...3/24/2013 Argumentative research paper Why Not Change the Drinking Age Back to 18? In the United States of America you are considered a legal adult at the age of 18 years old. You have all the major rights of a fully grown adult, voting, enlisting in the military, buying a house, buying tobacco products and many more. However there is one right that was taken away from the 18 year old adult back in 1984. In 1984 the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was put into place which changed the legal minimum drinking age from 18 years old to 21. Does this law mean that you are not really a mature adult until you are 21 or should the drinking age be brought back down to 18 when you receive all the other rights of a mature adult. It makes perfect sense that this right should be returned to young adults for plenty of reasons and also holds potential solutions to one of the nation’s biggest alcohol related problems. What does it mean to be an adult? United States law states that you are legally considered an adult at the age of 18. It makes sense right? You can buy a house, enlist in the U.S. military, get married and loads of other rights you don’t have until the age of 18. But United States law also states that all states must enforce a legal minimum drinking age of 21. We are the only major nation to have such a high drinking age. The drinking age wasn’t always this high though. On July 17th 1984 the national minimum drinking age act was passed which meant that 18 year old young adults...
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...Opponent: Lowering the Minimum Legal Drinking Age Lozi Ms. Rhodes Comp 2 November 11, 2011 Opponent: Lowering the Minimum Legal Drinking Age Introduction At the present time, the Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) Law is set at the age of 21 years old. Proponents would have the law revoked and the Minimum Legal Drinking Age reduced. This paper intends to prove that the MLDA should remain as it stands. The Minimum Legal Drinking Age of 21 protects our youth and society as a whole. Evaluation of the Present MLDA: Success Drinking and Driving The present MLDA laws set at 21 are effective. “Almost every state has seen a decrease in teenage driving fatalities since the law went into effect” (Hamilton, 2008, para 3). Before the law took effect, many American youths died in car accidents that could have been avoided if this law had been in effect at the time. “Over the past 20 years, the number of 15 to 20 year olds killed in alcohol-related traffic crashes has been cut in half. The number of 15 to 20 year old drinking drivers involved in fatal crashes also has been cut in half” (Hamilton, 2008, para 15). One cannot argue with statistics. Maturity Factor Most teens would argue that we, as adults, really don’t know anything that they don’t already know. The youth of America have a sense of entitlement, and for the most part, we have created a spoiled generation. “Many youth experiment with unlawful drinking-often to disastrous effects” (National Household Survey On...
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...changed the laws regarding drinking and driving throughout the United States. MADD changed the legal age for drinking and purchasing alcohol. MADD has made the laws stricter; including more fines and punishment for breaking the laws. MADD has become one of the nation’s largest agencies to help improve assistance for families that have lost loved ones to drunk drivers. The organization has made historical changes in laws and legislature. MADD, Impact on Social Policy Mothers Against Drunk Drivers has made a significant impact on our society today by bringing changes in our drinking and driving laws. MADD, more commonly referred to, has implemented a change in drinking age and mandated strict laws for people who break these laws. From a simple outcry by the founder of MADD, this organization has grown to service millions. MADD was originally founded by Candy Lightner in 1980 after her 13 year old daughter, Cari was struck from behind and killed by a drunk driver. The driver had three previous drunk driving violations and had been involved in a hit-and-run accident and arrest two days before the incident involving Cari. One of the most effective leaders was Rebecca (Beckie) Brown from New Port, Florida. Rebecca became involved in MADD after her son Marcus died at the age of 18 from an accident involving a 19-year old drunk driver. She created the first MADD in Florida and “was instrumental in passing legislation to raise the minimum legal drinking age to 21 in Florida. The U...
