Arrogant Speech to Convince? Actuate? Inspire? To Persuade. Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that communication between parents and teens can reduce the incidence of adolescent alcohol abuse and drunk driving related deaths. Thesis Statement: To persuade my audience that communication between parents and teens can reduce the incidence of adolescent alcohol abuse and drunk driving related deaths. Parental awareness and involvement is essential to keeping teens safe. Parents need to
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A persuasive speech against underage drinking My thesis statement is to convince you to think twice about picking up that next bottle of alcohol. When we look around us we will see many underage students drinking. Now let’s think to ourselves‚ is that a good behavior or the best thing they need to be doing? According to Prof. Rosenberg from the Psychological Bulletin 1993‚ alcohol is the most serious problem facing teenagers. I will like to say that some students at college most likely gone
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Underage Drinking Underage drinkers drink to look cool and it may be the social thing to do at the latest party or even at home; feeling curious a teen may consume alcohol to fit in with their surroundings. This can be due to the fact that the minor could be pressured into drinking. With all the popular media hype about alcohol and especially during the Super Bowl; it just shows minors that it is okay to participate in drinking and if they do‚ this great boost will occur. The other cause to these
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Underage drinking is one of the biggest problems facing America today. Teens who abuse alcohol often turn to a life of crime‚ or suffer mental or physical breakdowns. In many cases the teen may even die from attempt suicide or car accident. In Montgomery Country two teenager was killed in a car accident‚ after leaving a party drunk and driving over the speed limits. Knowing that they were underage‚ if the father who hosted the party had never let the teens drink‚ then the two death could have been
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Have you ever had someone effected by underage drinking? 1 in 6 teens binge drinking and cause accidents. In the Journal of Alcohol and Drug Educations that compared with those of legal age‚ a significantly higher percentage of students under age 21 were heavy drinkers‚ and caused more accidents to themselves then what first thought of (Smith and Smith‚ 1 and 2) . Most students or “underage drinkers” don’t think about what could happen if they did drink — leading themselves into many different issues
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Underage Drinking The youth at this days is drinking much more than the youth in the past and this is a big problem because the world is having more criminality and deaths because of this. The number of women since 1977 to 1993 tripled and there are more men drinking than women. 5000 adolescents a year are death because of alcohol. A 60 percent of college women who had sexual transmitted diseases where on the influence of alcohol‚ 90 percent of the campus rapes were because or the victim or the
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Introduction This report examines the problem of underage drinking in Australia. This topic was chosen because underage drinking is one of many legal issues facing Australian society. Teenagers‚ often between the ages of 12 and 17‚ have come to the point of thinking that under-age binge drinking is ‘cool’ and tolerable in our society‚ but Australian law begs to differ. The aim of this report is to investigate the controversy of under-age drinking and Queensland’s legislation such as the Liquor Act
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event ended with 20 graduates at the local emergency room‚ with 17 being treated for alcohol poisoning. Binge drinking has been generally defined as the prolonged use of alcohol (usually for two or more days) while giving up normal responsibilities and activities in order to become intoxicated. Officially‚ the National Institutes of Health defines binge drinking as "a pattern of drinking that brings a person’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08 grams percent or above." This level of BAC can
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Paper 5 -- Final Research Essay Alcohol use is extremely prevalent in our society. Young people grow up seeing their parents and other adults make toast of wine and champagne at special occasions‚ as well as casually enjoying a few beers at a picnic. Today alcoholic beverages are frequently as common at business lunches as they are at college frat parties. Underage drinking is a huge problem which everyone must face. Under age drinking not only has devastating effects on those who drink but
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Madelene Radillo Enc 1101/ Research Paper Prof. John Colagrande Many people use alcohol to “loosen themselves up” in anticipation of having sex with a new partner. It is a commonly held a belief that alcohol is an aphrodisiac. Since drinking alcohol can make people feel more comfortable engaging in sex it can lead to a one night stand‚ and a handful of sexually transmitted diseases. Sexually active teens and young adults have unprotected sex because they are under the influence of alcohol
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