Driving While Texting in Relation to Teens The Consequences and Solutions One second someone is texting a friend‚ cracking a joke‚ the next they are in the backseat of the car in front of them. Eleven percent of accidents involving those aged eighteen to twenty are caused by the use and distraction of a cell phone. Raising awareness and educating those whom this may concern about the consequences of texting and driving can help reduce this statistic and prevent future lives from being affected
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Bongiovanni Texting Research paper As technology advanced‚ text messaging was designed as a quick and quirky way to speak to one another without actually speaking. Text messaging has become very popular in recent years‚ especially amongst teenagers and young adults but the outcome of this advancement is not all positive. Although texting makes communication faster and easier there are many problems that derive from texting alone. Texting and driving‚ cheating on tests‚ negative effects on social
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culprit — texting while driving. While captaining her Chevrolet Lumina‚ Brittany decided to text her mother‚ distracting her from the road ahead. Instead of hitting the send button‚ Brittany’s life hit the end button‚ as she drove off an embankment‚ went airborne‚ and smashed into a utility pole (Friedman‚ pars. 2-4). Stories like Brittany’s raise questions over whether or not texting while driving should be banned. Nowadays it is growing exceedingly common to see drivers using the texting application
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English Assessment I was texting my daughter to ask when she would be home for dinner on a late afternoon. She texted back‚ I will be there soon. She never made it. I killed my own daughter because of a lousy text message. Good afternoon‚ my name is Rebecca Wilson and today I will be speaking about why texting and driving should be banned. Over 10‚000 people are killed and over 50‚000 are injured from text messaging and knowing that my little girl was one of the 10‚000 people that have been killed
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Rani Samudrala Mrs. Graham English 10 H. 8 April 8‚ 2013 Texting & Driving: 1 Way 2 Die Keep your thumbs down while you’re on the Road Aaron Brooker‚ 19 year old student‚ didn’t know that he would have his last ride as he was going home at 75 miles after spending the weekend with his girlfriend. He later on decided to send her text message- and the next thing you know‚ he was wounded up pinned under a semi. The toll: two broken femurs‚ a broken kneecap and ankle‚ severe nerve damage to
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Abstract Cause: Driving drunk Effect One: Penalties Jail time Losing your job Missing your family’s time Effect Two: Personal injury The finical cost one self The cost to the state for those uninsured The cost to your family Effect Three: Cost of life Killing your self Killing incident bystanders Causing injury’s that are irreversible Annotated Bibliography Fancher‚ R. (2003). Drinking & DRIVING. Scholastic Choices‚ 19(1)‚ 6. Retrived from
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Drunk Driving happens when the driver of a vehicle is intoxicated from alcoholic beverages. This very dangerous and has devastating effects. Many people die each year from a drunk driving accident. In the lesson on drunk driving it states‚" Almost half of the crashes in which people are killed nationally involve drinking. There are more than 16‚000 of those crashes each year." in the same essay it states‚" The average person is likely to be legally intoxicated after consuming three mixed drinks‚
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THE EFFECTS OF TEXTING ON LITERACY: Is it corrupting language? 1.0 INTRODUCTION What’s SMS? SMS first appeared in GSM in about 1991. SMS later appeared in CDMA and TDMA networks. Mobile Origination (MO) - a key feature of SMS‚ allowing the user to originate SMS messages from the handset - has only became available to non-GSM users in 2000. Ask a kid anywhere in the world‚ he or she would tell it is form of talking to another person(s)‚ with a cell phone using letters and not words. SMS means
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Texting and Driving Crash- It Can Wait Tiffany Wilkerson Southeastern Technical College AT&T is a major phone corporation. This company has also taken a huge stance on texting and driving. The number of people killed in distraction-affected crashes decreased slightly from 3‚360 in 2011 to 3‚328 in 2012. An estimated 421‚000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver‚ this was nine percent increase from the estimated 387‚000 people injured in 2011. Texting is becoming
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Adverse Effects of Internet on Teenagers: Introduction: The use of internet has grown tremendously among the teenagers over the last few decades. This has largely been caused by a variety of reasons such as education and the need for entertainment. The internet provides a variety of free information and resources that can either build or destroy the life of a teenager. As a result‚ many teenagers have ended destroyed morally and psychologically due to excessive use of the internet for the wrong
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