Speech 1060 July 16th‚ 2011 Persuasion Speech Lowering Legal Drinking Age General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: Want audience to agree that lowering drinking age to 18 won’t be as bad as some are making it out to be. Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence. I. Introduction: a. Attention strategy: When was the last time you wanted to crack open a cold Bud Light and chug it? Maybe you are over 21 and it you do it all of the time. b. Does the topic relate
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The age children should be considered adults is 18 because their brains are more developed and they are able to support themselves. When children graduate high-school they leave optimistic and ready to start the rest of their lives. A lot of the time you have to be a certain age to be able to do certain things such as driving. “A slight majority‚ 53%‚ think teens should at least be 18 to get a license.” according to “Is 16 too Young to Drive a Car?” People may think this because at the age of
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College Presidents call for debate on lowering the drinking age to 18 BCOM/275 May‚ 20 2012 Betty Bernstein College Presidents call for debate on lowering the drinking age to 18 I read the article “College Presidents call for debate on lowering the drinking age to 18”‚ which was published in the Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly Newsletter on September 8‚ 2008. In my opinion‚ there is not a lot of value and credibility to this article. John McArdell‚ the President of Middlebury College
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Should the legal driving age be increased to 21 in Australia? To this date the legal driving age in Australia is 16‚ there has been a discussion throughout the community of increasing the legal driving age to 21 in Australia. Concerns of drink driving under the legal age limit had caused a sky-rocket in fatalities on the road in 2013 from drivers under the age of 20. With the age increased to 21‚ this means there will be fewer drivers on the road‚ which will cause less blocking on the road. Reasons
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many countries with a minimum drinking age of 18” (18 Interesting Pro…). So why does the United States keep the age that you can have libations at 21? There has been a debate going on whether the drinking age should be 21 or 18. People have brought up statistics on the amount of wrecks and the amount of money going back into the economy. So the United States needs to change the drinking age‚ the drinking age should be 18 because a person is legally an adult at 18‚ there’s less risky behaviors‚ and
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of driving for one’s child instead of letting them make their own decision to drive when 18. Motor vehicles are or should be considered a deadly weapon considering all the deaths a motor vehicle can have. According to The U.S. Department of Transportation‚ motor vehicle traffic crashes were the number one leading cause of death for young teens in 2010. The driving age should be raised to 18 because at the age of 16 the brain has not fully developed‚ young teens tend to be impulsive‚ and it would be
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changing the age limit to get a driver’s permit. Teenagers should not be able to get their driver’s permit until the age of 18. The age limit to get a driver’s permit should change because teenagers are inexperienced drivers‚ and teenagers are easily distracted. The age limit to get a driver’s permit should increase to the age of 18 because teenagers are inexperienced drivers. Teens are less experienced with solving problems and making good decisions. Due to a lack of experience‚ these teenagers are more
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aged person‚ can be deadly. Furthermore‚ for anyone to consider lowering the legal drinking age from 21‚ to 18‚ in my opinion is simply ludicrous. John Bowersox reports‚ “Since Colonial times‚ drinking alcohol has been part of American culture and its use by young people has been accepted by many as part of growing up. In fact‚ during the late 1960s and early 1970s‚ many States lowered the legal drinking age from 21 to 18. Following this change‚ the number of alcohol-related traffic fatalities among
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Should they raise the legal driving age to 18? I don’t think the legal driving age should be raised to 18. The reason I feel this way is‚ there are many flaws in the system and teens should not be stereotyped. There is no way to prove that the child drove the hours required by the department of transportation in order for the instructor to sign off on student’s course completion. The child is just as much fault as the parent(s) who filled it out. The child either didn’t feel like driving so they
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References: Biglan‚ A.‚ Duncan‚ T. E.‚ Ary‚ D. V.‚ & Smolkowski‚ K. (1995). Peer and parental influences on adolescent tobacco use. Journal of Behavioral Medicine‚ 18‚ 315–330. Buchanan‚ C. M.‚ Maccoby‚ E. E.‚ & Dornbusch‚ S. M. (1996). Adolescents after divorce. Cambridge‚ MA: Harvard University Press. Caldwell‚ R. S.‚ Beutler‚ J. E.‚ Ross‚ S. A.‚ & Silver‚ N. C. (2005). Brief report: An examination of the relationships
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