Critical Construction development book by kidijkmans

CONTENT Introduction 5 Final design

The argument

Variations in pair

Quotes 16 The master argument

First design with multiple squares

Square layout

Final square layout

Creating the texture

Design variations

Creating the distorted text

More design variations

Design inspiration

References 50

INTRODUCTION I am Kimberly Dijkmans,

In this assignment, I

I’m an Erasmus-student

was asked to have an

from Belgium. I’m in

argument with someone

my third and final year

about something that

of the undergraduate

matters to me. Elise and

study Graphic and

I decided to talk about

Digital Media at AP

lowering the drinking

University College

age. My opinion is that

in Antwerp. I’m on

lowering the drinking

an exchange to

age is not a good

Southampton Solent

idea. We had a face to

University for one

face conversation and

semester.

recorded it.

This development book

The next step was

is part of my critical

to create a master

construction project

argument and spread it

from the Graphic

out on four to six 25cm

Structure unit.

squares.

FINAL DESIGN My visualization of the argument is in a vintage style what reminds me of a pub which obviously relates to drinking alcohol. The top is organized and easy to read while the bottom part is disorganized and not easily readable, it also shows alcohol flowing through the veins and a pale skin which visualizes the bad effects alcohol can have on a body. I choose this square layout, where the bottom part is falling off, to show that the more you drink, the more you fall apart.

THE ARGUMENT About the statement ‘drinking age should be lowered’, euhm I am positive and you are negative ? You’re against it ? Yeah, I think I should be higher. Oh, you think drinking age should be higher ? Yeah higher. Really ? So like in America where u have to be 21 ? Really ? Why ? Mmh because there like so many thing that can go wrong with alcohol. Mm mm, I think the reason why a lot of 8

things go wrong is bc people/

students start drinking at a later

No bc when I went to America

age and they don’t grow up

I was 18/19 and I was used to

with getting used to alcohol and

drink in Belgium. Even though I

when they reach the age when

don’t need to drink a lot, I was

they’re allowed to drink they are

used to go to a pub and drink

“yes I can finally drink alcohol”

a few beers and in America I

and they just like drink a lot

wasn’t allowed anymore because

and don’t now how to handle

I had to be 21. It was really

themselves. So if you go to a

stupid and I saw other people

party right now you think like “oh

(americans) who turned 21 and

I haven’t been drinking for 16

all went crazy and drank way

years let’s drink a lot right now”.

to much. We don’t have that,

I think we all young students drink a lot now and then, but I think lowering the age will solve the problem. But you said that lowering the drinking age is good so they can used to it so it’s actually like a drug, get used to a drug ? No no, but uh hm hm.. Not really get used to it like a drug but like seeing alchohol and everytime you’re able to get alcohol but you don’t want alcohol everytime your able to have it bc it’s not a restriction it’s just. You’re allowed to do it. It’s like every time you have the chance to do it you just, you’re more, you want it more than, than when you are not, when you, than, when you are allowed to do it. They did it in the Netherlands, like, uhm, higher like, from sixteen to eighteen, and that went pretty well. So now, so in the Netherlands you’re not allowed to drink if you’re under eighteen? Yeah, they changed it. A couple years ago. And… That went well actually. They don’t sell it under eighteen, they don’t sell when uh you have minors. Is it minors? I think it is. They don’t

sell it when you’re with someone who’s under eighteen. I uhm uhm I haven’t seen much drunk kids on the street or something. Have you seen it in Belgium? Hmmmmm I don’t know. I think most of the younger people now, they start drinking because, they just like suddenly ah uh … in Belgium and and Europe and not on the streets. So I started drinking when I was like thirteen or fourteen. So ah I think it’s, if the rules are too strict, like in America, it makes younger people to want it more or to do it more. They just ask at older people to get their booze so they get drinks and then they just drink way too much, cause it’s exciting… But yeah. But it’s the same way with smoking, like, uhm, people think it’s cool because you’re not allowed to do it under sixteen,

so they will smoke. But, like in this year it is disappearing that problem, people aren’t smokers. Everybody is starting to healthier and something like that. Yeah and the reason for that is? Uhm they didn’t lower the age for smoking. Like. But they didn’t higher it either. And it’s just not healthy and they get in trouble. Like kids aren’t allowed to drink and they are in trouble maybe they will like drink the depression away or something and get addicted to alcohol. Yeah I think that’s what happen when they get older and they suddenly can drink, they are allowed to drink and then they do stuff like that but if they are fourteen years old and they can drink like, if

they have, if they could’ve been

drinking for four years it’s much less exci exciting than they are suddenly turning to twenty-one. But what, what age are you thinking about? Fourteen. So when people are like twelve and thirteen they will already start drinking because it’s cool, like, it’s the same, isn’t it? Then they will start drinking when they are younger. No I don’t I don’t think so. Cause it’s on the age of fourteen they really, like, start to getting Dutch people alcohol.

