100‚000 accidents a year involve drivers who are texting. (www.itcanwait.com) Our natural instinct when we feel the vibration from our cell phones or hear our cell phones going off is to check it‚ right? We do this often‚ especially when behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. Most of us do not see the danger we put not only ourselves‚ but others‚ in every time we check a text or email or phone call while driving. The advertisement‚ “Texting and Driving: SD Department of Highway Safety”‚ is a very touching
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Method: Problem-Cause-Solution Topic : “Putting the Brakes on Teenage Driving” General Purpose : To persuade Specific Purpose : To persuade my audience that the driving age should be raised to 18 years old. Central idea : The best way to prevent teenage auto accidents is to rise the age for full driving privileges to 18. INTRODUCTION I. On a cold November night‚ a Ford Explorer charged down a California
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Persuasive Speech Manuscript English Honors III 16 January 2013 Text behind the wheel‚ and someone may be killed. No one wants to receive a call that says someone close to them died. No one means any harm by texting and driving; but texting behind the wheel is very harmful. “26% of teens say they read or send a text at least one time every time they drive.” (www.FCC.gov) 26%. That’s a pretty good percentage of just teens alone‚ that’s not even counting adults. No one considers themselves to be
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Driving While Intoxicated Paper Claudia Ortiz Ms. Turner – GOVT 2302 Driving While Intoxicated Paper As we all know driving while intoxicated (DWI) can be very dangerous for both the sober driver and the intoxicated driver. Some of us‚ if not all of us have seen‚ known‚ and even experienced someone driving while intoxicated. There have been stories about drunk drivers on the news and other types of media that shock society. . Many times‚ the outcome of driving while intoxicated
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Some states have made it illegal to drive while using a hand held cell phone‚ I disagree with this law. Due to the fact that young adults are easily distracted‚ the increase in accidents‚ and safety of any other person in the car as well. To start off young adults are easily distracted easily. It takes a young person about 4 seconds to read a text message‚ in the time that they read a message. It only takes 1.2 of those seconds for a crash to happen. Plus when its dark out and other drivers
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Texas texting while driving bill In 2009‚ Alex Brown crashed her car on her way to school because she was distracted by the text messages on her phone. Alex Brown was from Texas and was going to a school in West Texas. Her family founded the Alex Brown foundation. They traveled around the country‚ to educate the drivers about the dangers of texting while driving. This accident got attention from the media and it led to the ban of texting while driving in various states in the United States‚ but ironically
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The video begins with the hosts introducing the guest star Danny Preston‚ who is a defensive driving instructor. He claims that there are ways to turn road rage into calm and collected road revenge. The discussion starts by Preston explaining what to do when people are cut off on the road whilst driving. He says to remain calm and then follow the violator home. After obtaining their address‚ one can sneak into their perpetrators house and rearrange things to spook them out. It is much easier to make
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pulls out a cell phone while driving and begins texting‚ it is as if they have placed a blind fold over their eyes‚ and are now driving blind. Their eyes focus on nothing but the screen of the device. With the push of every character‚ they become more oblivious to the road‚ signs‚ and other cars. Automatically‚ they are a malignant threat to everyone around them. As more people text and drive‚ it grows to be more of a serious hazard and threat to the roads and those driving. This serious subject doesn’t
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Texting while driving has become prevalent in recent years because technology has become widespread around the world. While people might be under the impression that texting is acceptable behind the wheel the action is quite dangerous. The action could result in a death because the drivers’ eyes are preoccupied‚ and out-of-focus from the road. Although the dangers of texting while driving may be underestimated‚ it is simply not worth the risk due to the fact that it promotes technological convenience
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In today’s society‚ people use texting as a way to communicate with each other. The evolution of this technology has made it possible for people to relay their messages quicker‚ receive responses at a faster rate‚ and be able to do other activities instead of delaying them because they are talking on the phone. Texting and the use of cellphones have become extremely popular; however‚ they’ve also become very dangerous. Texting has become a perilous activity for the fact that there are individuals
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