Nathanael Price
Mrs. Jackson
Writing
25 Sept. 2015
Drinking Ages The second ranked most watched sport in the United States was started thanks to young bootleggers carrying illegal moonshine. Yes, NASCAR was born from families like the Hatfield and McCoy’s to the Dukes of Hazard, who modified their carts or cars to outwit and outrun the police. In most states the legal purchasing/drinking age in the US has been twenty-one ever since the ratification of the twenty-first amendment. The legal drinking age should be lowered to eighteen, because in today’s culture when one turns eighteen kids are expected to be adults.
When I say Forbidden Fruit most think of the Bible when Adam and Eve disobeyed God. Forbidden Fruit is simply something that we know that we are not supposed to have; yet it is the thing we want most. There are thousands of high school and college students who fall into bad drinking habits simply because they desire the ‘forbidden fruit” that they are told they cannot have. …show more content…
What if instead of being allowed to drink whatever one wants when they turn twenty-one, those who struggle had been eased into the world of alcohol? Lowering the legal drinking age to eighteen will help teach both responsibility and self-control when it comes to drinking any sort of alcoholic beverage. Think of it this way. Professional Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers most likely weren’t able to throw or pitch fastballs going 95mph when they started. No, they had to gradually make their way up to that point. Starting small and building up is always a good thing no matter what you are
Mrs. Jackson
Writing
25 Sept. 2015
Drinking Ages The second ranked most watched sport in the United States was started thanks to young bootleggers carrying illegal moonshine. Yes, NASCAR was born from families like the Hatfield and McCoy’s to the Dukes of Hazard, who modified their carts or cars to outwit and outrun the police. In most states the legal purchasing/drinking age in the US has been twenty-one ever since the ratification of the twenty-first amendment. The legal drinking age should be lowered to eighteen, because in today’s culture when one turns eighteen kids are expected to be adults.
When I say Forbidden Fruit most think of the Bible when Adam and Eve disobeyed God. Forbidden Fruit is simply something that we know that we are not supposed to have; yet it is the thing we want most. There are thousands of high school and college students who fall into bad drinking habits simply because they desire the ‘forbidden fruit” that they are told they cannot have. …show more content…
What if instead of being allowed to drink whatever one wants when they turn twenty-one, those who struggle had been eased into the world of alcohol? Lowering the legal drinking age to eighteen will help teach both responsibility and self-control when it comes to drinking any sort of alcoholic beverage. Think of it this way. Professional Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers most likely weren’t able to throw or pitch fastballs going 95mph when they started. No, they had to gradually make their way up to that point. Starting small and building up is always a good thing no matter what you are