Daniel Lizama ENG 102 March 2‚ 2013 The Effectiveness of Prohibiting the Use of Cell Phones While Driving The use of cell phones while driving causes the driver to be distracted. “According to Major Huxtable‚ cell phone use can distract a driver’s attention from traffic and road conditions” (Wisconsin Department of Transportation). As technology advances more and more people are starting to own cell phones often times at such a young age. “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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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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Melanie Hendricks Dean Kelly EH 1302 09 March 2010 Cell Phone Usage While Driving Cell phones have grown in popularity enormously in the last twenty years. Having a cell phone has become a necessity for twelve year olds to senior citizens. Cell phones are the most widely used device of communication for Americans. Not only are cell phones used for talking‚ but also many cell phones have capabilities to do everything that a computer can do. Due to the increasing popularity and ever changing
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History of the Document The Universal Declaration of Human Rights‚ which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948‚ was the result of the experience of the Second World War. With the end of that war‚ and the creation of the United Nations‚ the international community vowed never again to allow atrocities like those of that conflict happen again. World leaders decided to complement the UN Charter with a road map to guarantee the rights of every individual everywhere. The document
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------------------------------------------------- Using a Cell Phone While Driving: It Can Wait In recent years‚ a new and extremely dangerous epidemic has plagued our roads. The use of cell phones while operating vehicles is an ongoing controversy that is resulting in more and more deaths each year. Consequently‚ we are now dealing with much more than the occasional switch of a radio station‚ or a casual conversation with a passenger; we are faced with constant preoccupation while driving. Talking/texting while in the car is an extreme
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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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To be or not to be Motivated That is the Question Simmarie Nicole Carrillo University of phoenix Abstract “Tom I am so hungry‚ I could eat a horse! Me too!” replied his little brother Chris. What is the motivation behind the children’s remark? What is there incentive? It is simple hunger is there motivation‚ while food is the incentive. However‚ could it be more such as biological factors that correlates with the source of motivation? Have you ever thought about
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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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us/alcohol-drug.htm#what http://www.nysdwi.com/newyorkdwi.html http://alcoholism.about.com/od/about/a/symptoms.htm In New York State‚ the crime Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) consists of an individual testing a Blood Alcohol Level (BAC) of .08 or higher. Producing a BAC of .05 to .07‚ or any other evidence of impairment results in Driving While Ability Impaired (DWAI). Both DWI and DWAI offenses carry with it a range of penalties and consequences. First offenders for DWI and DWAI are fined
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English Dr. L. 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
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