The people that get into most car crashes are teens. Fifteen to eighteen year-olds die because of drunk driving. Should the driving age be raised to eighteen? Well in my opinion‚ no. That wont help them grow there learning ability about driving. Even though there are mostly teen car accidents in a year. Do teens need graduated licenses? Well in my opinion yes and no. I said yes because there are a lot of teen car crashes and think they need a graduating license because they will need to earn it
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Maintaining Current Drinking Age Recently‚ the current drinking age has become a major topic of discussion amongst Americans with whether it is too old or just right. Recent studies have shown that underage drinking has become a major problem in the United States‚ not only because it is illegal for them‚ but because people underage have shown they do not know how to drink in moderation and responsibly. Another reason the current drinking age should be maintained is because drinking has caused many
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Vaughn Mrs. Kachurak Eng. 102-001 2-4-2013 Lower the Drinking Age: End America’s Addiction Although alcohol has been around for quite some time‚ it has recently begun to pose a problem in the past few decades‚ specifically in America. Terrible alcohol related incidences occur every day in America and can be so easily avoided if the proper laws and information are applied. Alcohol consumption‚ especially in the case of underage drinking‚ is one of the most crippling problems in the United States
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research paper College writing 4/15/11 Lowering the legal drinking age Take a moment and imagine your 18th birthday. You’re considered an adult now; you can get married‚ join the army‚ own a house‚ and vote. If we are considered adults at the age of 18 and can die for our country and make all of our own decisions then why cant people drink at the age of 18? Given modern day society‚ the idea of lowering the national minimum drinking age to 18 in the united states is feasible because of its proven
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Every weekend there are young adults ages eighteen to twenty engaging in underage drinking at parties. Alcohol plays a huge role in today’s’ society. More people drink today than ever before. It is clear that alcohol has had a good impact on people’s lives‚ but it is more clear that it has had an negative impact on people’s lives. Alcoholic beverages include good things such as happiness for celebrations. Downfalls of alcohol include DUIs‚ addictions‚ and death. Young adults break the law on a regular
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lowering the drinking age back to eighteen will lead to a domino affect of bad premonitions like rampant drinking binges‚ raving alcoholics‚ and more traffic accident deaths upon the entire nation. Realistic Alcohol Laws for Legal Youth (RALLY) is one of many major organizations dedicated to rectifying these faulty perspectives that Americans hold. Due to the irrelevance on the number of alcohol related car accidents in the 1970?s‚ the parents obligation to teach responsible drinking‚ and the fact
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Carraway Mrs. Howell Honors English III Sep 17th‚ 2012 The Age Shall Stay According to The National Institute of Health approximately 5‚000 teenagers and young adults under the age of 21 die each year to alcohol related causes. Since they put a legal age on drinking in 1964‚ estimates of 7‚000 to 10‚000 lives have been saved each year. Yet many people still insist that it should be lowered. People that favor the side of lowering the age use no logical facts in their argument besides the revenue
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Lowering Legal Drinking Age The minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) has been an ongoing debate over the years. Many states in the past have continuously lowered their MLDA to 18‚ 19‚ or 20. However‚ The National Minimum Legal Drinking Age Act of 1984 required that every states MLDA must be set to 21 years of age. Max Nelson stated that "Beer is the third most popular drink in the world‚ after water and tea" (“The Barbarians Beverage” 1)‚ the minimum legal drinking age is a very popular discussion
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accidents. (http://www.progressiveu.org/012608-do-we-need-a-driving-age-limit) Most of those accidents are caused by teenagers but‚ have we ever asked ourselves why it is this way? Where does the problem lay? The answers to these questions are very simple. The driving age has to be raised to twenty-one. Parents must realize that their kids are not grown up enough and should not be given freedom to take control of the car keys at the age of sixteen. This is a very controversial topic which has to be
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Argumentative essay: Is the drinking age appropriate? I think that the drinking age is too high. Most other countries drinking age is anywhere from 16 to 18‚ and they do not really seem to have a problem with it. My thing is how whenever you turn 18 everybody considers you an adult‚ but you cannot even go to a bar and buy a beer for yourself. With our drinking age being 21‚ it is basically saying that they still consider a person from the age of 18 to 20 still a kid. Sure they are able to buy lottery
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