Texting while driving is one of the most common causes of accidents on roads. This is because texting while driving results in physical‚ visual and cognitive distraction. It greatly increases the amount of time a driver spends not looking at the road. It is a very serious distraction that can cost you your life or the lives of other people. According to recent research by Queensland’s RACQ‚ using a mobile phone in general can relay reaction time as much as having a blood alcohol content of 0.08%
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Cell phones and their everyday use. The invention of cell phones has enabled us to improve our lives in many ways which can be great for some but for others has caused irresponsibly behavior. Most of the time they allow us to multitask but for some it is just a distraction. Cell phones have had a major impact on our lives both positive and negative. They affect how we handle our everyday tasks. They can be entertaining most of the time with all the cool features‚ or help us regarding safety
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Significance * The cell phone has become a common product. Almost everyone has a cell phone‚ and they have only been around 35 years and popular for about 15. Yet‚ they have become an indispensable part of daily life. It ’s hard imagining what many would do without them. Function * A cell phone ’s basic function is to make and receive calls from anywhere you have service. Even though they can do more‚ calling is their main function. This function enables a person to make or receive a call
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with a cell phone is an uninterested student‚ one with a short attention span who cares more about socializing than education. When I was teaching‚ all too often I turned around from writing something on the blackboard to find students text-messaging or otherwise playing with their phones. Come the end of the term‚ a handful of students would fail the class and far too many would drop out of school. The onus for failure should be placed on distractions in the classroom‚ specifically cell phones. Parents
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Kassandra Vera Part 2: Texting While Driving Professor: Jolanta Kiurshanoska English 215 Nova University 18th August 2013 PART 2: TEXTING WHILE DRIVING Texting while driving didn’t become a global issue overnight‚ but quickly‚ one fatality after the next‚ led to alarming statistics that cannot continue to go ignored‚ and while some families are asking for justice‚ that could never replace the loved ones they’ve lost. Others are demanding a solution to the growing epidemic. In
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Five Seconds Five seconds may not mean a great deal or seem like significant amount of time to be concern about; however‚ a driver spending just five seconds to read a text message while driving can mean more than what most drivers anticipated. It can mean a person’s life. Sarah Rogers was only 8 years old when driving in a car with her mom. On a four-way stop sign a car crashed into their car hitting the mother’s side at 60mph. James Trolley was the driver who crashed into them and because he decided
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Persuasive Speech Plan Topic: Texting while driving is dangerous to you and others. General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience not to drive and text. When I have finished my speech‚ my audience will be able to see why driving and texting is dangerous to themselves as well as others. Central Idea: Persuade others not to text and drive because it is very dangerous. Persuasive Proposition: (Statement of Fact‚ Value‚ or Policy) Statement of fact and
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Texting While Driving by Liz Coram How many people text behind the wheel of their vehicle? Can we relate to the following story? Jaci Lemons* is driving down the street‚ headed to school. The 17 year old driver is texting another friend. As she looks down to read the incoming text‚ Jaci veers off to the right and crashes head-on into the back of a parked vehicle. She is taken to the hospital‚ but after brief examination by the attending ER doctor‚ Jaci is released. Thankfully‚ the only thing
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essay #1 Cell-phones: Distractions In today’s society‚ it’s unusual that we see people without a cell phone nowadays. We even see kids who have phones. Although they do come in handy‚ there are many disadvantages of have a cell phone that can affect our own daily life or the people around us as well. Everyone seems to talk about the advantages of having a cell phone‚ and we often forget about the disadvantages. The disadvantages of having a cell phone that I see is a everyday thing
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Cell phones has affected the way we socialize these days; if you notice people are starting to text their friends and family instead if actually speaking verbally. You go out to dinner and look around and see people out with family but there is no conversations going on at the table mostly just huh… yeah… mmhm..‚ because they are busy texting someone not there on their phones. I feel human communicant is slowly disappearing among friends and family. You even see parent’s texting their kids when in
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