Age Discrimination in Employment Act

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…

the story of another college student dying due to excessive use of alcohol? More than 1800 students die each year due to alcohol related causes. After researching this topic, I have come to the conclusion that the drinking age being 21 years of age is dangerous. The legal age for drinking alcohol should be lowered to eighteen years old; As an eighteen year old, they are considered adults, they can serve in the army, and they can already use tobacco. II. First i'm going to talk about how…

countries to have a minimum legal drinking age of 21, the other three being Mongolia, Indonesia, and Peru. We [Affirm/Negate] the resolution Lower the Minimum Legal Drinking Age to 18 years of age We would like to present the following definitions: Drinking is defined to mean drinking alcohol MLDA is defined to mean The legal age in the U.S. that people are allowed to drink alcohol The 3 main contentions we believe affirm/negate this resolution are: The age of adulthood in the U.S. is 18,why…

drinking underage. Every state in the union has a legal drinking age of twenty-one years old. The purpose of this law is to keep minors out of danger: away from drunk driving, alcohol poisoning, and injuring the brain before it is fully developed. Unsafe situations are created by the current laws by it’s ineffectiveness to eliminate underage drinking, driving while drunk, and deaths from alcohol poisoning. Lowering the drinking age to eighteen years old, is an effective way to cease the unsafe…

The law for underage drinking in oklahoma is "Minors under the age of 21 are not permitted to possess or purchase alcohol; however, consumption in a “private setting” is not prohibited by Oklahoma law. Minors may not have a blood alcohol level of more than .02%" meaning anyone under 21 is not allowed to buy anything but you are allowed to do drink in a private setting as in your house if your BAL is under 0.02. Underage drinking is and can be a very bad thing.Your body isnt fully developed…

teenagers that being to drink at an early age. There have been many problems occurring due to alcohol, and there is the misuse of alcohol in America. The misuse of it causes the teen to experience alcohol poisoning, alcohol dependency, in the long run, and accidents. This has continued and it will continue to happen to the youth unless we do something as a society. Even Though many people think that 18 is the right age to drink, no I think that the drinking age should be 21 because it might…

Yuzzi 1 Lauren Yuzzi Mrs.Gallos Eng 3 Sec 1 May 15, 2017 The Drinking Age Should Be Lowered The United States government allows 18 years olds to fight and possibly lose their life for their freedom, but they are not allowed to drink alcohol? “18 is the age of adulthood in the United States, and adults should have the right to make their own decisions about alcohol consumption”(ProCon). It is practically unconstitutional for the government to exert the right to send its youth to death, for a…

Many people, mostly teenagers, believe that the legal drinking age should be lowered to sixteen years, instead of nineteen. However, I disagree. The benefits of this action are few and far between, and the consequences are too heavy to ignore. Lowering the legal drinking age may promote binge drinking in teenagers, which will induce horrible consequences in the teenagers of our generation and possibly even the generations after. Young adults would be influenced into drinking while driving…

The drinking age in the United States is twenty one, and is a topic of debate today. In 1984 Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act which made the national drinking age twenty one across the nation. Before Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, the drinking age varied throughout the states between eighteen and twenty one. This caused many states to change the age and become what it is now. Reagan signed the act for drinking age requirements to be twenty…

receiving penalties, having unhealthy body conditions and violence. In the United States the age limit to drinking alcohol is 21 years old (Introduction to Drunk Driving).However, It does not stop young people from drinking. If a underage offender is caught with alcohol in their blood count, they can and most likely will be charged with minor in consumption. There is a zero tolerance of alcohol for people under the age of 21 (US Department of Transportation).If a person happens to be 21 or over…