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    9/16/173rd Cellphone In my opinion i think using a cellphone while driving should be illegal because people could get in an accident. One reason i think cell phones should stay illegal while driving is because your insurance rate goes up. When your insurance company finds out that you have been cited for texting while driving your insurance may go up or possibly your policy will be dropped. Texting while driving could be very expensive whether you get pulled over and given a ticket or have

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    Texting While Driving: Is it worth Dying? SP: After listening to my speech‚ I want my audience to be influenced by the dangers of Texting while driving. CP: By the end of my speech‚ I am going to tell you about the disadvantages and the risk factors Texting while Driving entails. [Let me begin by showing a few photographs and I will proceed with a few questions.] I.Attention Can anyone identify what these teenagers have in common? They may all look alike‚ healthy‚ pretty we can say

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    Did you know‚ texting and driving boosts your chances of getting in an accident by 64%? Imagine being at a stop sign. The cars opposite to you have the right away. There’s a car next to you‚ and as you start to slow down‚ they continue to move. There’s a car coming across the road in front of you‚ and the person in the car beside you is too busy being on their phone rather than paying attention to what’s going on. Everyday‚ 11 people are killed because someone felt the need to respond to a message

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    You are driving around town when suddenly you get a text. You look down innocently to look at the message; not thinking about the consequences ahead. Suddenly you hear a car honking‚ and brakes screeching. You look up at the road ahead just as you collide with another car. Now you are barely conscious as you here sirens‚ an ambulance is rushing you to a hospital. Texting while driving is dangerous to everyone on the road‚ and it needs to stop. As if driving with distraction wasn’t dangerous enough

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    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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    accident where you or the other person is texting and driving. A cellphone is used to contact people from a far distance. Cell phones should not be allowed on the road. I think that because one you don’t have your eyes on the road when you text and two you never know when a car comes around the corner and you’re texting. If you have also read about texting and driving you know that it can lead to serious injuries. If you do anything other than driving you don’t have your full attention on the

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    demand. Explore the consequences of having demand for products created by corporations rather than through the choice of sovereign consumers. Perhaps suggest solutions for the problem (if it is a problem!). This is an ideal topic to explore in a satirical manner. Research the nature of satire. Irony Hyperbole Ridiculous Elements of Corporations Positives of Corporations They enable cheaper prices in industrial nations They enable great revenue for the government by taxing the corporations They

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    The purpose of this study was to test the general theory of crime to conclude if differing levels of self-control have any effect on texting while driving and determine if those with lower levels of self-control engage in more distracted driving behaviors than those with higher levels of self-control. The study sample of two hundred and twenty seven college students at a small‚ liberal-arts university in southern Illinois. A twenty-four item scale was put together to test self-control with response

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    Texting While Driving is a Deadly Combination Texting and driving is a bad and dangerous thing for a teenager to do. Texting while driving is one of the ways that teens are injured or worst case scenario‚ killed. Every year 6‚000 people die because of distracted driving and almost half a million suffer severe injuries. If the teenagers that died texting while driving were still alive; I’m sure they would’ve thought twice about texting behind the wheel. If you text or talk while driving‚ then

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    April 30‚ 2013: A woman driving her Dodge Ram truck on an eastern Texas highway crashes into an SUV kills the driver and a passenger leaving a 6-year-old boy paralyzed. Aug. 23‚ 2016: A motorist in Japan rams into two pedestrians and kills one of them. July 21‚ 2015: A 17-year-old girl runs through a red light after messaging on Facebook for eight minutes. She kills a Minnesota man and his 10-year-old daughter. According to the Chicago Tribune‚ these are all accidents that happened because one person

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