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Shari Neuroth Professor Abby Ruby Crew Spring 2017 – English Comp II – Rhetorical Analysis February 12, 2017 Work Chosen for my Rhetorical Analysis: The Amethyst Initiative; It’s Time to Rethink the Drinking Age (The Harbrace Guide to Writing, 2013, p. 29). The Amethyst Initiative (AI) was founded by John McCardell, a former history professor and President of Middlebury College in Vermont, and a group of U.S. college presidents and university chancellors in 2008. The AI is an…

Government Essay – Should the drinking age remain at 21 years of age or be lowered? How come 18 years old can die fighting for their country, but can’t legally drink until age 21? The legal age of consumption, possession and buying of alcohol in the U.S today is 21 years of age. I am of the belief that it is a suitable age, as it is reasonably high. I have listed the three main reasons of my belief: • Alcohol must be kept away from high schools and other places where young teens and other…

One bottle. Two shots. Three beers. Four missed assignments. Five tardies. Six detentions. The effects of drinking on a teenager are obvious. The problem with teens drinking is that they are getting the alcohol one way or another. They are going to have access to it anyways, but more precautions should be taken to prevent this from happening so often. Some parents do not see the problem with their children or their children’s friends drinking. There are too many incidents that occur with the…

which affects the nation as a whole and the entire future of the American people. Serving on a jury is a position that demands responsibility in relation to another person’s life. An 18 year old can decide whether someone spends his or her life in prison or even apply the death penalty, yet they are not allowed to make the personal choice to have an alcoholic beverage. The decision to enlist in the military to protect our sacred nation can lead to death. Those individuals who put their life on…

Controversial Issue: Drinking Age According to a recent poll, over 135 U.S. colleges have signed the petition to lower the drinking age to eighteen. It is common fact that majority of college students consume alcohol on a weekly bases. Although many believe that anyone under the age of 21 is prohibited from consuming alcohol in the United States, underage drinking is allowed in eleven states for educational purposes, twenty-nine if done on private property with parental consent, in sixteen for…

There are one hundred and ninety six sovereign countries in the world today. Of these provinces fifty nine percent have the minimum legal drinking age set at eighteen or nineteen years old. The United States of America is within the six percent of the world that has the age set at twenty-one. The primary reason for the increase of modulation in the U.S. and general belief in society is that having a higher minimum legal drinking age decreases alcohol related automobile accidents. However,…

Harvey Milk was a visionary and fearless gay rights’ activist and a Supervisor in San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Although his leadership was short-lived as a fellow supervisor and long-time opponent, Dan White, assassinated him his legacy remains as the prominent Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT). At that time, the community was entirely homophobic and standing staunchly to the fight against discrimination of the gay community. Harvey Milk was born on May 1930 in Woodmere, New…

Drinking ages have been or many years around the world up for debate for many years and across the globe. America’s states alone have changed their drinking age multiple times from 21 to 18, 19, or 20 and now have finally settled on 21 thanks to the passing of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984. However, this has not silenced the underlying grumble of the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) being too high and not without good reason. The current drinking age should be lowered to 18 as…

The current law in America states that a person who is the age of twenty-one or older is legally allowed to consume alcohol. There are many arguments whether this law should be changed to a lower age, preferably eighteen, or raised to an age somewhere around twenty-five. When the hardcore facts concerning this substance are thoroughly examined and thought over, one would see there is only one answer to this dispute. The United States has many problems concerning alcohol and younger people in…

This paper explains the debate of legalizing marijuana use for those in the age of adulthood. It uses the aging that law governs as adult: eighteen (18), twenty-one (21), and twenty-five (25). It will discuss the adaptive changes in our brain and what constitutes as safe use from a legal perspective in these age ranges. States and countries that have legalized along with the defining factors of use will be discussed. The methods used were educational research through the Diagnostic and…