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...The term legal drinking age refers to the earliest age at which a person can legally consume alcoholic beverages within particular jurisdictions. This age differs from country to country and in certain cases from state to state within a country. The Minimum Legal Drinking Age or the MLDA, in the United States as of today is twenty-one years. Lowering the MLDA is a touchy subject to many because people do not quite see the benefits that would come of it. Living in the United States, when a person turns eighteen years old, they are considered to be an adult and gain many rights and responsibilities. The MLDA should be lowered to the age of eighteen to coincide with those rights and responsibilities and be able to help benefit our country. A person is legally considered an adult once they have turned eighteen years of age. Parents of these teenagers are no longer held responsible for their teen’s actions. At that point in every young adult’s life comes along with many responsibilities and also many rights that a person deserves to have. Having the right to vote for who represents our country and local affairs, the ability to buy cigarettes and get married without having a parent’s consent, being able to serve our country by joining the Army forces and risking their life in battle, gaining the responsibility of serving jury duty, and also being prosecuted as an adult for an offense. All of these things a person inherits once they have turned eighteen years old yet our government takes...
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...the second most stressful job of the United States in 2015 (Forbes, 2015). The level of stress within this job which Forbes describes is why service members would like to relax at home and have the opportunity to enjoy a few alcoholic beverages of choice. Unfortunately, all under-aged military individuals cannot partake in such activities because of laws that are set upon the United States. Giving under-aged military individuals the benefit to drink facilitates post-traumatic anxiety issue, diminishes risky drinking action and brands them into great grown-ups. Imagine being 18, a recent graduate, in Afghanistan fighting a war. What do you see? In case impacts, destruction, wounds, blood, and lost limbs are what you imagine happens majority of the time, you are correct. How would you deal with living in constant fear of your life? You would take a seat and have a taste of your most loved sort of cognac, whiskey, or wine to overlook a few memories. Americans who are of legal age considers that having a drink is a preferred way to end a frantic day. Unfortunately, these...
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...someone is intoxicated when a person smells of alcohol, glazed or bloodshot eyes, the person is passive or argumentative, and a deterioration of the persons appearance. It is basically an obvious problem. This essay will try to prove that alcohol is poisonous substance that should be highly monitored and the drinking age being raised as a result. Have you ever been pressured into doing something you would rather not do? many people have been in many different ways. It seems that teens are being pressured more and more into drinking than anything else. if you choose to drink it is he or she's choice but are you doing it to fit in? or just because you want to? there are many different ways an adolescent might take a drink even if they know it is wrong. Some reasons are the risk taking, the expectancies, how sensitive and how they tolerate the alcohol, hereditary factors, personality characteristics, and psychological thoughts. Some people say that we should change our drinking ages to 16, like in Europe, where they do not have a problem with underage drinking. And because of this reason there has been many people thinking that the United States should change the drinking age to 16. Saleh...
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...– B02 CHRIS PORTER 29 Jun 2014 The abuse of alcohol is a problem in our society; a social disorder that causes physical and emotional injuries to people and family life. Alcohol is the oldest drug around. It is also the most widely-used and almost 50 percent of people aged 12 and over have consumed alcohol in the United States. Most people are able to consume alcohol responsibly. However, for one reason or another, some people abuse alcohol and develop addictions. Alcohol can destroy persons who depend on its effects to solve their problems. Not only does the use of alcohol create serious health disorders for those who drink heavily during their lifetime, but also causes serious health disorders in children whose mothers drank while pregnant. Individuals who drink alcohol are often responsible for injuring other innocent people. Each year in the United States, nearly 85,000 people die from alcohol-related causes, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in our country. (NIAAA) Many automobile accidents involve drunk drivers. People who drink endanger themselves and everyone around them. In addition, business and industry suffer financial loss because their employees drink. What might begin as casual drinking can become heavy drinking and alcoholism. Because the abuse of alcohol has a negative effect on men, women, and children, that same abuse on alcohol is a threat in our society. Although society cannot force people to stop abusing alcohol,...
