1) My Reasons
-Loss of Self Control while drunk making sense of responsibility useless
-Effects on family members
-Body Effects short, term and long term
2) Objections
-The "adults are more responsible than teenagers" idea- alcohol tears down these levels of responsibilities anyways, if they were truly responsible, then they wouldn't drink so much in the first place.
-"Youth drinking alcohol turns them into bad people when they turn into adults"- people often get confused between correlation and causation, perhaps it is bad people that drink not alcohol turning youth into bad adults.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
RJA #9b: Argument
Research Question: Does addiction to alcoholic substances have different effects on people of different ages?
Reason 1: Everyone knows to not drive while intoxicated, but regardless of that fact, it happens everyday. Alcohol is a psycoactive substance (alters mood and brain functions) which greatly inhibits self control of an individual. No amount of responsibility will help a person if they already lost their self control young or old.
Reason 2: Having an alcoholic in the family is detrimental to each individual in that family regardless of who is the alcoholic. A parent with alcoholism in the family may start evading their work. Then that parent may proceed onto stealing money or striking family members (result of irritation deprived of alcohol) demanding money. Similarily enough, a child with alcoholism can initiate violence in the house and cease going to school.
Reason 3: The short term drinking effects are the same in both young and old, confusion, blackout, coma, and eventually death. It seems at first that only adults can suffer the long term effects of alcoholism (cirrohsis, death of brain tissue, high blood pressure) due to the fact that these effects take approximately 10 years to manifest in an individual. However, considering that the individual became an alcoholic prior to becoming an adult, they will most likely continue their pattern and encounter these long term effects anyways, which doesn't change the constant which are the people.
Counter 1: "The "adults are more responsible than teenagers" idea - Alcohol inhibits self restraint, such as NOT DRINKING AND DRIVING, but it still happens because responsibility can not change someone who has lost their basic self control. Perhaps a young person became an alcoholic at the age of 15 and was able to avoid a morbid fate for a decade, that person's level of responsibility is still highly questionable despite the fact that they grown up.
Counter 2: "Youth drinking alcohol turns them into bad people when they turn into adults" idea - This is a confusion between causation and correlation common among the population. Perhaps it is bad young people that like to drink alcohol and grow up to be bad adults.
Counter 3: "It is highly more dangerous for a teenager to be drunk than an adult" - An adult has easier access to alcohol over a teenager, adults can be in contact with the substance for a whole year if they willed it compared to a teenager who will have to play through more steps to obtain it. If both the adult and the teenager in the question were both alcoholics, the adult will be much more of a hazard due to the fact the uptime of intoxication is higher than that of the teenager.
Reason 1: Everyone knows to not drive while intoxicated, but regardless of that fact, it happens everyday. Alcohol is a psycoactive substance (alters mood and brain functions) which greatly inhibits self control of an individual. No amount of responsibility will help a person if they already lost their self control young or old.
Reason 2: Having an alcoholic in the family is detrimental to each individual in that family regardless of who is the alcoholic. A parent with alcoholism in the family may start evading their work. Then that parent may proceed onto stealing money or striking family members (result of irritation deprived of alcohol) demanding money. Similarily enough, a child with alcoholism can initiate violence in the house and cease going to school.
Reason 3: The short term drinking effects are the same in both young and old, confusion, blackout, coma, and eventually death. It seems at first that only adults can suffer the long term effects of alcoholism (cirrohsis, death of brain tissue, high blood pressure) due to the fact that these effects take approximately 10 years to manifest in an individual. However, considering that the individual became an alcoholic prior to becoming an adult, they will most likely continue their pattern and encounter these long term effects anyways, which doesn't change the constant which are the people.
Counter 1: "The "adults are more responsible than teenagers" idea - Alcohol inhibits self restraint, such as NOT DRINKING AND DRIVING, but it still happens because responsibility can not change someone who has lost their basic self control. Perhaps a young person became an alcoholic at the age of 15 and was able to avoid a morbid fate for a decade, that person's level of responsibility is still highly questionable despite the fact that they grown up.
