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    Texting and Driving

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    Texting While Driving Did you know that in 2011 23% of auto collisions involved cell phones? That is 1.3 MILLION crashes (D7 R.W). Cell phones are huge distractions and are especially dangerous on the road. Being in a huge‚ fast‚ and solid peice of metal‚ you don’t need any distractions. I’m Renae and this is Karli. I would like for you to think before picking up that phone in the car. One of the big obvious reasons is that it is extremely dangerous (2C R.W) and nearly 500‚00 people are injured

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    Texting and Driving

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    The popularity of mobile devices has had some unintended and even dangerous consequences. Accidents due to texting and driving are becoming more popular and more frequent. A texting driver is twenty-three times more likely to get into a crash than a non-texting driver. When the cell phone was first invented it was made as a personal safety device especially if a person lived alone or some distance from family members. Many of us may line in regions of the country where sudden tornado or hurricanes

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    The Perils of Texting

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    Which of the five moral dimensions on the information system identified in this text is involved in this case? My conclusion in this case is that people have the right and freedom for acting as they want (in this case texting while driving) but at the same time they have the obligation to consider the lives of other people that have the immeasurable right to be safe and sound while driving. Therefore‚ when drivers get involved in car accidents they must be held accountable and liable for the harm

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    Child Texting

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    The recent phenomenon of ‘texting’ only began in 1992‚ however children starting texting in the early 2000’s. So why is it thought that children are doing the majority of the texting? The most common assumption is that is that teenagers are filling their text messages with abbreviations and misspelling all of their words‚ however David Crystal a professor of linguistics has done many different studies which show that 80% of the people who are texting are adults and only 10% of the words are abbreviated

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    Texting In 1984

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    the reduction of words‚ confusion is bound to occur in communication. Text messaging‚ a popular form of communicating with others‚ simplifies and changes many common words. Utilizing unique words and acronyms‚ texting appears to be its own language. One must have a knowledge of the texting vocabulary in order to have a complete comprehension of what is being communicated to them. When vocabulary is minimized‚ the ability to express and elaborate ideas are weakened. In Orwell’s novel‚ 1984‚ the language

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    Literacy

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    REFERENCES Anderson‚ James M.‚ Je§rey R. Kling‚ and Kate Stith‚ ìMeasuring Interjudge Sentencing Disparity: Before and after the Federal Sentencing Guidelines‚îJournal of Law and Economics‚ 1999‚ 42‚ 271ñ298. Becker‚ Gary‚ ìCrime and Punishment: an Economic Approach‚î Journal of Political Economy‚ 1968‚ 76‚ 169ñ217. Block‚ Michael K. and Vernon E. Gerety‚ ìSome Experimental Evidence on Di§erences Between Student and Prisoner Reactions to Monetary Penalties and Risk‚î Journal of Legal Studies

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    September‚ 5th‚ 2014 Texting: Is it A Linguistic Evil? According to the Nielsen survey‚ which was conducted in December‚ 2011‚ a teen sends teens send an average of 3‚417 texts a month. Nowadays‚ texting has become the most preferred form of communication among people‚ especially the young generation‚ because of its convenience. Meanwhile‚ as texting is becoming more and more popular‚ it touches off a worrying issue that our society is really concerning about: Does texting harm our traditional writing

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    Texting And Driving

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    The Use of Cell Phones While Driving One of the most popular innovations in automotive travel in the past decade has nothing to do with the automobile itself‚ the people who drive them‚ or the roads over which they operate. Rather‚ it is the ability to carry on telephone conversations while driving. In today’s society‚ our technology is more advanced than ever before. Text messaging‚ like most modern technological devices‚ has its benefits and drawbacks. One of the most dangerous drawbacks is when

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    The Importance of Literacy

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    The Importance of Literacy Try and imagine our society without a common language. This could be quite a hard idea to fathom. Allow me to assist you. If this hypothetical idea were in fact true‚ a typical conversation between two individuals would be as follows: one of the two would begin the conversation by making noises representing their language‚ the other person would not understand these noises and respond with unrecognizable noises to the first individual. As you can well imagine

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    Literacy Narrative

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    by books‚ it all felt foreign. I could never make sense of why my parents placed such importance upon reading‚ which for me‚ was always sidelined for advancing technology. I received more entertainment and interaction from television‚ video games‚ texting and computing than I did from a book. The visuals were provided so all that was required was looking and listening; it didn’t take much effort‚ and in this sense reading became a chore. I continued to look at the fables‚ the fairytales‚ the facts

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