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Underage Drinking, 2004.
A thesis on the problem of underage drinking in the U.S. and what needs to be done to solve this widening issue.
1,559 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper presents a thesis that supports the statement that underage drinking is a common and a widely spread problem, augmenting health and social problems in the United States. The paper shows that there are various strategies that can be used in order to tackle this issue. The paper includes a number of statistics and graphs to support its theory and concludes that underage drinking in the United States of America is one of the most significant public health problems and needs further research, extensive and thorough scrutiny, and a persistent effort from both the parents' side and from the authorities' point of view. More pragmatic and easy-to-adapt strategies need to be drafted.
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"There are innumerable specific instances supporting our thesis statement pertaining to the public health issue of underage drinking. The following instances will further assist the reader to better comprehend the thesis statement and the purpose of this research paper
According to Dave Philips, a fifty year old social worker and a highly efficient researcher, the worst example of an underage drinker comes from the house of a young child who started drinking alcohol at the age of five and not from the outside world but from her own house. Since drugs cause harmful effects in human body, this young girl started displaying abnormally aggressive and disturbed behavior of constantly fighting with her class fellows at school and was kicked out from the academic institution for the same."
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Trans-border Underage Drinking, 2005.
This paper discusses the problem of trans-border underage drinking on the San Diego/Tijuana Border as experienced by the author.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper explains that underage drinking has been a problem in Mexico because there are no laws that are enforced for teenagers that may become dangerously drunk or even killed under the influence of alcohol. The author points out that, when he or she crossed the border to relates, the author saw a limited implementation of the law and no preventive measures in Mexico to limit drinks to minors. The paper suggests that the issue of underage drinking is a cultural, economic and legal problem.
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This study presents an experience that I had while crossing the Tijuana Border from San Diego. When traveling across the border into Tijuana there was a great deal of underage drinking that was allowed due to the differing cultural, legal, and economic problems that reside in Tijuana/San Diego trans-border relations. Although I was old enough to drink, I was made aware of the growing problem of underage drinking that was part of a personal experience in trans-border life. When interacting with the Mexicans across the border, I found that cultural, legal and economic factors allowed this activity to be a major problem for the safety of underage youths drinking Mexico. When I was old enough to drink I went with a few buddies across the border into Tijuana."
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Underage Drinking, 2002.
Questions the effectiveness of prohibiting alcohol consumption by underage teens in the United States.
3,610 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 100.95
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America has one of the worst alcoholism problems in the world. This paper asks what America is doing differently compared to other Western countries and why alcohol is such a large problem here. The paper argues that it seems that the best answer to the problems caused by underage drinking is to end youth prohibition and replace it with intensive alcohol-responsibility training, zero-tolerance drunk driving laws and putting more social pressure on parents and establishments to monitor the drinking of the young. The paper shows that by reducing situations conducive to binge drinking, secretive drinking and drunk driving and replacing them with socially controlled situations, we reduce both health risks and drunk driving risks. The paper suggests that all arbitrary age-restrictions be revoked in favor of better societal monitoring and more pervasive anti-drunk driving regulations, aimed at risky behavior rather than specific targeted groups.
The paper includes a detailed outline.
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"Another important benefit of a change in the laws would be that less law enforcement money spent on prohibition means more money and time spent on serious problems like drunk driving and crime. By decriminalizing under-age drinking -- by removing the age limits which define it as underage -- then one ends the problem of illegal drinking. Of course, there?s a certain degree of Orwellian double-speak at work here. If one were to nationalize personal property, that would also strictly solve the problem of theft as well. Obviously removing underage status makes underage drinking an impossibility and therefore not a problem. The real question is whether or not this move would decrease problems. It does seem reasonable, though, that more focus on enforcing drunk driving and erratic driving rules would be far more successful than wasting societal time checking IDs."
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Underage Drinking, 2002.
Examines why alcohol is such a problem in the United States despite its being prohibited to teenagers.
3,596 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 100.95
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America has a worse relationship with its alcohol than most other Western countries where drinking is an important social affair. In fact, Italians (for whom wine is something of a national obsession) are 86% less likely to experience drinking-related problems or alcoholism. This paper examines what America is doing differently and why alcohol is such a large problem there, especially among the teenagers who are prohibited by law to drink alcohol. The paper questions the merits of prohibiting youth from drinking. It argues that the best answer to the problems caused by underage drinking is to end youth prohibition and replace it with intensive alcohol-responsibility training, zero-tolerance drunk driving laws and putting more social pressure on parents and establishments to monitor the drinking of the young. The paper also includes a detailed outline.