VARIATIONS IN PAIR

Euhm I am positive and you are negative? You’re against it? Yeah, I think I should be higher

Oh,

you think drinking age should be higher? Yeah higher. Really? So like in America where u have to be

. . . . . ... . . ….. . . . . . .... . . ... . . . . .. . . .. .

twenty-one? Really? Why? Mmh because there like so many thing that can go wrong with alcohol

Mm mm, I think the reason why a lot of things go wrong is because people students start drinking at a

later age and they don’t grow up with getting used to alcohol and when they reach the age when they’re

allowed to drink they are “yes I can finally drink alcohol” and they just like drink a lot and don’t now how

After Elise and I had the

So if you go to a party right now you think like “oh I haven’t been drinking

to handle themselves

for sixteen years let’s drink a lot right now”? No because when I went to America I was eighteen nineteen

Even though I don’t need to drink a because, I was used to

and I was used to drink in Belgium

go to a pub and drink a few beers and in America I wasn’t allowed anymore because I had to be twen-

It was really stupid and I saw other people (Americans) who turned twenty-one and all went

ty-one

argument, we designed different

We don’t have that, I think we all young students drink a lot now and

crazy and drank way to much

But you said that lowering the drinking

then, but I think lowering the age will solve the problem

age is good so they can used to it so it’s actually like a drug, get used to a drug? No no, but uh hm hm

Not really get used to it like a drug but like seeing alchohol and everytime you’re able

variations of a single square. We

to get alcohol but you don’t want alcohol everytime your able to have it because it’s not a restriction it’s

It’s like every time you have the chance to do it you just, you’re more,

just, you’re allowed to do it

you want it more than, than when you are not, when you, than, when you are allowed to do it

They

did it in the Netherlands, like, uhm, higher like, from sixteen to eighteen, and that went pretty well

So now, so in the Netherlands you’re not allowed to drink if you’re under eighteen? Yeah, they changed

considered the layout, colours,

That went well actually

it. A couple years ago. And

Is it minors? I think it is

teen, they don’t sell when uh you have minors

Have you seen it in Belgium? Hmmmmm I don’t know

or something

They don’t sell it when

I uhm uhm I haven’t seen much drunk kids on the street

you’re with someone who’s under eighteen

typeface, font size, etc.

They don’t sell it under eigh-

I think most of the younger

people now, they start drinking because, they just like suddenly ah uh

in Belgium and

So I started drinking when I was like thirteen or fourteen

and Europe and not on the streets

ah I think it’s, if the rules are too strict, like in America, it makes younger people to want it more or to do

They just ask at older people to get their booze so they get drinks and then they just drink

it more

But yeah

way too much, cause it’s exciting

But it’s the same way with smoking, like,

uhm, people think it’s cool because you’re not allowed to do it under sixteen, so they will smoke

Everybody is starting to

But, like in this year it is disappearing that problem, people aren’t smokers healthier and something like that

Yeah and the reason for that is? Uhm they didn’t lower the age for

Like. But they didn’t higher it either. And it’s just not healthy and they get in trouble. Like

smoking

kids aren’t allowed to drink and they are in trouble maybe they will like drink the depression away or something and get addicted to alcohol

Yeah I think that’s what happen when they get older and they

suddenly can drink, they are allowed to drink and then they do stuff like that but if they are fourteen years

old and they can drink like, if they have, if they could’ve been drinking for four years it’s much less exci

But what, what age are you thinking about?

exciting than they are suddenly turning to twenty-one Fourteen

So when people are like twelve and thirteen they will already start drinking because it’s

cool, like, it’s the same, isn’t it? Then they will start drinking when they are younger

No I don’t I don’t

Cause it’s on the age of fourteen they really, like, start to getting Dutch people alcohol

think so

Euhm I am positive and you are negative? You’re against it? Yeah, I think I should be

. . . . …. . .. . . . ... . . . .... .

higher

Oh, you think

you want it more than, than

drinking age should be

when you are not, when you,

higher? Yeah higher. Really? So like in America where u have to be twenty-one?

Really? Why? Mmh because there like so many thing

that can go wrong with alcohol

Mm mm, I think the

reason why a lot of things

go wrong is because peop-

le students start drinking at

a later age and they don’t grow up with getting used

to alcohol and when they reach the age when they’re al-

lowed to drink they are “yes I can finally drink alcohol” and they just like drink a lot

and don’t now how to handle themselves

So if you

go to a party right now you think like “oh I haven’t been

drinking for sixteen years

let’s drink a lot right now”? No because when I went

to America I was eighteen nineteen and I was used to drink in Belgium

Even

than, when you are allowed

though I don’t need to drink

to do it

a because, I was used to go

the Netherlands, like, uhm,

to a pub and drink a few

higher like, from sixteen

beers and in America I wasn’t

to eighteen, and that went

allowed anymore because I

pretty well

They did it in

So now, so

in the Netherlands you’re

was really stupid and I saw

not allowed to drink if you’re

other people (Americans)

