2015年6月17日水曜日

In-Class Internet Research2

In the article written below, we posted a blog of an example of an untrustful website. In this article, I would like to give an example of a website you could trust. http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/special-populations-co-occurring-disorders/underage-drinking
In this website, we could see a lot of information, with information about the association. They also have a clear view of what the topic is about, and is very organized. There are links to the USA Government, and when I did some further research, I found out that this website was operated by the USA government.

In-class Internet Research

In class,  we learned how to tell a website you could trust apart to one you cannot  trust .  Since our topic is drinking age, we found one that cannot be trusted. This site did not have any information and it was just a site to project links to other pages. The background was grey, and did not look organised. It did not have a copyright, nor the information of the website was not written. My partner and I decided that this was an untrustful website.

http://www.drinkingage.com/

2015年6月4日木曜日

Hello, my name is Alice and I'm 20. Recently, me and my mother had a fight about my under age drinking. I know that the legal drinking age is 21, but I don't understand the difference! I mean, it is true that I am still 20, but within 2 months I will become 21. It doesn't make much difference. I wonder why the legal drinking age is so strict in America. Why are for example Japanese people able to drink at the age of 20? They are much smaller than Americans. This is not fair.
Well, to tell the truth, it is not that I like to drink alcohol. I drink it because all my friends do. And if I don't drink it, they will laugh at me and they won't accept me in the group anymore. I have to act like I didn't really care about the law. All my friends think that unders\-age-drinking is cool. I can't understand why but anyways, breaking the law is much better than being alone all the time.
Of course, we are the one who break the law and drink alcohol under age,but I think that under age drinking problem is not only our fault. Adults are responsible the same, too.  Or even more. I mean, when I entered a bar that day with my under aged friends, the clerk didn't even do the age-varification. The case was the same on other day in supermarket, when I brought alcohol to the counter. The employee didn't require to show him my identification card. In my opinion, adults should rethink about that problem. If they don't sell us alcohol, we are consequently not able to drink it.

A Mother's perspective

Hello.
My name is Nancy and I have a daughter who is a college student. I am concerned of my daughter's drinking.
Ever since she entered university, she seems to have started drinking with her friends, and have started attending parties. Whenever I start talking to her about her drinking, she does not listen, and says that I do not understand what college people do. She is still 20, and she has one more year until the legal drinking age. I know that she is a college student, and I know a lot of college students drink, but I want her to experience things without the use of alcohol until she is 21. She could still learn new things and have fun without the use of alcohol.
I hear that some university students die from drinking too much alcohol, and I am very concerned  about that. I do not want to lose my child when she has a whole life to live. I, myself have followed the law when i was about her age, and I want her to follow the rules as well. However, I do not want to have so many conflicts with my child concerning drinking, because it will just loosen our ties that we have made troughout the years. How could I prevent her from drinking...?
Questions concerning underage drinking:

1. What should adults do to follow the drinking age?

2. Do you know any news concerning drinking age?

3. What makes people under 20 drink alcohol in Japan?

4. What do you think about the advertising of alcohol?

5. Do you know what happens when you are caught drinking under the drinking age?

6. What can we do to prevent young people from drinking?

7. What are the plus effects of drinking?

8. What happens when you get drunk?

9. What percentage is drinking under age in Japan?

10. Why do we have a drinking age?

11.How many countries don't have drinking age?

12. Do you know any incidents of people drinking under age?

13. What are the health effects in drinking under age?

14. What does the government do to prevent people from drinking under age?

15. Are there any laws to not make adults give alcohol to young people?
Questions

No.1 Why do you think is the drinking age in Japan 20? Do you think it has a special meaning?

No.2  For people under 20: Did you ever drink alchol?

No.3  For people over 20: Did you ever give alcohol to someone under 20?

No.4 Did you ever had a dangerous experience with alcohol?

No.5 Have you ever tested whether you have some allergy to alcohol?

No.6 What do you think can we do so that people under 20 understand how dangourous alcohol can be?

No.7 What do you think is the purpose of drinking alcohol?

No. 8 What do you think about age-verifications in Japan?

No.9 do you like the feeling being drunk? Why or why not?

No. 10 Do you remember what type of alcohol you drunk for the firsttime?

No. 11 What do you think of japanesn amazake? Do you think it should be banned for people under 20?

No. 12 What do you think of the price of alcohol?

No.13 What do you think makes alcohol so attractive?

No. 14 Do you think alcohol is necessary?

No. 15 What do you think of the fact that even people under 20 can work at bars ?