Ashley Buckner Persuasive Speech COMM210D 4/20/12 Why should you smile? I. Imagine: you wake up in the morning. You get ready and grab a cup of coffee. Then‚ you walk out the door‚ seeing many faces as you make your way to work‚ and walk up to your building. When you walk inside expecting to be greeted by many more positive faces‚ you see none‚ and so you walk over and sit down at your desk. While thinking back on your morning to work you were realizing that there was not a moment of
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Demarcus Spears Wei Chen ENGL. 1013 5-3-10 Drinking Age According to “Why Do Adolescents Drink” internet source teens believe drinking is the way to avoid the real world. They tend to think that it avoids stress related problems and peer pressure from others. Yet some people feel they are well old enough‚ and should be treated as an adult when it comes to drinking or lowering the drinking age to eighteen. Standing up going against lowering the drinking age is the way to stand because it is the wrong
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The minimum age for purchasing and consuming alcohol is debated since its official change to 21 years old‚ but even more so now because of the fact that alcohol-related accidents are the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Before the initial change in 1984‚ states had a variety of drinking ages‚ usually being 18 years old‚ but this proved to be dangerous (“Minimum Drinking Age‚” 2015‚ p.11). The organization Mother’s Against Drunk Driving formed after members noticed an
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concerning the legal drinking age remaining at twenty-one or being lowered to eighteen. John J. Miller‚ backed up with about one-hundred college presidents and chancellors‚ strongly believes that the legal drinking age of twenty one has failed and is not working. However‚ there is research and statistical data that suggests lowering the drinking age would cause several car related accidents‚ potentially increase a teen’s vulnerability of alcoholism‚ and increase binge drinking. John McCardell‚ a
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Persuasive Speech Outline I. Introduction A. Topic: Texting and driving is dangerous‚ weather it has affected you or not. B. Hook: Did you know that texting while driving is now one of the most popular distractions that take a driver’s eyes off the road? C. Link to audience: Imagine that someone in your family‚ your mom‚ dad‚ or sibling were to be killed by a driver who was sending a text message. Was that text worth losing someone you love? D. Thesis statement: Today I will persuade you into
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The Drinking Age: to Lower or Not to Lower In this day and age‚ there are many laws and regulations that set limitations on the age at which a person is allowed to do certain things‚ such as voting‚ purchasing cigarettes‚ getting licensed to drive a car‚ and even joining the military. These laws and regulations were set with the idea in mind that people will be at the appropriate age to take part in such activities. Lawmakers believed that at these set age limitations people would be matured
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buy cigarettes and even join the army‚ but what cannot happen is for him or her to buy alcohol. Buying alcohol and drinking alcohol has been a huge controversy for many years among adults and young adults. Drinking has always had its problems with adults such as the health effects as well the mental capability‚ but when it comes to young adults and teenagers the thought of drinking brings up many questions and concerns for example If he or she is able to join the army at eighteen why not be to drink
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the Minimum Legal Drinking Alcohol consumption is the third leading actual cause of death in the United States‚ a major contributing factor to unintentional injuries‚ the leading cause of death for young people‚ and it accounts for an estimated 75‚000 or more total deaths in the United States annually. There have been a lot of discussions about whether to keep the minimum legal drinking age at 21 or to lower the minimum legal drinking age to 18. The minimum legal drinking age in the United States
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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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Danielle Dover L. Dubuisson English 1101 Online 14 October 2011 Raise‚ Lower‚ or Keep the Drinking Age Limit? When discussing an age limit for alcohol‚ there are many arguments for or against it. We could lower the drinking age but raise the driving age. We could raise the drinking age for everyday people and lower it for soldiers. We could keep it as is or we could try other things such as‚ teaching kids how to drink in the correct manor. There are so many opinions on this subject‚ such as
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