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Underage Drinking Young Adults
627 wordsWhy has America had so many problems with underage drinking? I think that there is way too much underage drinking by young adults in America. On the other hand, I dont believe that it is their fault. I feel, that the lawmakers should lower the drinking age. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1986 forces states to enforce the legal age of 21 years old or lose matching highway funds. Alcohol has been around since the beginning of time and its not going to disappear. I believe that alcohol is...
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Legal Drinking Age Happy Ending
1,493 wordsIt seems like everywhere you turn these days there is some beer or hard alcohol advertisement showing up in magazines or on television carrying promises of success and eternal happiness if you use their product. While flipping through several magazines I came upon a series of ads for Bacardi Rum. In the ads a bunch of happy go lucky twenty somethings are shown partying enjoying various drinks in a club environment. In each ad there is a catchy little slogan tailored especially for the situation ...
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Drinking Age Twenty One
516 wordsThe Drinking Age The drinking age is twenty one because all the people making the laws are over twenty one. So they take a biased way of thinking. When we are eighteen we can smoke, vote, and be drafted into the army, yet we arent capable of deciding for ourselves to have a beer or two. Why arent we protesting this outrageous indignity? On the other hand, drinking has caused many deaths and many more injures when its not handled right and abused. First of all, when we are eighteen we can decide ...
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Drunk Driving Accidents Legal Drinking Age
1,193 wordsWhy would people who are under age want to drink? Well under age drinking isn't to uncommon. (1) Studies say that approximately 6 % of 10 - 11 year old children use alcohol. 25 % by the age of 14 and 55 % by the age of 17. Approximately 92 percent of high school kids have used alcohol, of the 92 percent 64 percent use alcohol on a regular basis. Sometimes teenage kids drink under stress. Stress can be overwhelming and kids don't know how to deel with it. Drinking is a way for them to forget abou...
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Age Of 18 Age Of 21
453 wordsThe age of drinking has been an issue in our country for a long time and there are many regards on why the age is set at 21. The federal government should not impose a drinking age of 21. The drinking age should be lowered to the age of 18 for the following reasons; one, most people between the age of 18 - 20 are drinking alcohol already, and two, you should have the right to purchase alcohol when you reach the age of 18, because that is the age when you are considered and adult and have many ri...
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Driving While Intoxicated Drunk Driving
635 wordsDrunk Driving is yet another risk factor that lurks on college campuses. It is observed that the majority of underage students continue to drink alcohol despite drinking age laws. College alcohol use policies aimed at decreasing drinking opportunities on campuses may also have increased the likely hood that students will drink off campus. This change may place students at risk when returning to campus residents after consuming alcohol. The NCADD (National Association Against Drunk Driving) did a...
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U S Armed Forces Drinking Alcohol
661 wordsWhen one turns eighteen in the U. S, they can drive cars, fly planes, marry, vote, pay taxes, take out loans and risk their life as a member of the U. S. Armed forces, but it is illegal for them to drink. Why do young adults have the liberty to do everything else besides drink at the age of eighteen? Turning eighteen comes with adult responsibilities as well as privileges. The drinking age should be lowered to eighteen. It is necessary to educate teens about drinking alcohol if the drinking age ...
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Penalties For Teens That Drink And Drive
1,272 wordsPenalties For Teens That Drink and Drive About four years ago, I was on my way home from Fayetteville, when I saw a truck spin into oncoming traffic and hit another vehicle. The man in the truck immediately went straight through his front windshield. The next day, as I was reading the newspaper, I realized that the man driving the truck was drunk. Therefore, I continued to read on and discovered that there were also two innocent passengers in the car that was involved. All three were pronounced ...
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Binge Drinking Alcohol Abuse
451 wordsI. Is the number 21 part of a magic trick? A. What is so special about the age 21. B. Does it make you mature enough to consume alcohol? 1. Some adults abuse alcohol while some teenagers would be able to drink responsibly. II. The average age kids began drinking is 12. (The Binge Generation, Ladies home Journal, December 1999, P. 116) A. We need to educate young adults about safe drinking and drinking in moderation. III. The national drinking age should be lowered to 18. IV. I will be discussing...
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Argument Against Lowering The Legal Drinking Age
764 wordsIt is estimated that underage drinking costs the US $ 58 billion each year in accidents, crime and hospitalizations. An estimated one-third of Americans abstain from drinking alcohol or liquor. The number of college binge drinkers in the 1999 Harvard study (44 percent) was the same as in the 1993 study. In the Harvard study, 0. 6 percent of respondents required medical attention for alcohol overdoses. This could equal 30, 000 such instances a year when applying the number to the nation's entire ...
