Most people think that the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen because if the teen is responsible they should be able to drink. Many teenagers have parties that have alcohol at the parties. The teens have other people buy the drinks and then the teenager will pay that person. The fact is that no matter the drinking age there will always be underage drinking. The drinking age should be eighteen because adults are allowed to make their own decisions and at the age of eighteen the person is now
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Rough draft United States believes that at the age of 18 you are considered an adult and are responsible for your own actions. At the age of 18 you can move out of your parents homes‚ I and every other girl in this room can go have an abortion‚ at the age of 18 you can sign up for the military and legally kill people and even put your own life at risk to protect our country‚ we can vote on who we want the next president of our country to be‚ you can go to a car dealer ship and purchase a car
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1971 the 26th amendment was passed which lowered the minimum age to vote from twenty one to eighteen years old. Shortly after the amendment was passed twenty nine states across America started lowering the drinking age from 21 to either 18‚19‚ or 20 years old. This new freedom for young adults only lasted for a brief time by 1984 the Uniform Drinking Age Act was passed. The Uniform Drinking Age Act forced states to change the drinking age back to twenty one years old; by reducing the federal transportation
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Why The Drinking Age Should Remain The Same Final Draft In 2009 it was reported that the 21- to 24-year-old age group had the highest percentage‚ 35 percent to be exact‚ of drivers in fatal crashes with blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) levels of .08 or higher (Steven C. Markoff). Coincidentally studies showed when the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) was lowered to 18‚ the fatalities in traffic accidents that were related to alcohol were decreased by nearly 7.5 percent. However‚ the argument
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The reading “The creation of history in ancient Israel” by Marc Zvi Brettler is about history‚ ancient texts‚ ideology and literature. There are several ways of defining the words ideology‚ history and literature. As mentioned in the article history can be designed to record events of the past as they actually occurred. Nevertheless‚ Collingwood believed that biblical texts shouldn’t be considered history. I believe that ancient texts are significantly important and that they should be considered
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“The dogs are only dangerous when they’re trained that way‚ they have the potential to be a bad dog‚ but that doesn’t mean they are a bad dog.”~John Lindsey. In addition‚ if owners train their dogs to be dangerous then they will stay dangerous. If they are trained right then they will know that their owner is the alpha. Although‚ certain dog breeds have a bad reputation for attacking owning “dangerous” dogs should not be made illegal because their owners didn’t train them correctly or at all‚ their
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In the film‚ War Games‚ the computer that Matthew Broderick hacks into is faced with a serious problem - whether or not to end its war games simulation. To the machine‚ it is simply playing a game‚ and there are no consequences for playing this game. However‚ for anyone looking to the computer for information‚ there seemed to be many Soviet ships on alert and ready to strike the United States. The machine in War Games had been programmed to simulate war‚ and come up with the best strategy for the
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Do you own a cell phone? Every year‚ millions of users are constantly in use of cell phones‚ most of them being under the age of fifteen. Some people think that it’s extremely important for kids to have cell phones in case of emergencies. Most of the kids in the world are using the cell phones to do bad things‚ while other kids are using the cell phones to do good things‚ such as calling their parents and playing educational games. Some kids even stay inside and don’t make any personal contact with
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“Underage Risky Drinking” is to understand the key motives and outcomes that young people may have when drinking underage‚ to what extent they drink and also to explore the social and health related issues that may encounter due to the excessive drinking. This report also focuses on why young people choose to drink in an unsupervised location instead of a supervised location; for example: unsupervised – the park‚ supervised – parents home. This research into “Underage Risky Drinking” also looks at
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Twenty-One Is Here To Stay Most Americans would agree that underage drinking is a national health issue which must be addressed. Too many young adults perish every year from drunk-driving accidents‚ alcohol poisoning and other alcohol related incidents. The estimated social cost of underage drinking in America is fifty-three billion dollars a year (McCardell 1). According to a survey completed by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention‚ “Fifty percent of teens between twelve and sixteen
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