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    Drinking Age To 18 Essay

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    Every day in America a teenager turns 18 years old. For some it means a new car‚ freedom‚ or the excitement of no longer needing your parents’ permission on serious decisions. For others its dreadful turning 18 because means that they have “aged out” of the foster care system with no afterward plans or support. Each year it is estimated that 20‚000 young people age out and this is tragic because they have no one to turn to‚ they have no home to go to and they are forced into adulthood before they

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    Lower the Drinking Age to 18 Over 700 soldiers under the age of 21 have lost their lives fighting in Iraq. And According to the government they were responsible enough to die for their country‚ but not responsible enough to have a drink of alcohol. In the United States a person is allowed to vote‚ join the military‚ and take the risks of life and death‚ and are considered a legal adult all at the age of 18. Therefore shouldn’t they also be trusted to make their own decisions about alcohol consumption

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    Raising Driving Age to 18

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    Paper Raising Driving Age to 18 In the 13 July‚ 2011 USA Today newspaper article by William Van Tassel‚ manager of AAA’s driver training program‚ says that‚ “ Teens do continue to drive distracted even when they recognize the dangers‚” According to the teen driving statistics that are provided by the CDC‚ about 3‚000 teens died in auto accidents in 2009 and 350‚000 were treated for injuries. For all those reasons‚ I think the legal driving age should be raised to 18 from 16. One shocking

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    America the drinking age is twenty one years old. Many people want to know why the age limit is not eighteen if it is the age of adulthood in the United States. If a person can vote at eighteen and change the president of the country‚ then he/she should be able to pick up a drink at the age of 18 (adulthood) when he/she wants to. If the age for drinking cannot be eighteen then why does it have to be twenty one? Who said twenty one year old people are mature enough? Since the age of adulthood is eighteen

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    Raising the Driving Age to 18 In the world today one of the most exciting parts of growing up is getting your driver’s license. Everyone counts on getting their sweet 16 car and license‚ but is that really the important part? Well yes as all teenagers would say. Even though it comes to losing their life because of inexperience‚ and immaturity on the road. There are lots of reasons why the driving age should be raised. ”All 50 states prohibit 16-year-olds from drinking alcohol‚ buying cigarettes

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    Drinking Age Set to 18

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    Those are the types of arguments the proponents for the eighteen drinking age will generally give‚ but there is more to consider when it comes to the topic of alcohol. In an article published in The Los Angeles Times‚ Shari Roan explains the pros and cons of the drinking age. She states that “… [there are] approximately 1‚700 alcohol related deaths in the United States among college students each year” and if the drinking age gets set to eighteen‚ this number is more than likely to rise. Alcohol

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    The drinking age be lowered to 18 "Alcohol is the drug of choice among America’s adolescents‚ used by more young people than tobacco or illicit drugs... [T]here are 10.1 million underage drinkers in the United States... 39% of current 8th graders‚ 58% of 10th graders‚ 72% of 12th graders‚ and 85% of college students have tried alcohol.” -The National Institutes of Health (NIH) wrote in their fact sheet titled "Underage Drinking" on report.nih.gov. Apparently keeping the drinking age at 21 is not

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    Drinking Age Should Be 18

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    legal drinking age (MLDA)? Or‚ that in countries with the MLDA 18‚ there is a huge decrease in drunk driving accidents than in the USA? I believe that you can drink responsibly at eighteen; therefore‚ the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen. I believe the MLDA should be eighteen because when you are considered an adult and have many other responsibilities‚ the MLDA 21 is highly ineffective‚ and lowering the age would diminish the thrill of breaking the law. The drinking age should be eighteen

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    about turning 18 because it means adulthood‚ running off to college‚ and gaining freedom. When turning this age‚ you are allowed to join the military‚ get married and receive all the rights and responsibilities of an adult. However‚ having a wedding at this age means that during the celebration‚ one is not allowed to share a glass of Champagne during the toasts because the drinking age is 21. The United States is one of the few countries in the world to have such a high legal drinking age. Therefore

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    Raising Drivers Age to 18

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    Debate Case Outline Affirmative Side of the Case First Affirmative Constructive Speech   Resolved; The legal driving age in New Hampshire should be changed to 18 in the US. I will now define unclear terms  Legal Driving Age­ Established or founded upon law. Neurological­The medical science that deals with the brain and the disorders affecting it. Gray Matter­ Grey nerve tissue in the brain that when developed controls things like how we make choices. Cognitive Skills­ (Cognitive skills include things like memory

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