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"It is commonly believed that drinking is an especially significant problem among the young. According to MADD?s Brandy Anderson: ?Alcohol use is America's No. 1 youth drug problem.? Is it possible that the problems in America stem from America?s youth? At the very least, alcohol must be a very important problem for American youngsters. According to MADD and others, teenagers are more likely to binge drink, to become dangerous drunk drivers, and to be unable to responsibly handle alcohol than are adults. Because of these concerns, drinking before age 21 has been made illegal in every state. One might say this is a triumph -- and yet these problems remain worse in America, after more than a decade of teen prohibition, than in countries like France where even very young children drink. If underage drinking is the problem, why has prohibition failed to solve it?"
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COPPS and Underage Drinking/Street Racing, 2006.
Uses the SARA model and community policing techniques as a response to youth driving problems.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 23.95
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This paper uses the SARA (scan, analyze, respond, assess) model and community policing techniques to respond to underage drinking issues and street racing reported in a specific community.
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"Community policing can be an effective tool when used to prevent crime rather than respond to crime. Some communities have realized significant benefit when they have ..."
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Underage Drinking & Advertising, 1999.
Argues against ads & other factors which encourage drinking by minors.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 39.95
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" This paper is an argument against the use of advertising to encourage underage drinking. Current efforts to cut back or entirely eliminate advertising for cigarettes have focused public attention on the role that such advertising plays in creating new smokers and convincing minors to break the laws that ban them from buying, possessing, and using cigarettes. Alcohol abuse presents a problem just as serious and more immediately deadly. While the long-term detriments of smoking have been well documented, alcohol abuse kills significantly more young people. Advertising plays an important role in increasing the appeal of drinking, and recent moves to put hard liquor ads on television are especially disturbing.
When 20-year-old Louisiana State University student Benjamin Wynne died of alcohol poisoning after an all-night drinking binge.."
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Drinking and Driving, 2002.
A study into the relationship between the legal age of drinking and the number of driving-related accidents.
1,815 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper examines the problem of alcohol-related accidents, underage drinking and its effects on the number of driving accidents in New Jersey and nationwide. The paper attempts to answer the question: Does the legal drinking age affect the number of driving accidents that involve alcohol in New Jersey? The paper concludes that raising the minimum age when people can purchase and consume alcohol has been shown to positively affect the rate of accidents involving alcohol and the young.
Contents:
Introduction
Background
Legal Definition of Driving While Under the Influence
Zero Tolerance Law
Effectiveness of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws in Reducing Alcohol Related Traffic Accidents and Deaths
Conclusion
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"According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, (NHTSA), there were 2,160 teen drunk-driving crashes in the United States in 2001 (latest available statistics) The measure represents the total number of people (occupants and non-occupants) killed in crashes in which at least one teenage (16-20) driver had a BAC of .08 or higher. While teens killed because of drinking and driving remains unacceptable at any number, the total represents a 35% decline since 1990 and a full 60% since 1982."
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U.S. Legal Drinking Age, 2002.
A paper arguing against the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 in the U.S. which raised the legal drinking age to 21.
975 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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The paper argues against the Constitution's raising of the legal drinking age to 21 years nationwide. The paper discusses the rise in alcoholism among teenagers since the act came into effect in 1984 and several other reasons why the law should be removed. Finally, it touches on the the fact that the law can be seen as unconstitutional for it clearly favors federal jurisdiction where there should be none.
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"At age 18, an American can vote, fight and die in a war, marry, own homes and cars, and even firearms. But these rights somehow do not measure up to the right to drink beer, wine, and spirits. The spectre of Prohibition loomed when Americans decided that alcohol consumption was so sacred and powerful that citizens can vote before they can consume alcohol legally. The paradox is astounding but fails to impress American puritanical standards."
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Drinking Early, 2001.
A look at alcohol consumption in teenagers and media's influence on underage drinkers.
1,610 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 52.95
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This paper is about the effects of the media on underage drinkers. The author focuses on the television industry targeting college students and how drinking problems arise early in teenagers and adolescents.
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'Teenagers in general are being targeted more and more every year. The alcohol-related fatalities among teenagers rise every year. If the alcohol companies would target an audience other than children this could all be prevented. Media exposure at younger and younger ages is shaping the way children are going to think. The alcohol advertising agencies are shaping the future of so many kids, with promises of a positive outcome due to drinking."
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Arsenic in Drinking Water, 2007.
This paper discusses the health concerns raised as a result of arsenic in the drinking water supply.
