While Kelley was driving on I-4‚ a friend texted her. Kelley picked up her phone and read the text. While she began to laugh‚ she looked up and started to realize that she was too close to the truck in front of her which started to brake. Kelley was too late to react on time and got into a bad accident. Luckily she made it out alive‚ but she could have ended up losing her life. Although a lot of people text while driving‚ they never admit that they do so. As illustrated in the real life example before
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Cell Phones and Media Consumption INTRODUCTION In today’s society‚ the prolific use of cell phones has become so commonplace we barely realize how often we (and the people around us) are on our phones. Our culture has become accustomed to the widespread use and accessibility of cellphones‚ and we fail to realize the effect it has on people and society as a whole. The overuse and abuse of cell phones‚ specifically text messaging among high school and college students is cause for concern. Nowadays
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April 2013 “Are Cell Phones Ruining Society?” Cell phones are not just a privilege in people’s lives anymore but have become a necessity in order for people to function on a daily basis. Not a minute goes by where cell phones aren’t being used somewhere at some time. The average American looks at their phone 150 times per day. That works out to once every 6.5 minutes of every hour that the average person is awake. (Glaser) As high as those numbers are‚ the usage of cell phones will only continue
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Using Cellular Phones While Driving An issue that has been of some concern to the telecommunication industry in recent years is that of cellular phone use while operating a motor vehicle. This issue has been the subject of much debate among consumer‚ industry and government stakeholders. Most consumer stakeholders‚ such as the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety‚ agree that cell phone use while driving is an unsafe and hazardous distraction‚ while others feel that it is a new luxury provided by
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Cell Phones Being Bad As time passed and society grew larger and larger‚ so did the way we communicate to each other. We went from face to face interaction‚ to handwritten letters‚ to typed letters‚ to phone calls‚ to email. Now in the twenty-first century most of society has cell phones. With cell phones they have two different functions. One is to call and actually talk and the other one is to type what you want to say and send it to another person who also has a cell phone and receive it as a
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According to a poll “The Washington Post” did‚ about 91% of people believed that parents and teachers need to be more aware of how much they pressure their kids‚ and the remaining 9% believe that this pressure is good preparation for the “real world.” While hard work is the key to success‚ it is easy to see why so much pressure is put on these students. Could today’s society be putting too much pressure on teens? When does all this studying and hard work become too much and start to have a negative effect
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Many places nationwide are now seeing the dangers of the use of cell phones while driving is on the rise. Not only is it a danger to the person using the cell phone‚ but anyone around the user. It only takes a fraction of a second to lose control of a vehicle; and who knows what can happen in that fraction of a second. Will a life be lost? Will two or more lives be lost? We know what can happen to an extent‚ but let’s not find out what the full extent is. We need everyone‚ including the Government
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Distractions While Driving Have you ever gotten distracted while driving in a car? Every day that you watch the news you either hear of someone getting into a car accident‚ by either talking or texting on a cell phone. It is becoming increasingly common for people to wreck due to distractions while driving. Talking and texting are just a couple ways that people get distracted while driving. According to The U.S. Department of Transportation‚ in 2008‚ about twenty percent of all crashes in the year
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Cell Phone Usage in Public While sitting in church‚ listening to the pastor’s sermon‚ a cell phone rings playing a Lady Gaga tune. Talking on the phone loudly with a friend‚ someone checks out at a grocery store. Strolling through the park on a sunny afternoon‚ a person walks by on a Blue Tooth device practically screaming. While driving to the mall‚ someone is talking on the cell phone or texting while driving. The given examples show evidence of how talking on the phone in public can be distracting
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Cell Phones in the Hands of Drivers: A Risk or a Benefit? As of 2000‚ there were about ninety million cell phone users in the United States‚ with 85% of them using their phones while on the road (Sundeen 1). Because of evidence that cell phones impair drivers by distracting them‚ some states have considered laws restricting their use in moving vehicles. Proponents of legislation correctly point out that using phones while driving can be dangerous. The extent of the danger‚ however‚ is a matter
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