to underage people. I continue to be shocked and distressed at the large amount of incidents that continue to occur in Elk County as a result of drinking alcohol when underage. This problem has hit too close to home and needs to be stopped. The effects of drinking alcohol include the loss of friends‚ family troubles‚ and school
Premium Lord's Prayer Seven deadly sins Jesus
Brandon Kosheff 11/20/2014 Public Speaking Topic: Drinking Age 18 or 21? Purpose: To persuade students to change their feelings about the current drinking age and the benefits of changing it to eighteen. Thesis: Underage drinking is to be expected. If an eighteen year old is old enough and mature enough to vote and serve the country in war‚ he or she should be able to drink. With proper upbringing and schooling on the subject‚ the drinking age should be changed to eighteen. I. Introduction
Premium Drinking culture Legal drinking age National Minimum Drinking Age Act
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
Premium Drinking culture Alcoholism Alcoholic beverage
Issue: Safe Drinking Water When looking alot of the big issues within today ’s environment I took great interest in safe drinking water. There is not that much of safe drinking water to efficiently hydrate every single person on the planet. Alot of third world countries‚ especially within Africa and Asia‚ have issues with their own water supplies being safe to drink. Now if there is safe enough water‚ they may not be readily available or within a close area to where people are living. One
Premium Drinking water
ScD. (2010). “Will increasing alcohol availability by lowering the minimum legal drinking age decrease drinking and related consequences among youths?” American Journal of Public Health‚ 100(6)‚ 986-92. Print. Blackwell‚ Wiley. "Does the Minimum Drinking Age Affect Traffic Fatalities?" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 2nd ser. 6 (1987): 180-92. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. "Drinking Age ProCon.org." Drinking Age ProCon.org. ProCon.org‚ 11 Nov. 2012. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://drinkingage
Premium Drinking culture Legal drinking age National Minimum Drinking Age Act
English IIIB 14 March 2013 Effects of Underage Drinking Many young people are experiencing the effects and consequences of alcohol. In the past few years‚ underage drinking has become a serious problem for many teens. It is estimated that 10 million young people under the age of 21 have drank alcohol within the past few months. Not only does alcohol effect the child‚ but also effects their family‚ friends‚ and everyone around them. Drinking in high school has become the "cool" thing to do
Premium Adolescence Drinking culture Alcoholic beverage
Prescriptive: Lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 increases the risk of underage and binge drinking which results in deadly car accidents. Ages 18 and under are physically immature to handle alcohol. Enforcing the age 21 law reduces the risk of traffic crashes and it saves lives. By lowering the drinking age to 18 will trigger the urge of wanting to drink for younger teenagers. Therefore‚ the drinking age is ought to stay at 21. The 21 legal drinking age law forces young people to drink
Free Drinking culture Alcoholism
Comparison of Two Persuasive Formats This comparison can be helpful in the following ways: 1. As a learning device. It may be easier for you to understand Monroe’s Motivated Sequence (a persuasive outline) by comparing it with the traditional outline (used for your informative speeches). 2. As an alternative outline choice for your persuasive speech. If you decide to use the problem/solution approach in your speech‚ then you may follow the outline format below (Monroe’s Motivated Sequence)
Premium Public speaking Speech
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Analysis 1) Yes‚ she is having a crisis of identity‚ that crisis is that she is pretending to not like no one but the truth is that she is not sure if she is gay or straight. There is more than one identity of herself that she is struggling‚ as she said she like nobody but she mentioned she had a crush on the boy with that pair of nice shoes and now she is starting to love Heidi‚ she is hiding herself from people especially from the whites. 2) The orientation games
Premium Marriage Family
Lowering The Drinking Age Throughout the United States‚ there is a huge debate on lowering the drinking age. The current legal drinking age in the United States is 21 years old‚ but there has been dispute on whether lowering it would be beneficial or if retaining it or increasing it would be more favorable for our society. In an article‚ titled “Lower Drinking Age Could Have Sobering Results”‚ which was written by Robert Voas in 2006‚ the author asserts that lowering the minimum legal drinking age of
Premium Legal drinking age Drinking culture Alcohol law