Deborah Salerno November 20‚ 2007 SLEEP DEPRIVATION & DRIVING Nothing could prepare me for the news I received six years ago about the unexpected death of my close friend Joey. I will never forget the night he died. How I had been with him just minutes before‚ and how his death was totally unnecessary and preventable. A few weeks before Christmas in 2001‚ Joey‚ myself and a few of my other co-workers were closing down the local restaurant we worked at while attending Umass Lowell. It had
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influencing factors that are able to shape our attitudes and beliefs towards driving. The media‚ family‚ and peers are all major contributing factors that have positioned me to believe that drink driving and speeding is wrong and that you must always wear a seatbelt when driving in a car. The media‚ has proven to be one of the most prominent factors in the shapeing of attitudes and beliefs towards many things‚ including driving and our cautiousness on the roads. Campaigns are enforced to raise our
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Stanley Bussey Essay 2 Draft 4 Eng 103-0870 Dr. David Sibbitt Texting and Driving‚ You Never Know Not a care in the world. Teenage years are supposed to be the best time in my life‚ because all I have to worry about is me. Why should I care about the next person? Who can I hurt by sending out this text? My girls and I are just fooling around and having some fun and I’m just texting some boy teasing my friend in the back. It will only take a second to send this text and then I’m right back to
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Did you know drunk driving is the Nation s most frequently committed violent crime? About three in every five Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives. It s a scary thought isn t it? Drunk driving takes the life of a person approximately every thirty seconds. Those injured and killed in drunk driving collisions are not accident victims. The crashes caused by impaired drivers involve two choices: to drink AND to drive. The injuries and deaths sustained each
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The endless amount of bad driving habits lead to the severely high rates of car accidents every year. Nearly all causes of car accidents are while somone is breaking the law in some way or another. These driving laws are in place for a reason and there are almost always consequences for breaking them. Usually people have to pay high court fines or even serve jail time for breaking them. The majority of people continue to ignore them and are most likely going to end up in some sort of car accident
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restriction on the driving of women in Saudi Arabia is more due to the cultural stereotyping rather than the religious issues‚ as is popularly perceived. The respective paper will argue that as per the Islam as well as general social ethics‚ the restriction on the driving by women is a violation of fundamental human rights. Brief Summary It has been popularly believed that under the influence of Islamic jurisdiction‚ the Saudi government has imposed restriction on the driving of women. The issue
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car accidents? "National Teen Driving Statistics" showed that 16-year-old teenagers are three times more likely to die in car accidents than the average of all drivers. In 2002‚ 40.8 billion dollar was the estimated economic impact of auto accidents involving drivers who are 15-18 years old. The possibility of parents losing control of their children‚ the immaturity of teenagers‚ and the history of the teenagers’ accidents and deaths are three main reasons why driving licenses should not be given
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have a habit of driving a vehicle while using a cellphone. This has lead to the outlaw of cellphone use while driving. Those who agree with this law believe it will be very helpful to their community‚ while those against it believe the law infringes on their rights. Those against this law have not considered the positive affects this will have on many citizens. Therefore‚ cellphone use while driving should not be allowed! Those against the outlaw of cellphone use while driving believe that many
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Congratulations‚ you’ve passed the driving test.” At the age of 16 people can receive their drivers’ license. Many think that this age is too high but many more think it is too low. The age at which young people can receive their license is far too low. There are three stages of a license and people should not be able to receive the first stage of their license until they are 20. Cost‚ insurance‚ and age are all crucial points in why the driving age needs to be changed. With the driving age at 16 there are a
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possibly reduce car accidents overall. However‚ some argue that by keeping the driving age at sixteen gives parents more opportunity to teach their young drivers before they become adults. However‚ the legal driving age should be raised because it is safer for everyone. A reason why the legal driving age should be raised to eighteen is because it will provide extra time for the driver to gather further wisdom to apply to driving techniques. Lifting the age of these young adults will give them additional
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