Counter 2: "Youth drinking alcohol turns them into bad people when they turn into adults" idea - This is a confusion between causation and correlation common among the population. Perhaps it is bad young people that like to drink alcohol and grow up to be bad adults.
Counter 3: "It is highly more dangerous for a teenager to be drunk than an adult" - An adult has easier access to alcohol over a teenager, adults can be in contact with the substance for a whole year if they willed it compared to a teenager who will have to play through more steps to obtain it. If both the adult and the teenager in the question were both alcoholics, the adult will be much more of a hazard due to the fact the uptime of intoxication is higher than that of the teenager.
RJA #9a: Thesis Statement
Research Question: Does addiction to alcoholic substances have different effects on people of different ages?
Thesis: Alcoholism can develop in people of all age groups, but regardless of age the problems that arrive from alcoholism are essentially the same, therefore alcoholism should be treated without an age classification.
Thesis: Alcoholism can develop in people of all age groups, but regardless of age the problems that arrive from alcoholism are essentially the same, therefore alcoholism should be treated without an age classification.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
RJA #8a: Quotation, Paraphrase, and Summary
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-high-functioning-alcoholic/201002/awareness-risk-factors-can-help-decrease-risks-developing
Original Passage: "Alcohol slows down brain activity. Because alcohol affects alertness, judgment, coordination, and reaction time--drinking increases the risk of falls and accidents. Some research has shown that it takes less alcohol to affect older people than younger ones."
Quotations: Alcohol inhibits standard brain behavior. Alcohol "[inhibits] alertness, judgment, coordination, and reaction time" which raises the chance of accidents caused by drunk individuals. Tests have produced results that show that people of older age require less amounts of alcohol to become intoxicated than younger people would.
Paraphrase: Alcohol inhibits standard brain behavior by lowering one's reaction speed, coordination, and self control which will raise the chances of an accident being created. Tests have produced results that show that people of older age require less amounts of alcohol to become intoxicated than a younger person would.
Summary: Alcohol inhibits brain activity which increases the chances that an accident would occur. People of older age are more susceptible to the effects of alcohol than people of younger age would.
Original Passage: "Alcohol slows down brain activity. Because alcohol affects alertness, judgment, coordination, and reaction time--drinking increases the risk of falls and accidents. Some research has shown that it takes less alcohol to affect older people than younger ones."
Quotations: Alcohol inhibits standard brain behavior. Alcohol "[inhibits] alertness, judgment, coordination, and reaction time" which raises the chance of accidents caused by drunk individuals. Tests have produced results that show that people of older age require less amounts of alcohol to become intoxicated than younger people would.
Paraphrase: Alcohol inhibits standard brain behavior by lowering one's reaction speed, coordination, and self control which will raise the chances of an accident being created. Tests have produced results that show that people of older age require less amounts of alcohol to become intoxicated than a younger person would.
Summary: Alcohol inhibits brain activity which increases the chances that an accident would occur. People of older age are more susceptible to the effects of alcohol than people of younger age would.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
RJA #7b: Field Research Suggestions
-http://brandoncarmack31-eng1020.blogspot.com/2010/03/rja-6c-field-research-options.html#comment-form
-http://matthewsresreachjournal.blogspot.com/2010/03/rja-6c-field-research-options.html#comment-form
Waiting for confirmation before the comments will be posted by the people who started the blog
-http://matthewsresreachjournal.blogspot.com/2010/03/rja-6c-field-research-options.html#comment-form
Waiting for confirmation before the comments will be posted by the people who started the blog
RJA #7a: Evaluation of Sources
-http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-high-functioning-alcoholic/201002/awareness-risk-factors-can-help-decrease-risks-developing
Article
The author of the article is Sarah Allen Benton, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a recovering alcoholic herself. It seems that the goal of the author is to simply portray facts and questions of the matter. The information provided are risk factors that may increase the chances of alcoholism with statistics of the Surgeon General of 2007. Despite the fact that the author is a recovering alcoholic herself, there does not seem to be emotional language in the article.
