and engage in more harmful activities‚ like drunk driving. Although surveys have documented a decline in recent years‚ consumption rates remain highest from late teen years to the late twenties. Despite the long-term decline since 1982 in alcohol related traffic deaths‚ a 4 percent increase occurred between 1994 and 1995 among young adults of the age 21 and over. As alcohol impaired driving persists‚ The biggest problem with drunk driving by young adults is the high rate of traffic accidents
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Persuasive Speech on Safe Driving Attention-getter: Every hour someone dies in crash simply from not buckling his or her seat belt‚ according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Web site‚ 2002. Reason to Listen: From 1982 to 1996‚ an estimated 3‚300 lives were saved by the used of seat belt and child restraint systems‚ according to the Espine Organization’s Web site‚ 1997. Credibility Statement: From the research I have completed for this speech‚ I have learned that seat
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transforming the driving experience. Thanks largely to on-board computers‚ our vehicles are becoming smarter‚ nimbler‚ and safer and more fun. (Human drivers‚ unfortunately‚ will remain as erratic as ever.)Fully self-driving cars remain some years away. But new technology in the next five to 10 years will help Cars Park themselves‚ monitor the alertness of the driver and even communicate with each other to avoid collisions. Tomorrow ’s cars may have self-parking cars‚ self-driving cars‚ long-range
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Texting and Driving According to GPS Systems 16‚000 drivers were killed by headset use between 2001 and 2007. Knowing that a headset is mostly hands free think of the millions of teens and adults who you see texting with one hand off the wheel and eyes off the road. How many more deaths a year do you think there are with that? While texting and driving in itself is a horrible thing our government has tried to make laws to protect people for other drivers texting while they are driving but they have
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Texting and Driving Katelyn DeRiso Persuasive Speech Rough Draft Five years ago on a bright June day‚ then-20- year-old Amanda Kloehr went about her usual cell phone routine: "Updating my Facebook status‚ reading other people’s updates‚ and texting‚" she says. But she wasn’t at home or even in class—she was behind the wheel of her car‚ cruising down U.S. Route 13 at a highway speed. Amanda couldn’t have known that moments later her distracted driving would cause her to slam into
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An electron gun fires electrons into a magnetic field directed straight downward. Find the direction of the force exerted by the field on an electron for each of the following directions of the electron’s velocity: (a) horizontal and due north; (b) horizontal and 30° west of north; (c) due north‚ but at 30° below the horizontal; (d) straight upward. 2. (a) Find the direction of the force on a proton moving through the magnetic fields in Figure 1‚ as shown. (b) Repeat part (a)‚ assuming the moving
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someday‚ it’s best to start off young learning” I didn’t know if I was more nervous than driving or driving along. So I took a deep breath in went through with it‚ I was doing well until I was coming around a curve in didn’t realize a mailbox was on side of a curb. Before I knew it “BANG” I ran into the mailbox‚ a fence‚ and a garbage can. The cause of that happening was because I was already nervous about driving; it was new to me by coming around a curb I was just getting use
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Distracted Driving In the year 2009‚ 16% of total fatalities have involved distracted drivers and the numbers would be 5474 people killed. These are more than 5000 people who won’t get to spend time with family‚ see their children or parents‚ talk about good old times with friends‚ or finish school. The even more devastating part is the family members of these distracted drivers or the people who were distracting them‚ that their lives will never be the same. As technology develops more and more
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1- What are the risks if the current status quo is maintained and Ron remains CEO for a few more years? Ron is 70 years old. He might be too old too hold an important rank as CEO at his age. He is ineligible for an executive role as this one because of health conditions. It would be acting as a "monarch" and lead the members of the company whether they are family or not to leave. The position Ron would be entitled to would affect the growth of the company if he were to do as he would like
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Uniform Circular Motion PES 115 Report Objective The purpose of this experiment is to determine the relationships between radiuses‚ mass‚ velocity and centripetal force of a spinning body. We used logger pro to accurately measure the orbital period of the spinning mass and used these measurements to determine the interrelated interactions of the specified properties and viewed the results graphically. Data and Calculations The black markings on the string are about 10 cm apart in length‚ measured
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