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mhs-grinder poignant means sadness or smth like that uk that right also it couldnt be poignant bc it talks about why google street cars should be given to our government

    Is a digital watch allowed? Not a smart watch but a digital one, since I don't have any other one.
    If not I'll have to go buy one 😭

    And for those asking how to change an answer, they'll show on the day. But you just cross it out and shade your new one
    To change a second time you shade and circle the new one

    It was like this last year, and this answer was released by acer

      Hey guys, I wrote a persuasive text in 17 mins. I'm going to type it and you guys let me know what I could improve on.

      Drunk people should be imprisoned on the first offence (persuasive)

      Just imagine you were peacefully driving on the freeway and then out of the blue, you got in a horrific car crash and you have issues for the rest of your life all because someone was drink driving. This is a massive ongoing issue which is why drunk drivers should be imprisoned on their first offence because this law will finally intimidate them to drive soberly, there will be a reduced amount of traffic accidents and people in general will be safer.

      Firstly, if drunk drivers get imprisoned on their first offence, they will be scared to drink drive in the first place. Statistics show that drink driving rates are skyrocketing which begs the question, why is this happening? This mainly happening due to the fact that the current law is not intimidating at all, and people feel as if they can get away with drunk driving with only a small fine. This mindset can only be altered by imprisoning drunk drivers on their first offence. Furthermore, if you were placed in the shoes of a person who decides that they want to drink drive, would you do it if the stakes were so high and you could be placed behind bars if you were caught? I don't think so but since the consequences are so diminutive for a crime this bad, they don't care if they have to pay such a small fine. This just shows that drunk drivers must be punished severely even on their first offence to prevent major mishaps.

      Secondly, people should be arrested and placed behind bars on their first drunk driving charge so there are way less accidents. A chief of police has revealed that loads of fatal car accidents are caused by people under the influence of alcohol. If we place drunk drivers behind bars, we will have way less loss of life on the roads. Studies conducted by some of the best fatal accident researchers have shown that if there were no drunk drivers on the road, the death rate caused by car accidents would absolutely plummet. If we implement this, no innocent civilian will have to pass away just because someone else was being irresponsible.

      Some people may argue that it would be too harsh and cruel to imprison drunk driving on their first offence. However, this is totally wrong as people are losing lives just because some people decided to drive while under the influence which is a decision mainly decided by choice.

      To sum up, drunk drivers must be imprisoned even on their first offence because people will finally be intimidated by the law, there will be less car accidents, and everyone can just overall be safe. If this law is put into place, we will be living in a peaceful world where we do not have to worry about fools who make the wrong choice and put people's lives in danger.

        TryingforSCHS great piece solid 8/10 but work on flow and when u say statistics use numbers like percentages as it shows u have done heavy research on the topic and add a little more emotive appeal to create guilt for the people that drink and i reckon with those added your marks will improve and for your rebuttal include a little more sentences

            TryingforSCHS yeah solid 7-8/10, gotta say there are many good things to take out of this, first of all, nice intro where you weaved your arguments in a sophisticated way, nice choice of vocab, not too over the top as this can be overriding, strong arguments although try not to be too repetitive, and nice conclusion. So, first of all, try not to give evidence or anecdotal quotes unless you are 100% sure about them, also, try to extent the rebuttal a bit as it is a bit bland and not even with the length of your other arguments, also, i mean you could use some better words for example "which begs the questions", you could say engenders the question which basically means to make something come up (like the thought of it in this context). Overall great effort, with more tweaking this should be aa or sup

                got 52/60 for the vr better education ones with a 25 min time limit, could've gotten like another 5 questions right

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                  AverageMultiChoiceTest Ahh please don't use the pen with a rubber, the erasable one
                  The pen ink disappears in heat/through friction.. if left in a hot place like under the sun or heater, the work will disappear

                  Even if it's unlikely that it will be affected, you never know where the tests will go and if everything disappears it'd be terrible
                  Also, another hot place where the pen will disappear is in a photocopier, so if they decide to put it in one, everything gone

                    yeah bc the pen is water based and the scanner wont pick up the ink

                    thank you so much for remidning me of that, I would have failed the entire test without that info

                    • Tas likes this.

                    MMHS i was nt trying to say it lie that i thought poignant meant nice or smthand collacation is js a technique to use its not a high vocab word

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