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Source # 1- Drunk Driving: A License To Kill

Summary-

            This article was a something I found on the Teen Ink online Magazine written by Marc Acushnet. He gives his opinions on drunk driving, what it is, who does it, how the law looks at it, and the serious life changing events that can be created from it. He starts the article by saying “People say that drunk driving is a mistake. It’s not a mistake. It’s a deliberate choice”(Acushnet 1). This helps him to go on to say that its no wonder people do it all of the time, considering that they can just write if off as a mistake and claim that it won’t happen again. Furthermore the true dangers of drunk driving are discussed in a rather condescending manner to really drive the point home that drinking and driving is unacceptable, and a very foolish ‘decision’.

Evaluation-

            This magazine article was clearly written with a bias towards the opposing side of drinking and driving, for whatever reason that may be, Acushnet did not make the article about himself. The writing stayed on track in the fashion of defining the issue, giving examples of what the issue is and appeared to have facts based off of prior research. I feel that the audience was intended for the younger group of drivers because of the website that the article was featured on, and with that being said it really does preach to a much larger scale. Multiple points are addressed and discussed to give the reader a better understanding of the problem at hand. Considering the title of the article and the text that followed, Marc Acushnet left me with no straying thoughts of what he feels, and what others should feel about teens driving drunk.

Source-

Acushnet, Marc M. "Drunk Driving: A License To Kill." Teen Ink. Dec. 2009. Web. 27

            Feb. 2012.