can fight for your country at 18 but can’t have a alcoholic beverage. I believe the drinking age should be lowered to 18 from 21. Turning 18 is a milestone age for many things but alcohol consumption is not on the list. Many people would agree the age should stay 21 I do not agree with this. Some would say it’s not a good idea since the age group 18-20 is not responsible‚ which is not the case for all. Here’s the good and bad in this situation. One of the pros if the age was lowered‚ underage drinking
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Taskforce 2008‚ p.2). In the 1970s’‚ the drinking age was lowered to 18 from 21 during the Vietnam War (Bibby 2009). One issue people nowadays are openly debating about is whether the legal minimum age for drinking alcohol in Australia should be‚ again‚ raised from 18 to 21. It has been suggested that as 18-year-olds have already been able to vote‚ they naturally should have the right to drink as well. However‚ this essay will argue that the legal drinking age should be lifted‚ and the reasons are as follows:
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the larger society‚ the age at which a boy can earn his license should be raised to eighteen. Raise the Driving License Age to Eighteen Throughout the history‚ people have always wanted what they can’t have. So is desire of teenagers to have driving license. More than 5000 teenagers die in car accidents every year. Isn’t this shocking? Indeed a very large number-according to the statistics in the special report about the “Dangers of Teen Driving-Readers Digest. It also reveals
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Ethan T. Dock Mrs. Clausing Composition 3-18-13 Common Topic Drunk driving should not be ignored it is dangerous and evil. Drunk driving can cause others harm. Everyone should obey the traffic laws that keep us safe. A man decided to go to the bar after having a bad day. While complaining in his head about his day he got drunk. When he was done drinking he headed out of the bar to go get in his car and go home to his family. He was about to open the door when he thought to himself I should probably
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Reckless Teen Driving: Teenagers’ Mistakes that Cause Their Accidents I had a first-hand experience with the problem of reckless teen driving. It was a sunny Saturday in mid July 2006‚ when my friend‚ with a slow and trembling voice‚ announced to me that a person‚ who means unimaginably a lot to me‚ had a car accident. That exact moment my whole world was crushed. I couldn’t ask why‚ how‚ or when. The only words that came out of my mouth were‚ “Is he all right?” I got no response.
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with a pack. The pack is for every one of them to become pregnant by their boyfriend or a random guy. Planning the pregnancy pack‚ the girls are unaware of the consequences that their actions may bring them. Now picture a young female around the age of sixteen who feels very unwanted and unloved by society and even her own parents. Feeling abandoned and alone‚ she decides to become pregnant to fulfill the need of love. The next young women seems to have fallen in love with her new boyfriend believing
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voting age to 16 instead of 18. Others also may argue that it is because there arent many different variations and options to vote from. I believe that both these arguments have their pros and cons to them. So many teenagers under the age of 18 and many adults too argue that the government should drop the voting age to 16 instead of 18. They say that this would instantly improve the voting participation percentages. I do not fully agree with this because the percentage of people who are 18 and older
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the Drinking Age In other countries around the world if you are under the age of 21 you can drink alcohol some countries don ’t even have an age limit‚ but in America you have to be 21 to buy alcohol. You can go to war and die for your country when you are 18‚ you can also vote‚ buy cigarettes‚ but you can ’t buy alcohol. One of the main causes of the drinking age being set to 21 was teenagers were getting into car accidents after getting drunk. I am not saying driving under the influence should
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Should the legal use age of tobacco be raised? The use of tobacco has become a custom in the American lifestyle. The number of people that use and/or are addicted to nicotine is at an all time high and the number of teenagers that use it is growing even greater. So knowing these facts the question has started to arise‚ should the legal use age of tobacco be raised? Throughout this paper we will discuss what the pros and cons would be if the legal use age were to be raised. The pros of this happening
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Topic: Why teens and parents fight? Conflicts between parents and teens have been existed for centuries long. When you were a kid parents used to decide for everything you used to do. The clothes you wear. The food you eat. The color of your bedroom walls and so on. As a kid‚ you didn’t have a say in very much that went on; your parents made decisions about everything from the cereal you ate in the morning to the pajamas you wore at night. This is a good thing‚ kids need this kind of protection
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