Transcript Slide 1
While marijuana legalization has been a forefront issue ever since the sixties, lowering the drinking age has always been in the hindsight of the American eye. The human brain, at least in males reaches its highest point of maturity at the age of eighteen. I understand that those extra three years of life experiences at to the maturity but the brain will no longer be developing after this age. [The author appears to be a human male.] In addition, the first year of college is most teenagers' first experience of unchaperoned, hedonistic situations. War is an act of humanity and should remain an act of humanity. The alliteration of the “harm to humans” is also reminiscent of a snake’s hiss, as well as the hard sound of “devoted to devising” contributes to another coldness towards which readers may not feel so fond. Upon opening this document, I had a general idea of my own thoughts and opinions. However, upon truly thinking, focusing, and pondering originality- this document seemed to have wrote itself. When I was a sophomore my English class read the Odyssey, a book which I hated, the language confused me and the stories were to complex for my Facebook addled mind to handle. When I told my teacher this she appealed to me, a voracious reader of novels, "How can you not like the Odyssey?" she asked. Well I thought, I just hate it. "You do know that every story stems from it right?". This both fascinated and horrified me at the same time. One book had created all of the novels I enjoyed? Looking closely at the Odyssey you can see a lot of parallels between today's generic story lines and Odysseus's journey, but it doesn't by any means cover every other story ever told. Even so, culture is constantly repeating itself. A Marx Brothers gag shows up on the Disney channel, or Marc Jacobs brings back grunge. Originality is no longer brought in the brand new, it would be naiive to think so as there is no more brand new, but is instead brought in the reinvention. Although some people might argue that a lack of originality is a negative thing, I believe that it will bring on even more creativity. It is far harder to recreate something beautiful than make something horrible that no one has ever seen before. [This was produced in ten minutes and nine seconds by a student with an SATV in the 600s.] Sufjan Stevens, the leader of the this movement, has taken a genre that already existed and made it his own by means of composition and strap on fairy wings. The robot takeover of hundreds of comic books begins at choices like these. outline: -lower drinking age? pro why? .will decrease the number of people drinking because the lust of illegal actions is lessening [From the resulting essay…] There are many people that do drink, but there should not be complete disapproval of such actions. Rather then those actions being frowned-upon, there should be more classes within schools to raise awareness of how to be safe. Yes, the age of being able to consume alcohol is twenty-one, but adults cannot be nieve about such actions. Drinking? one of the leading causes of death among people, yet teens to be specific. Drinking age? What is a drinking age? when you attend a high school party and see alcohol, is a drinking age rule been followed? To the best of my knowledge I believe every high school student is obviously under the so called "drinking age." But why do they do it? teen mind is an amazing piece of work, and it works in magnificient ways. More rules and obstacles will always lead into more destrustion within teens and the society. Because the teen mind is not built to follow rules due to the constant and unfortunate peer pressure that blinds the current teen. So, would lowering the drinking age save more lives? Stats do not mean anything when it comes to saving even a single life. [ . . . ] You might claim that when you lower the drinking age, people will consume less. But I ask, what proof do you have? Just because they lowered the price of fish-o-fillet sandwich at Mcdonald's did not make people not consume it anymore, but bulk up on fish sandwiches for a $1 each. As teens, some think that they run the world, they just graduated high school so they think they know everything, and that they are never at fault for anything but that sometimes that is not true. [ . . . ] Although this maybe true I do not agree on this thought process because, being an elementary education major, I feel that your at college not only to enjoy yourself but to learn more about your future career. For one the education field it is very tough to get into but they also have strict rules about breaking laws or getting under ages. I feel like this is good because it makes them see what students are really is passionate about the field and who is not, this also shows the person who maybe your boss someday you can be mature and fallow rules. Morality is something that all humans are plagued with. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to make choices without the potential emotions or backfiring that follows? Technology is sneaking its way into every part of our lives. From brushing our teeth with new electric toothbrushes, to laptop computers which many people can not love without, technology is slowly beginning to govern our lives. It has been said, though by who I cannot say, that as artists we "stand on the soldiers of giants" in the sense that all creative works build upon those efforts of the past.