Texting While Driving Vs. Drinking and Driving Mariah Henry COM/170 December 11‚ 2012 Michele Davidson Texting While Driving Vs. Drinking and Driving The nation risks a relentless rise in deadly accidents unless it makes texting while driving as forbidden as drinking and driving. Sending or receiving a text message takes a driver’s eyes from the road long enough to drive the length of a football field while driving an average speed of 55 miles per hour; that does not include having a reaction
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pizza. The pitch has been that hands-free devices are safer because they enable drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road. Play VIDEO Texting and driving epidemic among teens Play VIDEO Are we becoming disconnected by our love of devices? Play VIDEO Cell phone companies join forces to stop texting and driving But talking on a hands-free phone isn’t significantly safer for drivers than talking on a hand-held phone‚ and using hands-free devices that translate
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The study: Hyper-texting teens more likely to smoke‚ drink‚ have sex appears on CNN.com by Ed Payne in the Social Media category. This article suggests teens that text in excess of 120 times each day is more likely to smoke‚ drink‚ and have sex at earlier ages. According to a new case study by the “Case Western Reserve School of Medicine” teens that are hyper-texters are‚ two times more likely to try or have tried alcohol‚ forty percent likely to have tried smoking‚ nearly three and a half times
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CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION The subject of this study is slang and how the use of slang can be transferred from a source text in one language to a target text in another language. I have chosen this subject because slang is something in a conversation or similar communicative situation that most people easily recognize as soon as it is uttered‚ but explaining and defining what slang is and how it functions is an entirely different matter. Consequently‚ it is interesting to research the use of slang
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Guess Who’s Texting You? Evaluating the Security of Smartphone Messaging Applications Sebastian Schrittwieser‚ Peter Fr¨ hwirt‚ Peter Kieseberg‚ Manuel Leithner‚ u Martin Mulazzani‚ Markus Huber‚ Edgar Weippl SBA Research gGmbH Vienna‚ Austria (1stletterfirstname)(lastname)@sba-research.org Abstract In recent months a new generation of mobile messaging and VoIP applications for smartphones was introduced. These services offer free calls and text messages to other subscribers‚ providing
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Some people argue that texting or other web based interactions can be creative forms of language use. Others believe that people only use these forms of communication due to laziness‚ or just lack of knowledge of the English language. In my opinion; texting is a mixture of both. Common ‘text language’ includes abbreviating many different words‚ which in my opinion requires a certain level of intellect and knowledge of the English language to be able to do in the first place. However‚ I also understand
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How new technology such as Facebook‚ Twitter‚ Skype‚ LinkedIn‚ texting and others affected our society positively and negatively By Judes Shao (Shao‚ Tian-Chan) Willy Aroca Oct 6th‚ 2012 Fairleigh Dickinson University New technologies such as Facebook‚ Twitter‚ Skype‚ LinkedIn‚ texting are becoming more popular around the world. Many people are now using new technologies such as social media. Even there was a major reason U.S. President Barack Obama’s campaign team used social media to
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Modern social technology is threatening to dominate our lives and make us less human. As media has developed‚ human frantically use modern technology to communicate with each other. Under the illusion of perfect connections between people‚ it indirectly isolates and leads to less socially comfortable human interaction. However‚ social media such as facebook‚ and twitter actually brings out various benefits by sharing commonality of human nature through convenient access of modern technology. In another
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the Cell Phone Driver and the Drunk Driver Vol Reschovsky‚ C. (2004). Journey to work: 2000‚ Census 2000 brief. Retrieved May 19‚ 2012 from http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-33.pdf Wellenbach‚ P. (2011‚ Dec. 8) More American drivers are texting while driving despite additional legal measures
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driving time or if it’s dangerous. The purpose is just to inform its readers of the debate‚ and to show how some companies are attempting to fix the issue. This article would be useful because it does have statistics about state laws against texting while driving. Although phone usage is not the only distraction‚ many distractions cannot have a law put on them. This brings it back to the argument stating that the driver needs to make better decisions on the road. "Distracted Driving Facts."
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