2,619 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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The paper analyzes the issue of arsenic in drinking water and discusses different points of view regarding this problem. The paper also raises concerns regarding any contradicting research. The paper discusses limitations and developments and concludes that arsenic in the drinking water is an important concern that must be addressed in the near future, as is puts global health at risk.
Outline:
Introduction
Arsenic in Drinking Water as a Topic of Interest
Different Points of View & Conflicting Information
Research Limitations and Assumptions
New Developments
Personal Thoughts
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"In the past few years, the topic of health as it relates to environmental awareness has emerged as a significant concern for global leaders, government officials and the common family. Arsenic, a ubiquitous element found in the atmosphere, soils, rocks, natural waters and organisms, is one of the current leading environmental health issues. Most environmental arsenic problems are the result of mobilization under natural conditions, but man has contributed to the release of arsenic in the environment through mining activity, combustion of fossil fuels, herbicides, and the use of arsenic as an additive to livestock feed."
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Binge Drinking: Use or Abuse?, 2007.
This paper discusses whether binge drinking among youth is a right of passage or a public health hazard.
2,917 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 86.95
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The paper maintains that binge drinking all too often a risky, harmful and destructive activity and is therefore much more of a social problem than it is an innocent rite of passage. The paper contends that there are many preventive measures that could be used more effectively, such as stricter enforcement of laws against drinking and driving and more responsible beverage serving in public and private places. The paper suggests that the most effective way to publicize the harms and dangers of binge drinking would be to target such messages to consumers, at both individual and societal levels.
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"Haines and Spear (1996) define binge drinking as the consuming of five or more alcoholic drinks in a row. This increasingly common pattern of binge drinking on college and university campuses in particular, as a sort of "rite of passage" among college and university students in particular, moreover, is an area of growing concern: for college and university counselors; for medical staff; for administrators, and (in general) for mental health professionals and researchers in the behavioral sciences (Otnes, Treise, and Wolburg (1999). Weschler, Davenport, Dowdall, Moeykens, & Castillo (1994), in fact, consider binge drinking to be today's very worst health hazard on college and university campuses."
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Drinking Water and Sanitation, 2002.
Examines the global situation vis a vis drinking water supply and sanitation.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 11 sources, $ 89.95
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The 1980s was the 'International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade.' However, drinking water supply and sanitation problems persist in developing countries. Further, currently problems are emerging with drinking water supplies and sanitation facilities in the developed countries as well.
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Binge Drinking Among College Students, 2002.
A brief discussion of the problem of binge drinking among college students.
591 words (approx. 2.4 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 21.95
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This paper outlines the issues involved in college drinking problems. The paper provides statistics which illustrate the gravity of the situation. The effects of binge drinking on a student's academic performance and physical well-being are discussed. Suggestions are offered of how to curb this problem and how to reduce the tragedies associated with binge drinking among college students.
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"There are a multitude of issues related to binge drinking among college students. Statistics regarding binge drinking among college students magnify the gravity of the problem. At least two out of every five U.S. college students regularly binge drink, resulting in approximately 1,400 student deaths yearly, a distressing number of assaults and rapes, a shameful amount of vandalism, and countless cases of academic suicide."
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Testing Drinking Water for Nitrates, 2007.
This paper examines research about the effects of nitrates present in drinking water.
4,116 words (approx. 16.5 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 110.95
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The paper explains that many parts of the world have experienced elevated levels of nitrates in their drinking water by virtue of past industrial and agricultural practices. The paper provides a review of the relevant literature to determine the effects of nitrates in drinking water sources and examines what types of testing are typically done to assess the presence of nitrates, in particular in New Jersey. The paper discusses current and future trends in this area. The paper concludes that elevated levels of nitrates in drinking water supplies can result in profound adverse health consequences. People around the world are using their groundwater resources faster than they are being naturally replenished and this has caused further concentrations of any pollutants that might be present.
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Introduction
Review and Discussion
Conclusion
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"In a day and age characterized by debates over oil and potential future energy sources, an important fact is being overlooked. By all accounts, fresh water is far more important than oil and people had better pay closer attention to what is happening to their drinking water sources today. According to Roberts (2001), "Water use in the United States averages about 100 gallons of drinking water per person per day, more than just about any other country. A very small proportion of this water per person, approximately two gallons, is actually used for drinking and cooking. We use the majority of the water that comes into our homes for bathing, flushing toilets, doing laundry, watering lawns, filling swimming pools, and washing cars" (p. 64). Throughout the world, people obtain their drinking water from a wide range of sources, and these same techniques are used in the United States."
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