Fill Their Baby Bottles With Beer In her essay “Peril of Prohibition,” Elizabeth M. Whelan speaks of the flaws in the current drinking age law. She argues many important issues, but they are not what make her essay a strong one. Whelan uses her experience as a public-health scientist and a mother to show her readers her credentials. The way Whelan uses certain phrases that allow her reader to relate to her views also helps …showed first 75 words of 922 total…

…showed last 75 words of 922 total…has written a very favorable essay. As a social scientist and a mother, she has authority with other scientists and mothers. She uses description to make her essay more visual for the readers. They are able to “see” the teens drinking and what they are drinking. Also, her ability to use both technical and common terms gives the essay variety. Elizabeth M. Whelan provides a strong argument for changing the age of drinking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**