A group of teenagers are starting high school the next day, and they are nervous they won’t fit in. They consult an older sibling, and he replies, and assuages their fears, by saying that they should drink a couple of beers before school; after all, that;s the cool thing to do. The fourteen year olds listen to the eighteen year old big brother, and they start their high school career with high hopes, fantastic dreams, and horrible hangovers. Flash forward to junior year, AP Exams are coming up and the SAT is looming in their immediate futures. The same group of nervous seventeen year olds turn to partying and drinking to get their minds off the daunting tasks ahead of them, and they lose themselves in the amber liquid courage and shiny red
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This trend continues for five more years, and the now twenty three year old are homeless. Their parents kicked them out and they spent every last dime on booze and drugs. The same group of drunks now meander mindlessly from alleyway to alleyway, for they no longer even try to sustain a job. They beg, they steal, and the eventually die. This is a horror story many people cringe to her, but unfortunately it is not as uncommon as one would think. Underage drinking ruins lives, ruins families, and ruins societies. The greatest enemy of a thriving society is alcohol. It steals our children, it steals our dreams, and it replaces them with anger issues, abusive adults, and premature death. The legal drinking age limit is 21 for a very valid reason, it is the line in the sand that cannot be crossed. Teenage drinking affects the development of the brain, and this legal drinking age is there to ensure the safety of future …show more content…
As a country, as a nation, and as a society, America has certain duties towards her people. One of these duties is to protect the youth, and the setting the legal drinking age at 21 is doing just that. In effect, alcohol is a poison. It may not be as quick as arsenic or venom, but it can be just as deadly. It slowly shuts down and destroys the internal organs and rewrites the victim’s personality. Alcohol makes a person angier, scarier, and more violent than before. In some cases, the person becomes unrecognizable. It is our duty as a nation to protect the teenagers from this, for their bodies aren 't developed enough yet and they are even more susceptible to the evil effects of alcohol. Human beings invented alcohol at the same time the first civilization was built on the muddy banks of the Euphrates river. It was fermented as a way to escape the danger and disarray of life in the fertile crescent. Overtime, the need for his escapist drug has lessened, and it has become a social drink instead of medicine. We no longer prescribe it as a solution to our problems. Alcohol and history can been intertwined since the beginning, but now is the time to make sure the two don’t bleed into one another. If the legal drinking age is reduced to 18 the hope and future of this country, and this entire world, is at risk. There will be no Albert
This trend continues for five more years, and the now twenty three year old are homeless. Their parents kicked them out and they spent every last dime on booze and drugs. The same group of drunks now meander mindlessly from alleyway to alleyway, for they no longer even try to sustain a job. They beg, they steal, and the eventually die. This is a horror story many people cringe to her, but unfortunately it is not as uncommon as one would think. Underage drinking ruins lives, ruins families, and ruins societies. The greatest enemy of a thriving society is alcohol. It steals our children, it steals our dreams, and it replaces them with anger issues, abusive adults, and premature death. The legal drinking age limit is 21 for a very valid reason, it is the line in the sand that cannot be crossed. Teenage drinking affects the development of the brain, and this legal drinking age is there to ensure the safety of future …show more content…
As a country, as a nation, and as a society, America has certain duties towards her people. One of these duties is to protect the youth, and the setting the legal drinking age at 21 is doing just that. In effect, alcohol is a poison. It may not be as quick as arsenic or venom, but it can be just as deadly. It slowly shuts down and destroys the internal organs and rewrites the victim’s personality. Alcohol makes a person angier, scarier, and more violent than before. In some cases, the person becomes unrecognizable. It is our duty as a nation to protect the teenagers from this, for their bodies aren 't developed enough yet and they are even more susceptible to the evil effects of alcohol. Human beings invented alcohol at the same time the first civilization was built on the muddy banks of the Euphrates river. It was fermented as a way to escape the danger and disarray of life in the fertile crescent. Overtime, the need for his escapist drug has lessened, and it has become a social drink instead of medicine. We no longer prescribe it as a solution to our problems. Alcohol and history can been intertwined since the beginning, but now is the time to make sure the two don’t bleed into one another. If the legal drinking age is reduced to 18 the hope and future of this country, and this entire world, is at risk. There will be no Albert