Question

HURRY ASAP!!!

Construct an argument of 200-250 words for the following question. You argument should include an assertion, an appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos, as well as acknowledgment of counterarguments. When do you become an adult?

Answer 1

In the United States there are various laws regarding age. When you're 18 in America you are considered an adult, you can die for your country and buy weapons, but you can't smoke or drink until you are 21. So are you an adult when you're 18 or 21? Neither. People become adults when they realize their actions have consequences, when they acknowledge their responsibilities of their everyday actions and decisions. I have met unemployed men and women who are 24-25 years old whose children were taken away because they cannot accept the responsibility of caring for them, instead wanting to go out and party, getting DUIs and coming home "early" at 2am. On the other hand, I have met 17 year olds who take care of their siblings, go to school, have a job, and yet the 24-year-old is the "adult" out of the two. My sister, a goody two shoes in all regards, tried getting a hotel room by the airport for a night on her trip to Costa Rica. She was not allowed to because she was "only 18" and the hotel did not consider her an adult, although Federal law states she is, and yet that hotel would let 30 year olds stay there, despite the fact that they were already blackout drunk by the time they got there. People focus on age too much, but that's because age is something we can track, personal growth is something we cannot. So you're an "adult" when you're 21, but you are really an adult when you take control of your life and acknowledge your responsibilities.

Answer 2

I think you become an adult when you acknowledge the responsibilities of your actions and your everyday decisions.

I make this statement because I've been asking this question to myself many times. It is really difficult for me to try to draw the line in this matter; you could say that adulthood has to do with acting good or bad, but, if so, we would be shifting from adults to childs from one minute to the other because we always behave in a good or a bad way depending on the circumstances and the times we are going through.

After a lot of thinking, I realized that the only difference between myself now and myself when I was a child is that now I am aware of what my actions cause.

When I was a kid, I used to do what I felt like and didn't realize much about consequences, or if someone got hurt by my actions. Today I try to follow my heart in doing what I like to do, but I always consider if I am hurting or upsetting someone.

I think this is the key for adulthood, making choices in total acknowledge of the consequences, which means being responsible for them.