Drinking Age example essay topic

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Outline Title: Drinking Age General Purpose: To Persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my listeners that you should not have to be 21 yrs of age to drink, and that drinking does not affect your brain mentally, and that teenagers are not as irresponsible with drinking than people say they are. Central Idea: By showing my listeners that the drinking age used to be lower and other countries don't even have drinking ages. By showing statistics of how little alcohol actually affects your brain. Also by showing what adults do and how they act compared to teenagers.

Introduction How many things can I do when I turn 18 yrs old? When you turn 18 you " re considered an adult. I can move out of my house and be out on my own, I can have my own house and car under my own name, I can own a credit card, I can buy cigarettes, I can go into a bar, I can do anything I want, I can even go to war and die for my country, but I can't but alcohol legally. The news and the media say that teenagers are irresponsible, and that is one reason that it is illegal for them to buy alcohol.

If you notice though people over 21 are just as irresponsible as teenagers, and I know that from experience. They say, mostly your parents, that every time alcohol gets into your system it eats away at your brain. If that's true then why do they put it in medicine that is design to help, not damage your brain. Drinking can't affect you mentally or physically unless you let it, unless you are an alcoholic. All of my friends know how much they can drink and how much they can't. They also know that they can't drink everyday because they have things to do.

I think that since you are considered an adult when you turn 18 you should be able to get all the responsibilities, that's how it used to work, that's how it works in other countries, so why did they change that.