Teenagers wait for the special day of transitioning over that imaginary age line that provides them with special, new privileges of becoming a young adult. Along with those special privileges comes great responsibilities as well as painstaking requirements. In America, eighteen-year-olds are capable of voting, pay taxes, operate a motorized vehicle, become a legal guardian, marry, fight and die for a country, own a gun, and even become governor of Rhode Island. What is it that a teenager always wants to do seems to be one of the most widely known answers in the U.S. People under the age of twenty-one are constantly told every day that they are not allowed to drink until it is legal. Well that obviously never seemed to stop any of us, hence
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This could apply to anything but let’s stick to the one we reside now. With a population of American citizens that stick to the side of keeping the drinking age at 21, we become blind in our nature and believe that’s the best for the country. Keeping the incompetent and irresponsible teens off the alcohol to establish a better nation for all. But haven’t we considered the vast number of deaths and wonder what we are doing wrong. Could it be the opposite of what we think is the right thing to do? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie states in The Danger of a Single Story that “Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.” We must come to understand that both sides to a story always matter as each one has a place and should be perceived. From raising the drinking age or keeping it the same, teenagers will only want to drink more. By lowering the drinking age, we would be facing a high danger in giving young adults an opportunity to prove to us that they would be willing to learn. Either way, the country falls under the same risk. Both stories possess their own menacing customs that the right decision is obviously difficult in a way that nobody can understand. With both sides to a story, constructing a result can help with the knowledge of what is right from
This could apply to anything but let’s stick to the one we reside now. With a population of American citizens that stick to the side of keeping the drinking age at 21, we become blind in our nature and believe that’s the best for the country. Keeping the incompetent and irresponsible teens off the alcohol to establish a better nation for all. But haven’t we considered the vast number of deaths and wonder what we are doing wrong. Could it be the opposite of what we think is the right thing to do? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie states in The Danger of a Single Story that “Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.” We must come to understand that both sides to a story always matter as each one has a place and should be perceived. From raising the drinking age or keeping it the same, teenagers will only want to drink more. By lowering the drinking age, we would be facing a high danger in giving young adults an opportunity to prove to us that they would be willing to learn. Either way, the country falls under the same risk. Both stories possess their own menacing customs that the right decision is obviously difficult in a way that nobody can understand. With both sides to a story, constructing a result can help with the knowledge of what is right from