age. There are many dangers about underage drinking. In many cases alcohol has lead to fatal car crashes. One-third of all drivers ages 21 to 24 who died in a car crash had a blood alcohol level that was over the legal limit. Drinking can cause major brain damage. The brain is still developing‚ drinking underage may cause lasting impairments in brain functions such as memory‚ coordination‚ and motor skills. It is more likely that they will be a heavy drinking later in life than a teenager who
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Drinking and driving I’m Mikelle Rittenhouse; id like everyone to take a moment to mentally prepare yourself for the effects of drinking and driving that you will see during this speech as it may be disturbing for some people. Now I would like to show you a video. I’m showing you all this today because what happened to Lenient Kildes mother is an accident that could have been prevented if people were more educated about the risk of drinking and driving. Many people who have been intoxicated report
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before? We are students in university and had at least gone to a party with alcohol. In the United States‚ underage drinkers consume 3.6 billion drinks each year. Underage drinkers make lots of money for the alcohol industry! Alcohol consumption is the most common type of substance abuse in teenager. What causes this problem to be occurring? Peer pressure is a leading cause of teenage drinking. Many teenagers turn alcohol as a way to cope like stress‚ anxiety‚ depression and life change. The drugs
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Underage drinking and drugs use have been a big issue encountered by many teenagers across America. The problem is not only about drinking alcohol and drug use itself but about the consequences caused by these unhealthy activities. Excessive alcohol consumption cause lead to motor vehicles accidents‚ fight‚ rapes‚ suicide‚ homicide‚ etc. A study found that American youth have a big portion of hospitalization for alcohol consumption reasons. Among this youth population‚ men were more often found to
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Underage drinking and driving remains an ongoing issue‚ statistically proven as the leading cause of teen death. Teen drinking and driving is still a problem today. Several teenagers would prefer to take the risk of driving home rather than to just ask a friend for a ride. Underage drinking and driving is proven to be a major cause of economic expenses. Besides underage drinking and driving being the cause of economic expenses‚ it also is the cause of multiple other consequences. Consequences that
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reached the age of maturity as defined by law. As stated by law‚ anyone at the age of eighteen and above are considered an adult yet the age group between eighteen and twenty are unable to consume alcohol legally. The United States has the highest drinking age restriction compared to the entire world. According to the International Center for Alcohol Policies‚ the only country that comes close in comparison in the age restriction of alcohol is Japan and Iceland where it is currently restricted to age
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Underage Drinking: Annotated Bibliography Alexis Richter Comp 2 February 27th‚ 2010 Engs‚ Ruth C. "Why the Drinking Age Should be Lowered: An Opinion Based Upon Research." CQ Researcher. N.p.‚ 20 Mar. 1998. Web. 9 Feb. 2011. . The article “Why the Drinking Age Should be Lowered: An Option based upon Research” is about twenty years of research based underage drinking done by Ruth Engs. It talks about the way things were in the past compared to how things are now. The research done
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The True Cost to Underage Drinking Unsupervised‚ underage drinking is a growing epidemic within the United States. However‚ there is another growing epidemic that seems to be larger than underage drinking: unreported sexual assaults. The amount of people being sexually assaulted are growing every single year and the percentages given out about these assaults do not correlate to exactly how many people get assaulted. The amount of money State College and Penn State invests into the investigation
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Topic Chosen: Peer pressure into underage drinking Proposal Statement: Does peer pressure play a role in the reason for underage teenagers drink alcohol? Hypothesis: My hypothesis is that peer pressure does affect the choice of an underage teenager to drink alcohol. Teenagers who are under the influence of alcohol can experience negative affects‚ such as sexual behavior‚ including unwanted‚ unintended‚ and unprotected sexual activity & heavy drinking later in life. Research Methodology:
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Dangers of Driving Distractions Name: Roxana Henriquez Topic: Dangers of texting and other distractions while Driving Specific Purpose: At the conclusion of this speech‚ the audience will be more knowledgeable of the consequences that involve driving distractions. INTRODUCTION Attention Getter: According to the Cell phone statistics 11 teens die every day in the US due to texting while driving. Purpose: Inform the audience members of the dangers of distractions such as texting while operating
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