objects are two words‚ which say‚ “Russian Roulette” and on the bottom is a small paragraph of how texting and driving can kill and the consequences of doing so. This advertisement shows the negative effects of what can happen when someone decides to text and drive. The font that was chosen gives a serious tone and tells the viewer that this message is important. This advertisement does a great job portraying the damaging effects of texting and driving by showing a gun‚ a bloody phone‚ and having
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so is willfully looking away from the road to attend to something else. According to the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute‚ if you’re driving 55 mph and take your eyes off the road for five seconds‚ the average amount of time it takes to send a text‚ you’d have driven the length of a football field without looking at the road. Just imagine all that can happen in the matter of five seconds: a car in front of you going the same speed suddenly slows down for traffic ahead‚ an animal walks out in
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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 the road and it is impossible for you to get out until assistance comes. All this is for a simple text message that would have waited until you hit the “parking brake” on your car. Texting and driving has caused millions of deaths
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Generally we text the people we know the most. We text are friends differently to how we text adults‚ bosses or who employ use. The reason for this is because we want to sounds more formal to them. Most of the time we text our friends informally because we know them. We reserve and send longer texts to our friends because they have more free time than adults because they are always busy with work; children‚ cleaning and making the tea so they don’t have much spare time on their hands to text as often
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the road and even sometimes off the road is put into danger when someone makes the choice to text and drive. A. In the case of accidents involving texting while driving it is proven that if there is a passenger in the vehicle they are more likely to be harmed than the driver.( so think about that when your best friend is riding along with you and you decide to pick up your phone to send a quick text) Texting while driving can be harmful to vehicles that are on the roadway also. B. Texting
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texting while driving is now one of the most popular distractions that take a driver’s eyes off the road? C. Link to audience: Imagine that someone in your family‚ your mom‚ dad‚ or sibling were to be killed by a driver who was sending a text message. Was that text worth losing someone you love? D. Thesis statement: Today I will persuade you into thinking that texting while driving is too dangerous. II. Body A. Texting while driving kills people 1. In 2009‚ 5‚474 people in the United States were
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the some of the effects that texting is having on the teen literacy? Text messaging has increased in popularity ever since the very first text message that was sent in the year of 1933 by a student who was working for the Nokia Corporation (Druoin and Davis 49). Centre of Science Education at Sheffield University discovered that more than ninety percent of the youth have cell phones and ninety-six percent of them use them to text. (Plester‚ Wood‚ Bell 137). The establishment of cell phones and texting
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19 Apr. 2013. . "Local Section." WTOP.com. WTOP‚ 08 Apr. 2012. Web. 19 Apr. 2013. . Pastorino‚ Ellen E. "Get Psyched!" The Truth About Texting and Talking While Driving. Sussex Publishers‚ 04 Apr. 2012. Web. 19 Apr. 2013. . “Stop the Texts – About.” Stop the Texts. Ad Council‚ n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2013. . "Supplemental Content." National Center for Biotechnology Information. U.S. National Library of Medicine‚ 03 Feb. 2011. Web. 19 Apr. 2013. . “Texting and Driving.” Distracted Driving. U.S. Department
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within her article to display how visuals can create contradictory meanings. Vint points out how secondary sources can‚ “… take what they can use from the primary text and recontextualize it to serve their own needs and desires” (parag. 17). She uses an article published in Esquire magazine in January 2009‚ to provide an example of text at odds with visual image. The article states how the creator‚ Joss Whedon‚ envisions the character Buffy as a challenger of the “stereotypes of female sexuality‚”
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very well defeats the purpose of sending the text message. So it has been found that many texters stick to what is considered proper and correct with only changes to grammatical words (Crystal 337). In fact‚ one study discovered that less than 20% of messages demonstrated any form of abbreviated language (Crystal 337-338). Crystal makes a point to explain that abbreviations are not anything near new and they certainly were not created with the advent of text. Abbreviations can be found as late back as
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