Analyzing the Text Cite Text Evidence Support your responses with evidence from the text.
1. Draw Conclusions What is the central idea of “Is 16 Too Young to
Drive a Car?”
2. Evaluate Reread lines 101–125. Explain how the statistics the author
provides support his central idea. Is there another way to interpret
the statistics? Support your answer.
3. Cause/Effect Reread lines 155–173. Which details explain why teen
drivers make poor decisions?

Explanation:

1. The central idea of "Is 16 Too Young to Drive a Car" is that a 16 -year-olds brain is not developed enough to drive responsibly.

2. Responsible teen drivers shouldn’t be punished for the mistakes of other young drivers.

3. Teen drivers make poor decisions because their brain is not fully developed so they begin to make risky choices.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.