Blood Alcohol Case Study
Imagine, you went to a party with a couple of friends and you had a little bit too much to drink, yet you still offer to drive home. You pull out of the neighborhood and notice you're swerving a bit, yet you keep driving. Your friends sit silently in the back seat with no fear of anything. Out of nowhere, you wake up in a hospital not knowing what just happened. In February 2006, Jessica Randall, and Laura Gorman were two teenagers that just wanted to have a fun time, at a bar in a town in Florida. Jessica Randall's blood alcohol level was nearly one and a half times the legal limit. Jessica woke up in the hospital realizing that she had just killed her best friend. She woke up with more than 400 stitches, a broken tailbone, and leg. Jessica
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It was the first time Sarah went to New York, she was visiting a friend who went to Pace University. They went out to a couple of bars but didn’t get too drunk. They were headed back to their hotel in New Jersey around 10 p.m. when she thought her friends were getting off the subway and realized too late, standing on the platform, that it was the wrong stop. She asked for directions to the Port Authority, but no one in Times Square would help her. Sarah was asking people if they could help her find her way back. A man said he was going to the Port, and could show her the way. When they got off the bus, he led her into a liquor store, forced alcohol down her throat, took her into the bathroom and raped her. She spent the rest of the night confused, terrified, walking through the dark, asking for help to find her hotel in another part of New Jersey. “The thing that really shocked me,” she said, “was that no woman would help me. I kept asking for help, and no one would help me.” (Svrluga) Imagine what Sarah felt like, she couldn’t go to anyone because no one would believe her. She must have felt so vulnerable, she would tell people what happened, but they would just laugh and walk away. Allowing adolescents to drink would raise the number of rape cases, and it would increase the number of deaths caused by
It was the first time Sarah went to New York, she was visiting a friend who went to Pace University. They went out to a couple of bars but didn’t get too drunk. They were headed back to their hotel in New Jersey around 10 p.m. when she thought her friends were getting off the subway and realized too late, standing on the platform, that it was the wrong stop. She asked for directions to the Port Authority, but no one in Times Square would help her. Sarah was asking people if they could help her find her way back. A man said he was going to the Port, and could show her the way. When they got off the bus, he led her into a liquor store, forced alcohol down her throat, took her into the bathroom and raped her. She spent the rest of the night confused, terrified, walking through the dark, asking for help to find her hotel in another part of New Jersey. “The thing that really shocked me,” she said, “was that no woman would help me. I kept asking for help, and no one would help me.” (Svrluga) Imagine what Sarah felt like, she couldn’t go to anyone because no one would believe her. She must have felt so vulnerable, she would tell people what happened, but they would just laugh and walk away. Allowing adolescents to drink would raise the number of rape cases, and it would increase the number of deaths caused by