21 to Drink: Failed Law?
21 to Drink: Failed Law?
Is lowering the legal drinking age really going to help prevent binge drinking, or is it just a ploy for universities to escape having to deal with underage drinking on their campuses? This question is very interesting to me because its more than just a matter of whether....
Drinking Age
You've got to fight for your right to party!"
Drinking is a privilege that has been in this country since its founding. It was briefly taken away during prohibition, but society's favor of alcohol showed its strength with the repeal of prohibition. After prohibition, alcohol was legally available....
Drunk Driving
On the night of May 14, 1988, Larry Mahoney was drunk, so drunk that his blood-alcohol concentrationthe percentage of alcohol in his bloodwas more than twice Kentuckys legal limit at the time of .10 percent. Regardless, Mahoney got behind the wheel of his pickup truck and proceeded to drive no....
Lowering the Drinking Age to 18 in the United States
The public policy that I have chosen to address is lowering the legal drinking age, in the United States, from the age of twenty-one to eighteen. The current drinking age was raised to twenty-one in 1984 when Congress passed the National Minimum Purchase Age Act. This required that all ....
M.A.D.D.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Special Interest Group (SIG) is a group of people who shares the same interest for the same or different reasons. In this country alone, there are many known special interest groups and the numbers are growing rapidly each day. Many of these interest groups may ha....
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is a nonprofit organization interest group that provides support and assistance to the victims of accidents that involve drunk driving. In 1950 Candy Lightner, a real-estate agent and devoted mother, was motivated to start MA....
Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy
Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy:
Loving Parents or Child Abusers
When a parent seeks medical attention for their ailing child they expect to get answers and a cure for their illness. They do not expect to be accused of manifesting their symptoms. Doctors may be at a loss as to why the child is s....
Prohibitation
Jessica Cornelius
May 2, 2004
Nancy Horner
Composition 1
Persuasive Paper
Prohibition ended in 1933, why are we still fighting it. It may seem unfair to many observers to allow 18-20 year olds to marry, to have children, to own cars, homes and firearms and to be financially and socially i....