see are far beyond our wildest imagination. Futurists claim that in 30 years or less‚ humans will live way beyond a century. Technology already allows scientists how to view the interior of the sun. While technology has the potential to make life more fulfilling‚ there is that ever present danger that technology can have an adverse affect on our children. Children today do not spend their leisure time playing dodge ball or skating. They spend hours playing video games‚ watching TV‚ surfing the
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What are the some of the effects that texting is having on the teen literacy? Text messaging has increased in popularity ever since the very first text message that was sent in the year of 1933 by a student who was working for the Nokia Corporation (Druoin and Davis 49). Centre of Science Education at Sheffield University discovered that more than ninety percent of the youth have cell phones and ninety-six percent of them use them to text. (Plester‚ Wood‚ Bell 137). The establishment of cell phones
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LYCEUM of the PHILIPPINES UNIVERSITY CAVITE CAMPUS Governor’s Drive Gen. Trias‚ Cavite Text Messaging: Means of Communication or Means of Lowering The Level of English Literacy among LPU Students Submitted by: Malabanan‚ Jill Justine E. Paras‚ Juran Jither I. Salonoy‚ Roy Jerus J. Sumague‚ Aron Johnzel M. Toledo‚ Renz Harry M. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I Problem and Its background…………………………………………………………..............1 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………....1 Statement
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Choose one of the following questions to answer for the argument essay in this module. Does our state do enough to prevent distracted driving? or Can a Public Service Announcement (PSA) help reduce the number of distracted driving incidents? PART ONE 1. Write the claim you will present in your argument essay. PSA’s can’t help reduce the number of distracted driving incidents‚ they are showed all the time but yet accidents due to distracted driving happen often. 2. Write the counterclaim that
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Explaining How Moving From Place to Place Affects Teens It isn’t easy for anyone to pack up and leave everything that is familiar and try to fit into a new environment. But it’s especially hard during a time in your life when there are already so many physical and emotional changes taking place in a young teens life. There is so many different ways a big move can have a impact on a teen ‚ even if its a small or big impact teens still go through changes an some times lose great friends by
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texting 1. Texting and driving 2. Lack of concentration‚ losing focus on driving 3. Looking at texts and not paying attention to the surroundings scenery C: Standing on this issue? All drivers need to be aware of distracted driving and take steps to minimize the risk to themselves and others. “I’m asking you today to listen to the statistics and the stories and decide for yourself whether that one text message‚ is worth the cost of a human life.” II. Supporting Facts #1 A: While distracted driving
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HOW DOES MODERN TECHNOLOGY IMPACT TEENS? ------------------------------------------------- Updated Oct 11 2010 - 3:54pm · Posted Feb 22 2007 - 2:03pm by GeekSugar · 1 comment News · Digital Life · Teens Teens all over the world are growing up in a world in which the Internet‚ cell phones‚ text messaging and other technology dominates their communication and are an integral part of everyday life. I was a teenager when AIM got big and remember how quickly everyone in my age group got addicted
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from reality would provide a shelf for critical thinking. Pratt (2006) suggests critical literacy gives students an opportunity to think deeply about the ideologies that underlie the text. Dystopia texts are often developed to criticise a trend‚ social norm or a political system. The texts 1984‚ V for Vendetta and The Lottery all present notions of criticism toward a political system or a trend. The fourth text‚ the students’ choice‚ has to be one of non-fiction dystopia. This extends the students
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I wanted to let you know to never text and drive. I still want to be there for you in the car‚ and telling you not to text and drive is the best thing I can do. Hundreds to thousands of teenagers die from texting and driving yearly‚ and I would not want you to be one of the thousand teenagers. Even though it might seem silly‚ but it’s serious that teens shouldn’t text and drive because it’s dangerous‚ costly‚ and has affect on others. Teens should not text and drive. First of all‚ texting and
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Teenagers who frequently use ’techspeak’ when they text performed poorly on a grammar test‚ said Drew Cingel‚ a former undergraduate student in communications at Penn State. ’Techspeak’ inclusdes shortcuts‚ homophones and the ommission of non-essential letters‚ such When tweens write in techspeak‚ they often use shortcuts‚ such as homophones‚ acronyms and omissions of non-essential letters such as ’wud’ for ’would.’ But researchers say the texting is having a detrimental effect on normal rules
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