Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that texting and driving shouldn’t be allowed. Central Idea: Simple fact on how it puts everyone on danger that’s on the road and how many accidents it creates. Attention Getter: Imagine your leaving your house on your way to work and you need to drop off your daughter but you receive a text message‚ so as you are driving you look down and take a look at it but soon you realize it’s far too late and you have already hit the side of
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No State Left Behind: Laws Against Distracted Driving In Idaho and as a Nation The majority of the people in the world don’t intentionally put themselves in dangerous situations‚ yet tragedies occur every day. Each year a motorcycle hill climbing competition is held in New Plymouth‚ Idaho called the Big Nasty Hill Climb. On September 19‚ 2009 my sister’s best friend Lacy Fine set out for a day of fun with her cousin Brittani and her cousin’s boyfriend Carlos to watch the hyped up event. She’s never
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pulls out a cell phone while driving and begins texting‚ it is as if they have placed a blind fold over their eyes‚ and are now driving blind. Their eyes focus on nothing but the screen of the device. With the push of every character‚ they become more oblivious to the road‚ signs‚ and other cars. Automatically‚ they are a malignant threat to everyone around them. As more people text and drive‚ it grows to be more of a serious hazard and threat to the roads and those driving. This serious subject doesn’t
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Ban on Texting Thesis: Texting while driving is a hazard to everyone who drives on the road‚ a ban on texting while driving will prevent this hazard and save peoples lives. I. Intro a. Give brief overview of the history of texting b. Discuss the problems of texting while driving c. Thesis State -make texting while driving illegal II. Body a. Discuss all of the places where texting while driving is illegal and how it has helped b. Discuss how it has been advertised to stop
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TEXTING AND DRIVING 1 Texting and Driving Hector Diaz DeVry University TEXTING AND DRIVING 2 Texting and Driving The U.S. Department of Transportation launched its firstever national advertising campaign last week‚ featuring a 30second PSA going viral now that depicts a fatal side collision in which three young Americans are in a car‚ and the driver is killed after she runs a stop sign and fails to see the truck coming from the
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In today’s society‚ people use texting as a way to communicate with each other. The evolution of this technology has made it possible for people to relay their messages quicker‚ receive responses at a faster rate‚ and be able to do other activities instead of delaying them because they are talking on the phone. Texting and the use of cellphones have become extremely popular; however‚ they’ve also become very dangerous. Texting has become a perilous activity for the fact that there are individuals
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Texting while driving has become prevalent in recent years because technology has become widespread around the world. While people might be under the impression that texting is acceptable behind the wheel the action is quite dangerous. The action could result in a death because the drivers’ eyes are preoccupied‚ and out-of-focus from the road. Although the dangers of texting while driving may be underestimated‚ it is simply not worth the risk due to the fact that it promotes technological convenience
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Texting while driving is a dangerous event. It’s something that isn’t illegal all over the U.S just in some states but needs to be all over the U.S soon‚ but how can this happen if there are so many questions that need to be answered before the other states could or would even want to try to make it illegal. Why text and drive? Why risk your life as well as others lives? Does law enforcement have to prove that someone was texting and driving and if so how can they prove it? Can someone really multitask
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Attention Please! Texting and driving go hand in hand for a lot of Michigan drivers. Too many people on the road are disobeying the law and causing danger to all. It could be the guy behind you‚ who for some reason cannot drive within the lines. Perhaps it is the lady in front of you‚ whose head keeps popping up and down as she tries to keep her attention on what she’s typing on her phone‚ and the road. Whether people think they have the skill to text and drive‚ or just do not see the existing
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2010 Texting and Driving Should Be Banned in Every State. Should the laws for texting while driving be the same in every State? In today’s society‚ the vast majority of people rely on a cell phone of their choice to talk‚ text‚ or e-mail. The most popular and dangerous is texting while driving. In most state texting while driving is ban for everyone and in other states there is an age limit for texting and driving. The laws should be the same for all states‚ which would ban texting while
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