When you turn 18 you are old enough to fight and die for your country‚ vote‚ purchase cigarettes and get married. But at your wedding you wouldn’t even be able to participate in your own champagne toast. Some adults like to say that you aren’t mature enough or physically able to handle drinking until you are 21.When you are 18 you are judged mature enough to vote‚ hold public office‚ serve on juries‚ serve in the military possibly die for your country‚ fly airplanes‚ sign contracts and so on. Why
Premium Drinking culture United States National Minimum Drinking Age Act
drinking age should be lowered to 18 Eighteen is the age that everyone becomes an adult in the United States. Eighteen is also the age when you should be able to decide if you choose to consume alcohol. Turning eighteen is a big responsibility at the age of eighteen you are allowed to choose to smoke cigarettes‚ vote‚ get married‚ serve on juries‚ sign contracts‚ and join the military which includes risking one’s life. So if you’re allowed to choose all of these then I feel like you should be allowed
Premium
crib. Then when they could ride a bike they would have a helmet‚ knee pads‚ and elbow pads to save them from getting hurt. However at age 16 they let their kid jump in a car and drive when they can get themselves killed by reckless driving. That is why the driving age needs to be raised so parents can protect their kids for a little longer. Rising the legal driving age would save teenagers lives. More than 5‚000 teenagers die each year in car accidents (Lund).That is too many minors dying each year
Premium Alcoholic beverage Drinking culture Alcohol law
accidents. I believe this because if you wait till you’re 18 it would still be new and so it would be just as dangerous as a 16 year old driving. If you get a GDL you still get the freedom and privileges‚ but they also gain more experience. I also believe this because raising the driving age just gives us more complications. Therefore I believe the GDL’s are safer‚ way better‚ and‚ more effective. My first reason id because waiting till you’re 18 doesn’t mean you have more experience it still the same
Premium Drinking culture Alcoholic beverage Alcoholism
adolescents being pre-mature and accident prone‚ the legal age to obtain a license should be 21 in order to improve young driving skills and create a safer environment on the road. In present day society‚ teenagers are known for making bad decisions and not taking serious matters‚ seriously! Whether it’s that they’re simply immature or a victim of peer pressure‚ the failure to make moral decisions is a major contributing cause to such high adolescent motor vehicle crashes. On the other hand‚ studies
Premium Adolescence
answer questions about school drop outs due to higher minimum wages. This paper tries to answer questions like; do higher minimum wages cause high school drop outs among different students in various continents? Other questions include: does real income cause high school dropouts?‚ do the unemployment rates in the country cause dropouts of high school students?‚ how do teenage pregnancy rates cause high school dropouts? And how does education attainment among adults cause high school dropouts? These questions
Premium
hanging out high in High School Okay my freshman to senior years in school‚ hell I barely remember High School. I was not a dumb kid just board with school. I never could wait until the end of the day when school let out maybe because I enjoyed smoking weed more. A lot of times I would cut class‚ depending on what class it was. I knew I could pass the class even if I wasn’t there 100 % of the time so towards the latter part of the school day I would slip right on out of school to hang out. We would
Free High school English-language films Drug addiction
2014 Should The Legal Drinking Age Be 18? The minimum legal drinking age in the United States is 21. Many have suggested lowering the drinking age to 18. I do not think the legal drinking age should be lowered because of the following reasons. Lowering the drinking age to 18 would have a negative impact on the lives of the youth of the United States. Making it legal for 18 year-olds to buy alcohol would increase the number of teens who drink. It would make it easier for all of the high school students
Premium Drinking culture United States National Minimum Drinking Age Act
The Drinking Age Should Remain 18 Years Old in Australia The Drinking Age Should Remain 18 Years Old in Australia These days there are a number of social issues in the community‚ such as drug abuse‚ teenage pregnancy and alcohol abuse. Alcohol abuse is rampant in today’s society‚ Australian Drug Foundation states that‚ “Alcohol is the most widely used psychoactive‚ or mood-changing‚ recreational drug in Australia.”(Healey‚ 2002‚ p. 11). Underage drinking and binge drinking are some of the problems
Premium Drinking culture Alcoholism Alcohol abuse
students six times more likely to drop out of high school" by author Khara SIkhan publish the article to take some kind action from the audience. This is the fact 1.3 million students are dropping the high school because of low- income. Most of student knew that they are not going to graduate. Students know that working whole night an whole day school will not going to help them to graduate‚ that is a reason of 1.3 million are dropping school everyday year because of low income. Children
Premium Education High school College