under eighteen? Yeah, they

who turned twenty-one and

changed it. A couple years

all went crazy and drank way

ago. And

had to be twenty-one

We don’t have

to much

That went well actually

that, I think we all young stu-

They don’t sell it under eigh-

dents drink a lot now and

teen, they don’t sell when

then, but I think lowering

uh you have minors

the age will solve the pro-

it minors? I think it is

But you said that

They don’t sell it when

lowering the drinking age is

you’re with someone who’s

good so they can used to it

under eighteen

so it’s actually like a drug, get

uhm I haven’t seen much

used to a drug? No no, but

drunk kids on the street or

blem

Have you

something

uh hm hm

Not really get used to it

I uhm

seen it in Belgium? HmmmI think

like a drug but like seeing

mm I don’t know

alchohol

everytime

most of the younger peop-

you’re able to get alcohol

le now, they start drinking

and

but you don’t want alcohol

because, they just like sud-

everytime your able to have

denly ah uh

it because it’s not a restric-

in Belgium and and Europe

tion it’s just, you’re allowed

and not on the streets

It’s like every

to do it

time you have the chance to do it you just, you’re more,

depression away or some-

thing and get addicted to alcohol

So I started drinking when I was like thirteen or fourteen

Yeah I think that’s

what happen when they get older and they suddenly can drink, they are allowed

. .... .. . .. . . . . So ah I think it’s, if

the rules are too strict, like in

America, it makes younger

people to want it more or to They just ask

do it more

at older people to get their booze so they get drinks and then they just drink

way too much, cause it’s But

exciting

But it’s the same

yeah

way with smoking, like, uhm, people think it’s cool be-

cause you’re not allowed to do it under sixteen, so they will smoke

But, like in

this year it is disappearing

that problem, people aren’t Everybody is

smokers

starting to healthier and something like that

Yeah

and the reason for that is?

Uhm they didn’t lower the age for smoking

to drink and then they do

stuff like that but if they are fourteen years old and they

can drink like, if they have, if

they could’ve been drinking for four years it’s much less exci exciting than they are

suddenly turning to twenBut what, what

ty-one

age are you thinking about? Fourteen

So when peo-

ple are like twelve and thirteen they will already start drinking because it’s cool, like, it’s the same, isn’t it?

Then they will start drinking when they are younger

No I don’t I don’t think

Cause it’s on the age

of fourteen they really, like,

start to getting Dutch people alcohol

Like.

But they didn’t higher it either. And it’s just not healthy

and they get in trouble. Like kids aren’t allowed to drink and they are in trouble maybe they will like drink the

Euhm I am positive and you are negative? You’re against it? Yeah, I think I should be

. . . . …. . .. . . . ... . . . .... .

higher

Oh, you think

you want it more than, than

drinking age should be

when you are not, when you,

higher? Yeah higher. Really? So like in America where u have to be twenty-one?

Really? Why? Mmh because there like so many thing

that can go wrong with alcohol

Mm mm, I think the

reason why a lot of things

go wrong is because peop-

le students start drinking at

a later age and they don’t grow up with getting used

to alcohol and when they reach the age when they’re al-

lowed to drink they are “yes I can finally drink alcohol” and they just like drink a lot

and don’t now how to handle themselves

So if you

go to a party right now you think like “oh I haven’t been

drinking for sixteen years

let’s drink a lot right now”? No because when I went

to America I was eighteen nineteen and I was used to drink in Belgium

Even

than, when you are allowed

though I don’t need to drink

to do it

a because, I was used to go

the Netherlands, like, uhm,

to a pub and drink a few

higher like, from sixteen

beers and in America I wasn’t

to eighteen, and that went

allowed anymore because I

pretty well

They did it in

So now, so

in the Netherlands you’re

was really stupid and I saw

not allowed to drink if you’re

other people (Americans)

