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    Distracted Driving Essay

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    Distractive driving causes you to not only get into an accident‚ but it can also cause you to lose focus. When we are driving a car‚ we are constantly looking ahead looking for things that could possibly cause a distraction to us. Some distractive things while driving could be‚ receiving text messages or calls‚ music playing from the radio‚ construction vehicles‚ a billboard sign‚ an accident‚ or even someone pulled over to the side of the road. Even if we don’t notice some of the things distracting

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    apps‚ driving mode and a rewarding system to encourage drivers to stay focused on driving to prevent distraction. There are apps‚ that can block calls and text message and those apps will block every calls and text message except 911 which way people will be focused on driving(The real American Carnage Is on the Nation’s Highways 3). Now that there is an app that can prevent people from distraction‚ people need to educate themselves with those apps. People can use those apps while they drive. Drivers

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    Distractions on the Internet Decreasing Productivity and Efficiency in Work The internet is full of distractions. It has pop-ups‚ ads‚ notifications‚ everything is popping out at you on the screen. Our focus is being diverted to one thing to the next rapidly and constantly. This is affecting the way in which we think and in the way we work‚ especially if working on a device with internet connection. The internet has been so embedded into modern day society that there is no turning back. We can

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    popular method of teaching requires students to listen and read‚ often while sitting still‚ students who have a short attention span might have difficulty learning. Enviromental - Distractions Distraction is the divided attention of an individual or group from the chosen object of attention onto the source of distraction. Students learn far quicker when there is a lack of interruption. This many include people moving around‚ talking‚ and equipment not working. Students distracted during learning

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    it causes 26% of car crashes in America. Using cell phones while driving cause over 10% of fatal crashes with teen drivers (Document F). Teens should not assume that they are invincible because they are young‚ so we have to be careful about the distraction that phones cause. Looking at

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    Over the last couple of years‚ technology has evolved tremendously than its has in the last hundred years. Technology has started to be part of our life and that has created an effect on us since we know we rely on it a daily basis. Although technology has positive uses and a positive influence on people like teens/young adults‚ technology also has a negative influence/effect on young adults. Technology has positive influences on young adults like helping them academically‚ but it has also negative

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    handphones to school‚ they will feel threatened. As a result‚ they try to seize the handphone forcefully. Theft or stealing may also happen when a student carelessly leave his handphone in the classroom. On top of that‚ handphones will become a distraction in the student’s lesson.

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    Technological Change

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    Eduard Noel Y. Cortez HFH19 Mrs. Jeng Ventus Sept 11 2013 What are the effects of Technological Changes of our lives? Technology nowadays has become a great impact mostly to all our aspects in life. It led life to a far better‚ easier and comfortable to live in. Truly there is no doubt that technology has taken over our everyday lives‚ which is true. We behave on how technology behave‚ somewhat half of our lives we concentrate in technology. Traditional ways of doing things

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    driving while using a cell phone. The results are staggering‚ while driving at 70 mph the drunk driver stopped 4 feet beyond the baseline while the cell phone driver stopped 36 feet beyond the baseline. Both are not as favorable as driving with no distractions‚ but driving with the use of electronics is far worse than driving

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    The Shallows

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    others believe that it takes their life away. The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing to Our Brains‚ by Nicholas Carr is a novel that explores the different areas of how new technologies affect humans in different ways‚ regarding multi-tasking and distractions‚ to how new technologies make us lose a little part of ourselves. Throughout the book Carr puts forward very strong arguments‚ but then loses creditability with his use of fallacies in argument. Within the very first chapter “Hal and Me”‚ is

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