Argumentative essay: Is the drinking age appropriate? I think that the drinking age is too high. Most other countries drinking age is anywhere from 16 to 18‚ and they do not really seem to have a problem with it. My thing is how whenever you turn 18 everybody considers you an adult‚ but you cannot even go to a bar and buy a beer for yourself. With our drinking age being 21‚ it is basically saying that they still consider a person from the age of 18 to 20 still a kid. Sure they are able to buy lottery
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Underage drinking and drugs use have been a big issue encountered by many teenagers across America. The problem is not only about drinking alcohol and drug use itself but about the consequences caused by these unhealthy activities. Excessive alcohol consumption cause lead to motor vehicles accidents‚ fight‚ rapes‚ suicide‚ homicide‚ etc. A study found that American youth have a big portion of hospitalization for alcohol consumption reasons. Among this youth population‚ men were more often found to
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reached the age of maturity as defined by law. As stated by law‚ anyone at the age of eighteen and above are considered an adult yet the age group between eighteen and twenty are unable to consume alcohol legally. The United States has the highest drinking age restriction compared to the entire world. According to the International Center for Alcohol Policies‚ the only country that comes close in comparison in the age restriction of alcohol is Japan and Iceland where it is currently restricted to age
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The True Cost to Underage Drinking Unsupervised‚ underage drinking is a growing epidemic within the United States. However‚ there is another growing epidemic that seems to be larger than underage drinking: unreported sexual assaults. The amount of people being sexually assaulted are growing every single year and the percentages given out about these assaults do not correlate to exactly how many people get assaulted. The amount of money State College and Penn State invests into the investigation
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Underage Drinking: Annotated Bibliography Alexis Richter Comp 2 February 27th‚ 2010 Engs‚ Ruth C. "Why the Drinking Age Should be Lowered: An Opinion Based Upon Research." CQ Researcher. N.p.‚ 20 Mar. 1998. Web. 9 Feb. 2011. . The article “Why the Drinking Age Should be Lowered: An Option based upon Research” is about twenty years of research based underage drinking done by Ruth Engs. It talks about the way things were in the past compared to how things are now. The research done
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Topic Chosen: Peer pressure into underage drinking Proposal Statement: Does peer pressure play a role in the reason for underage teenagers drink alcohol? Hypothesis: My hypothesis is that peer pressure does affect the choice of an underage teenager to drink alcohol. Teenagers who are under the influence of alcohol can experience negative affects‚ such as sexual behavior‚ including unwanted‚ unintended‚ and unprotected sexual activity & heavy drinking later in life. Research Methodology:
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Brandon Pryor Dobmeir B2 12/15/11 Persuasive Speech: Underage Drinking At the age of 15‚ a boy went to a high school party. He was a freshman and just wanted to seem cool in front of everyone. He decided that drinking was the fastest way to popularity so he took one shot. That one shot turned to one more‚ then two more‚ until eventually he lost count. Two hours later he was rushed to the hospital with alcohol poisoning and had to get his stomach pumped. Snap back to reality‚ this may seen like
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many teens drink and on average‚ they drink too much. Underage drinking has become a major problem in the United States. First of all‚ statistics show that more than ten million drinkers in the US are between the ages of twelve and twenty‚ and of these twenty percent engage in binge drinking and six percent are heavy drinkers.(Young People and Alcohol‚) Next‚ statistics also show that there are roughly 3.3 million teens that have drinking problems also‚ one-fourth of all seventh through twelfth
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Underage Drinking Underage drinking is widespread along adolescents‚ according to an annual survey of U.S youth‚ three-fourths of twelfth graders‚ more than two-thirds of tenth graders‚ and about two in every five eighth graders have consumed alcohol. Each year approximately five thousand young people under the age of twenty one die as a result of underage drinking; This includes about 1‚900 deaths from motor vehicle crashes‚ 1‚600 as a result of homicides‚ 300 from suicide‚ as well as hundreds
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Introduction Underage drinking has affected many across the U.S. This topic has affected me personally in many ways‚ hence the reason I chose it. Throughout this project‚ I will discuss why underage drinking is such a problem‚ what my position is‚ courses of action‚ and possibly a visual to support the issue at hand. This may show as an interest to others for many reasons‚ but it has a personal meaning to me and friends of mine as well. I was curious as to what others had to say about this
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