SPEECH #3 – PERSUASIVE SPEECH Name: DANIEL C. DILIGENT Title: Lowering the Legal Drinking Age Specific Purpose: To argue in favor of lowering the minimum legal drinking age in the United States. Thesis Statement: I will discuss 1) the current legal drinking age‚ 2) the effect that this drinking age has upon American social norms‚ and 3) the potential benefits of a lower drinking age. I. INTRODUCTION A. Hook: Alcohol is ever-present in today’s American society. Television viewers are constantly bombarded
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Binge drinking is a modern epithet for drinking alcoholic beverages with an intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time. Binge drinking is out of control in many college town campuses. The actual act of drinking alcohol is not necessarily the big issue here; it is the way people are drinking it whether they are legally old enough or not. The issue is binge drinking of college students mostly or anyone really. Drinking alcohol can have many consequences
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The Issue is lowering the drinking age and it affects people by some being responsible and some not. Lowering the drinking age ‚ 18 is the age of adulthood in the U.S. and adults should have the right to make their own decisions. Allowing 18 to 20 year olds in regulated areas in supervision could decrease safe drinking. Supervision could prevent unsafe doing. Lowering MLDA could diminish the thrill of breaking the law to get a drink. Revenue would increase and more people would be allowed in bars
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Underage drinking is one of the biggest problems facing America today. Teens who abuse alcohol often turn to a life of crime‚ or suffer mental or physical breakdowns. In many cases the teen may even die from attempt suicide or car accident. In Montgomery Country two teenager was killed in a car accident‚ after leaving a party drunk and driving over the speed limits. Knowing that they were underage‚ if the father who hosted the party had never let the teens drink‚ then the two death could have been
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The pros of lowering the drinking age The pros : According to the NHTSA‚ the National Traffic Highway Safety Administration‚ in 2010 the drunk driving fatalities accounted for 32% of all traffic deaths. That means on average someone is killed in an alcohol-impaired driving crash about every 50 minutes in the U.S. United States law recognizes the legal drinking age as being 21 years of age. It is awfully contradictory in my eyes and probably those of others. Look at it from this point of
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increase in underage drinking‚ especially within college students. Thus‚ many teenagers and people in their twenties are more easily influenced by alcohol‚ because of their peers and friends. Despite‚ the fact that alcohol can only be purchased and consumed by people of 21 years or older it can still be accessed by other matters. The consumption of alcohol often leads to serious consequences and it can become detrimental to one’s life. Consequently‚ sometimes underage drinking can be caused by freedom
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English102-05 30 October‚ 2012 Underage Drinking in College Underage drinking in college is a common occurrence and has been for a long time‚ most people think it is just what college kids do and that it is something that it okay. The truth is that for many students from the age of 17 to 20 the drinking isn’t just distracting kids from their work it could be hurting them in many other ways. Most of the problem isn’t just the fact that the kids are all drinking but it is how and where they drink‚
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Whether or not parents want to admit it‚ teenagers do drink. It’s practically a passage for growing up: children will start drinking way before it’s legal for them to buy alcohol. To avoid alcoholism problems in the future‚ there has been an ongoing debate about whether or not it is appropriate for parents to buy alcohol for their kids. There are those who are okay with buying their children beer and liquor‚ but on a few conditions like keeping the drinks at home and only under adult supervision
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Underage Drinking The youth at this days is drinking much more than the youth in the past and this is a big problem because the world is having more criminality and deaths because of this. The number of women since 1977 to 1993 tripled and there are more men drinking than women. 5000 adolescents a year are death because of alcohol. A 60 percent of college women who had sexual transmitted diseases where on the influence of alcohol‚ 90 percent of the campus rapes were because or the victim or the
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Underage drinking is a huge epidemic that is affecting America. Teenagers are able to get their hands on alcoholic beverages with little to no consequence with the law or with their parents‚ and the outcome is devastating. Rise in car accidents and alcohol poisoning are just a few of the many issues that plague our society that is associated with underage drinking. Nevertheless‚ there is hope‚ events such as anti-alcohol campaigns can be used to educate and help change the culture of underage drinking
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