under eighteen? Yeah, they

who turned twenty-one and

changed it. A couple years

all went crazy and drank way

ago. And

had to be twenty-one

We don’t have

to much

That went well actually

that, I think we all young stu-

They don’t sell it under eigh-

dents drink a lot now and

teen, they don’t sell when

then, but I think lowering

uh you have minors

the age will solve the pro-

it minors? I think it is

But you said that

They don’t sell it when

lowering the drinking age is

you’re with someone who’s

good so they can used to it

under eighteen

so it’s actually like a drug, get

uhm I haven’t seen much

used to a drug? No no, but

drunk kids on the street or

blem

something

uh hm hm

Not really get used to it

I uhm

Have you

seen it in Belgium? HmmmI think

like a drug but like seeing

mm I don’t know

alchohol

everytime

most of the younger peop-

you’re able to get alcohol

le now, they start drinking

and

but you don’t want alcohol

because, they just like sud-

everytime your able to have

denly ah uh

it because it’s not a restric-

in Belgium and and Europe

tion it’s just, you’re allowed

and not on the streets

to do it

It’s like every

time you have the chance to do it you just, you’re more,

thing and get addicted to alcohol

I was like thirteen or fourteen

Yeah I think that’s

what happen when they get older and they suddenly can drink, they are allowed

. .... .. . .. . . . . So ah I think it’s, if

the rules are too strict, like in

America, it makes younger

people to want it more or to They just ask

do it more

at older people to get their booze so they get drinks and then they just drink

way too much, cause it’s But

exciting yeah

But it’s the same

way with smoking, like, uhm, people think it’s cool be-

cause you’re not allowed to do it under sixteen, so they will smoke

But, like in

this year it is disappearing

that problem, people aren’t smokers

Everybody is

starting to healthier and something like that

Yeah

and the reason for that is?

Uhm they didn’t lower the age for smoking

Like.

But they didn’t higher it either. And it’s just not healthy

and they get in trouble. Like kids aren’t allowed to drink and they are in trouble maybe they will like drink the

depression away or some-

So I started drinking when

to drink and then they do

stuff like that but if they are fourteen years old and they

can drink like, if they have, if

they could’ve been drinking for four years it’s much less exci exciting than they are

suddenly turning to twenBut what, what

ty-one

age are you thinking about? Fourteen

So when peo-

ple are like twelve and thirteen they will already start drinking because it’s cool, like, it’s the same, isn’t it?

Then they will start drinking when they are younger

No I don’t I don’t think so

Cause it’s on the age

of fourteen they really, like,

start to getting Dutch people alcohol

Euhm I am positive and you are negative? You’re against it? Yeah, I think I should be

. . . . …. . .. . . . ... . . . .... .

higher

Oh, you think

you want it more than, than

drinking age should be

when you are not, when you,

higher? Yeah higher. Really? So like in America where u have to be twenty-one?

Really? Why? Mmh because there like so many thing

that can go wrong with alcohol

Mm mm, I think the

reason why a lot of things

go wrong is because peop-

le students start drinking at

a later age and they don’t grow up with getting used

to alcohol and when they reach the age when they’re al-

lowed to drink they are “yes I can finally drink alcohol” and they just like drink a lot

and don’t now how to handle themselves

So if you

go to a party right now you think like “oh I haven’t been

drinking for sixteen years

let’s drink a lot right now”? No because when I went

to America I was eighteen nineteen and I was used to drink in Belgium

Even

than, when you are allowed

though I don’t need to drink

to do it

a because, I was used to go

the Netherlands, like, uhm,

to a pub and drink a few

higher like, from sixteen

beers and in America I wasn’t

to eighteen, and that went

allowed anymore because I

pretty well

They did it in

So now, so

in the Netherlands you’re

was really stupid and I saw

not allowed to drink if you’re

other people (Americans)

under eighteen? Yeah, they

who turned twenty-one and

changed it. A couple years

all went crazy and drank way

ago. And

had to be twenty-one

We don’t have

to much

That went well actually

that, I think we all young stu-

They don’t sell it under eigh-

dents drink a lot now and

teen, they don’t sell when Is

then, but I think lowering

uh you have minors

the age will solve the pro-

it minors? I think it is

But you said that

They don’t sell it when

lowering the drinking age is

you’re with someone who’s

good so they can used to it

under eighteen

so it’s actually like a drug, get

uhm I haven’t seen much

used to a drug? No no, but

drunk kids on the street or

blem

Have you

something

uh hm hm

Not really get used to it

I uhm

seen it in Belgium? HmmmI think

like a drug but like seeing

mm I don’t know

alchohol

everytime

most of the younger peop-

you’re able to get alcohol

le now, they start drinking

and

but you don’t want alcohol

because, they just like sud-

everytime your able to have

denly ah uh

it because it’s not a restric-

in Belgium and and Europe

tion it’s just, you’re allowed

and not on the streets

It’s like every

to do it

time you have the chance to do it you just, you’re more,

depression away or some-

thing and get addicted to alcohol

So I started drinking when I was like thirteen or fourteen

Yeah I think that’s

what happen when they get older and they suddenly can drink, they are allowed

. .... .. . .. . . . . So ah I think it’s, if

the rules are too strict, like in America, it makes younger

people to want it more or to They just ask

do it more

at older people to get their booze so they get drinks and then they just drink

way too much, cause it’s But

exciting

But it’s the same

yeah

way with smoking, like, uhm, people think it’s cool be-

cause you’re not allowed to do it under sixteen, so they will smoke

But, like in

this year it is disappearing

that problem, people aren’t Everybody is

smokers

starting to healthier and something like that

Yeah

and the reason for that is?

