I’m here to talk to you kids about texting while driving. I know‚ I know you have heard this speech a million times before‚ but I hope that this time you will really listen and learn from my mistakes before it’s to late. I was really just a normal teenager. Seventeen. Doing pretty well in school. Had a great group of friends. I had a really great life going for me. My parents always told me to never text while driving and of course I went to all these school assemblies where people came and lectured
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HOW DOES TEXTING AFFECT LANGUAGE Language change is a universal fact that occurs very regularly. If we go back‚ in all the existing languages‚ they are not the same as they were when they were first developed. If we think about it nobody talks the same as they use to 20 or 50 years ago. Language is the way people communicate with each other‚ express their feelings and emotions so since the world itself changes‚ it is inevitable for language to remain the same‚ for people’s way of communication
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Is Drunk Driving worth losing your life? Katie Ideal Thompson * Drinking and driving * Specific Purpose: To persuade my classmates to not get behind the wheel after drinking. Thesis Statement: Drinking and driving is an issue that most seem to ignore and think it doesn’t affect us but what if one day it did? I. Attention A. Maybe you were out with your friends one night having fun drinking at a bar or house party maybe celebrating a birthday or special event such as new years.
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cell phone of the purse or pocket. But the eye then goes of the road. " I ’ll just text a brief response while I ’m stopped at the light‚" I tell myself. Being of the not-born-with-cell-phone-in-hand generation‚ or older than 30‚ I ’m slow in typing the message on that itsy-bitsy screen. It ’s an even greater challenge if I don ’t have my reading glasses on -- I never wear them while driving. It takes two hands to type. My 20-something children can do it one handed‚ rarely looking at the keyboard
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The Effects of Cell Phones While Driving Psychology 1100 July 12‚ 2011 In today’s society‚ motorists are either against or for cell phone use while driving. My goal is to determine whether talking on a hand-held or hands-free device actually affects the reaction times and situation awareness (SA) of the driver. Aspects of situation awareness are crucial to the performance of any dynamic complex task; including operating a motor vehicle as discussed in “Effects of distraction and experience
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daily and regularly these days. They leave pains behind for the victims’ families. Many people think that they will never get involved in car accidents. They don’t wear their seat belts‚ they drive after drinking‚ and they use their cell phones while driving. They do all these things without even giving a second thought‚ yet all these things are preventable. No one knows what will happen to them in the future except for God; thus‚ they should always stay alarmed. People don’t realize that doing those
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the rare individuals known as hermaphrodites who are a mixture of male and female biology. The researches show that girls who receive more androgen at birth than expected behave more like our society expects boys to act. Money’s study affirms that while prenatal exposure to androgen may have predisposed the girls towards more aggressive‚ boyish behavior‚ they also needed a social environment that would encourage such behavior. Another study conducted by Jerre Levy of the University of Chicago found
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RAISING THE DRIVING AGE Raising the driving age Sandy COMM 215 January 2007 Raising the Driving Age Should the age to receive a driver’s license be raised and‚ if not‚ should graduated licensing be instituted? This is a growing question across America. The percentage of teenage accidents involving automobiles is on a constant rise. Whether caused by the lack of experience or under the influence of alcohol‚ death has become all too common among teen motorists. This problem is not going
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Global Warming: A Problem and Solution Essay Over the past years the problem that has most scientist and people in the world concerned is global warming. What leads to global warming is called the green house effect‚ where the atmosphere builds up by gases‚ like methane and carbon dioxide‚ and keeps heat from the sun in the atmosphere‚ which increases the temperature on Earth. Many people think that global warming and the green house effect are the same thing but it is not. The greenhouse
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Driving under the influence‚ driving while intoxicated‚ drunken driving‚ drunk driving‚ operating under the influence‚ drinking and driving‚ or impaired driving is the crime of driving a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol or other drugs including those prescribed by physicians. In the case of alcohol‚ a drunk driver’s level of intoxication is typically determined by a measurement of blood alcohol content or BAC. A BAC measurement in excess of a specific threshold level‚ such as 0.05% or 0.08%
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