National Minimum Drinking Age Act

The Dangers with Underage Drinking Organizations such as Nationwide Insurance make the argument that “Adults don’t want to send their children to colleges or universities with ‘party school’ reputations.” (Sharon 1). Parents are becoming increasingly scared to send their children to specific schools because these schools have bad reputations for underage drinking. Fathers and mothers do not want to send their kids to these party schools because they fear for their child’s safety. It is no…

party. They get used to it and want more and more partying and binge drinking till it completely overtakes them and they always ant to party. A method to try and help their kid ends up destroying…

Trichloroethylene (TCE) is defined as a Priority Pollutant covered under the Clean Water Act. The chemical is an organic vapor, and is a component used in degreasing, distillation, and painting operations (Woodside, 1999). Trichloroethylene is a liquid used as a solvent, and in other compounds (Environmental Protection Agency, 2011). Annually 10 million pounds of Trichloroethylene is used to manufacture Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) (Gilbert & Heuvel, 2014). While current figures are not…

wellbeing. At the moment, high school and college kids observe hazardous binge drinking as a rite of passage. The present law, approved within all 50 states in the 1980s, was proposed to reduce the amount of traffic accidents and deaths caused by immature intoxicated drivers. It has accomplished that, but a stronger seatbelt and D.U.I. regulations have contributed to the diminish, too. Boosting the legal age has not abridged drinking, it has purely galvanized it to go secretive…

Many people believe teens should wait until a certain age to drink and others think teens should not drink at all. If the president was to lower the drinking law teen’s parents could still tell their child to drink or not, also if something was to happen then most people would not want to come forward because of the consequences, and finally it would help businesses gain more money. Many Americans believe that people should drink at a young age, while others believe you should wait until…

called “Someone Waits For You At Home” to try to persuade people to not drive while inebriated. They create a sense of pain and sadness in order to convey the message to not drink and drive amongst those who are at the legal drinking age, and to those under the drinking age so they can influence people early on in their life. They encourage people that they have…

a recent commentary article written by Henry Wechsler, he discusses the topic of lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 years old. Wechsler states many studies and research of previous attempts that have been made and the different ways that they have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1970 some states alcohol consumption laws had been changed to 18 years of age but when states lowered their drinking age restriction, the amount of alcohol-involved traffic accidents increased (1). After seeing…

security of a free state, the right of people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." So why are gun control laws even in place? Gun control laws started to go on the rise during Franklin D. Roosevelt 's presidency. The National Firearms Act and the Federal Firearms Act of 1938 enforced new penalties on machine guns and sawed-off…

The Second Amendment is one of the most controversial topics today in the United States. The reason it is so important is because it affects every person in the country. A lot of people feel the amendment should be banished to avoid conflict. On the other hand, others feel the amendment is crucial to our country, helping protect from conflict. I feel strongly that the Second Amendment is someone’s constitutional right, but should be thought of more as a privilege and should not be abused. With…

There is talk of the driving age being pushed up in the next couple of years. Like any other problem there are two sides to this debate; there are people who are for changing the driving age and there are people who are against changing the driving age. One of the main arguments for raising the driving age is that most accidents happen within the first few years of driving and are usually caused by something that could…