How Can a Number Define a Person as an Adult

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Title: How Can a Number Define a Person As An Adult? The age where you are finally viewed as an adult, you can vote for the United States President, make your own legal decisions and so much more. That special age eighteen that every teenager looks forward to but from what I see eighteen is just another number. A topic that we all have seen through out many years being argued and researched, whether the drinking age should be lowered from twenty one due to the extreme amount of underage drinking done by kids who are as young as fourteen years old. Linda Chavez, a vocal supporter of conservative causes writes passionately about her view of the revision of the “Amethyst Initiative” debate on whether the drinking age should be lowered from twenty-one, and how college professors agree to this matter. Chavez debates and argues reliable sources in her essay “Redefining the Problem Wont Make It Go Away” which was published in the online journal townhall.com on August 22, 2008. This essay displays her negative beliefs of this argument, she is a firm fighter for what she believes in and this essay shows that. On the other hand, Radley Balko a writer who published his essay “Amethyst Initiative’s Debate on Drinking a Welcome Alternative to Fanaticism” to FoxNews.com on August 25th 2008 shortly after Chavez’s essay was released. Balko is as opinionated and feisty in his beliefs as Chavez, as he argues his thought on the reconsideration of the “Amethyst Initiative.” How similar Balko and Chavez are we could not have picked two better essays to compare. So I ask you again, when you think adults do you think eighteen or twenty-one? As an eighteen year old who is soon to be nineteen, currently a full time college student, manages to get good grades, work a full time job, attends every little league baseball game her brothers have, manages to keep up with her daily chores

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