Uhm they didn’t lower the age for smoking

to drink and then they do

stuff like that but if they are fourteen years old and they

can drink like, if they have, if

they could’ve been drinking for four years it’s much less exci exciting than they are

suddenly turning to twenBut what, what

ty-one

age are you thinking about? Fourteen

So when peo-

ple are like twelve and thirteen they will already start drinking because it’s cool, like, it’s the same, isn’t it?

Then they will start drinking when they are younger

No I don’t I don’t think

Cause it’s on the age

of fourteen they really, like,

start to getting Dutch people alcohol

Like.

But they didn’t higher it either. And it’s just not healthy

and they get in trouble. Like kids aren’t allowed to drink and they are in trouble maybe they will like drink the

Euhm I am positive and you are negative? You’re against it? Yeah, I think I should be

. . . . …. . .. . . . ... . . . .... .

higher

Oh, you think

you want it more than, than

drinking age should be

when you are not, when you,

higher? Yeah higher. Really? So like in America where u have to be twenty-one?

Really? Why? Mmh because there like so many thing

that can go wrong with alcohol

Mm mm, I think the

reason why a lot of things

go wrong is because peop-

le students start drinking at

a later age and they don’t grow up with getting used

to alcohol and when they reach the age when they’re al-

lowed to drink they are “yes I can finally drink alcohol” and they just like drink a lot

and don’t now how to handle themselves

So if you

go to a party right now you think like “oh I haven’t been

drinking for sixteen years

let’s drink a lot right now”? No because when I went

to America I was eighteen nineteen and I was used to drink in Belgium

Even

than, when you are allowed

though I don’t need to drink

to do it

a because, I was used to go

the Netherlands, like, uhm,

to a pub and drink a few

higher like, from sixteen

beers and in America I wasn’t

to eighteen, and that went

allowed anymore because I

pretty well

They did it in

So now, so

in the Netherlands you’re

was really stupid and I saw

not allowed to drink if you’re

other people (Americans)

under eighteen? Yeah, they

who turned twenty-one and

changed it. A couple years

all went crazy and drank way

ago. And

had to be twenty-one

We don’t have

to much

That went well actually

that, I think we all young stu-

They don’t sell it under eigh-

dents drink a lot now and

teen, they don’t sell when

then, but I think lowering

uh you have minors

the age will solve the pro-

it minors? I think it is

But you said that

They don’t sell it when

lowering the drinking age is

you’re with someone who’s

good so they can used to it

under eighteen

so it’s actually like a drug, get

uhm I haven’t seen much

used to a drug? No no, but

drunk kids on the street or

blem

Have you

something

uh hm hm

Not really get used to it

I uhm

seen it in Belgium? HmmmI think

like a drug but like seeing

mm I don’t know

alchohol

everytime

most of the younger peop-

you’re able to get alcohol

le now, they start drinking

and

but you don’t want alcohol

because, they just like sud-

everytime your able to have

denly ah uh

it because it’s not a restric-

in Belgium and and Europe

tion it’s just, you’re allowed

and not on the streets

It’s like every

to do it

time you have the chance to do it you just, you’re more,

depression away or some-

thing and get addicted to alcohol

So I started drinking when I was like thirteen or fourteen

Yeah I think that’s

what happen when they get older and they suddenly can drink, they are allowed

. .... .. . .. . . . . So ah I think it’s, if

the rules are too strict, like in America, it makes younger

people to want it more or to They just ask

do it more

at older people to get their booze so they get drinks and then they just drink

way too much, cause it’s But

exciting

But it’s the same

yeah

way with smoking, like, uhm, people think it’s cool be-

cause you’re not allowed to do it under sixteen, so they will smoke

But, like in

this year it is disappearing

that problem, people aren’t Everybody is

smokers

starting to healthier and something like that

Yeah

and the reason for that is?

Uhm they didn’t lower the age for smoking

to drink and then they do

stuff like that but if they are fourteen years old and they

can drink like, if they have, if

they could’ve been drinking for four years it’s much less exci exciting than they are

suddenly turning to twenBut what, what

ty-one

age are you thinking about? Fourteen

So when peo-

ple are like twelve and thirteen they will already start drinking because it’s cool, like, it’s the same, isn’t it?

Then they will start drinking when they are younger

No I don’t I don’t think

Cause it’s on the age

of fourteen they really, like,

start to getting Dutch people alcohol

Like.

But they didn’t higher it either. And it’s just not healthy

and they get in trouble. Like kids aren’t allowed to drink and they are in trouble maybe they will like drink the

Euhm I am positive and you are negative? You’re against it? Yeah, I think I should be

. . . . …. . .. . . . ... . . . .... .

higher

Oh, you think

you want it more than, than

drinking age should be

when you are not, when you,

higher? Yeah higher. Really? So like in America where u have to be twenty-one?

