Personal Narrative: Deviance and Underage Drinking I think that I shall attempt to be original on this topic. Just joking. The worst act of deviance that I have taken part in to my recollection was underage drinking. Before I start talking about this particular act of deviance I would like to say that it was a blast and I would gladly do it again. Also I did know this act was one of deviance, I believe most people know what they are doing when they break the law and I particularly did about this act. My parents and I had talked about underage drinking on several occasions and how there would be plenty of time later in my life to party and get drunk. In the beginning I never drank or even really went to any "parties" until I was a …show more content…
I remember this night very vividly up to a certain point. So I will try to keep all the good detail in this paper. Ring, ring. I answer the phone at 5:30 p.m. thinking who could be calling me. I have no plans for tonight so this is weird. The person on the other end is a girl I know from class named Tiffany. She says that she is having a party at her place before the game and that everyone is going to Melanie's after the game to keep drinking. I wasn't going to go, but then Tiffany reminded me that Heather was going to be there and that she was horny and thought that I was hot. This convinced me to go out. I arrived at tiffany's around 6:30 p. m. and we started off with shots of Malibu, I know I was a wimp, and Rumple Minze. This was a very bad idea. We continued this up until the game started at 8. I would say that there were about ten to twelve of us at Tiffany's. Another guy, named Marc, and around ten girls. When we got to the game we were pretty drunk. We sat, we saw, we left when we were down by two touchdowns with around five minutes to go. With our pathetically potent offense this was not enough time for us to score more than fourteen points. We go to Melanie's and start drinking Miller Genuine Draft. How I ever did that I have no idea, I hate that beer. So around 9:00 to 9:30 everyone else starts to show up.
“Automobiles are not ferocious.... it is man who is to be feared,” as Robbins B. Stoeckel remarked, enumerates a simple, yet fundamental concept- a vehicle in itself is a relatively safe, that is, until you put a person behind the controls. Further adding to the danger is the ever prevalent risk of a fellow driver being impaired by the usage of alcohol; perhaps the only thing that may make such a situation even more difficult and dangerous is one who is under the legal alcohol drinking age. Fewer situations are more life threatening than when an underage driver has been illegally consuming alcohol, yet persists in the belief that he or she retains the ability to drive safely. Thoughts along this line are foolish at best and deadly at
Today, many teenagers experience different things in the world. Whether it is their first date or first day in high school, teens are always eager to try something different or new. One of the things that teenagers try is drinking alcohol. Unfortunately, underage drinkers often abuse alcohol. In this paper, I will try to shed some light on some of the reasons why teenagers drink alcohol at such premature age.
Every year, thousands of minors die from the use of alcohol. Many young adults abuse the drinking age policy. It is put in effect for substantial reasons, which contribute in making the safest environment for all. Drinking underage is not only illegal, but also damages one’s health tremendously. Furthermore, drinking in large amounts is extremely dangerous and can cause detrimental things to occur. There have been numerous attempts to create a law to lower the drinking age, but none have gone through. In contrast to what some people may say, the drinking age should not be lowered because it would decrease maturity, promote poor behavior, and damage reputations.
In the article Why the Drinking Age should be Lowered, Ruth Engs believes that the drinking age should be lowered to about 18 or 19. Engs is a Professor at Indiana University in the Health and Sciences department. In this article Engs makes a valid point in that “responsible drinking could be taught through role modeling and educational programs.” Engs also states facts about the different drinking ages in other countries, and that the United States has the highest legal purchasing age for alcoholic beverages in the world.
On November 16, I received the notice from U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission District Office, Phoenix.
Tucked at the end of a long dirt road, framed with cacti, sat the low profile block building. Surrounded by a wire fence, I later learned it to be the men’s facility. My new home, the women’s quarters, sat in the open paved lot. “Phoenix Prison Camp,” read the sign. Joe opened the chicken wire embedded glass door and led us into the administration building. Dragging their feet, my kids accompanied us inside. We had few words to say. No one acknowledged us. We waited, huddled together on a wooden bench, our legs and hands crossed. Levi rubbed his face. I chewed my nails. Framed photos of Barack Obama and Eric Holder hung on the wall. Guards strolled past, ignoring us.
