Drunk driving in the United States

When the legal drinking age was lowered in many states during the 1970’s and early 1980’s there was a 10% increase in average alcohol related traffic crashes (Science Daily 1). If the legal drinking age was lowered there would be more related alcohol accidents that would begin to occur. Frequent binge…

un Control: Gun Laws Should be Less Strict The Second Amendment states that people are allowed to carry a handgun as long as it is concealed”(“Should Adults Have”). People say that crime will go down because a criminal is less likely to not attack someone who is armed because they know that they have a chance of getting hurt as well.(“Should Adults Have”). Although this is something good, people who disagree say that it will causes more gun injury accidents and more crime like…

However, if you make good choices and take care of yourself your life can be prolonged. Driving under the influence has become a growing problem and an increasing threat on the roads. In America 28 people die from impaired driving every 53 minutes. Driving impaired has been a problem in the United States since the invention of automobiles; however, it did not become an important social issue until the 1980s. Drunk driving campaigns have steadily increased over the years. In this…

Every day twenty eight people’s lives have been taken in the United States due to an impaired friend driving under the influence. That adds up to about 10,220 deaths per year all because someone felt the need to put themselves,and others in the car at risk, just because they could not wait until they were not impaired to drive. The Budweiser marketing team devised a commercial in 2015 called “Someone Waits For You At Home” to try to persuade people to not drive while inebriated. They create a…

Drinking Age The percent of alcohol consumption in the United States by underage drinkers is 11.4 percent (11 Facts). Underage drinking is common and most people think it is inadequate. Though it has its negatives, alcohol also has many benefits. If one drinks a moderate amount of alcohol, it can lower the risk for cardiovascular disease, decrease the chances for developing Type 2 diabetes, and decrease the chances for the common cold in the cases of non-smokers. Moderate drinkers are…

Eighteen is considered adulthood, yet, at this age one is still not treated as such. When one turns eighteen, they become a legal adult, and receive their rights, except the right to consume alcohol legally. The drinking age in the United States is currently set at twenty-one. But, some people believe that twenty-one is too high for the minimum age and, think it should be lower. There are others who feel that twenty-one is a decent, mature age, and lowering it would encourage young to take part…

of environment where someone tries to pull them into peer pressure and tries to get them to make the wrong decisions. In one of my sites, “Understanding Alcohol Abuse Among College Students: Contributing Factors and Strategies for Intervention”, it states, “According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and Office of Applied Studies (US Department of Health and Human…

hire is a perky woman, who squeals when she talks, who is not a good “voice” for this troublesome teenage boy. By the end of the episode, Kenneth, the school’s groundskeeper, takes over as JJ’s “voice.” Alongside, Maya DiMeo, emerges as the central driving force in the family, doing whatever she possibly can to get the people living in her community to be more inclusive for her son. However, society’s view of inclusion can often mean giving disabled individuals an absurd amount of special…

“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” This is a big quote that many people believe and so should you. When a drunk driver kills someone nobody blames the alcohol they blame the human for drinking it then driving. But why is it that when someone kills somebody they blame the gun, not the person behind it. All of this results into people wanting more gun control laws. If anything we should have less laws and I will be explaining to you how guns would make us a much safer country and have…

The article, “Is Uber Bad For The Environment In NYC,” by Ben Adler discusses the impact of the new popular form of transportation called Uber that is popping up all over the United States. Uber is believed to be both useful for humans, as well as beneficial for the environment. Some ways that Uber is beneficial for users include: Uber is cheaper and more readily available than traditional cabs, it makes it much easier for people to get by without having a car, it is becoming more appealing for…