Lowering the Drinking Age Half the United States population starts drinking at the age of 14.When you are 18 you have privileges like joining the army. (Mitch Adams Lowering the drinking age page 1) You can go to war and die for your country but you still can not enjoy an ice cold beer. (Mitch Adams Lowering the drinking age page 1) How is being 21 different from being 18? How does three more years of not drinking make you mature enough to drink? The longer you drink the more you start to
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Radical Art Movement of the 70’s Is the art of the 1970’s to suffer a fate similar to that of the 1930’s‚ which has so often been presented as innovatively dull and empty‚ not worthy of much consideration? Ian Burn1 Using a pinnacle moment in history to learn about arts from that era is a fun way to discover artists‚ and their works‚ that one might not have otherwise researched. The purpose of this report was to obtain a better understanding of art in the 1970’s. There’s many ways to approach
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The Space Age February 2013‚ asteroid 2012 DA14 is plummeting towards Earth. My science class at Crestwood Junior High was chatting about this amazing phenomenon. Most of the class is just counting down the minutes until the bell rings. But I had just started my journey through the unknown‚ that is still going on today. Wanting to learn all I can about spacecrafts‚ planets‚ asteroids‚ and the many other things around us. From some of the first spacecrafts‚ all the way to cool technologies that
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The Viking age was a period of four hundred years (700 to 1100 AD) and was either part of the late Iron Age or Early Medieval Time. Back then there were no countries or huge kingdoms. The Scandinavian Peninsula was divided into a bunch of smaller kingdoms or realms‚ each with its own king or chief. There are three types of vikings. Merchants- History does not have much to say about merchants‚ but we knew they were trading iron and fur and were not alone and unarmed. As a matter of fact‚ they probably
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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 they’d
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Despite years of research‚ alcohol abuse continues to be a threat to society. Alcohol abuse is a big problem in the United States‚ especially for young adults who are of ages around the minimum legal drinking age. As of right now‚ the current minimum legal drinking age is 21 years of age in the United States. There is a lot of debate on whether the drinking age should be lowered‚ raised‚ or stay the same due to the problems alcohol abuse is causing‚ particularly at colleges. According to Beth McMurthie
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Keep The Voting Age At 18 Recently‚ discussions have been made about proceding to lower the voting age from 18 to 16. I fully believe that the age should remain at 18‚ considering I myself happen to be 18 years of age and know for a fact that two years ago I was in no way capable of voting. We are better off keeping the statistics at 62% participating voters‚ then letting immature teenagers who want to be able to make adult decisions without adult responsibilties vote. Personally
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Drinking Age There are many pros and cons to lowering the national drinking age from 21 years of age to 19 years of age. I believe the drinking age should stay at 21 even though many of my peers feel otherwise. People under the age of 21 are drinking whether it is legal or not. They may have a fake identification or have someone purchase alcohol for them‚ the fact is they are drinking. When I talk with others about this topic‚ comments are always made such as: when a person turns 12‚ they can get
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quatrains‚ an ending couplet‚ and iambic pentameter. This standardization also occurs in his reoccurring attempt at the opposition of the conventional theme of chivalrous love in poetry. Though one sonnet in particular defies this ideal: Sonnet 18. Sonnet 18 was one of Shakespeare’s most renowned sonnets in which he compares his love to an “eternal summer”. Shakespeare not only speaks highly of love but also openly shares his incontestable fascination with his beloved. These confessions highlighted
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Annotated Bibliographies Cloud‚ John. "Should You Drink with Your Kids?." Time 30 June 2008: 44. Middle Search Plus. Web. 23 Oct. 2013. This article argues that lowering the legal drinking age to 18 would be a smart choice. If it can’t be lowered then at least making a few alterations to the law would be smart. Alcoholic beverages are introduced to others at an earlier age in countries such as Italy‚ Greece‚ and France. And they tend to have fewer alcohol related problems than we do in
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