Cell Phones in the Hands of Drivers: A Risk or a Benefit? As of 2000‚ there were about ninety million cell phone users in the United States‚ with 85% of them using their phones while on the road (Sundeen 1). Because of evidence that cell phones impair drivers by distracting them‚ some states have considered laws restricting their use in moving vehicles. Proponents of legislation correctly point out that using phones while driving can be dangerous. The extent of the danger‚ however‚ is a matter
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Davao City bans use of plastics‚ styrofoams Philippine Daily Inquirer 3:28 pm | Thursday‚ May 10th‚ 2012 DAVAO CITY – After banning smoking and spitting in public‚ the city government announced that starting June 28‚ it would be a crime here to use environmentally-destructive plastic bags and styrofoams in packaging‚ including for food products. Joseph Dominic Felizarta‚ chief of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro)‚ said the city government will strictly implement the
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worry about. For example‚ cell phone usage. Cell phones should be allowed to be used in schools‚ but put on vibrate in classes. What if there is an emergency? A parent’s first instinct is to call their child not the school. Parents were informed with the cell phone policy‚ but aren’t many children sent to school with their phone? It’s causing more of a distraction not able to use them because students are anxious to check them during class. Even if one forbids cell phone usage‚ it doesn’t prevent
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article" From Stone Age To Phone Age "‚ author Barbara Ehrereich argues that all cell phones serve as a status symbol‚ thus presenting mankind ’s selfish attempt to "showboat" their level of importance. By publicly engaging in meaningless conversations individuals are able to obtain admirer ’s jealously; thus portraying that the on-lookers are lonely because of their absence of a cellular phone or lack of received calls. In fact since primal times it has been a tendency of humans to compete with one another
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Cell Phone Usage in Public While sitting in church‚ listening to the pastor’s sermon‚ a cell phone rings playing a Lady Gaga tune. Talking on the phone loudly with a friend‚ someone checks out at a grocery store. Strolling through the park on a sunny afternoon‚ a person walks by on a Blue Tooth device practically screaming. While driving to the mall‚ someone is talking on the cell phone or texting while driving. The given examples show evidence of how talking on the phone in public can be distracting
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David Hill ENG 106 1-28-13 Ms. James Research Proposal Our Government a Conspiracy? Every since I was exposed to the controversial footage “Loose Change”‚ it sparked a peculiar interest in my further knowledge of what happened on September 11‚ 2001 in New York. For my term paper in English 106‚ I propose to prove that the 9/11 incident was in fact an inside job operated by our own government and that in fact they are behind multiple disasters in the United States. Project Purpose‚ Description
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Cell Phones Being Tracked Mobile phones are a big essential part of our human culture. We as humans rely on cell phones to communicate. Cell phones are used every day. Many cell phone companies are tracking their customers daily and many customers are unaware of it. Would it bother you to know that the cell phone companies are allowing government access to track your whereabouts without your permission? Our privacy is being invaded and many of us do not know about this taking place. This could have a positive
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CELL PHONE SHOULD BE BANNED Cell phone is the most effective device around the world.Not only the people who work somewhere but also adolescents use it.Using a cell phone causes some problems among youth.My opinion is that cell phones should be banned at high schools. To begin with‚as the whole researchers have mentioned‚cell phones are bad for health‚especially the young ones.The most bad effect of using cell phone is that cell phones affect on human brain‚such as headache.However
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can cell phones cause cancer? This article is about if cell phones can cause brain cancer and slows brain metabolism. The scientists had volunteers to test out there theories. The volunteers held a flip phone to their ear for 50 minutes with a signal and then held the phone to their ear for 50 minutes without signal. "metabolism in the region closest to the antenna was significantly higher [about 7 percent] for on than off conditions." (nora Volcow) That region includes the orbitofrontal cortex
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Are cell Phones a Health Hazard? With the increasing of mobile phones’ functions‚ people rely more and more on them. The lower price also enables the mobile phone to become people’s daily necessity. Now even many students have their own mobile phone. People began to worry about the cell phone which will do harm to our health. But why people become worried about that? There are some speculates that cell phone might potentially threaten human being’s health. Mobile phones can emit radiofrequency
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