president of a beer company in a state that sets the legal drinking age at 21. Your boss asks you to organize a lobbying effort to have the drinking age reduced to 18. What would you do? A. I would do research and report my findings to my boss. Although it might seem like a good idea to do so -higher sales‚ and therefore higher revenue and profit- lowering the drinking age would be a losing battle. States can lower the drinking age back down to 18 or 19 but the amount of federal highway funds
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show drinking to be fun all the time‚ but they don’t tell you what really happens when you drink all the time. Drinking can be fun‚ but when you start drinking every weekend your health starts going bad. According to MADD almost every 90 seconds a person is involved in a drunk driving accident. The U.S.A’s legal drinking age has caused many people to want to change the drinking age to 18. Lowering the drinking age to eighteen would be a bad idea‚ the U.S. has already lowered the drinking age once
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English B Text Production – Argument Topic: Should the legal drinking age in Australia be raised to 21? Raising the legal drinking age in Australia to 21 proves to have many foreseeable positive and negative outcomes‚ as various physical and psychological health complications along with external issues that can affect multiple people are involved‚ each demonstrating different consequences for young adults. These concerns often revolve around drink driving‚ brain development and social influences
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the issue I have chosen is if we should raise the drinking age to 21. * Im against this issue because at the age of 18‚ you are allowed to vote‚ serve in the defence force‚ drive‚ make choices about sexual activity‚ live by yourself‚ be tried in courts as adults and receive benefits from the government. * Drinking should not be any different because it is less of a challenge to make than the above. * Raising the legal drinking age would only result in more of a problem‚ as people would
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Is sixteen an appropriate age to drive? More than five thousand United States teens die each year in car crashes and according to the National Highway Safety Administration. “The rate of crashes per mile driven for a sixteen year old is almost ten times the rate for adults” CBS News (1). Many countries in Europe and elsewhere have a driving age of seventeen or eighteen. Also‚ teens under the age of eighteen are not allowed to purchase alcohol or buy cigarettes then why are they allowed to be in
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Raising a Baby When raising a baby‚ it is first important to make sure that you are stable and prepared financially. Babies are not cheap‚ and they demand a lot of attention from not just one parent but both parents. According to a 2010 USDA report‚ the average middle-income family will spend roughly $12‚000 on child-related expenses in their baby’s first year of life. By age two‚ parents are up to more than $12‚500 per year. Parents can count on spending close to $50 per week on diapers
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10211/25/2010 | | Why the Drinking Age Should Not be Lowered. | | According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services‚ “Increasing the age at which people can legally purchase and drink alcohol has been the most successful intervention to date in reducing drinking and alcohol-related crashes among people under the age of 21.”(Nakaya) Among teens and young adults‚ alcohol is the drug of choice. Many are not aware that they are harming their bodies when drinking. Teens may come intoxicated
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SWINE RAISING Raising hogs for breeding or show is probably one of the most common 4-H livestock projects. It doesn’t require a large amount of money or expensive buildings and equipment and it can be completed in about four months. Eight major breeds of hogs are commonly used for breeding in the United States. In general‚ the five dark breeds--Berkshire‚ Duroc‚ Hampshire‚ Poland China‚ and Spot are known and used for their siring ability and potential to pass along their durability‚ leanness
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Drinking on College Campuses Beer bongs‚ keg stands‚ and a million new drinks to discover‚ these are what college is all about. First-year students are introduced to a whole new world of parties that last until 3 a.m. and drinking beer for the usual breakfast. The week consists of concentrating on school for about 4 days of the week and partying 3 days. The money that was supposed to go towards books and gas to get home has been hoarded for the latest beer run or was used to get into the bar
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controversial argument amongst Americans is determining that the current legal drinking age which is 21 should be lowered to eighteen or not. Researching the following propaganda made me understand the dangers to the youth and people in America if the drinking age were to lower. Therefore i will argue with whoever disagrees with me that the drinking age should be lowered. I’d like to explain six reasons to why the drinking age should not be lowered beginning with the strongest reasons. First reason
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