-http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/sdc/publications/communityreadiness/2006follow-up/CAR_Adult_FINAL.pdf
Book
The purpose of the book is stated on the paragraph: which is to increase understanding of underaged drinking and actions to prevent it. The surveys used in this book belongs to the year of 2006 which is still viable today. The information displayed are mainly statistics, graphs, or number figures. The authors Kendra Erickson, Ramona Danielson, and Dr. Richard Rathge are teachers at North Dakota State University.
http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/ph323/
Website
The website is a component of the SAMHSA Health Information Network (substance abuse & mental health services administration) an official government organization. The information provided is biased against teenage drinking, with most of the information trying to deter one away from alcohol. A date is not specifically stated when the page was written but the newest source is from 2005 making this page 5 years of age at the most which is a viable information for today. More information should be tied to the section of why underaged people shouldn't drink however to be more comprehensive however.
Article
The author of the article is Sarah Allen Benton, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a recovering alcoholic herself. It seems that the goal of the author is to simply portray facts and questions of the matter. The information provided are risk factors that may increase the chances of alcoholism with statistics of the Surgeon General of 2007. Despite the fact that the author is a recovering alcoholic herself, there does not seem to be emotional language in the article.
-http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/sdc/publications/communityreadiness/2006follow-up/CAR_Adult_FINAL.pdf
Book
The purpose of the book is stated on the paragraph: which is to increase understanding of underaged drinking and actions to prevent it. The surveys used in this book belongs to the year of 2006 which is still viable today. The information displayed are mainly statistics, graphs, or number figures. The authors Kendra Erickson, Ramona Danielson, and Dr. Richard Rathge are teachers at North Dakota State University.
http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/ph323/
Website
The website is a component of the SAMHSA Health Information Network (substance abuse & mental health services administration) an official government organization. The information provided is biased against teenage drinking, with most of the information trying to deter one away from alcohol. A date is not specifically stated when the page was written but the newest source is from 2005 making this page 5 years of age at the most which is a viable information for today. More information should be tied to the section of why underaged people shouldn't drink however to be more comprehensive however.
Internet Research Project
http://zakta.com/zakta/view_1_1030_2883_Alcohol_and_age
added items:
1) Teenage Binge Drinking-http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/ph323/
2) Alcohol Poisoning - http://www.revolutionhealth.com/conditions/addiction/alcohol-poisoning?msc=S29056
3) Teenage Alcoholics and Adults - http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/446610
4) Community Alcohol Readiness Study - http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/sdc/publications/communityreadiness/2006follow-up/CAR_Adult_FINAL.pdf
5) Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities on Holidays 2003 - http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777960.html
6) Alcohol, liver, and nutrition - http://www.jacn.org/cgi/content/abstract/10/6/602
7) Alcoholism and The Family - http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=b0HMuby1QncC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=alcoholism+on+the+family&ots=Aw-RkethGD&sig
Sections Added:
1) Teenage Drinking
2) Unseen Effects of Alcohol on The Body
3) Alcohol and The Family
added items:
1) Teenage Binge Drinking-http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/ph323/
2) Alcohol Poisoning - http://www.revolutionhealth.com/conditions/addiction/alcohol-poisoning?msc=S29056
3) Teenage Alcoholics and Adults - http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/446610
4) Community Alcohol Readiness Study - http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/sdc/publications/communityreadiness/2006follow-up/CAR_Adult_FINAL.pdf
5) Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities on Holidays 2003 - http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777960.html
6) Alcohol, liver, and nutrition - http://www.jacn.org/cgi/content/abstract/10/6/602
7) Alcoholism and The Family - http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=b0HMuby1QncC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=alcoholism+on+the+family&ots=Aw-RkethGD&sig
Sections Added:
1) Teenage Drinking
2) Unseen Effects of Alcohol on The Body
3) Alcohol and The Family
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