Distracted drivers risk the lives of many innocent victims. Is our hurried lifestyle really worth it? Many people want to think they can conquer the world and maybe then can conquer many things but not everything. Distracted drivers have been a very big problem to this world and it will continue to be so‚ but there can be ways to reduce some of these incidents from happening such as enforcing distracted driving laws. When a person is behind the wheel of a car‚ that person’s mind needs to be focused
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Everything changes in an instant. Checking a cell phone while driving could result in severe injury or death. I agree with the law to make it illegal to drive while using a hand held cell phone. Implementing this law will make travel safer and it will protect people’s lives. Cell phones have become major distractions. Many are addicted to their phones. The inability of people to look away from their phone screen has cause many fatal accidents. Texting and the use of social media keeps a constant
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In the state of Florida there is a legislation against using a cell phone while driving. The legislation says that while a person is texting while driving a police officer could do nothing unless you are being ticketed or stopped for another infraction. I find this law to be really scary because there are so many careless people who are driving while texting not having a care in the world who they will affect. To me‚ I consider driving while using the phone the same as driving while under the influence
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As stated in the article‚ “2b or Not 2b” by David Crystal‚ some people believe that texting is not a natural form of communication and that it is wrecking our language. Although some people may agree with this idea‚ studies have challenged this opinion. Rather than fearing the consequences of texting‚ people should embrace this evolution and understand that this new form of communication may actually have benefits on literacy. This author once stated‚ “there is no evidence that texting teaches people
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Negative Effects of Texting Texting negatively affects teen literacy because it promotes bad grammar and can encourage teens to continue using bad grammar and also poor spelling. Students don’t see the effect texting has on their writing skills‚ and the more they use it the more you get used to writing in textism form. Parents see the slang being used‚ but they don’t do much about it. Phone bills show that teens usually send and receive about 1‚800 text messages if not more per month. When
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The U.S. has a significant numbers of commercial trucks driving consistently through various states every day‚ thus it is no shock that these trucks are at times caught up in vehicular accidents. A lot of these automotive crashes are not a result of these commercial truck drivers but rather‚ they were started by other neglectful drivers. Considering that cruising continuously as of late can be unsafe‚ it is always necessary that you carry out safety practices in order to avoid such incidents. Here
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Dangers Of Texting Many people‚ mainly teenagers‚ text while driving and don’t think to consider the safety of themselves and others. Some teenagers‚ just like Chelsea in the Dr.Phil’s‚ film “Texting While Driving”‚ come into some near tragic experiences because of texting while driving and still don’t consider what they are doing a safety hazard. Chelsea stated that nothing can stop her from texting while driving. I’m sure she is not the only person who feels that way. Many people enjoy the convenience
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Poor Communication Evelyn Bradford COM200 Thora Greaves 5/12/14 After reading Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication‚ I feel like this article gave great examples on how love ones can easily misunderstand each other. In a couple of studies‚ researchers have shown that for many people‚ couple communication skills with each other aren’t as strong as they think they are. Sometimes what we say can easily be taken the wrong way. For example‚ my fiancé and I often
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Rylee Kay Jamie McBeth-Smith English 1010-053 9/16/14 “2b or Not 2b” by David Crystal Is texting making our language worse or is it improving it? David Crystal‚ “a professor at the University of Wales and is known for his work in English language studies and linguistics” (335)‚ writes about how many people think that texting is destroying our language‚ but Crystal believes that texting can improve children’s ability to read and write‚ he also writes that texting may add a new dimension to communication
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Texting essay 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
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