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Drink Responsibly Drunk Driving
1,045 wordsThroughout history, people have always wanted what they cant have. Since the 1970 s, this is the attitude most lawmakers in America have taken with respect to underage drinking. It was at this time that many states changed the legal drinking age form 18 to 21. The theory behind this was, essentially, if you raise the drinking age, people will drink more responsibly, because with age comes responsibility. Unfortunately, the people who made these laws did not consider that responsibility is someth...
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Legal Drinking Age Years Of Age
657 wordsMike Bilyeu In the United States, the legal drinking age for all 50 States and the District of Columbia is 21 years of age. The drinking age is 21 because the powers that control our government decided that when one becomes 21, one is magically transformed into a responsible person capable of handling the burden that comes with the right to consume alcohol. The drinking age is too high in this country. Why enact laws to prohibit an act that will be ignored by many of our peers? The opposition ma...
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Death Penalty Chicago Tribune
664 wordsIn the article from Chicago Tribune of February 14, 2002, the situation with the death penalty and juvenile crime is discussed. It is written that according to research juvenile brains are still very much a work in progress, and that they tend to be weakest in the portions that govern self-control, judgment, and other matters where teens often conspicuously fail to excel. The evidence argues for a measure of leniency based on the obvious fact, which is recognized in every other aspect of the law...
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Minimum Drinking Age Law Enforcement Agencies
1,616 wordsAlcohol and Teen Use One of the major problems in United States today is underage alcohol abuse. Different causes make this issue critical for teenagers: idea of feeling better, the strong influence of advertising, trying to fit in with a group etc, which cause long term effect on adolescents. The major problem with teen alcohol abuse is drunk driving. Something that can help is an anti teen drinking group like Mothers Against Drunk Driving Organization (MADD). The achievements of the organizati...
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Juveniles And The Death Penalty
2,529 wordsJuveniles and the Death Penalty The most severe of all sentences is the death penalty. Death penalty has been banned in many countries throughout the world, however, in the United States, an earlier move to get rid of capital punishment has now been overturned, and more and more states are resorting to capital punishment for serious offenses such as murder. The abolishment of the death penalty is still one of the major political and social issues. Many people support this form of punishment, whi...
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Catcher In The Rye Family Problems
645 wordsThe Catcher In The Rye is a study of ones human condition. Holden Caulfield is a teenager struggling to reach maturity. He is growing up in New York and goes through a lot of difficulties a teenager goes through in his teenage life like drinking, smoking, depression and family problems. The problems he has is relevant to New Zealand teenagers of today because a lot of teenagers in New Zealand are heavy drinkers, heavy smokers, they have depression problems and have family problems at home. These...
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Underage Drinking Drinking Age
482 wordsMany Underage Drinking Underage Drinking Many teens face adult problems at a very young age. Underage drinking viewed in the eyes of parents and law enforcement agencies is a major problem among teen. In today society, kids are being pressured into doing things at a very young adolescent age. Problem many parents are facing in their own life are also posing as problems on their kids. The answer teens today must make is no longer just what shoes to wear or what matches what, but the must decided ...
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Legal Drinking Age Second World War
767 wordsWar of the Rats, written by David L. Robbins, and the movie Stalingrad, directed by Joseph Vilsmaier, are two excellent sources to be used in furthering ones understanding of the second world war and specifically the battle of Stalingrad. Both of these sources cover generally the same material. They both are dramas about the battle of Stalingrad, yet each has their own unique perspective upon the war. These two sources can be used together to increase ones knowledge on the subject at hand. War o...
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Minimum Drinking Age Fatally Injured
1,219 wordsDRINKING AND DRIVIN Drinking and Driving is dangerous to yourself and others around you. Alcohol is a depressant; it impairs your ability to drive, slows down your reaction time and causes you to make some risky decisions that you wouldnt normally take. The penalty for Drinking and Driving is driving Under the Influence (DUI). If your Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) registers over. 08, which is 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood, you are driving Under the Influence. After having o...
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Alcohol Consumption Sir Andrew
1,672 wordsPuritans- Who Were They and What Are They Doing in My Kitchen? Puritans are indeed among us in society. They are in our drug stores, our laundromats, and yes, our kitchens. They are purists. Puritans want to make society a dull place where everyone works hard and no one has too much fun. Although they think they know what is good for everybody, their way of life not only disagrees with modern society; it contradicts itself. The Puritan movement began in England in the 1500 s (Puritanism World Bo...
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