Outline

Topic: US should lower the drink age to 18

Specific Purpose:   the purpose of this speech is to convince the audiences that young people aged 18 should be given the right to drink because the adulthood age in U.S is 18 and the age is given the legal rights such as voting.

Central idea:  a person aged 18 years has the right to vote and right to marry the same as a person aged 21years (Kiesbye, 1).

Introduction

Attention Getter:  A person aged 18 has the right to purchase cigarette. Is there any different between smoking and drinking?

Topic Introduction:Young people aged 18 should be given the right to enjoy life as long as they have the right to own gun, to vote  and to defend the nation the same way as a person aged 21.

Relate the topic to your audience:   This is a hot issue which requires proper attention so that everybody can see the need for the government to implement the policy.

Relate the topic to you as a speaker:  I like socializing with young people and so I understand the need of young people. I have done a comprehensive research and found that young people aged 18 drinks privately and in unsupervised places and so I feel that they should be given the right to drink so that they can feel their adulthood and act lawfully (Solohub, 25).

Preview your main points:  As long the U.S government has the given young people aged 18 the legal rights, they should also be given the right to drink (Kiesbye, 3).

Transition Statement; In my opinion, lowering the drinking from 21 to 18 will reduce the unsafe drinking behaviors.

Body

1. First main point: a person aged 18years has the adulthood responsibility and legal rights

 

1. The government gives the right to vote, right to marry and right to smoke, right to join the military and right to be prosecuted.

• He or she is able to make sound judgment and wise decision on when, where and the amount to drink (Solohub, 25).
• 18aged person will value his or her health and drink a little amount.

 

 

1. Criminal behaviors will be reduced.

• No hiding and drinking in unsupervised places
• Will know when, where and the amount to drink (Hanson, 214).

Transition Statement; Therefore, the legal right will regulate the environment and eliminate the aggressive behavior of unsafe drinking.

2. Second main point: People aged 18years and above are college students and they live in an environment where Alcohol is available
3. Peer pressure

• Legal right will eliminate the over use of alcohol when they in student-student interaction
• Through interaction in school, no one will mislead the other because all have similar behaviors. Every person will try not to break the law (Borg, 51).

 

 

1. b. less restriction will eliminate the desire to drink

• Young people will have the freedom to act ethically and be responsible of one life
• They will consume just for fun but not for other purposes like showoff

 

Transition Statement; for that reason, socialization is important in carrying out common behaviors.

 

 

3. First main point: Rule and regulation will reduce alcohol consumption
4. supervisory guidance will reduce the drinking behaviors which may cause risk

• People will fear the law and choose to spend money with meaning things.
• Pleasurable activities under the law will lose the interest and quite from them (Sinnott-Armstrong et al, 103).

1. Law will help young people to make sound judgment and adulthood decision

• Reduction death and alcohol-related diseases
• Reduction of incarceration due to alcohol consumption (Hower et al, 81).

 

 

Transition Statement;   Thus, young people aged 18 understands the law and acts accordingly to avoid imprisonment.

 

Conclusion

 

Link the conclusion to the introduction:  It is clear that there is no a big difference between 21 and 18 years.

Review the main points and reemphasize your central idea: It is important to note that as a long as people aged 18 have the legal right and they understands the law, they should enjoy the life.

  Specify desired audience response:   Put in mind that drinking alcohol is lawful as a long as the person drinking complies with the law.

Memorable concluding statement:  Let us all put this issue into concern and petition the government to implement this policy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Work cited

Kiesbye, Stefan. Should the Legal Drinking Age Be Lowered?Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2013. Print.

 

Hower, Sara, Lori A. Johnson, and Kathleen A. Uradnik. Battleground: Government and Politics. Santa

Barbara, Calif: Greenwood, 2011. Internet resource.

 

Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, and Robert J. Fogelin. Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal

Logic. Australia: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2005. Print.

 

Hanson, Glen, Peter J. Venturelli, and Annette E. Fleckenstein. Drugs and Society. Sudbury, MA: Jones &

Bartlett Learning, 2012. Print.

 

Solohub, Roman T. Clear Thinking When Drinking: The Handbook for Responsible Alcohol Consumption.

Acworth, Ga: Empennage Press, 2007. Print.

 

Borg, Ellul D. A. Risk Perception, Awareness and Prevention Measures to Reduce Underage Drinking and

the Illegal Purchase of Alcohol in Malta. Boca Raton, FL: Dissertation.com, 2008. Print.