the first intro paragraph does this sound good ? ; imagine that one bad decision you made took away an innocent persons life ‚ How would you feel ? It’s never ok to drunk drive. Drunk driving is a crime of driving a vehicle with a large amount of alcohol in your blood stream. Drunk driving could lead to many deaths. It’s is also dangerous because it slows down the drivers brain cause them to take risks. That’s all I got is it good ???? Therefor it’s bad to drink and drive many deaths. It’s is also
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Lower the Drinking Age Everyone knows that it is illegal to consume alcohol under the age of 21. Why is 21 the "magical" age that makes a person intelligent and mature enough to consume alcohol? Sure‚ some adults abuse alcohol and some teenagers would be perfectly able to drink responsibly‚ but why not 18 or 35 or 40? This seemingly random number‚ 21‚ is associated with adulthood‚ as if the day a person turns 21 they know everything and are mature. The drinking age should be lowered to
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Alcohol Addiction An Argument Essay Have you ever been pressured into doing something you would rather not do? Many people have been in many different ways. It seems that teens are pressured more and more into drinking than anything else. If you choose to drink it is your choice but are you doing it to fit in‚ or just because you want to? There are many different ways an adolescent might take a drink even if they know it is wrong. Some reasons are the risk-taking‚ the expectancies‚ how sensitive
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U.S. Corporate Taxes and Reform The current U.S. corporate income tax system has many flaws and with the correct changes the United States budget deficit could transform into a surplus. There are two clear flaws in the current corporate income tax policy. The first is the high tax rate corporations pay in the U.S.; taxes on corporate income are currently at 35%. This burden causes businesses to avoid operating here and the cost is thousands of domestic employment opportunities. The next
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Alcohol Advertising Television is the number one spot where advertisements are released because of the variety of age groups that it reaches throughout the United States. “Average number of hours per week that American youth ages 12-17 watch television: 20 hours‚ 20 minutes‚” (CERC‚ 1998). Although Television is the most effective way to advertise products because of how much it is consumed and how large of an audience it captures‚ does it attract individuals who were not intended to be targeted
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The Minimum Drinking Age Should Remain at 21 INTRODUCTION: Imagine a man who is in his mid-forties‚ he has a nice house and nice car‚ with 2 beautiful children‚ ages 14 and 18. He is one of those parents who has done everything and anything for his kids‚ as any parent would. He has gone through all the hard times of raising them and taking care of them‚ and they are almost on that brink of becoming adults. Then one Friday night‚ he gets a call at 2:45 in the morning. It’s the police. They start off
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It has become a common knowledge that alcohol is the major factor that contributes to sexual assaults. (Ressler‚ 2013). As a woman‚ we should take precaution when there’s a lot of drinking and men need to be alerted to the fact that having sexual relations with a woman who is intoxicated is considered rape. People don’t get assaulted in light of the fact that they have been drinking‚ are passed out or drunk. People get raped because there is a perpetrator there — someone who wants to take advantage
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The Legal Drinking Limit If underage drinking has been an ongoing controversy spanning years in the United States‚ why is the issue not under control yet? For years there has been a debate on whether the legal drinking age should remain twenty-one or be reverted back to eighteen. This controversy has been heavily discussed for years bringing to light many positives and negatives to both sides of the situation; however‚ I believe that the pros to lowering the legal drinking age outweigh the cons
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Underage drinking is a huge epidemic that is affecting America. Teenagers are able to get their hands on alcoholic beverages with little to no consequence with the law or with their parents‚ and the outcome is devastating. Rise in car accidents and alcohol poisoning are just a few of the many issues that plague our society that is associated with underage drinking. Nevertheless‚ there is hope‚ events such as anti-alcohol campaigns can be used to educate and help change the culture of underage drinking
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Alcohol Advertising And Youth KENDRICK HARRIS Introduction to Sociology April 9‚ 2011 Omer Durfee ALCOHOL ADVERTISING AND YOUTH Alcohol is the drug of choice among youth. Many young people are experiencing the consequences of drinking too much‚ at an early age. As a result‚ underage drinking is a leading public health problem in this country. Did you know that each year‚ approximately 5‚000 young people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking? This includes about
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