Alcohol Age Restrictions for Military SOC 120 8 April 2013 Professor Cross Alcohol Age Restrictions for Military This is a topic that hits home with me. My father was military and my husband is currently active duty. So‚ I see and deal with this on a regular basis. To where I see everyone’s point of views on the topic‚ I hope one day that people put their selves in our service members’ shoes. Turning 18 entails receiving the rights and responsibilities of adulthood to vote‚ serve on juries
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Rough draft United States believes that at the age of 18 you are considered an adult and are responsible for your own actions. At the age of 18 you can move out of your parents homes‚ I and every other girl in this room can go have an abortion‚ at the age of 18 you can sign up for the military and legally kill people and even put your own life at risk to protect our country‚ we can vote on who we want the next president of our country to be‚ you can go to a car dealer ship and purchase a car
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and has such an immense control over all body functions. A human brain has not fully developed until the age of 25‚ which is why the legal drinking age should not be at the age of 21. It gives off harmful alterations in the functions of the development of the brain and therefore doesn’t give the brain the full amount of time that it needs to grow. While the brain is still developing‚ drinking a heavy amount may cause damages to certain brain functions and have lasting health effects. Some examples
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In the eye of the law at the age of 18 we are all considered adults arent we? So why cant we be able to drink like one. I have come here today to speak on how we as teens feel that the drinking age should be lowered because of the reason above. If in the eye of law at the age of 18 we are considered grown ups and is given the rights to vote‚ the right to get married and the right to legally buy our own property/home; so why not give us the right to drink. Most 18 year olds surround themselves with
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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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statistics that are provided by the insurance companies‚ 16 year-olds are three times more likely to die in a motor vehicle crash than individuals who fall within the range of the average age of all drivers. Therefore‚ I think the legal driving age should be raised to 18. One thing I’ve found is that it isn’t necessarily the age‚ but that they are inexperienced. The driver’s ed classes are also factors. The classes need to emphasis more on driving safely for the rest of your life. Although reckless teenage
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risk‚ but the lives of others. No mother or father wants to bury their child‚ and this would be less likely if the driving age was raised. The legal driving age should be raised to save lives and have more mature drivers on the road. Raising the driving age would prevent the unnecessary death toll that comes from teen driving. For example‚ in 2003 there were 937 drivers-- age 16-- who were involved
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“Underage Risky Drinking” is to understand the key motives and outcomes that young people may have when drinking underage‚ to what extent they drink and also to explore the social and health related issues that may encounter due to the excessive drinking. This report also focuses on why young people choose to drink in an unsupervised location instead of a supervised location; for example: unsupervised – the park‚ supervised – parents home. This research into “Underage Risky Drinking” also looks at
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Turning the age of sixteen is an important part of your life‚ you get to have that huge birthday party‚ your parents start giving more respect and responsibility‚ and of course‚ you get your drivers license. This might all change if congress pass a bill the was recently proposed. This bill will raise the driving age from sixteen years of age to eighteen years of age. This bill was proposed because teenagers make up 7 percent of Licensed drivers‚ while they are involved in upwards of 20% of accidents
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In 2003‚ there were 937 drivers at the age of sixteen who were involved in fatal crashes. In those wrecks‚ 411 sixteen-year-old drivers died and 352 of their passengers died (Davis). Raising the legal driving age would lower those numbers of death and create a safer road for those on it. After New Jersey made a graduated licensing law‚ its fatality rate fell significantly for
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