| Term Paper Title | Underage Drinking |
| # of Words | 654 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 2.62 |
Underage Drinking
Imagine killing your best friend. Imagine smashing him into a telephone
pole, crushing his bones and organs and making him bleed to death. Imagine
the pain and suffering he would go through. Imagine then going on trial for
his death, facing his family and friends and the hateful stares as you walk
in the courtroom. Imagine a verdict of guilty and being sentenced to thirty
years in prison, thirty long years to sit alone and ponder how you could have
been so stupid to kill someone you love.
How would a night like this have begun? It probably began like the night
of a typical American teenager. You would go pick up a carload of your
closest friends and head to the party scene. You have a few drinks, maybe a
beer or two or a few shots, but never enough to make you tipsy. Or so you
think. You jump back in the car, music blaring, headed to another party or
maybe even home. Your best friend says he know a shortcut, so you follow his
directions and turn down a narrow road. You speed up, in a hurry to hit that
one last party before curfew. All of a sudden there is another car in the
road, high beams on, blinding you. You brake and swerve, trying to avoid an
accident, but you end up swerving too far, running right into a telephone
pole on the side of the road, smashing in the left side of the car and your
best friend. You wake up in the hospital. Your parents are by your side and
you ask where your best friend is. They say he was killed in the accident
you caused. The guilt hits you and takes your breath away. You killed
someone, someone you knew and loved.
Now imagine your freshman year of high school. You get invited to that
huge senior party, so of course you go. There are a million different type...Read entire document
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