Old Memories
"I put your red sweater under your flannel shirt. The red one is warmer than the gray one so wear it when the temperature gets low. Inside the black plastic bag is some medicine. These are for cold and flu. Take them when you don't feel well. If you start coughing, take those green capsules plus one of these yellow antibiotics. Remember, just one. They are really strong. Don't take those white tablets during the day because they make you feel drowsy. But if you . . . " “Mom, I know, I know," I said impatiently. It was August 2000, a few days before I left home for college. Mom tried to squeeze everything that I might need into the boxes she took from Safeway. I watched her putting things in, taking them out, and then putting them back again to make sure that things stacked on one another as perfectly as the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Finally she was convinced that no one could squeeze even one more molecule into any of the boxes, and she looked satisfied. My things stuck out of the top like the stomach of a three-hundred pound beer drinker.
The picture of things jumping out like Jack in the box when I opened the boxes ran through my mind quickly like a five-second cartoon. "I am not going to take those with me," I thought. In my mind, I was thinking about how those people in the PBS travel programs always fascinated me. I often imagined myself traveling in different countries with a single backpack hanging on my back that showed so much carefree leisure and mature independence. I could sleep in a park or in a subway station because a true traveler could feel at home anywhere. The idea of carrying some awkward luggage simply did not appeal to me. I also thought she worried too much. After all, I was eighteen years old and already graduated from high school. I had learned many things from books and I knew how to deal with different people. Her "you-are-still-a-little-girl" tone sometimes irritated me, and her doubt of my ability made me more eager to prove myself. Therefore with much confidence I left, like a young bird flying from the nest, without even looking back at its aging parents.
When it comes to the discussion over lowering the legal drinking age to eighteen, people express various different ideas and beliefs concerning the issue. Some believe that the drinking age for alcohol should be lowered and others believe that it should stay the same. Those that do believe lowering the drinking age is the best route to take, do have valid points. However, there are others who argue that changing the law will not change things for the better. In the end, one could feel that lowering the drinking age to eighteen could actually show signs of promise in equality for all American adults. Changing this law could decrease the tendency of young adults to break the law, and could train them to have more self-control.
In the book The Giver by, Lois Lowry, the reader is introduced to what seems overall to be a perfect community although somewhat unusual and perplexing. As the story progresses, the reader learns things that seem unsettling even though this utopian society is supposedly “perfect”. As Jonas begins his work as the new receiver of memory, he gains wisdom and through tat wisdom learns that in protecting the community from the memories, their lives have lacked feeling and understanding.
There are numerous problems involving alcohol in the world today, including alcoholism, drunk driving, and alcohol poisoning leading to death. Many of these problems involve minors and are linked to drinking underage. The legal drinking age in many states is twenty-one years old. The purpose of this law is to keep minors out of danger: away from drunk driving, alcohol poisoning, and injuring the brain before it is fully developed. The government supports the belief that people are not ready or responsible enough for alcohol until this age. However, various professors and researchers are discovering ways to disprove this belief. These people think that reducing the drinking age to eighteen would influence our country in a positive way. Not only do minors support this idea, but there are numerous people and organizations that support the idea of lowering the drinking age as well. The current drinking law is counterproductive in our society because it’s not effective in eliminating underage drinking, and leads to unsafe situations such as drunk driving and alcohol poison instigated deaths. This problem could be solved by lowering the minimum drinking age to eighteen, with a drinking license.
Most people have heard about the debate in the U.S. about lowering the current drinking age. A lot of people believe that it should be lowered, but also there are a considerable amount of people who think it should stay the same. This debate has been going on for several years now and it seems like there will be no change as of now. The drinking age in the United States is currently 21, however, for several reasons it should be lowered to 18.
You 've probably heard a lot about bottled water. That it 's healthier for you than tap water, that it can replace your vitamins, that it 's really only tap water and how environmentally unfriendly it is. We know which is better for the environment. That 's easy. Not only are millions of tons of plastic bottles clogging our landfills, but it takes 1.63 liters of water to make every liter of Dasani. But despite those harsh realities, public concerns about tap-water quality have caused bottled water sales to soar over the past couple of decades. With this type of conflicting information about water, it 's easy to get confused. Let 's see if we can help you cut through the clutter and lead you down the path to healthier water consumption.
