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    Advertisements are designed to get us to buy a particular product In “Propaganda Techniques in Today’s Advertising” by Ann McClintock, the author explains several ways propaganda is used in today’s advertising as suggested in the title. She begins with what she refers to as Name Calling, Glittering Generalities and Transfer. She goes on to discuss four additional topics, which she states as Testimonial, Plain Folks, Card Stacking and Bandwagon. All of which can be seen being used constantly, if…

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    information out in a useful manner as well as teaching new skills. Education about an issue along with providing essential skills has been proven to be effective in creating a behavior change by multiple organization including The Journal of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (Komro & Toomey, 2002). Once the topic had been selected and the campaign designed, it was necessary to research why underage drinking is a health issue and the burden it places on the health care…

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    Currently the legal consumption of alcohol is the age 21 in the United States. The United States has one of the highest drinking ages in the world. For example, most European countries the legal limit are either 16 or 18 to first drink alcohol. There have been a lot of on going arguments, such as; that the brain is not fully developed until around the age of 21 and that is why we have our limit set that high. Changing the legal drinking age from 21 to 18 would have been effects to this country,…

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    In Texas a federal law states the minimum drinking age is 21, however does that stop adolescent from consuming alcohol. “According to results from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health published in 2015, 34.7% of 15-year-olds reported having at least one drink in their lives. About 8.7 million people ages 12 to 20 (22.8%) reported drinking alcohol in the past month” (Underage drinking, 2015, P.1). These statistics prove that the federal law has not stopped adolescents from consuming alcohol…

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    until they are 21, and lowering the drinking age may decrease the regularity on college campuses. Researchers who looked at states where the drinking age was lowered to 18, say that it may have just moved the problem down . The 1984 National Minimum Drinking Age Act, requires that States prohibit people under 21 years of age from purchasing alcoholic beverages as a condition of receiving State highway funds…

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    morning of January 17, 1920, “ordinary events like taking a bottle of wine to a friend’s house, sipping a drink in public or selling a beer were now illegal from coast to coast, punishable by up to six months of jail time and a fine up to $1,000” (Blumenthal 59). Americans were still reluctant to give up their favorite drinks. It was legal to make cider and beer at home as long as no alcohol was added. Beer could even be sold if most of the alcohol if most of the alcohol content was first…

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    United States is a free country and there are a lot of laws that are being broken by some people in our country just because they think that some laws would not help or have any effects on people’s lives. We can all agree that if we do not follow the law we can get in trouble and we can get other people in trouble as well. One of these laws is being broken every day and its bringing a lot of problems for teenagers and their parents. This law is underage drinking and there are a lot of scary…

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    The system license for drinkers for alcohol holders would be a great idea because there's a lot of underage teen drinkers. Drinking and there's a lot of accidents involving teens and drunk drivers. Teens are getting in trouble and losing brain cells because of alcohol and the brain isn’t fully developed that's why People say wait till your 21. Drinking alcohol has an aftermath because it will attack your nervous system and will make you drunk and wake up with hangovers. That’s why teens black…

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    lower the national legal drinking age from twenty-one years old to eighteen years old in order to guarantee the rights and safety of those otherwise considered legal adults. The battle to lower the legal drinking age pins U.S. citizens’ pursuit of happiness and equality against others’ common good. At eighteen years old you’re expected to behave like an adult and be a productive member of society and many believe being able to drink is a right they have…

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    I am writing this letter on behalf of Mother’s Against Drunk Driving (MADD). I like to discuss the issue of driving while intoxicated in New York. Governor Cuomo signed legislation creating the Vince’s Law. This law raises the penalty for offenders who commit three or more DWI’s within fifteen years. I would like to advocate on behalf of Mother’s Against Drunk Driving to combat the Vince’s Law. Mother’s Against Drunk Driving wants to live in a world without drunk driving. In 2015, 10,265…

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