Really? Why? Mmh because there like so many thing

that can go wrong with alcohol

Mm mm, I think the

reason why a lot of things

go wrong is because peop-

le students start drinking at

a later age and they don’t grow up with getting used

to alcohol and when they reach the age when they’re al-

lowed to drink they are “yes I can finally drink alcohol” and they just like drink a lot

and don’t now how to handle themselves

So if you

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and

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Yeah I think that’s

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way too much, cause it’s But

exciting yeah

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way with smoking, like, uhm, people think it’s cool be-

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this year it is disappearing

that problem, people aren’t smokers

Everybody is

starting to healthier and something like that

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age are you thinking about? Fourteen

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No I don’t I don’t think so

Cause it’s on the age

of fourteen they really, like,

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Like.

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you want it more than, than

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that can go wrong with alcohol

Mm mm, I think the

reason why a lot of things

go wrong is because peop-

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a later age and they don’t grow up with getting used

to alcohol and when they reach the age when they’re al-

lowed to drink they are “yes I can finally drink alcohol” and they just like drink a lot

and don’t now how to handle themselves

So if you

go to a party right now you think like “oh I haven’t been

drinking for sixteen years

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to America I was eighteen nineteen and I was used to drink in Belgium

Even

than, when you are allowed

though I don’t need to drink

to do it

a because, I was used to go

the Netherlands, like, uhm,

to a pub and drink a few

higher like, from sixteen

beers and in America I wasn’t

to eighteen, and that went

allowed anymore because I

pretty well

They did it in

So now, so

in the Netherlands you’re

was really stupid and I saw

not allowed to drink if you’re

other people (Americans)

under eighteen? Yeah, they

who turned twenty-one and

changed it. A couple years

all went crazy and drank way

ago. And

had to be twenty-one

We don’t have

to much

That went well actually

that, I think we all young stu-

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dents drink a lot now and

teen, they don’t sell when

then, but I think lowering

uh you have minors

the age will solve the pro-

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you’re with someone who’s

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mm I don’t know

alchohol

everytime

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you’re able to get alcohol

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and

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because, they just like sud-

everytime your able to have

denly ah uh

it because it’s not a restric-

in Belgium and and Europe

tion it’s just, you’re allowed

and not on the streets

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to do it

time you have the chance to do it you just, you’re more,

depression away or some-

thing and get addicted to alcohol

So I started drinking when I was like thirteen or fourteen

Yeah I think that’s

what happen when they get older and they suddenly can drink, they are allowed

. .... .. . .. . . . . So ah I think it’s, if

the rules are too strict, like in

America, it makes younger

people to want it more or to They just ask

do it more

at older people to get their booze so they get drinks and then they just drink

way too much, cause it’s But

exciting

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yeah

way with smoking, like, uhm, people think it’s cool be-

cause you’re not allowed to do it under sixteen, so they will smoke

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this year it is disappearing

that problem, people aren’t Everybody is

smokers

starting to healthier and something like that

Yeah

and the reason for that is?

Uhm they didn’t lower the age for smoking

to drink and then they do

stuff like that but if they are fourteen years old and they

can drink like, if they have, if

they could’ve been drinking for four years it’s much less exci exciting than they are

suddenly turning to twenBut what, what

ty-one

age are you thinking about?

So when peo-

Fourteen

ple are like twelve and thirteen they will already start drinking because it’s cool, like, it’s the same, isn’t it?

Then they will start drinking when they are younger

No I don’t I don’t think

Cause it’s on the age

of fourteen they really, like,

start to getting Dutch people alcohol

Like.

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and they get in trouble. Like kids aren’t allowed to drink and they are in trouble maybe they will like drink the

Euhm I am positive and you are negative? You’re against it? Yeah, I think I should be

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higher

you want it more than, than

drinking age should be

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Really? Why? Mmh because there like so many thing

that can go wrong with alcohol

Mm mm, I think the

reason why a lot of things

go wrong is because peop-

le students start drinking at

a later age and they don’t grow up with getting used

to alcohol and when they reach the age when they’re al-

lowed to drink they are “yes I can finally drink alcohol” and they just like drink a lot

and don’t now how to handle themselves

So if you

go to a party right now you think like “oh I haven’t been

drinking for sixteen years

let’s drink a lot right now”? No because when I went

to America I was eighteen nineteen and I was used to drink in Belgium

Even

than, when you are allowed

though I don’t need to drink

to do it

a because, I was used to go

the Netherlands, like, uhm,

to a pub and drink a few

higher like, from sixteen

beers and in America I wasn’t

to eighteen, and that went

allowed anymore because I

pretty well

They did it in

So now, so

in the Netherlands you’re

was really stupid and I saw

not allowed to drink if you’re

other people (Americans)

