texting 1. Texting and driving 2. Lack of concentration‚ losing focus on driving 3. Looking at texts and not paying attention to the surroundings scenery C: Standing on this issue? All drivers need to be aware of distracted driving and take steps to minimize the risk to themselves and others. “I’m asking you today to listen to the statistics and the stories and decide for yourself whether that one text message‚ is worth the cost of a human life.” II. Supporting Facts #1 A: While distracted driving
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from reality would provide a shelf for critical thinking. Pratt (2006) suggests critical literacy gives students an opportunity to think deeply about the ideologies that underlie the text. Dystopia texts are often developed to criticise a trend‚ social norm or a political system. The texts 1984‚ V for Vendetta and The Lottery all present notions of criticism toward a political system or a trend. The fourth text‚ the students’ choice‚ has to be one of non-fiction dystopia. This extends the students
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Choose one of the following questions to answer for the argument essay in this module. Does our state do enough to prevent distracted driving? or Can a Public Service Announcement (PSA) help reduce the number of distracted driving incidents? PART ONE 1. Write the claim you will present in your argument essay. PSA’s can’t help reduce the number of distracted driving incidents‚ they are showed all the time but yet accidents due to distracted driving happen often. 2. Write the counterclaim that
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ability to place international calls‚ send SMS texts‚ and even had luxuries like caller ID and voicemail‚ which we all take for granted now. This phone started a revolution that is still changing everyday‚ with newer and better phones releasing every month with the latest technology and sleek designs. Texting has its own language‚ customs‚ and ways of doing things. There are known rules when it comes to texting‚ which I believe makes it rhetorical. Text messaging is a new medium of expression‚ one that
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networking has many positive effects in society‚ it has more negative consequences‚ especially upon teenagers‚ such as cyber-bullying‚ negative influences on social behavior‚ and the promotions of crime and violence. When used responsibly‚ social networking is efficient‚ fun‚ and useful. Unfortunately‚ teenagers in today’s society misuse social networks- causing social networking become dangerous and psychologically harmful. Cyber-bullying is the most common negative effect of social networking. More
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TEXT MESSAGING: ITS IMPACT ON THE SPELLING PROFICIENCY OF THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS Published November 28‚ 2010 | By Rizalyn Researchers: Mikel D. Bainto Rheanel M. Esquejo Research Adviser: Debora B. Sampaga Background of the Study Texting has become an integral part of our lives; it has developed very rapidly throughout the world. Initial growth of text messaging starts with customers in 1995 sending an average 0.4 messages per GSM (Global System for mobile
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Skull rings Over the past few years silver skull ring has engaged on its own tradition and iconic position. Skull imagery is the affection of representational meaning to the human skull. The most communal emblematic use of the skull is as a symbol of demise and mortality‚ but such an interpretation varies with moving social perspectives. The human brain has an unambiguous region for knowing façades; it cannot detach the spitting image of the human skull from the acquainted human face. As of this
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main point throughout the article is that Multitasking prevents teens form learning and retaining information. In the article‚ it is made evident of where she stands. Clay makes it blatantly obvious that she feels as though multitasking has a negative effect on the brain as well as the learning development. Clay uses statistics such as “…According to a 2006 Kaiser Family Foundation
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computer has penetrated human society. Popular social networking sites such as Facebook‚ Twitter‚ and MySpace‚ have caused many children to become obsessed and addicted‚ resulting in being incapable of having real conversations with people‚ to a larger effect‚ it is harming their health and work ethic in classrooms and the average teen now spends on average nine hours per week on social networking sites. This accumulates to 18 days out of the 365 days of the year. Those 18 days spent sitting on a chair
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Which are the effects of cellphone messaging on teenagers? Slavery or freedom? We hear a lot these days about instant messaging‚ - the ability to get/send a text message from/to anyone‚ anywhere‚ via wireless networks and some kind of portable device‚ which might be a fancy pager‚ a digital cellphone or a palmtop computer. The technology is here‚ though it doesn’t work everywhere yet. We could argue about how affordable or reliable instant messaging is‚ but we can’t deny it exists and will probably
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