Drinking

Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered? Eighteen, that magical age, everyone has dreamed about turning. The number eighteen is significant in America because it is when teenagers are finally given the chance to show the world they’re responsible young adults. This group is no longer viewed as children in America, but as young adults who can experience the same rights and privileges as other adults. As society keeps growing and changing, the discussion to keep the drinking age at twenty-one or to…

Should we raise the the drinking age? Should we lower the drinking age? These are both questions posed by a majority of people in the United States. As a country, we have a drinking age limit of 21, thus making the consumption of alcohol under this age, illegal. Underage drinking is a problem among many high school students and most college students. They get a thrill from going against the law and “cracking open a brewski”. For some, drinking and parities are a major reason that they choose the…

March 23 of 1971 the United States passed the 26th Amendment declaring that at eighteen years old you would be given the right to vote. Therefore in the eyes of the legal system you are an adult. If you are old enough to vote, which is right, that holds a lot of responsibility and power, therefore you should be allowed to consume alcohol by this age. I believe that the age of illegibility to enter the armed forces nevertheless to enter combat is an extraordinarily fair age. The entrance age is…

best interest of the United States to lower the minimum legal drinking age has been debated for decades. Every state has the ability of establishing their individual drinking ages, and all separately have them set at 21. Within the time frame of the late 1960’s and the 1970’s, every state lowered its drinking age to 18. In July of 1982, Ronald Reagan passed the Minimum Drinking Age Act, forcing all states to maintain a minimum drinking age of 21. Each state was still allowed to set their own…

Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the legal drinking age. Organizational Pattern: Problem – Solution Introduction I. Attention Grabber: We all know the legal drinking age is 21, but should it be lowered? II. Establish Credibility and Relate Yourself to the Audience: I am a 20 year old college student. III. Tell the Audience Your Topic or Goal: To inform the audience about how lowering the drinking age could benefit the country. Transition: Let’s start with some…

for this “forbidden fruit”? Or lastly how more than half the world can obtain alcohol at eighteen years of age and Americans cannot? These are just a few questions that arise in those who believe the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen. The United States Legislature should lower the drinking age and live up to its beliefs and what it stands for, freedom. In the United States, eighteen year old men and women are assumed the adulthood rights to obtain cigarettes, get married, vote, sign…

eighteen. New doors are opening and freedom is just exploding out of you. Wooh! You now have the opportunity to do almost anything, well except purchase alcohol. All thanks to the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, requiring U.S. states to raise the age for purchase and possession of alcohol to twenty-one. Drinking is one of the most common social activities in America and this act has been plaguing our youth since 1984 and continues strong to this day. The sad truth is; this law does more harm…

from Alcohol Use Disorder (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 2017). This disorder causes you to create a dependency on alcohol and makes it more difficult to quit drinking. In discussion of the drinking age, one controversial issue has been if the Federal government should lower the Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) back to 18. On the other hand, the government has data which proves the number of traffic deaths and accidents caused by alcohol have gone down since 1988. This is…

1984 the legal drinking age in the United States was raised to 21. The United States should lower the drinking age to 18 because the law may not be protecting teens and others. Although the drinking age was raised to protect teens, “it may have made drinking even more appealing to teens, whose brains naturally seek out risk more than adult brains do without considering what the consequences might be”. Some people argue that teens brain aren't developed enough to handle drinking, but according…

populate 196 different countries. Out of the 196 countries only 7 of them have their minimum legal drinking age(MLDA) set at 21, the other 189 either have a lower age or no age at all. The MLDA has been a common debated topic for almost 90 years. In 1993 the signing of the 21st amendment allowed states to choose their own MLDA. But “In 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act” which legally set the minimum age of buying or consuming alcohol to 21.”(Opposing…