Graduation Speech - Original Writing

Caroline: How do you think it made me feel to have my boyfriend call me ugly and fat in front of all my friends?

There it is d. It is. B: a. How nice. a. All right. b. Thank you. c.

High school is over and it is your first time away form home, what are you going to do? The typical college student wants to party! Of the people that were surveyed over half believed that the legal drinking age should be lowered. [O’Kane 1] The legal age to drink in the United States is now 21 years old; college freshman, sophomores, and some juniors are not of the legal age to drink. This causes a problem on many campuses; several students are experiencing their first time away from parental care in a setting sinonomus with drinking and clubbing. Some feel pressure from family and friends to receive excellent grades while attending school, sometimes the pressure is too much and going out and

A: I was very scared and confused, and I didn’t fully understand the situation due to my age.

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I curled up on the sofa in the corner of the room, attempting to get a temporary escape from the chaos. In front of me laid my shot of unfinished vodka and a mess of other party foods. The others, a dozen feet away from me, were screaming, wiggling and jumping around as if they just got out of jail. With nightclub music blasting in my ear, I murmured to myself: “why does this happen?”

Parties were extremely popular in the 1920’s, causing alcohol and brutality to become more common. In the book The Great Gatsby, everyone was expected to attend parties on the weekends. “Anyhow, he gives large parties. And I like large parties.” (68) This quote, stated by Jordan, a friend of Daisy, shows how popular parties were. In modern times, parties are not as popular as they were. Most people do not go to parties, but would rather hang out with only a couple of their close friends. There are a few people who do still enjoy going to parties. Teenagers make up most of the percentage of people who attend the parties in the modern days.

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Going to Fordham University, I’ve always heard about the student friendly bars located nearby campus. I figured the colorful social dynamic at these bars would make for important observations that I couldn’t pass up. The Friday night ritual of going to the bars sounded as if it had its own mythos, with police raids replacing great floods and bouncers replacing riddle-making sphinxes. As such, I decided to leave campus on a Friday at around 11 pm to go to an area with multiple bars that were known to admit Fordham students under the age of 21. Essentially, I observed the act of “going out”.

“Do you have any mirrors around so I can look at myself cause I have no idea what I look like.”

B: “I have never heard about One Direction, but because of you are stupid I do not think so.”

In today’s day and age, being the life of the party and the focus of your friend group is the new craze upon reaching college age. There is no issue with going out with some friends or hanging out at the house around the bonfire. However, when someone takes it upon themselves to decide to bring some beer or perhaps some other substance to the gathering, decisions are now short-thought and spastic. Underage drinking or even drug use will raise an innocent get together to an illegal event. By making that avoidable mistake others are now inevitably involved, an alternate path for their lives is created, and normal activities now become a daily stress.

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For I have been a witness to actions like this, because in the year of 2012, my friend went to a concert with a bunch of friends; they was all partying, having a great time together, and consuming a lot of alcohol. It was all a bunch of teenagers that had just