Texting and Driving Texting has become a daily thing‚ it’s quicker than a phone call and it’s easy to keep in touch with everybody. But with texting‚ just like talking‚ comes the people who think they can text and drive. Texting takes about five seconds‚ but in that minute a lot of things can happen‚ you can run off the road‚ hit a car‚ hit a tree‚ the possibilities are endless. To type a text it usually takes five seconds‚ when driving at 55mph in five seconds you go as far as a football field
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Texting and Driving Katelyn DeRiso Persuasive Speech Rough Draft Five years ago on a bright June day‚ then-20- year-old Amanda Kloehr went about her usual cell phone routine: "Updating my Facebook status‚ reading other people’s updates‚ and texting‚" she says. But she wasn’t at home or even in class—she was behind the wheel of her car‚ cruising down U.S. Route 13 at a highway speed. Amanda couldn’t have known that moments later her distracted driving would cause her to slam into
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The popularity of mobile devices has had some unintended and even dangerous consequences. Accidents due to texting and driving are becoming more popular and more frequent. A texting driver is twenty-three times more likely to get into a crash than a non-texting driver. When the cell phone was first invented it was made as a personal safety device especially if a person lived alone or some distance from family members. Many of us may line in regions of the country where sudden tornado or hurricanes
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Texting While Driving Did you know that in 2011 23% of auto collisions involved cell phones? That is 1.3 MILLION crashes (D7 R.W). Cell phones are huge distractions and are especially dangerous on the road. Being in a huge‚ fast‚ and solid peice of metal‚ you don’t need any distractions. I’m Renae and this is Karli. I would like for you to think before picking up that phone in the car. One of the big obvious reasons is that it is extremely dangerous (2C R.W) and nearly 500‚00 people are injured
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Research Center‚ half of America is using social networking site for different purpose such as parents using Facebook to vet nannies (Sengupta). On the other hand‚ it shows a sign of how deeply and widely social media has bring huge impact to the lives of ordinary people no matter in communication‚ learning and others Social media allows people connect to each other no matter how far apart you are‚ making friend‚ sharing pictures‚ and exchanging ideas easily. According to Pew research‚ social networking
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revolutionized lives. They help us cover the same distances in minutes and hours‚ which use to take days or months in previous centuries. Inventions of cars and other automobiles have been a big turn over in history‚ but like they say everything in the world comes with a prize and technology now a days is costing people to pay with their lives. Every year hundreds of people are in a deadly accidents due to reckless driving of themselves or by the people around them. Using cellphones while driving has been
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Don’t Text and Drive You Could Save a Life Good evening‚ my name is Stephanie Apfelbacher‚ I am here to say (SLIDE 1) Don’t Text and Drive you Could Save a Life. Maybe you have been tempted‚ sitting at the wheel in traffic; you hear the familiar beep of a text-message. It could be your boss needing the final sale numbers of the day or your friend needing advice on what outfit to wear to the party. Traffic is backed up and you know if will take just a minute to reply back‚ so you do. You think
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111` Section #4369 3 June 2013 Final Texting and Driving Needs to Come To a Stop Texting while driving is not a good habit‚ with just moving our eyes from the road to answer a simple message can cause someone life. According to Ian Mulgrew‚ a journalist author from Canada‚ many accidents are blamed on distracted driving and most of the distractions are caused by cell phone usage. There are many laws being established to try to prevent distracted driving from happening; although they can’t completely
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Texting While Learning Cell phones have become a big part of all of our lives. We use them when we are eating‚ at work‚ and some people even use their cell phones when driving. There’s one place in particular where we use our cell phones that might be causing us harm and we don’t even know it‚ it’s the classroom. Whether you know it or not‚ being on your cell phone in class decreases your ability to learn‚ comprehend and store material. Have you ever wondered why teachers don’t want students on
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fact that texting while driving has a greater impact on the rise of car accidents from introduction in 1992. Section II; Research Purpose The purpose of this research is to discover if texting while driving is the leading cause of automobile accidents of today. Society does not view texting while driving as a safe practice. There are ["There are" is an awkward phrase if "there" is not clearly a location] many articles‚ news reports‚ and laws passed on texting while operating a
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