Drunk driving in the United States

generations. Even in the 1920s, colleges still had gender segregation, Greek life allowed men and women to come together for drinking activities in private off-campus houses. When “Animal House” and “Saturday Night Live” was released in 1978, most states still had a legal drinking age that was under the age of 21. Parties began to evolve and imitate the ones shown on the screen. In 1984, when the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed, the underaged drinking rates increased. Partying was…

First responders (police officers, firefighters, paramedics) are not intrinsically mobile. They have traditionally relied on brick and mortar institutions as the brains of their operations and only left these buildings to respond to emergencies. Radios were, and continue to be, the primary source of communication; relaying information from computing resources found within the office to officers in the field. However, the evolution of mobile technology has increased the autonomy of…

Alcoholism is a disease that causes a person to lose control of his or her drinking behavior. A drinker who has been using alcohol for many years is both physically and emotionally addicted to alcohol. Alcoholics or as some people may call drunks crave alcohol to a point where they suffer painful physical symptoms when they do not have alcohol. Alcoholism begins in stages 1: Problem drinking this is where you experiment with alcohol and can give into peer pressure. Social Drinking- drinking…

as, reduction of commercial access, social access, and economic availability. The community can help stop the progression of underage drinking, through advertising and education. Statistics Alcohol has become the leading cause of death in the United States. The statistics related to underage drinking are staggering. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4,300 deaths occur…

people. The right to drink should have a higher age of initiation because of the dangers posed by drinking. Many rights in the US are conferred on citizens at age 21 or older. A person cannot legally purchase a handgun, gamble in a casino (in most states), or adopt a child until age 21, rent a car (for most companies) at age 25, or run for President until age 35. Drinking should be similarly restricted due to the responsibility required to self and…

Consumption of Alcohol within Society Alcohol has been around in society for many generations, and there are records in history that inform us of this. Sixty-one percent of the one hundred and ninety countries have set the drinking age at eighteen. The United States and eleven other countries have a MLDA (minimal legal drinking age) of twenty-one years old, this is the highest MLDA of all the countries where it is legal to drink (although some areas of India have drinking ages as high as twenty…

The Vietnam War is known to be the only war the United States ever lost. It was extremely unpopular and had approval ratings of below 20% (McConnell 183). It left us with a war memorial containing the names of 58,209 dead soldiers, all inscribed on black granite (Isaacs 1). Although the military action of the Vietnam War took place thousands of miles from our shores, the war’s effects were strongly felt in the United States of America. Vietnam was originally a French colony, and it gained…

(2012). The main types of drugs used today are alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, heroin, crack, cocaine, steroids, methamphetamines, barbiturates, marijuana, and all manner of prescription drugs (NIDA, n.d.). A handful of these drugs are illegal in the United States, some are only conditionally legal, and at least one, caffeine, is legal and unrestricted. Today, the idea of illegal alcohol sale and consumption seems ridiculous. This too is true for many of today’s modern legal drugs like tobacco and…

Erin Maloney 8 November 2015 FYE College Writing Professor Bonet Annotated Bibliography: Should the drinking age be lowered to 18? "Drinking While Young." State Legislatures 34.6 (2008): 11. Health Reference Center Academic. Web. 2 Nov. 2015. . This article, although short, contains very important information. Drinking under the age of 21 is obviously illegal, and as a result it leads teens to drink in private due to the fact that they are not allowed to drink publicly. The problem…

they know how crazy people can get with guns. Gun crime is just to spiral out of control to the point of no return. People are dying all across the United States because…