There are many dangers with trains and similar vehicles. We need to always exercise caution around areas there is even the slightest potential for them to be present. Trains go really fast and can do some pretty gnarly damage. If we aren’t careful we can get smashed by these large vehicles. I think that the most important rule about trains‚ is always exercise caution when near a train track. These trains often do not run on a schedule so there is no telling when exactly they may approach you. I think
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Dangers of Bottled Water General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech my audience will able to describe the dangers of Bottled water. Central idea: Bottled water is not as safe as people believe it to be. Organization Style: Cause and Effect I. Introduction Attention getter: “Every five minutes in the U.S over 2 million plastic bottles are used (Arrey).” Americans drink about 7 billion gallons of bottled water a year that’s about $8 billion dollars in
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When things are hidden from the public‚ or if the public is not aware of something‚ it becomes invisible. According to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s speech‚ “The Danger of a Single Story‚” we need multiple stories so one is not made invisible. When there is only one side of a story‚ the other side is unspoken. Once the other half is not made visible‚ it dehumanizes the people who are a part of the unspoken story. They become places‚ things‚ and people that are forgotten. Martin Espada wrote in “Speaking
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Thus‚ you will see more drivers on the road who are using their phones or you might even have been in a car where the driver was using their phones irresponsibly while they were driving. It is because of this reason why the dangers of texting and driving should be more publicized and banned nationwide since a good number of people are still experiencing drivers out on the road with their phones out. At any given daylight moment across America‚ approximately 660‚000 drivers are
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Running Head: The Dangers of Texting and Driving The Dangers of Texting and Driving It was an evening I will never forget. What I saw that night will impact me for the rest of my life. The night started off normally. My girlfriend and I went out to enjoy a nice dinner with my family‚ but the night took an unexpected turn on our way home. We were driving along I17 and decided to exit the freeway to stop and get gas. We noticed a car fly by us at an incredibly fast rate
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Smoking Smoking is very hazardous to your health‚ and yet many people still do it. Despite knowing the dangers and all the discouragement from the anti-smoking people out there‚ they choose to smoke. Does this mean that there is a logical reason for them to do so? In this essay‚ I will investigate why people smoke and the effects of smoking before deciding for myself whether or not the dangers of smoking out-weigh the benefits. Smoking has consequences in both the short-term and the long-term. Smoking
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Dangers of Communication Technology What can a parent do when they have a teenage son or daughter who texts while driving at 87mph? Or they were talking to an online predator? What could a parent do to prevent something from happening? Many people have cell phones and internet and there are positives but there are also dangers and because of that there are prevention strategies to protect people. There are many positives to having communication technology but at times the disadvantages are too severe
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Soil Liquefaction Dangers During Earthquakes An earthquake brings a number of hazards: • Ground shaking and shifting can cause major damage‚ tearing apart houses‚ buildings‚ and roads. • Flooding that arises from broken water dams or river levees is another hazard. • Tsunamis‚ triggered by an undersea earthquake as well as seiches – waves coming from lakes shaken by a temblor – can submerge whole communities‚ sweep away edifices‚ topple trees and drown people. • Fire is another seismic hazard
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who shot unarmed black people is that they thought they were carrying a gun. The people in this video take this to the logical extreme and go around African-American neighbourhoods replacing everyone’s wallets with ones of a different colour. “The Danger of a Single Story” is a TED talk in which Chimamanda Adichie recounts how we perceive the world through stories‚ and how letting one story dominate the perception of a people can have disastrous consequences. I‚ for one‚ agree with all of their points
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The Dangers of the Drinking Age In this article‚ Jeffrey A. Miron and Elina Tetelbaum argue against the belief that a drinking age of 21 years old saves lives and prevents students from drinking. Their argument is that raising the drinking age to 21 has had many unintended consequences. These consequences include: a rise in binge drinking and disrespect for the law. They use statistics to support their major points and counteract opposing views. “For the past 20 years‚ the United States has kept a Minimum Legal Drinking Age
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