A Timed Writing...

Over the past few weeks, I have delved myself into the impacts of drinking and driving on United States’ society and economy. By creating a blog, researching different organizations and companies that deal with preventing drinking and driving, and creating a children’s fable, I have been able to clearly express my ideas and subjective opinions in America’s exertion to eliminate drunk driving.
Creating a blog was something entirely new to me. I never knew that I could post my ideas and thoughts on my own website and that I could share these ideas with my peers and others around the world. In a research paper that I wrote before creating my blog, authors, reporters, and journalists all had connected views on the topic of drunk driving. My research paper was the foundation of my blog. After my research paper was posted, I extended my research to discover organizations and programs that work to end drinking and driving.
Organizations like Students Against Destructive Decisions, The Century Council, and the International Institute for Alcohol Awareness are all programs that give a reaching arm to those in need of help due to issues involving alcoholic substances. In an effort to comply with the teachings and missions of the previous stated organizations, I wrote letters to the organizations either critiquing or praising their efforts. The only critique that I made was to SADD because of its offensiveness towards designated driving programs. The mission statements of the programs and organizations, for the most part would match my mission statement if I were to write one. I believe that the letters were a great way to acknowledge the fact that Americans, like me, are willing to work with such programs to terminate drunk driving. I discovered that, by writing these letters, I was able to allow my voice to be heard by a variety of people commending them on their past, present, and future efforts.
America’s youth is America’s prospective future. A well-educated youth is more likely to make better decisions in hiss or her future whether it is dealing with friends, careers, etc. Young Americans are a vital part of the project that I have been working on the past few weeks. A child must be informed at an early age of the impacts of drinking underage and driving. Children need to learn that punishments and consequences will become more and more severe if drunk driving proceeds to continue in the United States. By recreating the story of “The Tortoise and the Hare” into a story involving an “impaired hare,” I believe that I can teach and inform children of the dangers of alcohol on the mind and body. Overall, the mediums that I used for my project (the blog, letters, and fable), have all served some sort of effectiveness that I hope reaches more and more people. I want to inform people, with the help of other organizations, of the impacts of drinking and driving and its effects on America's society. I want people to make smarter and healthier decisions in the future and for Americans to acknowledge the fact that they are killing themselves and others due to a preventable decision.

The Tortoise and The Impaired Hare

Once upon a time, there lived a seventeen-year-old tortoise that respected and abided by the law. The tortoise had an acquaintance with the hare and they happened to be the same age.
The hare bragged and boasted about how fast he could run and how cool he was because he drinks alcohol underage. So, the tortoise became aggravated because of course tortoises are not known to be the fastest creatures to roam the Earth. The hare challenged the tortoise to a race to prove that hares will always outrun tortoises.
On race day all of the animals in the forest gathered to watch what they believed to be a terrible loss of the tortoise to the hare. The hare thought that he would relax a bit, so he had a few too many alcoholic beverages. The race began and the hare took off as if he were running from someone or something (perhaps the law).
Three quarters into the race, the hare became exhausted and fatigued as if he could not stand up straight for any longer. He began stumbling and mumbled under his breath "I think I drank too much!" He passed out in the middle of the racecourse and no one was around to see it.
The tortoise, although moving slowly, discovered that the hare was fast asleep with a greenish tint in his cheeks. The spectators were cheering for the tortoise and yelling for the hare to wake. He did not move whatsoever.
The tortoise continued on with the race and proceeded to the finish line where he received cheers and congratulations from the forest animals. He was happy and excited about the incredible win, but something was bothering him. He went back to the leg of the race where the hare had fallen asleep. Afraid that the hare was in serious trouble, he shook him as hard as he could to wake him up.
The hare finally came to and became confused as to where he was and what had happened. The tortoise could smell the alcohol on the hare's breath and confronted him about it. The tortoise said "Why would you mess with alcohol if you are still underage? And why did you attempt to run a race while impaired or drunk?" The hare did not have a logical explanation and could not even form a complete sentence. He was embarrassed that he did not win the race due to alcohol. The tortoise told the hare that he should wait until he was at least twenty-one to experience with alcohol and then said to him, " I'm going to wait until I'm ready. Slow and Steady won the race! No pun intended."


The moral of the story is that drinking underage led to failure for the hare. Wait until you are at least twenty one to experience with alcohol and decide for yourself if is worth it or not.