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  • Drinking Age Should Be 18 Years Old

    Drinking Age Should Be 18 Years Old

    Our Country is full of controversial topics and new ideas that bring about arguments in every step of life. These arguments lead to even more new ideas and different ways of looking at things. People in these arguments can be so persuasive that they can change the opinion of others. One new idea that is talked about a lot in our country is the drinking age being lowered to eighteen years old. This is

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    Essay Length: 810 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: David
  • Against Lowering Drinking Age

    Against Lowering Drinking Age

    The consumption of alcoholic beverages is a privilege not a right. The legal drinking age in the United States is twenty-one, and I believe that this is a fair age. There are so many statistics that show drinking to be bad to begin with, but there are many more statistics that show why the drinking age of twenty-one should not be lowered. Teenagers do not show enough responsibility when drinking, and it would do everyone

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    Essay Length: 626 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Victor
  • The Legal Drinking Age

    The Legal Drinking Age

    The Legal Drinking Age How is that an eighteen year old male or female is allowed to get married, vote, go to war, drive a car, and assume full responsibility for whatever crime they have endured, yet he or she is not allowed to consume alcohol? The drinking age has been questionable since prohibition in the early nineteen hundreds into the nineteen twenties. Some feel that the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen years

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    Essay Length: 407 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: David
  • The Drinking Age in America

    The Drinking Age in America

    The drinking age in America Unsupervised, underage drinking has become an epidemic throughout the world, but in the in America more than anywhere else. Even the president’s 19 year old daughter has been arrested for underage drinking. America has the highest legalized drinking age in the world. In fact, only four countries in the world have a legalized drinking age over 18. When we turn 18 in America we are supposed to be adults, but

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    Essay Length: 673 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Why the Legal Drinking Age Should Be Lowered to Eighteen

    Why the Legal Drinking Age Should Be Lowered to Eighteen

    Why The Legal Drinking Age Should Be Lowered To Eighteen In the United States, it is illegal to consume alcohol until the age of twenty-one. At the age of 18 people are considered adults. “The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen-years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age (Amendment 26, Section 1 of the Constitution).

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    Essay Length: 1,984 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Drinking Age

    The Drinking Age

    The Drinking Age As we all know the drinking age here in the United States of America is twenty-one years of age. In this essay I will argue the point that the drinking age defiantly should not be as high as it is, and that the government should reconsider changing the age limit. I believe that there are more logical reasons to lower the drinking age than there are to keep it the same. I

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    Essay Length: 568 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Janna
  • The 21 Drinking Age

    The 21 Drinking Age

    -1- In America, the law is extremely strict with the policy of being 21 or older to have the right to drink. I feel that age is not very necessary when it comes to limitations on drinking. The drinking age should be lowered to a younger age if not lifted all together. I believe that a positive results will come from the drinking age being dropped. In this paper I am going to defend why

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    Essay Length: 1,410 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Vika
  • Drinking Age

    Drinking Age

    The drinking age in the United States is a contradiction. At the age of eighteen, one can drive a car, vote in an election, get married, serve in the military and buy tobacco products. In the United States you are legally an adult at eighteen. An eighteen-year-old, however, cannot purchase alcoholic beverages. The minimum drinking age should be lowered from twenty-one in the United States. Unbelievably, the United States citizens trust their sixteen-year-old children to

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    Essay Length: 574 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Bred
  • Lower Drinking Age

    Lower Drinking Age

    Specific Purpose: The purpose of my speech is to convince the audience that the minimum drinking age in the United States needs to be lowered and doesn’t make sense. Thesis Statement: the current minimum drinking age doesn’t make sense and needs to be changed. Organizational Pattern: Topical. INTRODUCTION I. Can you come up here? (Tyler Reynolds). Look at this gentleman; look at the uniform he wears. Think about what it symbolizes; think about what it

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    Essay Length: 1,179 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 2, 2010 By: Steve
  • Drinking Age

    Drinking Age

    It turns into the forbidden fruit, that when teenagers start consuming alcohol mainly forced by the fact that it is something they are not supposed to do. This temptation, in a combination with all the hiding and sneaking, takes away the clear mind of the teenager while consuming the alcohol. And apart from the 'Forbidden Fruit' standpoint, it always better to inform young people about everything out there instead of just saying "No"? It is

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    Essay Length: 380 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 4, 2010 By: regina
  • Legal Drinking Age

    Legal Drinking Age

    Legal Drinking Age At 18 years of age, there are many responsibilities gained, such as being able to marry, but one cannot drink alcohol at the wedding reception because every state in the United States has set the legal drinking age at 21 years old. The drinking age has a major impact on the 18-21 year-old crowd because many feel drinking is a right they should have since they are considered adults. This is an

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    Essay Length: 773 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 6, 2010 By: Monika
  • Legal Drinking Age

    Legal Drinking Age

    Eighteen-year-old Americans should be allowed to drinking. Restricting drinking alcohol to the age of 21 is contrary to drinking laws in other countries. In addition, it is contrary to other American laws which clearly establish adulthood at eighteen. The legal age for drinking must be set at 18; that establishes parity with other nations and with this own nation’s body of law. This paper looks at the minimum drinking age in the United States

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    Essay Length: 590 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Lowering the Drinking Age to 18

