Stop Texting While Driving Introduction I. Attention Getter- audience participation/ survey a. How many of own a cell phone with texting privileges? b. Now how many of you have ever texted while driving? II. Thesis Statement- Did you know that texting while driving can be more dangerous than driving while drunk? III. Credibility- I found these statistics along with other information on drivinglaws.org and various other sites. IV. Preview- Today I will be discussing statistics‚ a few laws
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Chapman shot lennon outside The Dakota apartment building in New York City. Chapman fired at Lennon five times‚ hitting him four times in the back. He stayed at the crime scene waiting for the police to show up while reading the catcher in the rye‚ when the police showed up he said to the police that the book was his statement and he got arrested and put in prison in 1981. Chapman left his room at the Sheraton Hotel‚ leaving personal items behind which the police would later find‚ and bought a copy
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Rhonda’s character is in the background more than the forefront because the narrator introduce Rhonda at the start of the story and not again until the end of story when “Jeffrey shot Rhonda‚” (52). Using the third person omniscient in the story is significant because‚ I was able to relate to each character through imagery and personification. The story is based on Rhonda’s senseless death‚ how her death affected Cassandra the protagonist in the story‚ and her friends Rhonda‚ Melanie‚ Anita‚ and
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Device Presentation C.J. Long 4th period 10-10-16 Function of device A shotgun is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder‚ which uses the energy of a shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot. A semi-automatic shotgun is a shotgun that is able to fire a shell after every trigger squeeze‚ without needing to manually chamber another round. This weapon uses gas‚ blowback‚ or recoil operation to cycle the action‚ eject the empty shell‚ and load another shell. When a round is
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Significance of Cardiovascular and Respiratory system in a hockey slap shot A healthy heart is essential for a hockey slap shot. Hockey is mostly thought of as an anaerobic sport/exercise as players play in shifts that can range from 1-2 minutes. For that short amount of time they will exhaust a significant amount of energy that could sustain someone for a much longer duration. Performing a slap shot is an explosive movement. The slap shot can be categorized into 3 stages of movement - Preparation‚ Windup
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in their demands. Neither of the two parties wants national banks; they both would rather have smaller local banks to run the money in the country. Also they both believe income tax is a good thing and that it should not be removed. In William Jennings Bryan’s speech before the Democratic National Convention‚ he stated that “we are opposing the national bank” (Bryan). In the Ocala Platform‚ the National Alliance also stated that they opposed national banks and they wanted the creation of sub-treasuries
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Some argue that the day Lincoln was shot was the most dramatic thing to ever happen to this country. April 14‚ 1865 was the day‚ Ford Theater was the place‚ and John Wilkes Booth was the perpetrator. Jim Bishop‚ appropriately titled "The Day Lincoln Was Shot"‚ has eloquently put the account of this event into writing. This story is a well-researched moment-to-moment account of the last 24 hours of Abraham Lincoln’s life. Jim Bishop narrates these last tragic hours through records and personal accounts
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Ayo mugshot‚ gun shot‚ dope shot‚ jump shot. Take your pick‚ but you only get one shot. Advice from a schoolteacher to a young tot. Applyin’ a sticker to his Spiderman lunchbox. When even role models tell us we’re born to be felons. We’re never gettin’ into Harvard or Carnegie Mellon. And we gon’ end up either robbin’ somebody or killin’. It’s not fair that’s all they can tell us. That’s why I hustle hella hard‚ never celebrate a holiday. That’ll be the day I coulda finally hit the lottery. I refuse
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texting has also become a huge safety concern when it occurs while driving. While certain distractions while driving are inevitable‚ texting while driving requires serious attention and focus and thus should be outlawed in the US. The new Wireless Communications Device Law (effective January 1‚ 2009) makes it an infraction to write‚ send‚ or read text-based communication on an electronic wireless communications device‚ such as a cell phone‚ while driving a motor vehicle. (CA-DMV) This law is of course
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Texting While Driving Even More Dangerous The popularity of texting has caused an unforeseen danger- texting while driving. It has been proven scientifically that texting while driving reduces your awareness by almost half‚ and that texting while driving is over four times more dangerous than driving under the influence of alcohol. These are very disturbing results for anyone on the road‚ especially since it has been proven that an estimated 65% of drivers are texting and driving every single day
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