New Zealand it’s 18. In the United States it’s 21‚ and in places such as China and Portugal there isn’t one at all. But what is this I’m talking about? It’s the legal drinking ages of countries around the world. Many people argue that the drinking age should be lowered to 18‚ just look at our surrounding countries with lower drinking ages. Some argue that the United States has the most careless drinkers with little self-control when it comes to alcohol usage‚ and some may even say that this is because
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Persuasive Essay—Cell phones and driving Suzy Campbell Title Balancing my coffee on my left leg‚ eating a donut with my right hand‚ using my cell phone with my left hand‚ driving with my right knee and having a conversation with a friend at the same time are surprisingly enough all legal‚ as long as they don’t interfere with my driving. While all these distractions can potentially interfere with my driving‚ the one most people often notice is the use of cell phones. Although using cell phones
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Legal Drinking Age One of the biggest arguments that you will find going on today is‚ what the legal drinking age in The United States of America should be. Today in the USA the legal drinking age is twenty-one‚ but why twenty-one why not eighteen or thirty? Why have a drinking age of twenty-one in this country when there are over two hundred other countries that have lower drinking ages‚ and none that have higher? Who gets to decide the age at which someone is mature enough to consume alcohol
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David 14 May 2012 Drinking Thrills Kills Driving Skills On the night of 3rd February‚ 2007‚ Jane Cuthbert from the state of Missouri lost her two sons in a tragic motor accident. She was buying new supplies from a grocery shop‚ and because she was in a hurry she left her two sons‚ Brian and Ken‚ in the car. As she stepped out of the grocery shop‚ she saw a blue minivan ram into her stationary car. Her two boys‚ including the driver of the minivan who was apparently drunk‚ died on impact. Since
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Driving Drunk Everyday people are killed in an instant by the choice of an intoxicated person. Many times the people that are killed are the intoxicated person themselves. As well they put their passangers‚ other people on the road and pedestrians. Whether the person crashes the vehicle our splatters a helpless person into the cement the probability that somebody dies is high. There are many sideffects from drinking and driving. First of all‚ the brain slows down‚ which results in a dangerously
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Lowering the Drinking Age Since the drinking age has been raised to twenty-one in 1984‚ there has been alarming evidence that illegal drinking still occurs between the ages of eighteen to twenty-four‚ more prominently on college campuses. Although there are a plethora of reasons as to why the drinking age has been raised‚ there are extensively fundamental reasons as to why the drinking age needs to be lowered in an effort to halt the rising illegal drinking rate. These reasons include teaching responsibility
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America’s roads has been drinking‚ and these drivers are teenagers. Growing up the question of drinking and driving has always been an issue‚ but most of the time the question isn’t the issue‚ the issue is your answer. Have you ever been in a car with a drunk driver? Or let one of your friends get in the car with a drunk driver? Ask yourselves these questions‚ and I’m almost positive you’ll recall at least one time. Peer Pressure has a lot to do with drinking and driving. It is perhaps the greatest
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Modest Proposal to Drinking and Driving Drinking and driving is a gift put on earth by the almighty God. I mean why wouldn’t it be possible if he didn’t want us to do it? Alcohol is the greatest past time in Earth’s history. What’s not great about it? It can lead to vomiting‚ passing out‚ waking up in random people’s beds‚ and sometimes even death. Isn’t that four of the greatest feelings in the world? The death part mostly comes from the beautiful cause of drinking and driving. But don’t listen
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believe introducing alcohol to underage kids while at home reduces the risk of binge drinking‚ as well as a reduction in the number of regular drinkers‚ I feel the United States law makers should not be more lenient of underage drinkers nor lower the legal drinking age. Reasoning is due to teens not handling alcohol responsibly‚ and thus would be more likely to harm or kill themselves or others. Underage drinking is illegal in the United States; it is dangerous‚ and may lead to alcohol abuse. Respectfully
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Solutions to Decrease Drinking and Driving When an intoxicated individual makes a decision to sit behind the wheel of an automobile and drive home‚ he endangers everyone on the road. This one decision‚ which may not seem important at the time‚ can have a crucial impact. When the choice whether or not to drive under the influence of alcohol faces a person‚ he often does not realize the consequences of his actions‚ and therefore makes an extremely uneducated decision. Many people believe that
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