globe. Some very important questions are raised like how harmful is drinking under the age of twenty-one? Is underage age drinking related to traffic accidents? How is this action affecting the brains of the minors? Is it hurting them? For this reason‚ the minimal drinking age was established to protect these younger people from all the many dangers. The minimal legal drinking age should be kept twenty-one because the legal drinking age has prevented many traffic or car related accidents in the past
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their own and that is if they will consume alcohol. The legal drinking age is not until you are 21 years of age. People argue that it should be lowered for it is an individual decision and 18 is old enough to make that decision. The legal drinking age should remain as is because the brain of a young adult is not fully developed till the age of 21. The pros of lowering the drinking age are just as many as there are bad. Lowering the drinking age to 18 is only fair since you already have the right to
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1 Supplying clean drinking water across rural India: A case study on the Community RO Water Treatment Plants in Shadnagar Mandal; Mhabubnagar district Andhra Pradesh for providing Shadnagar district; Fluoride free potable water to the rural Community Dr.Rajesh Roy1*‚ A.V Suresh2‚ G.K.Reddy3 1‚2 Eureka Forbes‚ B1/B2‚ 701‚ 7th Floor‚ Marathon Innova‚ Marathon NextGen‚ Off Ganpatrao Kadam Marg‚ Lower Parel‚ Mumbai 400 013‚ Maharashtra; India 3 World Vision of India‚ #13-195/1‚ Arunodaya
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In 1984‚ the Uniform Drinking Age Act‚ a law which would severely penalize states who failed to restrict the drinking age to 21 or higher‚ was signed into law (Hoover). It is odd to think‚ in today’s day and age‚ that 35 years ago the drinking age was below 21 in over 70% of US states (“Minimum Legal Drinking Age…”)‚ however‚ this all changed when the federal government took away highway funds and dangled them in front of these states like a carrot‚ waiting for them all to raise their legal age
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Lowering the Drinking Age to 18 in the United States While it may seem to some‚ drinking at age eighteen is frowned upon. It is actually true that many people between the ages of 18 and 20 drink alcohol illegally without any sense of guilt. On July 17‚ 1984‚ a law was established in the United States that impacted a large number of America’s youth. The indicated law was the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. Legal drinking ages were originally determined by each state. Many states kept the age
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Lowering the Drinking Age Since the drinking age has been raised to twenty-one in 1984‚ there has been alarming evidence that illegal drinking still occurs between the ages of eighteen to twenty-four‚ more prominently on college campuses. Although there are a plethora of reasons as to why the drinking age has been raised‚ there are extensively fundamental reasons as to why the drinking age needs to be lowered in an effort to halt the rising illegal drinking rate. These reasons include teaching responsibility
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The legal drinking age in the United States should be lowered from twenty-one to sixteen. There are two reasons why the current legal drinking age is ineffective and overall nonsensical and each will be addressed in turn. First‚ the United States historically discovered that banning alcohol purchase and consumption was ineffective‚ and the rate at which underage drinking occurs demonstrates that doing so for a certain age group is just as ineffective. The law is not and cannot be properly enforced
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Minimum Drinking Age According to the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine‚ in 2010 underage drinkers from ages 15-20 were responsible for 48.8% of alcohol purchases. The minimum legal drinking age(MLDA) in the United States was 18 years old until 1984‚ when all fifty states raised their legal drinking age to 21 or older. The drinking age should be lowered from 21 years old to 18 years old because at that age one legally becomes an adult‚ it would reduce the amount of unsafe drinking activity
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this age consume alcohol‚ and too many of them do so in an irresponsible manner. This is largely because drinking is seen by these youth as an enticing forbidden fruit‚ a trophy of rebellion against authority‚ and a symbol of adulthood. We can relate the illegal ways of the youth today‚ to the measures taken during the prohibition in Canada from 1918 to 1920. These efforts to prevent drinking were unenforceable and created serious social problems such as the development of immoderate consumption
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Legal drinking age should be raised In this short composition I’m going to write about the reasons to disagree or agree with the idea‚ that legal drinking age should be raised. In this paragraph i will present you the reasons to disagree. When someone tells us‚ that the government should raise the legal drinking age it sounds good. But after five minutes‚ when you think about it for a while you start thinking otherwise. The reason for that is; you know that not only 18 year olds drink‚ but
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