For all the benefits gained from exercise, people generally show declines in physical activity with age. explains this by pointing to the societal pressures that keep people from an active life style through narrow notions of what older people should and shouldn’t do.

Should the city pass a ban on skateboarders on all public property, or are the citizens who oppose the ban right when they argue that there are benefits to having the skateboarders in public parks? plan and write a response in which you state your position and persuade readers to agree with you. support your position with reasons and examples drawn from the proposed amendment to ban skateboarding and from information in the letters to the editor, as well as from your own experience.