under eighteen? Yeah, they

who turned twenty-one and

changed it. A couple years

all went crazy and drank way

ago. And

had to be twenty-one

We don’t have

to much

That went well actually

that, I think we all young stu-

They don’t sell it under eigh-

dents drink a lot now and

teen, they don’t sell when

then, but I think lowering

uh you have minors

the age will solve the pro-

it minors? I think it is

But you said that

They don’t sell it when

lowering the drinking age is

you’re with someone who’s

good so they can used to it

under eighteen

so it’s actually like a drug, get

uhm I haven’t seen much

used to a drug? No no, but

drunk kids on the street or

blem

I uhm

Have you

something

uh hm hm

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seen it in Belgium? HmmmI think

like a drug but like seeing

mm I don’t know

alchohol

everytime

most of the younger peop-

you’re able to get alcohol

le now, they start drinking

and

but you don’t want alcohol

because, they just like sud-

everytime your able to have

denly ah uh

it because it’s not a restric-

in Belgium and and Europe

tion it’s just, you’re allowed

and not on the streets

to do it

It’s like every

time you have the chance to do it you just, you’re more,

depression away or some-

thing and get addicted to alcohol

So I started drinking when I was like thirteen or fourteen

Yeah I think that’s

what happen when they get older and they suddenly can drink, they are allowed

. .... .. . .. . . . . So ah I think it’s, if

the rules are too strict, like in

America, it makes younger

people to want it more or to They just ask

do it more

at older people to get their booze so they get drinks and then they just drink

way too much, cause it’s But

exciting

But it’s the same

yeah

way with smoking, like, uhm, people think it’s cool be-

cause you’re not allowed to do it under sixteen, so they will smoke

But, like in

this year it is disappearing

that problem, people aren’t Everybody is

smokers

starting to healthier and something like that

Yeah

and the reason for that is?

Uhm they didn’t lower the age for smoking

to drink and then they do

stuff like that but if they are fourteen years old and they

can drink like, if they have, if

they could’ve been drinking for four years it’s much less exci exciting than they are

suddenly turning to twenBut what, what

ty-one

age are you thinking about?

So when peo-

Fourteen

ple are like twelve and thirteen they will already start drinking because it’s cool, like, it’s the same, isn’t it?

Then they will start drinking when they are younger

No I don’t I don’t think so

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of fourteen they really, like,

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higher

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QUOTES “86% of pupils, aged 11-15 in England, who did not live with anyone who drank alcohol had never drunk alcohol themselves, compared with 40% of pupils who lived with three or more drinkers.” “The greater a young person’s self-esteem, the greater their ability to bounce back from difficult situations and the less likely they are to drink.” “Evidence also indicates that alcohol plays a significant role in the amount of crime committed by people under the age of 18. Recent studies also suggest that alcohol can cause negative neurological effects into adulthood.” “Early alcohol use has also been proposed as a marker of later sexual risk, including higher rates of unplanned sex, low condom use, multiple sexual partners, sexually transmitted infections and early pregnancy.” “The brain is a crucial area of a child’s physiological development. Alcohol is capable of affecting the entire organ, but particularly the frontal lobes, which are responsible for ‘higher level’ thinking such as planning, decision making and judging the likely consequences of actions. This part of the brain continues to develop throughout adolescence, which has led some to suggest that adolescent brains are more sensitive to alcohol than adult brains.” “Research into the physiological effects of alcohol on adolescents is in its infancy. Ultimately, while more is being found out about the health effects of underage drinking, many medical experts urge caution over the consumption of alcohol, believing it best if the age of alcohol consumption is delayed well into adulthood.” “In the long run, the age of onset plays a vital part in determining the chances of developing alcohol-related problem in adult life. One American report found that young people who began drinking before the age of 15 were 4 times more likely to develop alcohol dependence than those who began drinking at the age of 21.”

“Young people are more likely to drink, to drink frequently and to drink to excess if they: • receive less supervision from a parent or other close adult; • spend more than two evenings a week with friends or have friends who drink; • are exposed to a close family member, especially a parent, drinking or getting drunk; • have positive attitudes towards and expectations of alcohol; and • have very easy access to alcohol.” “Increasing alcohol consumption amongst some young people (in particular those aged under 18), and the harm related to it, have become significant concerns in the UK.” “The source of alcohol when last drinking: the odds of being an excessive drinker increase respectively if a young person is buying their alcohol, is given alcohol by an older sibling or is stealing alcohol (either stealing themselves or aware that others have stolen it).”

THE MASTER ARGUMENT The brain is a crucial area of a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s physiological development. Alcohol is capable of affecting the entire organ but particularly the frontal lobes, which are responsible for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;higher levelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; thinking such as planning, decision making and judging the likely consequences of actions. This part of the brain continues to develop throughout adolescence, which has led some to suggest that adolescent brains are more sensitive to alcohol than adult brains.

