Running Head: LOWERING 1 Lowering the Legal Drinking Age in the United States Matthew Donadio HUM 200 Instructor Stepp May 18‚ 2013 LOWERING 2 Lowering the legal drinking age in the United States has been a topic of debate for as long
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Drinking Age Argumentative Essay In the United States‚ a person gets all their rights at the age of 18 except the right to drink. Here‚ you can’t drink until you’re 21. One of the main reasons for this being the drinking age is the high risk of drunk driving. On the other hand‚ underage drinkers have a higher chance to binge drink. Many other counties already have the drinking age at 18. The drinking age should become 18 because we get all our other rights then‚ and it will lower the amount of
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Drinking under age is a major problem now in days with teens like me. That think that it will help them deal with their problems back home but what we don’t know it can actually make everything way worse than what it already is. This is my experience on why I thought it would help and what it actually happen and how it just gave me more problems than what I already have and what I learn. It all started on this past weekend on a Saturday me and a friend whet to a concert on base. I been having
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Save Lives by Keeping the Drinking Age at 21 Listening to the news on television‚ hearing other students talk about it‚ is it really true‚ or are they going to lower the drinking age to 18? This is not just a rumor but nowhere have they actually lowered the age. The debate has been talked about for the last few years. The nation has always tried different things to solve the irresponsible drinking problems. In order to try and prevent this problem America has tried a national prohibition in the
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The Drinking Age in The U.S. Should Be Lowered When a person turns eighteen‚ he or she can get married‚ vote‚ pay taxes‚ purchase cigarettes‚ be tried as an adult for crimes‚ legally use their own credit card‚ purchase real estate‚ and even enter the military. When a United States citizen turns eighteen‚ that person is considered a legal adult. According to The United States Constitution‚ “The right of citizens of the United States‚ who are eighteen-years of age or older‚ to vote shall not be denied
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Paper 2 Drinking Age: 21 or 18? Some of the most overlooked types of drugs are those that are legal. Specifically‚ alcohol is one of the most widely used drugs in the world‚ and yet‚ many people don’t think of this substance upon hearing the word “drug.” This drug contributes to significantly more deaths than some illegal drugs such as marijuana (which has not been reported to cause any deaths)‚ and yet alcohol is still legal. On the flipside‚ alcohol is outlawed for minors under the age of 21‚
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the legal drinking age from the current age of 21 to 18. The move would defy a generation of federal law and public opinion in America which is strongly opposed to lowering the drinking age. In 1984‚ congress set the legal drinking age to 21 from 18‚ threatening to cut highway funding to states which did not comply‚ mostly to cut down on drunk driving deaths caused each year by drinking and driving. But advocates argue teenagers are going to drink anyway even if changed. Should the drinking age be
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DRINKING AGE The age of being considered “legal” in the U.S. is eighteen years old. You can be charged as an adult‚ run for legislature‚ can be held accountable for a contract‚ and join the military to risk your life but you still cannot drink a beer. In the mid 1930’s‚ the illegal drinking age in the U.S. was set to twenty one. However‚ during the Vietnam War‚ young people were risking their life for their country‚ so in consideration‚ twenty nine states lowered the legal drinking age to eighteen
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Should the Legal Alcohol Drinking Age be Lowered to 18? Should the legal alcohol drinking age be lowered to eighteen? At the age of eighteen years old‚ you are eligible to vote‚ you can legally purchase cigarettes‚ you are eligible for the military draft‚ you are willing to die for this country‚ you are even able to serve on a jury‚ and you are titled as an adult at the age of eighteen. Why can’t someone at the age of eighteen not drink alcohol? Who is to say that just because someone is twenty-one
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Should the Alcohol Drinking Age Be Increased or Decreased? Bigjohny‚ Alinda. “Opinion: Should the Legal Drinking Age Stay As-Is?” Opinion: The Legal Drinking Age Stay the As-Is?” Manchester.edu‚ n d Wed 13 Apr 2016 http://www.manchester.edu/OSD/OakLeaves/archives/Issue_14/OpinionShouldtheLegalDrinkingAgeStayAs-Is.htm This essay was written to persuade the reader on the topic of keeping the drinking age where it is now. It gives details on why it’s to be taken seriously. I plan of using this to get
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