Jackson Professor Sampol English 0-95 October 31‚ 2013 Lowering the legal drinking age Lowering the MLDA (Minimal Legal Drinking Age) drinking age has always been and will always be a big topic of discussion. Many may say that 21 is the age of adulthood and should remain the legal drinking age but many more disagree with that. The MLDA drinking age should be lowered because it is good for economy‚ 18 Is the age of adulthood and it would diminish the thrill of breaking the law to get a drink
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Brandon Kosheff 11/20/2014 Public Speaking Topic: Drinking Age 18 or 21? Purpose: To persuade students to change their feelings about the current drinking age and the benefits of changing it to eighteen. Thesis: Underage drinking is to be expected. If an eighteen year old is old enough and mature enough to vote and serve the country in war‚ he or she should be able to drink. With proper upbringing and schooling on the subject‚ the drinking age should be changed to eighteen. I. Introduction
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forward to the day they turn 21 so they can legally consume alcohol. This drinking age was first introduced under the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984. Under this act‚ “all states were required to raise their minimum purchase and public possession of alcohol age to 21” (alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org). Although many adults enjoy alcoholic beverages‚ some individuals do not responsibly do so. For this reason‚ the drinking age should be raised to 25 due to the overwhelming amount of evidence proving
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Legal Drinking Age The legal drinking age has been a huge controversial issue for an extremely long time (Meldon). Some people say the legal drinking age should be left alone at age 21. Others believe it should be lowered to age 18; the age when someone is considered an adult and given many responsibilities (ProCon.org). I believe the legal drinking age should be kept at age 21. Alcohol is the number one drug problem in the United States. Americans spend a slightly under 100 billion dollars
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The Legal Drinking Age in the United States There has been a continuous controversy in the United States on whether the legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 or kept at 21. In the Persuasive Text “Five Reasons we should keep the drinking age at 21” Karen Arnold-Burger‚ she states the five reasons why people should keep the legal drinking age at 21 in the United States. Karen Arnold-Burger graduated at University of Kansas with a law degree in August 1981. She was appointed Judge of the
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The Drinking Age Throughout the United States‚ there is a huge debate on lowering the drinking age. The current legal drinking age in the United States is 21 years old‚ but there has been dispute on whether lowering it would be beneficial or if retaining it or increasing it would be more favorable for our society. In an article‚ titled “Lower Drinking Age Could Have Sobering Results”‚ which was written by Robert Voas in 2006‚ the author asserts that lowering the minimum legal drinking age of twenty-one
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views on the drinking age. The most used age is eighteen. In the United States the drinking age is twenty-one‚ we have many different views‚ morals‚ and standards than the rest of the world. We plan for the future and want only the best for our future generations. We ensure the safety of our youth by providing these rules and regulations. Laws that maintain the legal drinking age at 21 save lives on the road‚ and protect young people from he internal and external effects of drinking. Since the
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Persuasive Speech on Underage Drinking People might think that alcohol is something that helps you cut loose and makes you full of energy‚ but reality check-alcohol is actually a depressant that damages your body in the long run. Alcohol is a problem that affects multiple people and families‚ but in today’s society it’s affecting teenagers. The horrible facts that I will present to you will prove that underage drinking needs to come to end before it’s too late for some. Some people
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Back on “1958” Stephen Toulmin proposed the six terms as a model of communication designed to analyze the court room rhetorician’s argument. These included the three legs of communication‚ which are writer‚ subject‚ and audience supporting the claims of fact‚ value and policy‚ in others words‚ claim is an author’s proposition in which he/she is trying to prove a statement. In addition‚ Wayne Brockriede and Douglas Ehninger brought to coaction the six key terms in Toulmin model connecting the three
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Karen Salcedo Salcedo 1 Mrs. Amsden Per. 3 Government March 20‚ 2014 Lowering the Drinking Age? The current legal drinking age In California is 21‚ although there are many who oppose the age. I have been studying the topic for the past month‚ to where now I feel I have enough evidence to support my answer. In my government class I have learned the many ways that certain principles can apply to certain ideas. A constitutional principles that I saw was evident while
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