Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that texting and driving shouldn’t be allowed. Central Idea: Simple fact on how it puts everyone on danger that’s on the road and how many accidents it creates. Attention Getter: Imagine your leaving your house on your way to work and you need to drop off your daughter but you receive a text message‚ so as you are driving you look down and take a look at it but soon you realize it’s far too late and you have already hit the side of
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LEGALLY RAISING THE DRIVING AGE IN THE UNITED STATES TO 18 1 Legally Raising the Driving Age in the United States to 18 and Reducing the Teenage Driving Fatalities and Accidents LEGALLY RAISING THE DRIVING AGE IN THE UNITED STATES TO 18 2 Abstract This paper explains the reasoning of increasing the legal driving age in the United States to age 18. It gives insight into the statistics of driving fatalities among teens‚ allowing the teenage brain to
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The second video‚ “Stop Texting and Please Start Driving”‚ doesn’t have a narrator or speaker‚ but it still used ethos‚ logos and pathos persuasive approach in the following situations: • ETHOS. The video showed members of the rescue team (911) trying to save victims from the accidents. The source of the video can also be considered credible and knowledgeable since it shows an actual video recording of the accident. • PATHOS. This video describes how the emotional situation is through the voices
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Texting and Driving Crash- It Can Wait Tiffany Wilkerson Southeastern Technical College AT&T is a major phone corporation. This company has also taken a huge stance on texting and driving. The number of people killed in distraction-affected crashes decreased slightly from 3‚360 in 2011 to 3‚328 in 2012. An estimated 421‚000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver‚ this was nine percent increase from the estimated 387‚000 people injured in 2011. Texting is becoming
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Impaired driving casualties are out of control. In fact‚ our highways have become a graveyard. The number of deaths and injuries are reported almost every day. Someone is pleasure brings tragedy to the family and loved ones. For example‚ there are drunken driving accidents happening every day‚ but this particular multi death in one family is heartbreaking; a 29 year old drunk driver in a dark black SUV killed four innocent people‚ a grandfather and three children under ten years old‚ on Sunday September
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the driving limited to 21? The legal driving age has been a constant debate and every few years another log is thrown onto the fire. Should we really raise the legal age to drive? Would it save lives? Today the driving age is 17 or ever younger . In my opinion is should be raise at least to 21 it could be a good idea to rise the driving age because young driver are the main cause of road death and injuries. Also young drivers drink and drive at the same time. If the driving age
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Driving under the influence‚ driving while intoxicated‚ drunken driving‚ drunk driving‚ drink driving‚ operating under the influence‚ drinking and driving‚ or impaired driving is the act of driving a motor vehicle with blood levels of alcohol in excess of a legal limit . Similar regulations cover driving or operating certain types of machinery while affected by drinking alcohol or taking other drugs‚ including‚ but not limited to prescription drugs. This is a criminal offense in most countries.
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Persuasion essay People that get in trouble for driving under the influence should have their licenses revoked forever. They put innocent people’s lives in danger for their own enjoyment. They also put their own lives in danger. Hundred and thousands of people die every year due to drunk driving incidents. Sometimes the people causing these tragedies‚ get the privilege to drive on our streets again. Does this sound right? Should we really risk other people’s lives just so this person is allowed
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Name: Ja’Wuan Copeland Teen Driving Issues Project Topic: Road Rage Part 1 - Identify the Issue Why is this a problem especially for teen drivers. It’s a problem for teen drivers because their temper and may use the car as a weapon against the other driver. The result of being behind the wheel driving aggressively may cause the teen to get pulled over by law enforcement to prevent
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promote inactivity such as the use of cell phones‚ email‚ etc. We ignore this problem and often look beyond these factors because we consider them “standard” in our lives. Although‚ before obesity rates spiked‚ fast food was not as unhealthy or cheap‚ driving an automobile was only possible for a select few‚ and technology did not exist like it does now. In order to eliminate such high obesity rates in America I believe we must raise awareness on the damages obesity can have on our well-being. In order
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