iews. “For the past 20 years‚ the United States has kept a Minimum Legal Drinking Age of 21 (MLDA21) with little or no public debate about the wisdom of this policy.” More than 100 college and university presidents signed the Amethyst Initiative recently. The Amethyst Initiative is a statement calling for “an informed and dispassionate public debate over the effects of the 21 year old drinking age.” (709) With a predictable response to this‚ advocates of restricted access and no tolerance decried the initiative
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A Forbidden Fruit In the United States of America citizens are subjected to many laws‚ some definitely necessary‚ while others are not well founded. One law which is not well founded is the law that prevents anyone younger than twenty one from drinking. This law clearly states that you must be twenty-one years old in order to consume or purchase any alcoholic beverages. The citizens of the United States are considered to be legal adults at the age of eighteen. Despite many responsibilities‚ why
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be able to legally drink alcohol‚ this essay includes mine.“Adults under 21 are deemed capable of voting‚getting married‚ signing contracts‚ serving on juries and enlisting in the military‚ but are told they are not mature enough to have a beer” (Amethyst Initiative: Rethink the Drinking Age).I believe that if we hold 18 year old’s capable of having those responsibilities‚ they should also be responsible enough to drink alcohol. My Dad always likes to remind me of a famous quote from the movie called
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Underage Drinking Stacey Johnson University of Phoenix COMM 112 Mr. Johnson April 16‚ 2012 Underage Drinking The topic I chose is underage drinking. The reason I chose this topic is due to the number of teens that consume alcohol that under the age of 21. Upon doing research for this topic‚ there are many topics to choose from. I was able to narrow it down and research three topics that I think would be significant to the paper that I will be writing. I searched the Scholarly Journals
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The Legal Drinking Age in the United States There has been a continuous controversy in the United States on whether the legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 or kept at 21. In the Persuasive Text “Five Reasons we should keep the drinking age at 21” Karen Arnold-Burger‚ she states the five reasons why people should keep the legal drinking age at 21 in the United States. Karen Arnold-Burger graduated at University of Kansas with a law degree in August 1981. She was appointed Judge of the
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For decades across the nation‚ state to state legislatures have been debating that each state should be able to choose whether or not the drinking age should be 18 or 21. As you turn 18 you are considered a legal adult who gets to choose what they want to do except for deciding whether to drink or not. Lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 would decrease the number of minors people would get because 18 is an age closer to the age we are than 21 is causing children to wait to drink. I believe that
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Minimum Drinking Age Change Why was the minimum drinking age in Minnesota changed from eighteen years old to twenty-one years old? In 1984‚ President Ronald Reagan signed a bill that would change the minimum drinking age. With many alcohol-related injuries and deaths in teens‚ possible loss of federal funds‚ and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) protests‚ the Minnesota Minimum Drinking Age Act changed the minimum drinking age from eighteen to twenty-one. As a result‚ people have become more
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The Drinking Age 18 the dawn of adulthood. An age where you are allowed to vote‚ allowed to buy a lottery ticket‚ and allowed to register and fight for our country. Is there anything you can’t do? Yes‚ at 18 you cannot buy liquor of any form‚ at anytime‚ or anywhere legally. I think that the legal age for drinking and purchase of liquor should be lowered from 21 to 18 and I will briefly explain my position on this matter. Firstly‚ when a person turns 18 they are considered and adult in the American
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Preventing Alcoholism among the Youth The debate over whether the legal drinking age should be lowered or remain the same is an ongoing battle. At the age of twenty-one‚ it is studied that the mind is finished with its natural process of development. It is less likely that alcohol can damage the development of the brain as compared to the brain of an eighteen year old who has yet to finish maturing. The legal drinking age should not be lowered due to the fact at a younger age; people are less tolerant
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When speaking about teenagers attending rated R movies‚ past president Bill Clinton said‚ “One can value the 1st amendment right to free speech and at the same time care for and act with restraint”. Clinton was the one who proposed that all people under 17 would have to be accompanied by an adult to a rated R (Restricted) movie. Although some people believe that teens should be able to go to see these movies alone‚ they do not have enough maturity and good judgment to have this right. Kids and
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