| How Old is Old Enough? | Drinking Age | | | 11/11/2011 | How old is old enough to have an alcoholic beverage? | How Old is Old Enough? The legal drinking age is a topic that has come up for, and will continue to come up for, many years. The main question that needs to be answered is what is it that determines when a person is able to drink. Should we continue to base the drinking level on age or should we look at other characteristics. Those enrolled in the military have
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Should The Drinking Age Be Lowered To 18? Every teenager anticipates the day that they will finally be eighteen years old. This is the day they are finally seen as being an adult in the eyes of our government. Eighteen year olds are now free to make their own life choices and be held accountable for them. At the age of eighteen, you are free to put your life on the line and fight for your country, if you commit a crime you can be tried as an adult in court, and you are also give the right to vote
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Paragraph two elaborates on the fact that 18 year olds are legally able to be drafted, vote, and buy pornography. The writer says that if an 18 year is allowed to do those three, it is absurd that 18 year olds can't drink alcohol. Alcohol is an illegal drug that has been the reason of many 18 year old teens having to be rushed to the hospital, and many times worse. The writer then begins to add illogical statements by saying the reason why teenagers get drunk is because they have to drink at large
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Essay #2 When it comes to the subject of lowering the drinking age, many speculations have been made, both positive and negative. Ohio legislature should take into account both view points. A positive being a drastic reduction in binge drinking among the American population. A negative is the fear of higher death rates due to alcohol poisoning. The drinking age should be lowered and Americans should take charge and know their limit. The drinking age in America has been under speculation for many years
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Joshua Lynn Professor Howard ENG-123 13 Jun 2015 Lowering the Drinking Age The drinking age in America needs to be changed to align our cultural values with the rest of the worlds. In America there is no real reason to support the fact that we need to wait until the age of 21 to drink. To think that 21 is the age when everyone is mature enough to drink is just speculation. At 18 you are allowed to buy tobacco and even tattoo yourself. So how could lawmakers come to the decision that we
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Drinking Age Excessive alcohol consumption is one of the major leading causes of death in the United States. Most people feel that if at 18 years old you can buy cigarettes, go to the army, get into debt, buy a car, and get married, 18 year olds should be able to drink. On the contrary, drinking causes the human brain to react slower and it impairs the brain causing it to be unable to function at its fullest especially behind the wheel, which is a major cause of death in accidents where a drunk
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Should the Legal Drinking Age be Lowered? The legal drinking age should remain 21. The United States minimum legal drinking age of 21 years old is set at the highest in the world. People consume alcohol for many different reasons; celebrations, anxiety, depression, peer pressure and boredom. This group of people includes teenagers. It is very easy for teens to get ahold of alcohol whether it be from the cabinets in their own homes or from older friends and family members, who would buy it for
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parts of the world the age is lowered and it hasn’t had bad results. America should lower the drinking age to eighteen. The charge you would receive if you were under 21 and in possession of alcohol might consist of being charged with criminal offenses, and if convicted, face jail sentences, fines, diversion programs and could also have to face some community service hours. There is a lot of things that are allowed at eighteen that seem to be far more important that drinking at age twenty one legally
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SHOULD THE DRINKING AGE BE LOWERED???? While doing this research I have noticed that the views over whether or not the legal drinking age should be lowered to eighteen has still not been settled. It all started in 1984 with the national minimum drinking age act of 1984. This act required all states to raise their minimum age to 21(http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol). This law started on July 17, 1984. For a long time people have talked about the good and bad to being able to drink alcohol
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To think of the legal age for drinking and joining our army has been a controversial issue of which many prefer not to argue about. Currently the law sates that a person who is at least 18 years old can join the army and serve his/her country at war. The law considers a young adult of 18 years of age responsible enough to make a decision which may cost him/her their life. Yet, the law prohibits an 18 year old person to make the decision of drinking alcoholic drinks. If we believe that a person cannot
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