known as text messages. SMS allows people to type messages and exchange them between mobile phones better known as “texting”. Unfortunately texting has also become a huge safety concern when it occurs while driving. While certain distractions while driving are inevitable‚ texting while driving requires serious attention and focus and thus should be outlawed in the US. The new Wireless Communications Device Law (effective January 1‚ 2009) makes it an infraction to write‚ send‚ or read text-based
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Daniel Lizama ENG 102 March 2‚ 2013 The Effectiveness of Prohibiting the Use of Cell Phones While Driving The use of cell phones while driving causes the driver to be distracted. “According to Major Huxtable‚ cell phone use can distract a driver’s attention from traffic and road conditions” (Wisconsin Department of Transportation). As technology advances more and more people are starting to own cell phones often times at such a young age. “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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Between the years 1987 and 1988‚ the chocolate candies named Bikkuriman Chocolates were popular among Japanese children. The Bikkuriman stickers each package contained caused the popularity. Each sticker had a picture of a character on the front and information about the character on the back. With only one sticker‚ a child had no more than a picture of a character with particular information‚ but once the child had collected a bigger amount of stickers and connected the given characters and information
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Tadahiro Motoyoshi‚ Jiro Takai and Toshikazu Yoshida. 2008. "No Mobile‚ No Life: Self-Perception and Text-Message Dependency among Japanese High School Leung‚ Louis. 2008. “Leisure boredom‚ sensation seeking‚ self esteem‚ and addiction: Symptoms and patterns of cell phone use.” Pp 359-381 in Mediated Personal sociality." Social & Cultural Geography 9(1):95-108. ------. 2008. "Seen and not heard? Text messaging and digital sociality." Social & Cultural Geography 9(1):95-108 Tucker‚ Patrick. 2009.
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their phone? The purpose of this research is to make texting while driving illegal in all states in order to put less people at risk of getting into an automobile accident. Texting while driving is an act of sending‚ writing out‚ reading or sending texts and emails‚ and similar usage with the web while operating a motorized vehicle. Texting while driving is seen as a dangerous act and has been out lawed or restricted in most states. This act is the most leading cause of dangerous car accidents and
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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 to spell badly: rather‚ research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers‚ because you have to know how to manipulate language.” The moral panic created by this form of socialization should be diminished‚ as people have the power and ability to shape
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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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to communicate with others. People text for many reasons‚ texting is easier than being on the phone. Another reason for texting to become so common is because people like having the privacy of talking to someone via text message‚ when they are in public places. Texting also have disadvantages‚ it is very dangerous to text while driving‚ texting while driving is often causing a lot of car crashes. People have to be careful with their actions‚ and chose not to text while driving. Social Network is
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template b. program d. budget __B__ 2. _____ can describe any type of data. a. HTML c. XLTX b. XML d. DOCX __D__ 3. _____ help speed and simplify work because Excel users often work with the same types of problems repeatedly. a. Worksheets c. Text files b. Workbooks d. Templates __A__ 4. You can press the _____ key while dragging the fill handle to fill a series with numbers that increment by one. a. CTRL c. TAB b. SHIFT d. ALT __C__ 5. In the accompanying figure‚ the range
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Chapter 8 Text Files Section 8.1 Managing Text Files 1. What method is used to copy the contents of a string array or LINQ query into a text file? (A) (B) (C) (D) 2. Which of the following methods is used to change the words in a column header of a DataGridView control? (A) (B) (C) (D) 3. CreateTextFile WriteAllLines CopyToTextFile ReadAllLines B HeaderText HeaderName HeaderContent HeaderCaption A What property is set to False in order to remove the row header column on the left side of a
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