    Lowering the Drinking Age to 18

    Lowering the drinking age? Why we should not lower the drinking age? Let me explain some reasons why not to lower the drinking age. One is that if we lower the drinking age we might be contributing to more fatal accidents. Second, lowering the drinking age might influence 18-year-olds to buy alcohol for younger teenagers (age 15-17). And third, 18-year-olds may not be mature enough to know their limitations on drinking. If we lower the

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    Essay Length: 506 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: David
  • Lowering the Drinking Age

    Lowering the Drinking Age

    In the United States, it is illegal to consume alcohol until the age of twenty-one. At the age of 18 people are considered adults. “The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen-years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age (Amendment 26, Section 1 of the Constitution). At the age of eighteen, a person can get married,

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    Essay Length: 2,465 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Max
  • Drinking Age: Lowered or Not

    Drinking Age: Lowered or Not

    Andy Vaughn Dr. Russell English 1020-47 October 23, 2001 Drinking Age: Lowered or Not The drinking age in the United States is 21. How ridiculous is that? You are able to do so many things at the age of 18. When a person reaches the age of 18, he or she can leave their homes or be kicked out, and become their own legal guardian. They no longer are required to have their parents sign

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    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: Vika
  • Drinking Age Should Be Lowered

    Drinking Age Should Be Lowered

    Since 1987, it has been argued that the legal drinking age in the United States should be lowered to 18 so that young adults are allowed to drink in certain environments. This argument has many sides which can be argued. At 18, you are considered an adult. You can vote, charged with adult crimes, and even die for your country, but you cannot consume alcohol. To me that is discriminating against people in the age

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    Essay Length: 980 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 8, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Drinking Age

    Drinking Age

    Lower Drinking Age “Although the legal purchase age is 21 years of age, a majority of college students under this age consume alcohol but in an irresponsible manner. This is because drinking by these youth is seen as an enticing ‘forbidden fruit’” (Engs 1).The minimum drinking age in the United States should be set at 18 instead of 21. “The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 required all states to raise their purchase

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    Essay Length: 583 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Lowering the Minimum Drinking Age

    Lowering the Minimum Drinking Age

    The National Minimum Drinking Age Act is perhaps the law that has the most impact on the day-to-day lives of America's youth since it was signed into law on July 17, 1984. While the 21-year-old drinking age seems imbedded in American society, it is only a recent innovation. Most people do not know that the drinking age was only made a national law in 1984, and only after a determined battle by special interest groups.

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    Essay Length: 1,725 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: June 11, 2010 By: Edward
  • Should We Lower the Legal Drinking Age?

    Should We Lower the Legal Drinking Age?

    In Taiwan, when you turn 18, you can drink and buy alcohol legally. However, the legal drinking age in the United States has been 21 years since 1920. The Minimum Legal Drinking Age Act (MLDA) raised the legal drinking age to 21 in hopes that a higher legal drinking age could help to prevent alcohol-related deaths and injuries among youths. Yet in recent years, there are a lots voice calling for amending the law to

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    Essay Length: 802 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2015 By: best1433
  • Lower the Drinking Age

    Lower the Drinking Age

    Many think that alcohol is not as harmful as any other drug just because it’s a legal substance. That’s where Americans including adolescents go wrong. Anything abused legal or not can become harmful depending on the usage of it. We all see this on daily bases in the news, people getting arrested, killing other people in car accidents driving under the influence, receiving DWI’s and ruining their not only their own lives but others as

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    Essay Length: 672 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 19, 2016 By: zaidie
  • Age-Drinking

    Age-Drinking

    At the age of 18, an American is an adult. At the age of 18, an American man or woman can take a full-time job, they can rent an apartment, they can join a union, they can do all the stuff on the Internet that you're supposed to be 18 to do. they can take that union card and get a job brewing beer, making wine, or distilling liquor, they can purchase and carry an

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    Essay Length: 3,578 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Jack
  • Under Age Drinking

    Under Age Drinking

    Everyone knows that it is illegal to consume alcohol until the age of 21 in the United States. Many people are in agreement with this legal restriction. Some would even say that it should be raised. However, the legal drinking age sometimes causes more problems then it prevents. I am here today to persuade you that drinking age limit should be lowered. Why? Because we care. We care about people who abuse alcohol and in

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    Essay Length: 1,095 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Under Aged Drinking

    Under Aged Drinking

    I feel that a serious problem that is facing the United States today is under aged drinking. Under aged drinking is going to be a problem forever. There is no way that this country can stop under aged drinking. When kids grow up they see everyone drinking whether it is at a family function, a school party wedding, etc. Young adult's even kids are put in situations whether they like it or not, just because

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    Essay Length: 374 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: Jon
  • Under Age Drinking

    Under Age Drinking

    All of us in this classroom is under the age of 21. Now think to yourself, even though you are under the age of 21, does it mean that none of you have ever tried alcohol? According to Prof. Rosenberg from the Psychological Bulletin 1993, alcohol is the most serious problem facing teenagers. We are all students at school and most likely gone to one party with alcohol. Being a student and under the age

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    Essay Length: 874 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 29, 2010 By: Monika
  • Age Discrimination

    Age Discrimination

    No matter how talented or experienced one employee may be over another, workplace history has demonstrated more than just a few times that the younger candidate is often the one to win the promotion. Age discrimination has become more than a minor inconvenience throughout the twentieth century; indeed, the issue has become such a hot potato within the workplace that laws have been forced into existence as a means by which to address the problem.

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    Essay Length: 2,248 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: July

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