Texting While Driving Vs. Drinking and Driving Mariah Henry COM/170 December 11‚ 2012 Michele Davidson Texting While Driving Vs. Drinking and Driving The nation risks a relentless rise in deadly accidents unless it makes texting while driving as forbidden as drinking and driving. Sending or receiving a text message takes a driver’s eyes from the road long enough to drive the length of a football field while driving an average speed of 55 miles per hour; that does not include having a reaction
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Texting while driving is a large taboo in this country. We are told not to text while driving in school. We are shown the tragic advertisements‚ the heart wrenching statistics‚ but all of this still leaves a disconnect. It can never happen to me is an unfortunate assumption that most of us make everyday without even intending to be self-centered. The idea that we could cause ourselves or others harm is a mood point that few care to consider‚ but we must if we are ever going to face the epidemic
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Driving while using a hand held device is a major topic in todays world because many people do own hand held devices and are addicted to them. Teen and adult drivers don’t know how to put their phones down for twenty minutes to drive to wherever their destination may be. Using a hand held device should be illegal‚ it is dangerous to the driver or other drivers on the road and it can cause accidents or unsafe driving. Hand held devices are unsafe when it comes to driving‚ teens are often stereotyped
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“A Modest Proposal‚” written by Jonathon Swift‚ presents a number of problems in Ireland in 1729. Swift writes to an economically depressed‚ famine filled‚ and ill Ireland in an attempt to persuade families to help solve the countries sufferings. Stating‚ “mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood are forced to employ all their time in strolling‚ to beg sustenance for their helpless infants‚” Swift effectively paints a picture for his audience to better understand the intensity
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Seconds Five seconds may not mean a great deal or seem like significant amount of time to be concern about; however‚ a driver spending just five seconds to read a text message while driving can mean more than what most drivers anticipated. It can mean a person’s life. Sarah Rogers was only 8 years old when driving in a car with her mom. On a four-way stop sign a car crashed into their car hitting the mother’s side at 60mph. James Trolley was the driver who crashed into them and because he decided
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The way “Shooting an Elephant” and “A Modest Proposal” starts is one of the differences these essays has. At first‚ we have “A Modest proposal”‚ it starts explaining how you may see when you enter to the country that he lives in the poor women who have many children and can’t feed them. Basically‚ he is showing us or telling us that there were a lot of poverty in those times. Is telling us that there were a lot of people without work and their work was pleading for money. Furthermore‚ it was a tough
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Why Texting While Driving Should Be Forbidden September 18‚ 2013 Why Texting While Driving Should Be Forbidden How would you feel if someone that you held dear to your heart was severely injured or robbed of his or her life over a simple text message? What would be your choice of action if you received a text message while driving? Texting while driving is a dangerous habit that drivers have developed due to texting’s popularity and entertainment. However‚ the dangers
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There’s reasons why teens decided to use their phone while driving. Teens that observe their parents or friends driving while texting and driving‚ adapts them to say “if they can do‚ I can do it too”. Another statistic from “Texting and Driving Safety‚” says that “48% of young drivers have seen their parents drive while talking on the phone‚” – also‚ 15% teen drivers have viewed their parents text while driving. Like I said‚ teens get influenced by their parents‚ and do as they do. But teens shouldn’t
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INTRODUCTION The aim of this proposal is to wake awareness about a major problem which has been happening in front of our eyes for some time now. As the years go by there are more and more old-fashioned and classical buildings which are demolished for different intentions and corporate companies. CURRENT SITUATION One building in my town has always caught my eye while I was walking to school for the past years. I was impressed by the Renaissance view of the building and over-the-top details. Most
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Persuasive Speech Plan Topic: Texting while driving is dangerous to you and others. General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience not to drive and text. When I have finished my speech‚ my audience will be able to see why driving and texting is dangerous to themselves as well as others. Central Idea: Persuade others not to text and drive because it is very dangerous. Persuasive Proposition: (Statement of Fact‚ Value‚ or Policy) Statement of fact and
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