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...Fracking...Is it the Right answer? Darrell E Davison BCOM/275 JAN 1 2012 Betsy Wampler Fracking...Is it the Right answer? In the 21st century world we live, the advances in technology and research have created an environment that information is passed instantly. The world wide web and social media are instruments used to pass information to the masses quicker than anytime in human history. That information now more than ever is used to spread awareness on matters of importance to promote action in a group of people. On of the major issues the public now faces is the issue of Energy. On a broad scale, the production of Energy and also its consumption is the fodder of political pundits and environmentalist no longer. Recent elections here in the United States along with several successful documentaries have brought an unprecedented level of awareness to the arguments made by proponents of both sides of issues. In America, these lines seem to even ride along political divisions. Conservatives tend to be less likely to adhere to warnings of environmentalist, while Liberals seem to lean more toward acceptance. A fairly new technology has come to the nation’s forefront and promoted some spirited debate. The issue is Hydraulic Fracturing or as it is commonly referred to “Fracking”. We will examine the pros and cons of both and why it should not be used as an option to future Energy Production What is Fracking? The process of” Fracking” means injecting millions...
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...benefit the health and wellbeing of individuals and the nation. What is health promotion? Health promotion is the process of helping or showing to people on how to improve their quality of life. It will help to choose appropriate choices in terms of better health. It enables people to increase control over their health and effects thereby improving their health. It cannot be forced to the people to follow certain health routine on contrary it will get choices and information for people to choice right healthy lifestyle. What are the aims of health promotion?...
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...amendment had people across the nation pondering. This amendment was a remarkable new amendment. Young people could now vote and get involve in there new political leaders. Before this new amendment the law was that you couldn’t vote unless you were at least 21 so until that age, teenagers didn’t care about who was running their country at all until they were of that legal age. The 26th Amendment changed the whole idea of the adulthood of eighteen year olds in America’s eyes forever. Student activist during the Vietnam War, were outraged that young men and women could die in a war and fight for their country but weren’t able to vote. They felt like this was unfair and it took away their rights as citizens. Making the 26th Amendment as a law made them feel like they made a difference. "No taxation without representation” was also a big deal because taxes were still getting pulled out of young teenager’s paychecks. How is that fair if they couldn’t even vote on this but still had to get chunks of money taken out of their paychecks? In some states, including Texas, has changes the adult age to seventeen years old, declaring that if you disobey a law than you will be acted upon as an adult. In some cases depending on how bad the situation is you can be as young as fourteen years old and go to the big boy jail. If you can be seventeen years old and go to jail or possibly prison, why shouldn’t you be able to vote? In some states you can get married at the age sixteen as long as you have...
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...amendment had people across the nation pondering. This amendment was a remarkable new amendment. Young people could now vote and get involve in there new political leaders. Before this new amendment the law was that you couldn’t vote unless you were at least 21 so until that age, teenagers didn’t care about who was running their country at all until they were of that legal age. The 26th Amendment changed the whole idea of the adulthood of eighteen year olds in America’s eyes forever. Student activist during the Vietnam War, were outraged that young men and women could die in a war and fight for their country but weren’t able to vote. They felt like this was unfair and it took away their rights as citizens. Making the 26th Amendment as a law made them feel like they made a difference. "No taxation without representation” was also a big deal because taxes were still getting pulled out of young teenager’s paychecks. How is that fair if they couldn’t even vote on this but still had to get chunks of money taken out of their paychecks? In some states, including Texas, has changes the adult age to seventeen years old, declaring that if you disobey a law than you will be acted upon as an adult. In some cases depending on how bad the situation is you can be as young as fourteen years old and go to the big boy jail. If you can be seventeen years old and go to jail or possibly prison, why shouldn’t you be able to vote? In some states you can get married at the age sixteen as long as you have...
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...Within in this essay I will be looking at three different approaches to health education, explaining two models of behaviour change that have been used in recent health education campaigns, and assessing how the social context may influence the ability of health education campaigns to change behaviour in relation to health. Health promotion involves doing things to prevent disease and to improve individual and community’s health. Health promotion offers solutions to many of the health problems facing society such as obesity, lack of exercise and smoking though developing skills and knowledge, community action, supportive environments, healthy public policy and health services. Health promotion helps individuals or communities to increase control over and improve their health and wellbeing. The features of health promotion are that it is based on a holistic view of health; it uses participatory approaches it focuses on the determinants and addressing of health not just health problems and conditions. These include the social, behavioural, environmental and economic conditions that are the root cause of poor health, wellbeing and illness such as education, income, employment, working conditions, social status. Health promotion builds on existing strengths and assets and it uses multiple, complementary approaches to promote health for the individual, community and population as a whole. There are three main approaches to health education. The approaches have been used to as a...
