Factors In Favor of and Against Khimley Young Critical Thinking and Problem Solving/ Hum 200 AOS Instructor Dr. Steven Mathews October 24‚ 2012 Lowering the Legal Drinking Age to 18: Yea or Nay Argument in Favor of Lowering the Legal Drinking Age The age of 18 is a transitional point in life. An 18-year=old can vote‚ marry‚ enlist in the military and buy cigarettes. To some it’s absurd that an 18-year-old can vote politicians into office and fight wars for the country but cannot
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The cons of lowering the drinking age The cons: There are many dangers and potential problems with lowering the drinking age. The states of Massachusetts‚ Michigan and Maine lowered the drinking age‚ and then experienced a slight increase in alcohol related crashes among the 18 to 20 year old age range. Desired results? Hardly. What about insurance companies? The law may recognize the age being lowered‚ but insurance might not. The rates of drivers 21 years old and younger would skyrocket
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Rhetoric 15 April 2013 Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered to Eighteen? Former United States senator Byron Dorgan once said‚ “Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this‚ and thirty-six states do” (searchquotes.com). In 1984‚ Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act which raised the minimum drinking age from eighteen to twenty-one. The impetus
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Discuss ethical implications related to the PR issues Merriam-Webster defines ethical behavior as “the discipline dealing with what are good and bad‚ with moral duty and obligation” (Ethical‚ 2008). In the recent years it has been said that good ethics can mean good business. When it comes to reputation and public image an ethical business is better off than an unethical one. Ethical issues can be directly or sometimes indirectly from the strategic decisions that are made to meet public
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teens die every year while intoxicated and more than 175‚000 are seriously injured. That means alcohol leads to almost 30% of teen deaths each year. Lowering the legal drinking age would only increase this number. B. The legal drinking age should not be lowered to 18 years old. C. 1. The human brain is not fully developed until the age of 25 and an undeveloped brain is more likely to become addicted to alcohol (www.samafoundation.org). 2. Drunk-driving accidents are the leading cause
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Lowering the Drinking Age: A Fuzzy Essay Young adults‚ who are between the ages of 18 and 19‚ have the right to fight and die for their country‚ yet they do not have the privilege to sit down and enjoy a beer with his or her family or friends legally. This is one of the most popular arguments spoken about when lowering the drinking age back to eighteen is brought up. In Dr. Ruth C. Engs essay “Why the drinking age should be lowered: An opinion based upon research‚” she brings about very strong
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Pros to Lowering the Drinking Age Form 21-18 Should people between the ages of eighteen and twenty be allowed to drink adult beverages that contain alcohol? Eighteen is the age of adulthood in the U.S and adults then have the right to make their own decisions so why not about alcohol consumption? Turning 18 gives us the right and responsibility of adulthood. Being eighteen gives us the right to vote‚ smoke cigarettes‚ serves on juries‚ get married‚ sign contracts‚ be prosecuted as
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The legal drinking age in the United States is a topic that has been debated for many years. This issue is‚ as some say we should keep it at the age of twenty-one‚ others say it should be lowered. Due to the minimum legal drinking age being twenty-one‚ alcohol has been even more appealing to kids whose brains naturally seek out risk more than adult brains do‚ but lowering the drinking age to reverse this effect would be detrimental to the developing body. After the drinking age was raised to twenty-one
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Running head: THE MINIMUM LEGAL DRINKING AGE 1 The Minimum Legal Drinking Age Carly Winne Summit County High School THE MINIMUM LEGAL DRINKING AGE Abstract This paper includes the view of why the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen. It has several points and fats to explain the reasoning of this opinion. It goes into depth of how it is affecting the youth‚ the future‚ and statistics and how lowering the age can make a positive change for everyone
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Drinking Age “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy‚” was once said by a very smart man named Benjamin Franklin. He lived in a time when there was no minimum drinking age. Before the 1900’s there wasn’t any kind of drinking laws anywhere in the United States. The drinking age was regulated by society which was family‚ church‚ and communities. Yes‚ some kids probably drank too much back then‚ but I’ve learned that the current laws aren’t doing much to stop it now either. At
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