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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individual people and larger groups are becoming aware of the use of child soldiers globally‚ though. In the past two decades‚ multiple support groups have been established and have helped child soldiers demobilize and reintegrate into society. More attention needs to be given to the children who have yet to receive help. The United Nations‚ along with other human rights groups and individual governments‚ should increase pressure on governments and rebel forces who recruit child soldiers. Even though
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Cherry’s notion of selective attention explains how people follow what they want to hear in spite of several distractions. He refers to this phenomenon as the cocktail party effect. He studied this in a laboratory controlled experiment using the shadowing technique. An auditory message was presented to one ear of the participants over headphones whilst a simultaneous distractor message was presented to the other ear. The participants had to ’shadow’‚ i.e‚ ignore the distractor message while repeating
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To quote a wise crusher operator‚ Crushing is not just about tons per hour; it’s about safe tons per hour.’ But consider that a safe workplace is not achieved via mere lip service and signage‚ but rather from the right mindset--from owners‚ managers and workers--and from the manufacturers of each piece of processing equipment. Importantly‚ manually digging out the crusher before repairs or restarts puts workers in dangerous positions. The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has reported
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Ritalin Chandler Bair 2/20/13 5TH Ritalin is a very good drug to use if you have either the disease ADD ADHD. Although you can use it the right way you can also Abuse it. What is Ritalin you may ask? (Beal‚9) “Ritalin is the brand name for the prescription drug Methylphenidate”. Methylphenidate is a generic drug produced by several companies. Generic drugs and brand name drugs are similar in their effectiveness. However generic drugs usually cost less. Dexedrine and cylert are two other types
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Introduction Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder‚ or ADHD‚ is a common disorder that primarily affects children and adolescents. Approximately 2 to 16 percent of school aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD (Rader‚ Mccauley‚ Callen‚ 2009). Children with ADHD have difficulties paying attention and are more impulsive than other children. The behaviors exhibited by children with ADHD can make it difficult to function at school and at home. Treatment of ADHD can include medication‚ behavior
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highly skilled professionals have attempted to address several issues regarding antipsychotic drugs used to treat school-aged children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The distribution of these ADHD medications have steadily increased over the years‚ which has‚ on one hand‚ presented a possible solution to the escalating diagnosis of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder‚ and on the latter‚ brought into question the ethics and effectiveness of these medications. Health officials
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Name: Matthew Alexander COHN Student ID: 11636955 Project Title: Strategies for Attention Control for Intermediate Standard Adolescent String Students Project Grade: Date qualified: HIGH DISTINCTION 30 July 2003 POBox6 Monash University Victoria 3800‚ Australia Telephone: +61 3 9905 2819 Facsimile: +61 3 9905 5400 www.monash.edu.au ABN: 12 377 614 012 STRATEGIES FOR ATTENTION CONTROL FOR INTERMEDIATE STANDARD ADOLESCENT STRING STUDENTS Matthew Cohn B.Mus.Per
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Today we are paying increasing attention to the importance of nature conservation. Thankfully‚ owing to the far-sighted pioneers (有遠見的先驅者) who headed the National Parks movement‚ there are now a number of reserves throughout the world where nature is allowed to reign supreme(最高)‚ and wild life is preserved(被保留)to be enjoyed by all. But over large tracts of the world’s surface the delicate balance(微妙的平衡) between man and nature is still being destroyed by industrialization‚ over-population and the
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Measuring Affective Advertising: Implications of Low Attention Processing on Recall Robert Heath & Agnes Nairn University of Bath School of Management Working Paper Series 2005.04 This working paper is produced for discussion purposes only. The papers are expected to be published in due course‚ in revised form and should not be quoted without the author’s permission. 1 University of Bath School of Management Working Paper Series University of Bath School of Management Claverton
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