i think i did alright, i could have had it better planned out but the ideas i wanted to get across were valid and good points. i think that we won because we had more supports and evidence that homework should not be removed by displaying its relevance to even young ages

1. It improves your child’s thinking and memory
2. It helps your child develop positive study skills and habits that will serve him or her well throughout life
3. Homework encourages your child to use time wisely
4. It teaches your child to work independently
5. Homework teaches your child to take responsibility for his or her work
6. It allows your child to review and practice what has been covered in class
7. It helps your child to get ready for the next day’s class
8. Homework helps your child learn to use resources, such as libraries, reference materials, and computer Web sites to find information
9. It encourages your child to explores subjects more fully than classroom time permits
10. It allows your child to extend learning by applying skills to new situations
11. It helps your child integrate learning by applying many different skills to a single task, such as book reports or science projects
12. Howework helps parents learn more about what your child is learning in school
13. It allows parents to communicate about what he or she is learning
14. It encourages parents to spark your child’s enthusiasm

MLDA 21 helps prevent underage binge drinking.

Binge drinking peaks among 21- to 25-year-olds at 45.9%, while the binge drinking rates of those aged 12-13, 14-15, 16-17, and 18-20 are 1.5%, 7.8%, 19.4%, and 35.7% respectively.

Lowering MLDA 21 would give high schoolers and even middle schoolers easier access to alcohol.

Newly-legal drinkers often purchase alcohol for their underage peers, creating a "trickle-down" effect. [34] Surveys show that the most common source of alcohol among 18- to 20-year olds is their 21- to 24-year-old peers. [35]

Lowering the drinking age will invite more use of illicit drugs among 18-21 year olds.

A peer-reviewed study from the Journal of Studies of Alcohol and Drugs found that the younger a person begins to drink alcohol the more likely it is that they will use other illicit drugs. [38] Lowering MLDA 21 would increase the number of teens who drink and therefore the number of teens who use other drugs. [37] [39]

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Reflection due -- 300 words. How has your TED talk improved from your last draft? How could it have been improved further with more time/effort on this project?

The only improvement was the added statistics which could have been put in more appropriate points in the talk but due to lack of time it was crammed at the end, had there been more time an effort in the project the would have been tremendous upside, not only with the basic speaking actions like tone speed and diction, but with the setting could have been more formal to the situation where i could have been standing and addressing a cameral further away to simulate an audience, i could have taken more time to get a better grasp of i movie which could have helped me incorporate images and beneficial evidence and facts to my talk

http://youtu.be/Ix1b2m6ISs8

I feel that the presentation could have been improved, and that goes along with the atmosphere as well as delivery. the diction was good, but expression was lacking, it was relatively monotone. The talk could have used more facts to back it up, as well as maybe a story or something more engaging than the reference to youth soccer.