Early alcohol use has also been proposed as a marker of later sexual risk, including higher rates of unplanned sex, low condom use, multiple sexual partners, sexually transmitted infections and early pregnancy. Evidence also indicates that alcohol plays a significant role in the amount of crime committed by people under the age of 18. 86% of pupils, aged 11-15 in England, who did not live with anyone who drank alcohol had never drunk alcohol themselves, compared with 40% of pupils who lived with three or more drinkers. The odds of being an excessive drinker increase respectively if a young person is buying their alcohol, is given alcohol by an older sibling or is stealing alcohol (either stealing themselves or aware that others have stolen it). 18

The greater a young personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-esteem, the greater their ability to bounce back from difficult situations and the less likely they are to drink. In the long run, the age of onset plays a vital part in determining the chances of developing alcohol-related problems in adult life. One American report found that young people who began drinking before the age of 15 were 4 times more likely to develop alcohol dependence than those who began drinking at the age of 21. Many medical experts urge caution over the consumption of alcohol, believing it best if the age of alcohol consumption is delayed well into adulthood.

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Yeah, I think I should be higher. Because there like so many things that can go wrong with alcohol. Increasing alcohol consumption amongst some young people (in particular those aged under 18), and the harm related to it, have become significant concerns in the UK. The brain is a crucial area of a child's physiological development. Alcohol is capable of affecting the entire organ, but particularly the frontal lobes, which are responsible for 'higher level' thinking such as planning, decision making and judging the likely consequences of actions. This part of the brain continues to develop throughout adolescence, which has led some to suggest that

adolescent brains are more sensitive to alcohol than adult brains.

alcohol plays a signiﬁcant role in the amount of crime committed by people under the age of 18.

Young people are more likely to drink, to drink frequently and to drink to excess if they have very easy access to alcohol.

The greater a young person’s self-esteem, the greater their ability to

adolescent brains are more sensitive to alcohol than adult brains.

alcohol plays a signiﬁcant role in the amount of crime committed by people under the age of 18.

Young people are more likely to drink, to drink frequently and to drink to excess if they have very easy access to alcohol.

The brain is a crucial area of a child's physiological development.

Alcohol is capable of affecting the entire organ

but particularly the frontal lobes, which are responsible for 'higher level' thinking such as planning, decision making and judging the likely consequences of actions. This part of the brain continues to develop throughout adolescence, which has led some to suggest that

adolescent brains are more sensitive to alcohol than adult brains.

alcohol plays a signiďŹ cant role in the amount of crime committed by people under the age of 18. 86% of pupils, aged 11-15 in England, who did not live with anyone who drank alcohol had never drunk alcohol themselves, compared with 40% of pupils who lived with three or more drinkers. The odds of being an excessive drinker increase respectively if a young person is buying their alcohol, is given alcohol by an older sibling or is stealing alcohol (either stealing themselves or aware that others have stolen it).

The greater a young personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-esteem, the greater their ability to bounce back from difďŹ cult situations and the less likely they are to drink.

In the long run, the age of onset plays a vital part in determining the chances of developing alcohol-related problem in adult life. One American report found that young people who began drinking before the age of 15 were 4 times more likely to develop alcohol dependence than those who began drinking at the age of 21. Many medical experts urge caution over the consumption of alcohol, believing it best if the age of alcohol consumption is delayed well into adulthood. Young people are more likely to drink, to drink frequently and to drink to excess if they: receive less supervision from a parent or other close adult; spend more than two evenings a week with friends or have friends who drink; are exposed to a close family member, especially a parent, drinking or

getting drunk; have positive attitudes towards and expectations of alcohol; and have very easy access to alcohol.

Young people are more likely to drink if they have very easy access to alcohol.

The brain is a crucial area of a child's physiological development.

Alcohol is capable of affecting the entire organ but particularly the frontal lobes, which are responsible for 'higher level' thinking such as planning, decision making and judging the likely consequences of actions. This part of the brain continues to develop throughout adolescence, which has led some to suggest that

adolescent brains are more sensitive to alcohol than adult brains.

The greater a young personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-esteem, the greater their ability to bounce back from difďŹ cult situations and the less likely they are to drink.

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One American report found that young people who began drinking before the age of 15 were 4 times more likely to develop alcohol dependence than those who began drinking at the age of 21.

Many medical experts urge caution over the consumption of alcohol, believing it best if the age of alcohol consumption is delayed well into adulthood. Young people are more likely to drink, to drink frequently and to drink to excess if they: receive less supervision from a parent or other close adult; spend more than two evenings a week with friends or have friends who drink; are exposed to a close family member, especially a parent, drinking or

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One American report found that young people who began drinking before the age of 15 were 4 times more likely to develop alcohol dependence than those who began drinking at the age of 21. Many medical experts urge caution over the consumption of alcohol, believing it best if the age of alcohol consumption is delayed well into adulthood. Young people are more likely to drink, to drink frequently and to drink to excess if they: receive less supervision from a parent or other close adult; spend more than two evenings a week with friends or have friends who drink; are exposed to a close family member, especially a parent,

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