1. Distracted Driving The number one cause of car accidents is not a criminal that drove drunk‚ sped or ran a red light. Distracted drivers are the top cause of car accidents in the U.S. today. A distracted driver is a motorist that diverts his or her attention from the road‚ usually to talk on a cell phone‚ send a text message or eat food. 2. Speeding You’ve seen them on the highway. Many drivers ignore the speed limit and drive 10‚ 20 and sometimes 30 mph over the limit. Speed kills‚ and traveling
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Public Works and Services Safety Program ACCIDENT PREVENTION MANUAL 2002 Public Works and Services Government of the Northwest Territories Box 1320 Yellowknife NT X1A 2L9 Canada If you have comments or corrections‚ write to PWSfeedback@gov.nt.ca 1. PWS Safety Policy PWS is committed to providing safe and healthy working conditions and to promoting positive attitudes toward safety and health. Department managers will work actively with employees and contractors to identify and correct
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calling yourself a “full-time driver.” By nationally setting the driver’s learner permit minimum age at sixteen years old and enforcing two years of driving with a licensed adult before obtaining a full license‚ will result in reducing the amount of teenage car accidents because of the increase in supervised driving experience for new drivers. Earlier this year last October‚ Kieran Turner‚ a spokesman for NZTA (New Zealand Transportation Agency) mentioned teenage car accidents are still the “single biggest
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There are two levels of apprehension to The Crying of Lot 49: that of the characters in the book‚ whose perception is limited to the text‚ and that of the reader‚ who has the ability to look at the world from outside of it. A recurring theme in the novel is the phenomenon of chaos‚ also called entropy. Both the reader and Oedipa have the same problems of facing the chaos around them. Through various methods‚ Pynchon imposes a fictional world of chaos on the world of the reader‚ a world already
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The two stories or literary novels "Sixteen" by Maureen Daly and "Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing‚ who are both authors or wordsmiths‚ Maureen Daly and Doris Lessing uses a theme‚ subject‚ or topic matter of their characters who are wanting to prove‚ validate‚ and justify themselves to someone else. The differences‚ distinctions‚ or variation of these two stories or literary novels becomes extremely useless and obsolete when who the two characters aspire to prove‚ validate‚ and justify themselves
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Dear Diary‚ My name is Faustina and I am ten years old today. I received this diary as a birthday present from my paedagogus. Technically he not actually mine but my little brother Scipios. However Clement my brother paedagogus spends just as much time with me as he does with Scipios. Clement is terribly educated and speaks Greek so well. I’m jealous. My mom however tells me that this is because Clement was actually born in Greece and was brought to the great city of Rome. However in her
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In Kim Addonizio’s poem “31-Year Old Lover”‚ Addonizio introduces two characters‚ a 31-year old man‚ and an older woman. Through these characters‚ Addonizio attempts to portray youthfulness as a godlike state‚ by contrasting it with the process of becoming old and weary. At the start of Addonizio’s poem‚ the main character‚ or the man‚ is the center of attention. Addonizio characterizes him as “A stick of butter being unwrapped‚ the milky‚ lubricious smoothness.....his body is hard‚ the high tight
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When the 26th amendment was passed‚ it gave 18-year-olds the right to vote. Today‚ nearly thirty-five years later‚ the question has become "should 16-year-olds be allowed to vote?" Of course the general consensus of youth is for this option‚ yet a surprising amount of adults are supporting the movement as well. In order to understand why lowering the voting age would even be considered‚ it is necessary to examine why the 26th amendment was passed in the first place. The United States was in the throes
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Kendra Turner ENG 100-02/ Davis 10/11/10 10/8 Essay “A Terrible Accident” On Christmas day in the year of 2006‚ I got a gas scooter. I was so happy when I got it‚ because all the kids in my neighborhood had one. After‚ I ate dinner on Christmas I got dress and put some warm clothes on so I could go ride my scooter. It was a cold and windy day‚ but the sun was shinning really bright. So‚ when I got finished getting dress I went outside and got on my scooter. I was riding down the street‚
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16 year olds are way too young to vote! Most 16 year olds don’t study politics so they wouldn’t know enough about politics. 16 year olds should not be able to vote because they are very immature when it comes to politics‚ most 16 year olds would listen to what their parents say so it would be a biased vote‚ finally many 16 year olds would skip the election because they have many things going on in their lives. 16 year olds are very immature when it comes to politics. “Young adults indeed in many
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