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    The main issue is today’s society is underage drinking. There has been a lot of controversy on this subject from many different sides of the issue; there are some people who believe that the drinking age should be lowered from twenty-one to eighteen years old as it was during the Vietnam war‚ the old-school mentality was “old enough to fight‚ old enough to drink.” The con side disagrees however stating that lowering the drinking age would bring about a rise in traffic accidents‚ and encourage young

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    the legal drinking age be”? Many people argue that it should stay as is‚ twenty one and older and others debate the legal drinking age should be lower than twenty one‚ for example‚ eighteen. I personally‚ think the legal drinking age should not be changed‚ and it should remain the same at age twenty one. For this argument there are many pros and cons to both sides. Although‚ I think keeping the drinking age at twenty one out weights the pros for lowering the drinking age to a lower age such as eighteen

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    being that you cannot partake in any form of alcoholic consuming activity unless you are of the age of 18. The military understands that drinking alcohol on base will happen and they prefer you to be of the age of 18. Most of the time you cannot join the military unless you of the age of 18 but they understand that in certain cases this isn’t the case. And if you are caught drinking and you are not the age of 18 there is a high chance there will be consequences. Another rule that you have to obey by

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    Draft #4 Increasing the drinking age from 18 to 21 caused a lot of debate. Many believed it would have done more good than it actually has done. Lesley Stahl‚ the CBS journalist‚ once said‚ "It hasn’t reduced or eliminated drinking. It has simply driven it underground‚ behind closed doors‚ into the most risky and least manageable of settings." As Stahl states‚ the drinking is “underground” to an extent and very visible in universities. Underage drinking‚ and drinking in general is very visible

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    until the age of 18. Many people are in agreement with this legal age. Some would even say that it should be raised. However‚ the legal drinking age sometimes causes more trouble than it prevents. Why is 18 the magical age that makes one intelligent and mature enough to consume alcohol? There’s a idea that immature people are less likely to handle the effects of alcohol‚ so why is the random age limit (at age 18). We all know that some people under 21 who can drink responsibly‚ and some over 21 with no

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    The True Cost to Underage Drinking Unsupervised‚ underage drinking is a growing epidemic within the United States. However‚ there is another growing epidemic that seems to be larger than underage drinking: unreported sexual assaults. The amount of people being sexually assaulted are growing every single year and the percentages given out about these assaults do not correlate to exactly how many people get assaulted. The amount of money State College and Penn State invests into the investigation

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    Several would argue that the 21 year old drinking age is possibly too low‚ some even think that the age should be lowered‚ and some even think the age should be at 25. I believe that the drinking age should remain the same at 21 due to the fact that there are already plenty of issues with underage drinking. “The Age of Responsibility” by Alan Greenblatt‚ goes into depth about the different problems and aspects that go into searching for a golden age to entrust people to have the ability to accomplish

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    their own minimum wage laws. In those instances‚ the employee is entitled to the higher of the two minimum wages. In this paper we will discuss the brief history of the minimum wage law and its current legislation. We will also analyze the pros and cons of raising the minimum wage‚ and the merits of each argument. The minimum wage was first introduced in New Zealand in 1894. It wasn’t until 1938‚ that President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the first US minimum wage law called the Fair Labor Standards

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    Should the minimum drinking age in the United states remain 21? Drinking has always been a problem worldwide specially in the United States. The drinking age limit was established for people all around the United Sates to avoid any more accidents. It’s all around the news that under age people have gotten in incidents due to being drunk or sober and they are not even 21 years old. In my opinion the age limit of 21 should remain the same considering all people by that age are responsible enough

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    1971 the 26th amendment was passed which lowered the minimum age to vote from twenty one to eighteen years old. Shortly after the amendment was passed twenty nine states across America started lowering the drinking age from 21 to either 18‚19‚ or 20 years old. This new freedom for young adults only lasted for a brief time by 1984 the Uniform Drinking Age Act was passed. The Uniform Drinking Age Act forced states to change the drinking age back to twenty one years old; by reducing the federal transportation

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