Looking For Alaska By John Green Essay

Drinking and driving is one of the biggest social issues for teens across the United States. Getting behind the wheel of a vehicle after consuming alcohol is a very dangerous thing no matter what age you are. However, teens do not think about the consequences of drinking and driving until it is already too late. Many things contribute to this growing problem of teen drinking and driving. First, there is a lack of education about drinking and driving in schools today. Next, peer pressure is difficult for many teens to resist. Finally, the access that teens have to alcohol and to vehicles is not monitored. According to blah blah study, 000% of high school students admit

A major factor contributing to alcohol-related car accidents is binge drinking. Teenage drinking is not legal, therefore teens usually cannot drink whenever they want. When teens do drink, they often times drink to get drunk on the

Teenagers are irresponsible. Young adults can not handle real life situations. New generations do not know how to use things in moderation. These are all stereotypes of America’s youth, yet they all seem to refer to teachable things. They are all things that need to be learned. Most of the time, the young are looked down on for messing up in life, yet the reality is that anyone can screw up, it just is more likely to happen to someone who has less experience as opposed to someone who has more. The more time a person is given to learn about something, and the more guidance they have, the more experienced and reliable they will become. This applies to many things, but one specific example is alcohol. Typically teens are seen as too irresponsible to have access to substances containing alcohol, but if they were to legally have it in their lives, it may educate them sooner as to how to use it properly and in moderation. In the United States of America, the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen years old.

Groups such as the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and others were able to make strong arguments that appealed to the emotions of many US citizens. The founder of MADD was a woman named Candy Lightner whose thirteen year old daughter was killed in a hit-and-run by a man with two previous convictions and was only sentenced with 2 years in minimum security prison after the hit-and-run (Gale). After the creation of MADD in 1980, several people who were parents and relatives of those killed in drunk driving accidents opened their own chapters. These people spoke to the hearts and minds of others using their real-life experiences to depict exactly how damaging the drunk driving epidemic really was. Finally, in 1988, all fifty states switched back to a minimum legal drinking age of twenty-one where it has stayed ever

After reading the excerpt from Looking for Alaska by John Green it is evident that the speaker is an extremely introverted individual who feels indifferent towards his guests. He mentions how he could “feel their pity”, but then goes on to say that “they needed more pity than I did”. This implies that although the speaker is most certainly an introvert he does not feel the need to make acquaintances with others. He does not have any desire of becoming friends with people who only speak to him out of pure pity. The speaker also mentions how the dip and chips were “intended for my imaginary friends”, which shows that he does not usually expect company any ways. The fact that his friends are “imaginary” clearly shows that he never had any friends

Society normally views teenagers as rebellious kids with an impulse to live new experiences. These experiences range from going to their first party to having their first alcoholic drink, and are sometimes as drastic as trying their first drug. Drinking alcoholic beverages is something that involves a lot of responsibility and can bring a plethora of negative consequences. This is the main reason why the United States has established a legal drinking age that I consider to be relatively high. With the legal drinking age being so high, while intending to avoid harmful situations, brings many repercussions that are equally as harmful.

    For the people who don’t know who MADD is and what they stand for, they were started by a group of mothers who lost a child or children in a drunk driving incident and decided to collaborate to create the “Interest Group”. As soon as the article starts, the author starts to throw out statistics about the drinking age, as the author states, “More than 25,000 lives have been saved in

Unfortunately the usual teen does not ever believe anything bad will ever happen to them and therefore they do not realize what could happen to them while being under the influence of alcohol. Frequently, we hear about bad things happening in the news and the words, "alcohol related" are attached to the news story. This is particularly common in car accidents with teen drivers. Not only are they young and less experienced drivers on the road but also participating in drinking and it is often a fatal mistake. Drunk driving continues to murder more innocent people on the roads than ever before. Many feel that the laws punishing those charged with a Driving under the influence charge are too lenient and if stronger laws were present it would assist people from doing this destructive behavior. Teenagers today are more afraid about their parents finding out they were at a party where they had alcohol than getting in the car intoxicated. This needs to change also where stronger communication of parents and their teenage drivers takes place.

