The main issue is today’s society is underage drinking. There has been a lot of controversy on this subject from many different sides of the issue; there are some people who believe that the drinking age should be lowered from twenty-one to eighteen years old as it was during the Vietnam war‚ the old-school mentality was “old enough to fight‚ old enough to drink.” The con side disagrees however stating that lowering the drinking age would bring about a rise in traffic accidents‚ and encourage young
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quite a problem. Parents don’t know how to stop it or they choose to bury their heads in the sand and not have to deal with it. There are many consequences associated with underage drinking. Parents need to be able to talk to their children about it. There are strategies that parents can use on their child to prevent underage drinking. Alcohol is the most broadly abused substance among America’s childhood. Immature liquor use is not an adequate transitional experience‚ but rather a genuine risk to juvenile
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FACT SHEET Underage Drinking in Ventura County U nderage drinking continues to be a substantial problem in Ventura County. As a recent survey reports‚ alcohol use is highest among 18 to 20 year olds who are not of legal age to purchase it. In 2004‚ The Ventura County Behavioral Health Department contracted with the Social Science Research Center (SSRC) at the University of California‚ Fullerton to conduct a survey concerning alcohol use in Ventura County and to benchmark public
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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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Based on the movie showed in the curriculum‚ underage drinking is such a common phenomenon in the college campus that approximately eighty percent college students drink alcohol and half of them consume it through alcohol abuse. The film introduces and analyses minor’s drinking issue though three aspects: the causes of college drinking‚ negative consequences brought by it‚ and some solutions to subtract underage alcohol consumption. As for the reasons why college students have high incentive to
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Topic Sentence Transportation had one of the most important innovations that affected the US economy. Some of the innovations were the creation of railroads‚ the steamboat‚ and canals. Example In 1828‚ The first United States railroad appeared and this brought a lot of joy to the americans because this was an efficient way to move from place to place. Most of these railroads networks were located in the North region. This was a great way to transport items from the South‚ and back up to the
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it. The people my mom works with are very unmotivated and when they do things wrong‚ my mom has to go fix their mistakes. This supports my topic sentence because my mom was hardworking and responsible in her work place and she was rewarded by getting a promotion‚ which can lead her to success in the near future. Another example that supports my topic sentence is when I am in my photography class in that class you have to be a hard worker and you have to be responsible because you have to take your
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Underage possession of alcohol is a serious crime that affects many people. Being intoxicated usually leads to doing stupid things‚ like vandalism or crashing a car etc. When I was charged with underage drinking it not only affected me‚ it also affected my parents and how they trust me‚ it affected the arresting police officers because they had to fill out paperwork‚ and my actions negatively affected the family of the Christmas ornament. I’m sorry for my actions of vandalism as well as the consumption
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effects to underage drinking that can cause you to do terrible things. For example‚ the effects that can cause family problems‚ car crashes‚ and not being responsible for your own actions. It can inhibit one’s mental and physical abilities to the point that they can cause someone’s death or the end of their own life. Underage drinking should not be allowed until one reaches his or her majority due to the fact that the lack of responsibility and decision making a teenager shows while drinking is devastating
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Topic Sample Sentence The loss of a friend Two memories stand out in my mind when I think about Jane: the day I first met her‚ and the day her mother called me in tears to tell me about my best friend’s death. The relationship or a Bobby and I have always been two of a kind: clever‚ specific memory one has of precocious‚ and never able to know when to quit joking a friend around. One’s bravest or most frightening moment Compared to that moment on that day‚ all the nervewracking booster shots
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