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...DESK RESEARCH TO EXAMINE THE INFLUENCE OF MARKETING AND ADVERTISING BY THE ALCOHOL INDUSTRY ON YOUNG PEOPLE’S ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION Research prepared for the World Health Organization by the Centre for Social Marketing at the University of Strathclyde Emma Cooke, Gerard Hastings and Susan Anderson March 2002 Acknowledgements For acquisition and translation of international data: Jill Bain, Marina Biniari, Liliana Carcamo and Ingrid Kajzer. For comments on the final draft: Anne Marie MacKintosh For administrative support: Kathryn Angus and Aileen Paton. CONTENTS Page No 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 2.0 MANAGEMENT SUMMARY 2 3.0 METHODOLOGY 4 4.0 RESULTS 7 4.1 Advertising 7 4.1.1 Econometric Studies 7 4.1.2 Consumer Studies 11 4.2 Other Forms of Marketing 15 4.3 Developing and Transitional Countries 21 REFERENCES 25 1.0 INTRODUCTION At the World Health Organization Ministerial Conference on Young People and Alcohol in Stockholm (February 2001) considerable concern was expressed about the nature and pervasiveness of advertising and marketing by the alcohol industry. Explicit examples were shown of alcohol promotion exploiting the themes of sexual, sporting and lifestyle success, often in direct violation of advertising codes. Furthermore, many of the advertising examples displayed images of excessive consumption. In addition, the Conference noted...
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...consumersalmost anywhere in the world today. It is truly a marketing phenomenon in the 21 centurys globalconsumer culture. Despite having grown up drinking water straight from tap, many consumers now prefer paying for the luxury of drinking bottled water and are raising a generation of children that views bottled water as a superior alternative to tap water. They have learnt to accept paying good money for a commodity which has always been provided, and can still get, for free from taps in their homes. Bottled water barely existed as a consumer product a couple of decades ago. It was mostly found in exotic holiday destinations with poor quality local drinking water to cater for the needsof tourists. Today, we find bottled water in lunch boxes, meetings, lecture halls, tennis matches and the cup holder of the treadmill at the gym. Every convenience store or supermarket offers bottled water for sale. At supermarkets, bottled water is the most popular item by units sold today. When we buy a bottle of water, we are notjust paying for the water itself but the convenience and most probably the artful story which the water companies tell us about the water. Our choice is affected by where it comes from, how healthy we think it is, and what it says about us ¨C in other words, its symbolic meanings rather than the actual benefits. Among the choices that we make for our daily consumer products, bottled water isn't just good but positively virtuous. The global market for bottled water is rapidly growing...
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...remains the highlight of the issue. To truly understand obesity we must first discuss the causes, rather its lack of job, changing social habits, or the easy access of fast foods. With the introduction of robotics and shipping jobs overseas we have seen a dramatic decline in hard working physical jobs in America. Such a decline has led to more, less physical desk jobs and long unemployment, aid in leading to obesity. No more are the 8 – 12 hr working days when you needed that lunch to get you by, and in a lot of cases healthy eating choices weren’t close by to consider. The days when our parent’s used to take a lunch pail into work with a sandwich, a fruit, and crackers with peanut butter have been replaced by less healthier choices such as packaged meals, or a nearby fast food chains which seem to be on every corner now and days. Just with the lack of physical jobs you can start to see why we have an obesity problem but this is just one example. Since the introduction of gaming consoles in the 1980’s children have been getting less physical activity outdoors. Prior to gaming children used to play outside doing such things as going to parks, fishing, playing tag, and various other outdoor games that used to keep them both fit and occupied. In a Nov., 2013 article on Livestrong.com it stated that an” estimated 12.5 million children between the ages of 2 and 19 are obese, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”. The CDC recommends that children...
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