9. Do curfews keep teens out of trouble?

Teens should have a curfew to be out until 10 p.m. on weekdays or after midnight on weekends is a very intelligent notion.   This curfew would help to keep teenagers out of trouble and away from the dangers of drugs and alcohol.   It may also help to improve their grades.   This new law could also aid in the reduction in the amounts of kidnappings and rapes of teenagers.   This curfew is a new and insightful idea.
Drunk driving, alcohol poisoning, drug overdose, or reckless behavior while under the influence of narcotics. These are just some of the ways that teenagers are dying due to abuse of drugs and alcohol.   Drugs and alcohol are the number one killer of teens today.   And when is the time that most teenagers are out doing these terrible things?   When they are out at night with their friends.   Eliminating the possibility of them staying out into the wee hours of the night would greatly reduce the amount of deaths due to drugs and alcohol.   Because most teens are terrified of arriving at home and having to face their parents drunk or high, most teens try to stay out until morning with their friends and try to "sober up" before arriving home.   If they legally can't stay out past ten on weeknights and 12 on weekends, they most likely won't have enough time to go out, get drunk and high before returning home and getting caught by their parents.
Biology, D, geometry, C, English, D, Spanish, F.   Those or the typical grades the average student who stays out until late on weekdays receives.   Staying out until late adversely affects the amount of sleep a teen gets, which in turn makes them less concentrated at school.   Less concentration at school translates into their schoolwork, which in in turn lowers grades.   I mean come on, it's not rocket science.   It is a known fact that the body and mind need sleep to operate well.   Also if teens are at home, they could be doing their homework and studying to do better in school.

3. Is our election process fair?

The election process in the United States is a valuable process to the election of the proper officials to satisfy the people.   The people run the country which is why we live in freedom because we control what happens with major decisions by choosing whom we want to decide these decisions.   The whole country goes to vote on a certain day and by the end of that day we will vote to select who will run the country, state, county, or city political positions.   The most complex decision and one with the biggest impact are selecting who the President of the United States shall be.   We examine what their views are and who would do a better job.   Then vote in our respected states with a certain number of electoral votes depending upon the population in that state.   Those votes go toward the overall count of the candidate and help choose who will reach the magic number of 270 electoral votes first.   This hasn't always remained the same since the beginning but the basic idea behind this type of voting system was created by the views of the Founding Fathers of our country.
The Founding Fathers had to examine all the necessary information to make sure that their process meets the needs of all of their countries' citizens.   They faced the idea of how to choose a president that had such diverse needs and wants.   They had to realize that the smaller states were not happy about the idea of a national central government because their rights and powers would be limited.   The factor of their being 4,000,000 people spread all over the Eastern coast made them realize that national campaigns were impractical. They felt that political parties were dishonest and evil due to the British political parties.   This led them to have to find a way to accommodate everyone without the use of political parties and a national campaign.

2. Is the death penalty effective?

An issue that has continually created tension in today's society is whether the death penalty serves as a justified and valid form of punishment. Whenever the word "death penalty" comes up, extremists from both sides start yelling out their arguments. One side says deterrence, the other side says there's a potential of executing an innocent man; one says justice, retribution, and punishment; the other side says execution is murder. Crime is an evident part of society, and everyone is aware that something must be done about it. Given the benefits of capital punishment, it is hard to imagine why anyone would be against it, but there are several arguments against the death sentence that need to be addressed. Opponents of the death penalty point out that there is a possibility of wrongly executing an innocent man. Of course, there is a possibility of wrongly sending an innocent man to prison, or wrongly fining an innocent man, but they contend that because of the finality and severity of the death penalty, the consequences of wrongly executing an innocent person are much more wrong. There has never been any proof of an innocent man being executed.Our judicial system takes many precautions to ensure that the rights of the innocent are protected. In order to understand this, one must look at the complex process required to convict someone of first-degree murder and get him sentenced to death. First a person is arrested and given an attorney. Evidence must be presented proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed first degree murder. The defendant must have been in a clear state of mind. After a five to six week trial, the defendant goes on to a second trial to decide whether he deserves the death penalty. Again, a full trial is held. Defense presents evidence on why this murderer does not deserve to die. After this occurs and the murderer is sentenced to die, his case is automatically appealed to the state Supreme Court. After that, he may file a number of different appeals. Finally, about ten years later, after every legal attempt and delay tactic has been exhausted, the murderer is executed. As should be evident from this complex process, every reasonable precaution is taken to ensure that no innocent man is executed.Capital punishment has proven to have good benefits upon the country in determining the consequences that criminals deserve. This is needed to ensure the safety and moral values of society. If this is the case, there is no need for us to consider the expenses involved in the death penalty. Certainly human lives are more important, for it may easily be yours. We should not abolish capital punishment, but hold our country accountable for properly exercising the death penalty upon those who deserve it.

18.Do we have a throw-away society?

 Fifty years ago, not much was being thrown away. Almost everything had a considerably longer life span than that ubiquitous plastic bag holding our groceries has today. What led us to this place of having and wanting so much stuff? Stuff that we literally don't know what to do with or where to put when we're done with it.As time has gone through the years,Company advertisement implied that a change in style meant progress in capitalism. Growth in America was being driven by a new sense of convenience and disposability. Paper plates and cups, frozen foods, TV dinners, foil and plastic pouches, aerosol cans, and squeezable tubes were the way of the future, bringing a new convenience and ease to everyone's lifestyle—especially the housewife's. Packaging became the new billboard for marketers inside the supermarket. Why spend time cleaning pots and pans and dishes when you can toss it all away in the garbage when you're done? Easily disposable items offered a new freedom that was quickly linked to the notion of abundance. From then on, changes in styles and new technologies gave way to new and improved products that were increasingly affordable to more people. "Out with the old and in with the new" became in. Once it was put onto the curb as garbage, we no longer had to think about it. It was out of sight and out of mind. Abundance and waste soon became synonymous with the American way of life. More choices, more conveniences, and with the invention of credit cards more accessible money made Americans very conspicuous consumers. With only 5 percent of the global population, the U.S. consumes a whoppinghen we no longer need or want something, what do we do with it? Well, statistics show that the average American discards about six pounds of trash per day. That is more than 200 million tons per year. Where is all this garbage going? About 57 percent of all our trash is buried in landfills. 30 percent of the planet's resources and churns out 30 percent of its wastes.
There is hardly any land left on which to place landfills,so over time we began to Reduce,Reuse,and Recycle.It saves our landfills and saves our lives as we recycle more and more.From the bottom up, recycling has begun to change the nature of our industrial system. Recycling has become in this time frame a permanent part of US daily life. More people recycle every day at home, school and work than vote regularly in elections. The impact has been dramatic.