Underage Drinking: Annotated Bibliography Alexis Richter Comp 2 February 27th‚ 2010 Engs‚ Ruth C. "Why the Drinking Age Should be Lowered: An Opinion Based Upon Research." CQ Researcher. N.p.‚ 20 Mar. 1998. Web. 9 Feb. 2011. . The article “Why the Drinking Age Should be Lowered: An Option based upon Research” is about twenty years of research based underage drinking done by Ruth Engs. It talks about the way things were in the past compared to how things are now. The research done
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paper I will exam the causes of underage drinking and they effects that this may place on the individual‚ their families‚ and society. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services‚ "Young people begin to take risks and experiment as they transition from childhood to adulthood. Without support and guidance‚ some young people may engage in behaviors that place them and others at risk including using alcohol." (Youth and Underage Drinking: An Overview‚ 2004). As a child
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age. There are many dangers about underage drinking. In many cases alcohol has lead to fatal car crashes. One-third of all drivers ages 21 to 24 who died in a car crash had a blood alcohol level that was over the legal limit. Drinking can cause major brain damage. The brain is still developing‚ drinking underage may cause lasting impairments in brain functions such as memory‚ coordination‚ and motor skills. It is more likely that they will be a heavy drinking later in life than a teenager who
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………………… 5 UNDERAGE DRINKING…………………………………………………………………... 5 MILITARY UNDERGE DRINKING……………………………………………………..... 7 BINGE DRINKING……………………………………………………............................... 8 CONCLUSION……………………………………………………..................................... 11 RECOMMENDATIONS/SOLUTIONS……………………………………………………. 11 MILITARY WINGMAN CONCEPT……………………………………………………..... 13 ENFORCING THE LAW……………………………………………………...................... 15 WORKS CITED……………………………………………………
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Underage drinking and drugs use have been a big issue encountered by many teenagers across America. The problem is not only about drinking alcohol and drug use itself but about the consequences caused by these unhealthy activities. Excessive alcohol consumption cause lead to motor vehicles accidents‚ fight‚ rapes‚ suicide‚ homicide‚ etc. A study found that American youth have a big portion of hospitalization for alcohol consumption reasons. Among this youth population‚ men were more often found to
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Introduction Underage drinking has affected many across the U.S. This topic has affected me personally in many ways‚ hence the reason I chose it. Throughout this project‚ I will discuss why underage drinking is such a problem‚ what my position is‚ courses of action‚ and possibly a visual to support the issue at hand. This may show as an interest to others for many reasons‚ but it has a personal meaning to me and friends of mine as well. I was curious as to what others had to say about this
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Underage Drinking Underage drinking is widespread along adolescents‚ according to an annual survey of U.S youth‚ three-fourths of twelfth graders‚ more than two-thirds of tenth graders‚ and about two in every five eighth graders have consumed alcohol. Each year approximately five thousand young people under the age of twenty one die as a result of underage drinking; This includes about 1‚900 deaths from motor vehicle crashes‚ 1‚600 as a result of homicides‚ 300 from suicide‚ as well as hundreds
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The True Cost to Underage Drinking Unsupervised‚ underage drinking is a growing epidemic within the United States. However‚ there is another growing epidemic that seems to be larger than underage drinking: unreported sexual assaults. The amount of people being sexually assaulted are growing every single year and the percentages given out about these assaults do not correlate to exactly how many people get assaulted. The amount of money State College and Penn State invests into the investigation
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teens drink and on average‚ they drink too much. Underage drinking has become a major problem in the United States. First of all‚ statistics show that more than ten million drinkers in the US are between the ages of twelve and twenty‚ and of these twenty percent engage in binge drinking and six percent are heavy drinkers.(Young People and Alcohol‚) Next‚ statistics also show that there are roughly 3.3 million teens that have drinking problems also‚ one-fourth of all seventh through twelfth
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Based on the movie showed in the curriculum‚ underage drinking is such a common phenomenon in the college campus that approximately eighty percent college students drink alcohol and half of them consume it through alcohol abuse. The film introduces and analyses minor’s drinking issue though three aspects: the causes of college drinking‚ negative consequences brought by it‚ and some solutions to subtract underage alcohol consumption. As for the reasons why college students have high incentive to
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