Annotated bibliography
Team members: Yanting Qiu, Weiyi Tang, Elbert Wu, Tarang Bhatt
Topic: “Drinking age should be reduced from 21 to 18”
Professor Valerie Ellis
ENGL 102
05/11/2016
Levine, Dan. "A Legal Drinking Age of 21 Does Not Reduce Drunk Driving." Drunk
Driving. Ed. James Haley. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2002. At Issue. Rpt. from "Wasted: Why Our Drinking Laws Will Never Work." Hartford Advocate 24 Aug. 2000. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 8 May 2016.
By banning something, such as alcohol, from the teenagers would grow their curiosities for it. Therefore, although the drinking age limit has been raised since 1984, the underage drinking cases did not decrease. The writer gave out many pieces of evidence to prove his viewpoint, such as professor Brehm's the psychological "reactance" theory and professor Steve's simple experiment for people's reaction caused by the restriction. There were some behind scene cases of the law of the minimum drink-purchasing age. For example, the states will continue losing ten percent of their highway supporting fund per year, as long as they do not take this law. Indeed, the traffic accidents, which were caused by the 18-20 young adults, reduced after 1984. However, this decreasing was not only caused by the minimum-drinking-age law but also because of many other reasons, such as the improvement of the drive education level.
There are a lot of examples and pieces of proof in this article, and writer’s viewpoints are very clear so that we can utilize both the concepts and proofs of the context. Since the one of the main opposite views of our program is the effects of the young adults drunk driving accidents, this context, can help us a lot to against it. What’s more, this article can be used as evidence in drinking purchasing, unfair law, and the natural ability of humans to support our point.
Jones, Sandra N., and Vicki D. Lachman. "Continuing the Dialogue: Reducing Minimum
Legal Drinking Age Laws from 21 to 18."Journal of Addictions Nursing 22.3 (2011): 138-43. Web.
This article talks about the ineffectiveness of Nation Minimum Drinking Age Act 21. It suggests that the drinking age should be lowered from age 21 to 18. In the article, the author talks about the both sides of the issues, which are the pros and the cons for lowering the drinking age to get her conclusion that the MLDA 21 laws need to be reduced.
This is a helpful source. It gives me so much detailed information so that I can use in my paper. The pros in the article can help me make my paper sound reasonable by making these points clearer. The cons can help me as well because I can defense these points and furthermore to emphasize my points.
Mantel, Barbara. "Drinking On Campus." CQ Researcher by CQ Press. 18th Aug. 2006.
Web. 7 May 2016.
While the deaths at Chico and other campuses capture media and public attention, they only hint at the extent of heavy drinking among college students and the harm that results.
In the early 1990s, Harvard University's School of Public Health showed that 44 percent of students questioned in a nationwide survey reported binge drinking - consuming five or more drinks in a row for men and four or more for women - during the two weeks before the survey.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism formed a special task force in 1998, and the surgeon general in 2000 set a goal of reducing college binge drinking by 50 percent within ten years.
"Rarely does someone participate in an evening activity that doesn't involve drinking, and when they do drink it is not uncommon for someone to get incredibly drunk. Also, large college parties are not very fun if one isn't drunk. They are loud and impersonal, so no one would want to be at a party and not be drinking." Depending on the study, the number of college students who binge drink is holding steady or falling only slightly.
"Many students, many of my friends and myself, are guilty of binge drinking." But Fish considers it a problem only when it happens two or more times a week.
While studies show that frequent binge drinking is becoming more common, paradoxically the percentage of students abstaining from alcohol is also increasing, indicating that student drinking habits are becoming more polarized between those who don't partake and those who do - heavily.
Excessive drinking causes a variety of negative consequences, including blackouts, injury, unintended and unprotected sex, impaired driving, poor grades, property damage, fights, arrests and sexual violence.
"The Legal Drinking Age Does Not Prevent Teens from Drinking." Cengage Learning, 2013.
Web. 8 May 2016.
In this article, author talks about the function of legal drinking age. In his opinion, he thinks the drinking age does not prevent teens from drinking. Because although there are fewer drunk driving fatalities than before the legal drinking age was raised in the early 1980s, they have decreased at the same rate in countries with lower drinking ages, so that the two events are not related
Furthermore, there are still many alcohol-related deaths that occur off the highway that MLDA 21 fails to address.
Second, the author wrote a topic which is “Getting Rid of Fake Science.” That means there is no evidence of massive brain impairment, alcohol dependency, or underage alcohol abuse.
Thus, prohibition does not work among 18-20. People don’t think it will hurt their body. It will not cause damage. And the problem is not the drink; it is the drinker. There should be more emphasis on the person and the surrounding.
Hence, I think this article will help us to discuss our topic about the drinking age.
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