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Summary: Looking for Alaska is the story of a young boy named Miles Halter who leaves his hometown in Florida in order to attend Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama for his junior year. This boy loves reading biographies and especially memorizing last words of famous people. At Culver Creek, he meets new friends such as Chip his roommate also called Colonel, Takumi and Alaska a beautiful young girl with whom he will fall in love but cannot have since she already has a boyfriend named Jake. Unfortunately, under their influence, Miles starts smoking and drinking alcohol. One night after having drank a lot of alcohol, Alaska and Miles start to kiss but do not go further because Alaska

Teen drivers have the mentality were they are untouchable when behind the wheel. But it’s obviously to much to handle for them because when it comes to the facts to many teens die a year. In 2007, 4,200 teens in the U.S aged from 15-17 were killed and 400,000 were treated in the E.R for injuries because of car accidents (“Motor vehicle safety, Teen Drivers, page 1”). This just shows how irresponsible teens are while driving. In a national survey 12.5% of all high school students rarely wear seatbelts, this just asking too get hurt in case an accident happens (“Motor vehicle safety, Teen Drivers, page 1”). This just shows how teens have a bad mentality while driving. In 2005, 54% of teen deaths occurred between 3 p.m. and midnight on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. This statistic shows that one more reason why a teen would want there license is to get to a party or go

          Alcohol is the most widely used drug among youth. It causes serious and potentially life-threatening problems for this population. Research indicates that drinking is associated with risk-taking and sensation-seeking behavior among adolescents. Alcohol has disinhibiting effects that may increase the likelihood of unsafe activities.In 1997, 21 percent of the young drivers 15 to 20 years old who were killed in crashes were intoxicated. For young drivers, alcohol involvement is higher among males than among females. In 1997, 25 percent of the young male drivers involved in fatal crashes had been drinking at the time of the crash, compared with 12 percent of the young female drivers

Some may think that since Looking for Alaska is written from the first person perspective of the narrator, we would learn a lot about the narrator through his actions. However, this is not the case. Miles is the main character and the narrator of the book Looking for Alaska by John Green. This book follows the fictional story of when Miles goes off to boarding school, tries to discover his “Great Perhaps”, and tries to make the friends that he couldn’t at his previous school. When Miles first gets to boarding school, he immediately befriends his roommate and is introduced to his roommate 's friend group. He meets Alaska, who he thinks is beautiful and they become very good friends. The book then follows how Miles gets closer to Alaska and how he reacts and copes with her sudden death. We learn about who Miles really is through his inner thoughts. Through his thoughts we discover traits that Miles carries, that he is not proud of and that he doesn’t show or tell the other characters. Some of these traits include that Miles is self-conscious, that he is different than his friends, and that he is very loyal towards his friends. We can only detect that Miles carries these traits from learning his inner thoughts. John Green writes this book from the first person perspective of Miles and because of this we learn things about Miles through his thoughts that the other characters don’t.

Someone in America dies every twenty-two minutes, because of an alcohol related accident. Most people feel that they will never be part of this statistic, but experts on this subject say that everyone has a forty percent chance of being in an accident with a drunk driver. Drunk driving is a serious problem that the United States, as well as the world, is trying to deal with, because it does not only effect a select few, it effects everyone. Drunk driving amongst high school students is an enormous problem that the United States is trying to cope with. Many programs have come to surface over the past few years, that educate students on this situation. MADD, mothers against drunk driving, is a non profit

Looking for Alaska is a book about a boy named Miles that goes away to a private school called Culver Creek were he meets a group of friends that he starts to hang out with throughout the year. He becomes very good friends with everyone and they begin to let him in on their secret spot called "the smoking hole", where they all smoke their cigarettes without getting in trouble. Soon he starts to get a crush on a girl named Alaska, which seems to already have a boyfriend. As soon as Miles starts to fall in love with her a horrible thing happens. Alaska dies in a terrible car accident, which turns into a very mysterious and confusing death. When Miles and the other boys get the news, they start fighting to find out the truth on what really happened. After reading this novel, one is left with the question, "How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?"