Persuasive speechI. IntroductionA. Attention: Gordy Bailey, was an 18 year old freshman at the University of Colorado at Boulder, after being at the university for only a month he joined a fraternity and had to undergo an initiation where he had to drink 10 gallons of alcohol in 30 minutes. After going through all of this, Bailey became incapacitated and was left alone to die on a couch in the Frat's house because no one asked for help. Fraternity members stopped asking for help because what they were doing was illegal and was being done in secret. They were against their policy of having alcohol in their fraternity and caused these minors to serve alcohol to each other.B. Relevance to the Audience: We are all already adults and are given all the responsibilities of an adult and are more than privileged to know which rights we are given and which are not.C. Credibility: I am 19 years old and have begun to do extensive research on the rights I have as an adult that I do not have and am more than capable of discussing the legal drinking age rights.D. Thesis: Opening our minds to lowering the drinking age can ultimately reduce the tragedies and secrets that are kept because of this law and allow us to remove the burden that alcohol abuse causes on society.E. Preview: First I will discuss the responsibilities that come with adulthood and how we are not afforded the privilege of consuming alcohol when we are under 21, second I will discuss how dangerous drinking could be when done secretly, especially by minors and finally I will discuss the ideas that I believe should be introduced instead of the drinking age of 21 and why the drinking age of 18 would work.II. Main point no. 1: As an 18 year old... middle of paper... and working to better inform people about the consequences the drinking age of 21 has on society. And now I hope you are equally informed and able to open your mind to the unjust nature of this law. References1. Former Middeburry College President John McCardell interviewed on 23 February 20092. Legal age 21. Retrieved from http://www.chooseresponsibility.org/legal_age_21 on May 19, 20143. Benjamin, C. Georges. (2014, March 10) When You Turn 18: A Survival Guide for Teens. Retrieved from http://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/publications/Turn-18.pdf4. NIDA, Monitoring the Future, 1975-2012: Volume II, College Students and Adults Ages 19-50, 2013)5. Dr. Eng. Ruth from Indiana University in Bloomington, interviewed Alcohol and Drugs: Self Responsibility “Boulder Colorado police and chief, interview with Mark Becker accessible M