motorist or pedestrian near the roadway. Being intoxicated impairs ones judgment, vision and reaction time, all of which is critical when operating any motor vehicle. Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death for Americans aged 6–27 and alcohol is a big factor to those numbers (jstor). Every 20 minutes, someone will die in an alcohol related traffic accident. Most people think it

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    people are caught without their licenses but it is most likely true that there are many drivers who get away freely from any cops knowing they are driving without a license. The next point has to do with the leniency of the state's Driving Under Influences laws. More specifically, South Dakota’s laws. South Dakota’s DUI penalties include no minimum jail time or fine for a first or second offense, no administrative license suspension, and no ignition interlock requirement. It had the number one fatality

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    English Driving Under the Influence Accidents involving vehicles are the leading cause of death for people the ages of 16-25. So many people let others down by driving under the influence of either Marijuana or Alcohol. They let their family, friends, coaches and others down by their decision of getting in a vehicle and proceeding to drive while under the influence of drugs or other substances that would affect their driving abilities. Have you ever driven under the influence? Do you think others would

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    Driving under the influence (DUI), in numbers Over 1.1 million drivers were arrested in 2014 for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics.1 In the same year, 9,967 people died in drunk driving crashes while 290,000 were injured.2 Lest we forget, these dry statistics represent real people. Evidently, drunk driving remains to be one of the notorious banes in the society. Fortunately, this is not without recourse. Organizations such as MADD3 and ridesharing platforms like Uber4 have been

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    How internal and external influences may impact on business opportunities in NSW. Business opportunities in New South Wales are impacted by internal and external influences, external influence being competitive sitiaution being most common, technological, insitiutional, political, legal, markets, economic, finacial, geographical and social having little or no control over and internal influences being location, products, resources, management, business culture being mostly or all contorl over. As

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    CJM-309 paper 5 Kevin Driving under the influence of alcohol brings fatalities. The National Highway, traffic, and Safety administration have the mandate of carrying out research geared towards achieving safety in the American highways. According to the National Highway, traffic Safety Administration (2013), alcoholic impairment whilst driving depends on the driver’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC). According to National Highway, traffic Safety Administration (2013), a BAC higher or equal to.08

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    opening your mouth to yell, but are surprised that instead of seeing your son in front of the door are two cops. You can read by their expressions that it is not good news. They tell you that your son has died, due to the cause of driving under the influence of alcohol. The first thing that comes to your mind is, “It’s not true!”. The cops try to explain clearly what has happened, but your mind is still processing the news. You don’t even notice when the cops leave. Every day, “28 people in the U.S.

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