enough to drink. The legal age to join the military is 18 years old. Clearly someone along the way thought that was mature enough to go fight for our country. Yet‚ not old enough to have a beer afterwards. I am a firm believer that the legal age for drinking should be 21 years old. However‚
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Drinking and Driving Offenses My essay is on "Drinking and Driving Offenses". In my essay I will tell you the various kinds of drinking and driving offenses‚ the penalties‚ and the defences you can make if you are caught drinking and driving. Let me tell you about the different offenses. There are six offenses in drinking and driving. They are "driving while impaired"‚ "Having care and control of a vehicle while impaired"‚ "Driving while exceeding 80 m.g."‚ "Having care and control
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Understanding Why Opinion Really Matters... By Brodie Lane That we do have an ugly drinking culture in Australia and we need to face up to it: We believe we do have an ugly drinking culture in Australia. In Victoria alone‚ alcohol-related harm is costing the government $4.3 billion dollars each year. This includes road accidents and health problems. The effects of excessive alcohol are not new. Also not new are the health‚ safety and lifestyle risks that alcohol can cause‚including‚ saying
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enforcement of laws would also play a major role in preventing teen drunk driving. As stated by the Nation Highway Traffic Safety Administration‚ it is estimated that 24‚560 lives have been saved by minimizing the drinking age laws since 1975. There are important reasons for laws‚ such as a drinking age. For instance the NIAAA explains that the rate of fatal crashes among alcohol-involved drivers between 16 and 20 years old is more than twice the rate for
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Benefits of Drinking Tea Tea contains antioxidants. Like the Rust-Oleum paint that keeps your outdoor furniture from rusting‚ tea’s antioxidants protect your body from the ravages of aging and the effects of pollution. Tea has less caffeine than coffee. Coffee usually has two to three times the caffeine of tea (unless you’re a fan of Morning Thunder‚ which combines caffeine with mate‚ an herb that acts like caffeine in our body). An eight-ounce cup of coffee contains around 135 mg caffeine;
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10 hilarious drinking confessions (-- removed HTML --) We all have them. People do and say hilarious things when they’re drunk. Alcohol brings out the ridiculous in all of us. Check out these 10 hilarious drinking confessions. 1. When you just have to confess your love Sometimes it’s hard putting up the front that you have for the world to see. It’s only when that front or wall comes down that you let people see you for who you truly are. Drinking helps bring down that wall. (-- removed HTML
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immense control over all body functions. A human brain has not fully developed until the age of 25‚ which is why the legal drinking age should not be at the age of 21. It gives off harmful alterations in the functions of the development of the brain and therefore doesn’t give the brain the full amount of time that it needs to grow. While the brain is still developing‚ drinking a heavy amount may cause damages to certain brain functions and have lasting health effects. Some examples to body functions
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The Vessel terminating in the forepart of a bull (no. 1989.281.11) found in Central Anatolia circa 15th-13th century B.C. was made of silver. This was a product of the Hittite culture. It is a horn shaped drinking vessel decorated as a bull with horns kneeling. The bull’s head is delicately molded focusing on details such as the bull’s eye lid creases and folded skin. The vessel was not only made to stand vertically as a cup using its horns as support but also sideways‚ as depicted in the museum
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as teens feel that the drinking age should be lowered because of the reason above. If in the eye of law at the age of 18 we are considered grown ups and is given the rights to vote‚ the right to get married and the right to legally buy our own property/home; so why not give us the right to drink. Most 18 year olds surround themselves with older people‚ most likely around the ages 20-25. As we see it’s not to far from 18 but still have different rights when it comes to drinking. An organization
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baby’s health? Drinking during pregnancy could put the baby at risk in the womb‚ as well as having lifetime affects growing up. Not only that‚ but it can affect the mother too. Even though fifty percent of the U.S. pregnancies are unplanned‚ it does not give a mother to keep drinking while she is with child. Because alcohol can affect the baby’s physical and mental health in and out of the womb‚ women must not drink during pregnancy. The baby’s health in the womb is very crucial. Drinking during pregnancy
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