DISTRACTED DRIVING Multitasking has developed into an essential part of people’s lives and it is expected of human beings to be able to multitask at a high level (Madden 15). This expectation has begun to cause many problems in the modern world with distractions such as texting‚ Facebook chat‚ and‚ Twitter‚ games‚ and social media in general. From the moment people wake up‚ they begin checking their phone‚ to see if anything interesting is going on‚ check the weather‚ search through social
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Teenagers Driving The current driving age of 16 is a great age to start driving. However some may disagree with it. Being able to drive helps you become more social‚ free‚ and independent. This is something every growing teen needs to learn how to be. Driving helps that since you are able to go different places whenever you want to and meet up with whoever you would like. Age does not define how good or bad of a driver someone is. A 16 year old could just be getting their license and so could an
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using phones while driving each year. This could be the result of one little text they send or receive when behind the wheel. I have been an ambulance officer for 20 years and every day I experience families being torn and ripped apart‚ a mother and father losing their only child‚ kids that will never get to experience all the great things that life has to offer because of a few words they receive through a text or phone call. I very strongly believe that texting while driving must be banned and
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hearing. These senses are specifically important and much needed when driving. The elderly are at much higher risk for being involved in a car accident. If an individual over 60 is tested in these areas every three years‚ a determination can be made at that time whether or not safe driving is an issue. If you have a relative close to‚ or older than 60‚ then you might be more likely to understand the benefits of periodic driving tests. My goal is to persuade you to be aware
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Persuasive Essay—Cell phones and driving Suzy Campbell Title Balancing my coffee on my left leg‚ eating a donut with my right hand‚ using my cell phone with my left hand‚ driving with my right knee and having a conversation with a friend at the same time are surprisingly enough all legal‚ as long as they don’t interfere with my driving. While all these distractions can potentially interfere with my driving‚ the one most people often notice is the use of cell phones. Although using cell phones
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impacted by their sometimes careless driving. Each letter in STAND UP Act has a meaning and I believe it will have a positive impact because it sets the law straight for teenagers. Besides S‚ which is basically just stating that each state would have to follow the following guidelines‚ there is a valuable law following the other letters. if teens were able to go by the given laws‚ I think PA would be able to see a dramatic change in our death by teenage driving statistic. For example‚ there are three
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Orwell shows us how important squealer is in the novel by showing us how effective his language is when performing his persuasive speeches on behalf of the other pigs. In Squealers first speech he explains to the animals that the pigs are eating all the apples and the milk out of good will when they supposedly strongly dislike them. He uses several techniques which persuade the animals into believing all that squealer says is true; he uses rhetorical questions for example: “You do not imagine
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When delivering a persuasive speech‚ it is important to think about the ethical appeal‚ or ethos. Simply put‚ you will be able to convince more people if they believe you are a credible source‚ you have done your homework and you are putting forth the necessary information. I argued that the speaker’s credibility must be built and established in each speech; that what the speaker did or said before did not matter. It is important to realize that nowadays there are three different types of credibility
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10/31/12 Persuasive Speech Outline I. ADG- It is not a myth why people call fast food disgusting. On a Friday night during my graveyard shift at McDonald’s a drunken customer passed by the Drive-Thru around 2:30a.m.While my coworker was taking his order the customer decided to cuss and call her really offensive names because she couldn’t get his order right. She got mad and decided to spit in the customers Sweet Tea‚ she was immediately fired when another coworker told the manager. Since I started
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purpose of my persuasive speech was to influence the audience to be more involved in the community by volunteering. I felt that my speech was suitably organized with a sustainable attention getter‚ a clearly organized body and a storytelling conclusion. I started the speech by asking the audience‚ “Has anyone ever stopped to help you when you were in a time of need and want to pay it forward by making a difference in someone else’s life‚ then why not volunteer?” In the body of my speech I included a
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