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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Texting and driving may come off as just a thing that happens and its "no big deal" if we can get anyway with it. Some lives are being taken away by it and we need to take this into consideration. One reply your made to a friend‚ or family member it could leave you dead or someone else. An example of this is Ashley’s story which is a story of a girl would was texting and driving and ended up dead. Something as simple as "yeah" in a text lead to the death of a girl named Ashley in March 2010‚ Ashley’s
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The use of cell phones while driving has become a major problem nationwide. Drivers who use their cell phones while driving are prone to causing accidents and being involved in one than without using a cell phone. It has been documented and statistically proven numerous times that texting and driving is one of the main causes of road accidents in this nation‚ therefore‚ it is important that something is done about the use of cell phones and driving to prevent the number of accidents from continuing
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Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that texting and driving shouldn’t be allowed. Central Idea: Simple fact on how it puts everyone on danger that’s on the road and how many accidents it creates. Attention Getter: Imagine your leaving your house on your way to work and you need to drop off your daughter but you receive a text message‚ so as you are driving you look down and take a look at it but soon you realize it’s far too late and you have already hit the side of
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PROBLEM-SOLUTION ESSAY A problem-solution essay is an essay in which you analyze a problem and propose a method for solving it. Actually‚ the major part of a problem-solution essay is explaining what the solution to the problem is and arguing that this solution will be effective‚ easy to impliment‚ better than other solutions and cost-effective. A problem-solution essay should have the following characteristics: • a problem that needs to be solved • a thesis statement that identifies the problem
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Texting and Driving vs. Drunk Driving Over the last century‚ technology has helped society move forward‚ making things faster and easier. Having a vehicle has allowed people to reach a destination faster than they would if they had to ride a bike or even walk. Also the ability to now text using a cell phone speeds up the communication process even more. With all the new technological advances you have to many people taking advantage of it; by texting while they are driving to make business or
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distracted driving. Senator Klobuchar on the committee and senators Menendez‚ Landrieu‚ and Hagen together introduced the Alert Drivers Act‚ which would say that states pass laws banning texting while driving. Though more and more states are passing texting bans‚ it remains the case that fewer than half the states have banned the practice as of today (U.S. Congress). AAA foundation for Traffic Safety reports that 67 percent of drivers admitted to talking on their cell phone while driving behind the
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service advertisement portrays texting and driving as a cause of injury that can be prevented. It seeks to get people to change their behavior by using a close up image of a man being punched in the face‚ comparing his reaction to that of cars crashing into each other due to texting and driving. A close-up view is more effective than a shot taken further away because the detail highlights the violence of the punch. We are able to see the pain in the man’s face while the spit is forced out of his mouth
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Jose Antonio Hilado Problem-Solution Essay ENGLCOM C36B Prison Colonies as Solution for Prison Overpopulation Prison Overpopulation remains to be an unresolved problem that the Philippines is facing and which has been facing since 2000. Yet we have never heard about it being solved. The news or the media in general do not usually
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Prof Snyder Problem-Solution Essay 7 November 2012 Generation Y Not Vote? It only comes once every four years. It is a day of unity‚ expression‚ equality and freedom. Every citizen over the age of eighteen in the United States has the opportunity –the right– to be a part of something huge. Presidential Election Day. The long awaited day that is consumed by the media‚ Facebook‚ and Twitter months in advance. An individual can choose to voice an opinion with discretion and secrecy in the voting
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