The moment I emerged from the stairway I began to stare at the man sitting in the chair across the room. This man was not the man I remembered; this man was pale, weak, and lacked motivation. He was not my grandpa: outspoken, stubborn, and jolly. However, the house had not changed one bit. There was still a cluttered mess on the table and reminisce of my departed great-grandma all throughout the house.
Jogging through my neighborhood on a mundane school day, I encountered it once again, the ruthless societal entity that strived to dim my otherwise bright day in St. Maarten. Veiled in the midst of joyous tourists, crashing waves, and beaming sun rays, the sincere nature of this notorious giant remained masked from the general public, nearly assimilated into the Caribbean island. It was an encapsulation of the government’s inadequacy, inexperience, and insensitivity. It was an exemplification of the lax Caribbean atmosphere that poisoned the island’s youth. Piercing through my inner core and demanding an immediate elixir, this “it” was the legal drinking age of sixteen on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten: a societal rupture that pushed
When you start drinking, it’s kind of a mystery, something you can’t do.” (“Alcohol Abuse and Youth” 1)
Before we got in the line we had these people buy us alcohol but we are running low and sobering up and it's only about five at this point and the show didn't start for another six hours. We ask a couple of people to buy us alcohol but it wasn't the right moment. We ask this boy who looked well under our age to buy us alcohol. Just by his appearance, his skinny, long torso and long legs and neon green shirt make him look like a highschooler. “But, he has the bright orange wristband that says 21” I say. Wendy goes over to asks him and he says yes and she gives him the money. After a couple of minutes Wendy and I start watching and noticing they were talking. “It looks like they are just going to take the money and run.” “They aren't even getting in the line to buy the beer.”
My father had cranberry juice, my mother had a vodka and cranberry juice, my sister had a Shirley temple, and I had a coke. The drinks were included with the price of our ticket and came with free refills, this also applied to the alcoholic drinks. Skunk brought us our drinks and then we were allowed to go up to the buffet. From the buffet I had fresh tossed salad, hot cheesy garlic bread sticks, stringy spaghetti with thick, creamy alfredo sauce, meatballs covered in a red sauce, they had sausage cut into short links, fries and chicken nuggets, that were particularly ordinary compared to the rest of the food, and lastly a marinated flank steak that simmered with the sauce spread on the top and the sides of the steak, they also had pizza, lasagna, different kinds of soup, chicken cacciatore, loaded potatoes, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, mixed vegetables and smoked turkey. The instant I came back to the table the lights dimmed and the show
Going back to the night of the party, I had talked to these girls I had just met for about a half an hour. It turns out, that the girl who had eleven too many was their friend and they finally found a way home. They are leaving and they invited me to go with them (probably because they could tell I wasn’t having much fun). So now, I have two options. Leave with them now and go to bed, or go back inside with my friends and give it another shot. I promised myself I’d go to a party at least once while I was in college, and what just happened didn’t count. I said goodbye, I took a deep breathe and went back inside the house. It all hit me again, but it wasn’t as hard as the first time because I knew what to expect. I found my friends at the front of the house and I stuck with them the rest of the night. We danced, I got beer spilled on me, and we all left the party around 2:00 a.m. smelling like sweat and marijuana. We stopped at Madison’s afterwards and got pizza and the crinkled french fries. I don’t know if it was the exhaustion or hunger, but that was probably the best food I’d had since I’d gotten to the
In the last few years society has been able to witness a rise in under-age drinking. To start
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
Drinking with friends is the embodiment of peer pressure. Anyone going through high school will have heard of their peers or their friends drinking at parties and while the temptation to drink may be there, one must fight it. For example, Jim, a good friend of mine just went to a party last week and I was talking to him in school and he told me about the crazy time he had, drinking and partying until he passed out. He told me of an upcoming party than was at a friends house in the upcoming week. I told him that I’d think about it. In the upcoming week I thought about what happened to the people who went to the party Jim was at. Some of the people their got caught by their parents and were grounded whilst others made stupid decisions like driving