...ons of this issue provide were fully supported. I concluded that the anti-legalist hold a stronger argument than the legalist. Still, Drug legalization is an enduring question that presently faces our scholars.
Athletes drink bottled water during sporting events, students carry around bottled water at school, families buy cases of bottled water due to its convenience and versatility. According to Peter Gleick in “Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water”, it was not long ago that society had no desire nor use for bottled water. From the times of Ancient Greece to modern Cleveland, Ohio, water has evolved to become safer to consume but has also become a product very much engrained in the materialistic and consumption culture of society (Bottled and Sold). Individuals are subconsciously trained to select, consume, and discard due to the nature of bottled water. Not only is this mindset associated with bottled water, it has also become apparent that branding and marketing of bottled water is now valued as much as the safety of the water being consumed (Bottled and Sold). Poland Springs, known to many individuals that purchase bottled water, for some time now has been decreasing the amount of water that it siphons from Alfred, Maine (Wikipedia). Poland Springs promises to provide water that is properly tested and from the springs of Maine, but according to “Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water” the FDA does not do an adequate job recalling unsafe water and thus has allowed companies such as Poland Springs to add chemicals and purifiers in water
In today’s society it is uncommon to see people walking around without water. Those who carry water with them either have their water in a reusable bottle or have bought bottled water. Bottled water is the more commonly found type of water carried around, reason being that it is easy to just buy a huge pack so that a person can just grab a bottle a go. The problem with bottled water is that more often than not, the bottle does not get recycled, but instead gets thrown into the garbage. The problem with this is that the bottles end up in a landfill. However, in this past year alone American’s used “about 50 billion plastic water bottles” (Ban The Bottle, n.d., Para. 4). Most people do not see the big difference between bottled water and tap
The current legal drinking age causes 18 year olds to drink in dangerous places where they are not supervised. Lowering the drinking
One could say that Nestle, The Cocoa Cola Company, and PepsiCo are geniuses. These companies are making a fortune...
“Making bottles to meet America’s demand for bottled water uses more than 17 million barrels of oil annually.” To dissipate that much oil every year on bottled water alone is a tragedy, because oil is a nonrenewable recourse that takes millions of years to make. If they didn’t sell bottled water on campus it would reduce the amount of bottled water being produced, which in return would lower the amount of oil being used. Bottled water also hurts wildlife, according to the website biologicaldiversity.org “Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of …marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic or getting entangled in it.” The essence of this statement is that water bottles do contribute to the deaths of species as well as endangered animals. If we stopped the sale of bottled water on campus it would reduce the amount of plastic waste that gets lost in the ocean or wildlife and less animals would die every year. So let’s not be selfish and get caught up in the greed of oneself and ban the selling of water bottles on campus to help protect the
Alcohol has always been a concern for many countries, while some just let it go. For example, in Jamaica, Morocco and Vietnam, they can give a newborn baby alcohol and nothing be said( Government). In Barbados, Germany and Greece, the drinking age is sixteen. The majority of countries, including Australia, the Bahamas, Canada and the United Kingdom, allow people to
For ever water bottle made, non-renewable resources are wasted to produce an unnecessary luxury. For the bottled water Americans enjoy, seventeen million barrels of oil are used (excluding transportation), which could fuel more than 1.3 million cars for a year. Most water is imported and exported from places that are thousands of miles away, like Fiji. Although oil is controversial in nature, for every one liter of water produced, three liters are used; the excess water wasted can supply clean water to the world’s poorest countries. Moreover, the energy used in bottle production can supply energy to over 190,000 homes. The resources that can be replaced by ceasing the production of water bottles can solve many global problems faced by a growing population.
The day finally came for me to leave, I had packed my things that morning in a mournful mood that morning.I did not want to go to nana’s but mom kept telling me it was for the better, over and over again like a broken record.After I said goodbye to mom I had gotten on the plane and put on my seatbelt, the ride was supposed to be short so I would only have around 30 minutes to contain my thoughts on how things would be.Mid-flight I reached in my backpack and grabbed my dad’s ball.I started wondering off into though, honestly I was more afraid than upset, what if nana did not like me?What if I did not fit in, this was like school all over again, which only made me upset again.The plane had landed and the flight attendant came.
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