Composition I Essay 5 TEENS AND CELL PHONES: A RECIPE FOR DISASTER In 2008, CTIA and Harris Interactive conducted a survey of 2,000 teenagers across the United States. The survey revealed that four out of five teenagers own a cell phone; they are considered a necessary accessory and a symbol of status among teens. Nearly half of kids who own cell phones get their first one between the ages of 8 and 12 years old, according to the Neilson Company. (1) While cell phones may be perceived as the key…
functions of a standard wired telephone but is smaller and more mobile. A cell phone requires a subscription to a service provider and requires either a prepaid or monthly billing setup. Generally, they have more functions than traditional land lines and need to be charged after a period of time. Also called mobile phone or mobile device.—BusinessDictionary.com A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone, cell phone and a hand phone) is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio…
The effects that cell phones have on our lives. Cell phones have become a normal part of our everyday living. I have seen people as young as five years old own a cell phone. Nearly everyone has cell phones in this day and age. They have become a necessity for communication. Cell phones offer the ability to communicate with other people with like devices every minute of every day. If you are not able to speak directly with the other person, you can leave them a voicemail, send them a text message…
Cell Phones Are Here To Stay Today cell phones have become like an accessory that accents our wardrobes. Cell phones are used for far more than just phone calls anymore. Some may even argue that they have become a distraction, a nuisance, or annoying even. At the end of the day, most of the people that would make this claim prove to be hypocrites and own a personal cell phone their own. Almost anything needed is virtually at fingertips. This one device has brought communication to your fingertips…
managing life without a cell phone? Today, communication is available anywhere at any time in the United State. Using a cell phone is now the normal way of life. Many Americans have done away with a home phone and begun to use the cell phone as a basic source of communication. Cell phones have affected this country by providing convenient communication and saving lives. The cell phone has made communication convenient by doing away with the confinement of a corded home phone. We are now able to carry…
Teens Should Have Cells Phones Cell phones, can always somehow be a very useful electronic. Cell Phones are always needed; like what if something happened, and it was an emergency you would need a phone to call your parents, police, or the hospital. (911) Cell phones are needed also when you have to call your parents to tell them that you are going to your friends house after school so that they wouldn’t worry. A big percentage of school don’t and do allow cell phones on school campuses…
task easier. A cell phone is a type of technology that is a common thing to see in everyday life. The world and the people in it have gotten used to this technology. Cell phones are making the lives of an estimated two hundred sixty five million Americans (Natterson 103) and three billion worldwide (Natterson 103), easier. As useful as cell phones may be, there are negative effects in over using cell phones. Cell phone technology was first developed in the 1980’s, but cell phones became common in…
The negative effects of cell phones With the increasing popularity of cell phones comes many adverse effects not only on a social level but also on our health. Many of us can't imagine a day without our cell phone but by Are we losing the ability to communicate face to face? How tragic it is to hear bout accidents caused by talking and texting while driving. We are easily convinced that we need new phones with new features but neglect the fact that the old phones that we dispose…
The effect of cell phones on health! Carrying expensive cell phones in our pocket for pleasure and purposely exposing it in front of our buddy does wonders to our reputation and personality. Everyone adores having a cell phone in this era. Particularly, we youngsters set upon moving with cell phones to schools and colleges. It’s good to be a part of assortments of technological world. But the growing technology is likely to threaten the life of people by giving out detrimental radiations. Yes,…
RBMOnline - Vol 18. No 1. 2009 148-157 Reproductive BioMedicine Online; www.rbmonline.com/Article/3628 on web 3 November 2008 Review Cell phones: modern man’s nemesis? Ashok Agarwal is a Professor in the Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and the Director of Center for Reproductive Medicine, and the Clinical Andrology Laboratory at The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He has published over 400 scientific articles, reviews and book chapters in different…