Purpose: To persuade my audience that the drinking age should be lowered to the age of 18. Thesis: To have the ability to lower the drinking age we must first look at new ways to educate our young adults‚ realize the role of our parents‚ and we must also look at the effects of a lower drinking age in other countries. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Can you honestly say that you never drank alcohol during high school? If so‚ you are in a distinct minority: nearly 80% of high school seniors
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Lowering the Drinking Age “Nearly 10 million youths‚ ages 12 to 20‚ in this country report they have consumed alcohol in the past 30 days.” (“City Council”) Teens use alcohol for a numerous amount of reasons‚ ranging from celebration to stress to boredom and underage drinking has now become a hobby done behind closed doors. The legal limit today in the United states has been 21 since the 1984‚ requiring all states to raise the minimum age for purchase and possession of alcohol to 21‚ but that
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The Drinking Age 18 the dawn of adulthood. An age where you are allowed to vote‚ allowed to buy a lottery ticket‚ and allowed to register and fight for our country. Is there anything you can’t do? Yes‚ at 18 you cannot buy liquor of any form‚ at anytime‚ or anywhere legally. I think that the legal age for drinking and purchase of liquor should be lowered from 21 to 18 and I will briefly explain my position on this matter. Firstly‚ when a person turns 18 they are considered and adult in the American
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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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Drivers between the ages of 18 and 25 are notoriously bad drivers having the highest number of accidents of any age group. However‚ I suggest that the reason that this age group has such a high rate of accidents is not because of a lack of maturity and because young drivers have “a point to prove”‚ but rather due to lack of experience on the road and thus I propose that the minimum age at which a person should be allowed to receive their learners licence should be lowered to 16 to allow for young
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are dismally getting injured and killed every day‚ the thrust many Americans are making to lower the minimum legal drinking age is continuing on. The age citizens are allowed to fight for their country and vote for their leaders is a young 18 years old‚ so many believe‚ why can’t they drink a beer? Throughout the past few decades‚ the legal drinking age has been lowered to 18 years of age‚ and then raised again‚ in many states across the country. Adolescents and young adults throughout the United States
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The Legal Drinking Age Kyra C. Lyons Bryant & Stratton College Phil 250 Mike Sulak July 3‚ 2012 Increasing or decreasing the legal age at which people can purchase and drink alcohol has been a controversial issue for quite some time now. Some people say that it should be lowered because teens drink anyway‚ some say that it should increase or the stay the same due to health risk. There are many other viewpoints to both sides and in this paper we are going to explore both sides to the story
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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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Over 21 is Not the Answer “When you are 18 you are judged mature enough to vote‚ hold public office‚ serve on juries‚ serve in the military‚ fly airplanes‚ sign contracts and so on. Why is drinking a beer an act of greater responsibility and maturity than flying an airplane or serving your country at war?” (NYRA‚ 2005). The issue of the drinking age in the United States has been an ongoing battle for many decades. Drinking ages varied by each state up until the 1980’s when the federal government
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Should the legal age for the consumption of alcoholic beverages such as wine‚ beer‚ and liquor be lowered? In America‚ any person that is twenty-one years of age is considered ‘old enough’ to consume such beverages and allowed to socially drink. Even though any person of eighteen years or older is considered an adult in the view of the the United States. Any eighteen year old is able to vote for said leader of the country even if they don’t factor in certain the effects a leader would have on the
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